Evening Edition: Trump’s lawyer allegedly raised possibility of pardons for Manafort, Flynn last summer
Manafort associate had Russian intelligence ties during 2016 campaign, prosecutors say; The Fix: Mueller just drew his most direct line to date between the Trump campaign and...
John Dowd insisted Wednesday that he did not float the idea of pardons with lawyers representing the two men. Legal experts said prosecutors could view the dangle of a presidential pardon to people under investigation as a criminal effort to obstruct justice.
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Court filings allege that Rick Gates, deputy to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, said he knew the associate was a former officer with the Russian military intelligence service. The filings underscore special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's interest in Manafort and Gates.
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A federal judge has ruled that the D.C. and Maryland attorneys general have legal standing to sue President Trump for allegedly violating the Constitution's ban on taking "emoluments" from foreign governments and U.S. states.
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Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit could be denied legal U.S. residency under a plan awaiting approval by the administration, which is seeking to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States.
For many conservative Americans, adult-film star Stormy Daniels's interview about her alleged affair with Donald Trump was the latest in a series of uncomfortable moments from the nontraditional president. Sixty-one percent of Republicans consider the president a good role model for children. We talked to six about their views.
The bill redefines child neglect to exclude various activities children of "sufficient age" can do without supervision: walking to and from school, parks and shops.
The women of the Senate called for votes to improve Capitol Hill's system for reporting and adjudicating complaints of workplace misconduct after such changes were excluded from a recent major spending bill.
Ecuador said the WikiLeaks founder, who has been holed up in its embassy for nearly six years, violated an agreement not to interfere in other states' affairs.
Christopher Wylie tweeted documents suggesting that the company had wide-ranging operations in India. The documents sparked an outcry, and the Indian government demanded to know if citizens' data had been compromised.
The U.S. economy expanded 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department reported, which was much better than Wall Street analysts expected.
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