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More than two dozen phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team were wiped clean of data before the Justice Department’s inspector general could comb them for records, the DOJ said in records released Thursday. At least 27 cell phones were wiped of data before the DOJ inspector general could review them, some …

Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organize for a state fund, the Bernama state news agency reported. The move comes after Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $3.9 billion to Malaysia to settle a probe into its alleged …

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, according to a statement released Monday by the German hospital where he is being treated. Berlin’s Charité hospital said that Navalny was suffering from “intoxication by a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors,” contradicting Russian doctors who said there was no evidence he had been poisoned. While …

Putin may be emboldened by the perception of a West greatly divided and distracted. He sees the U.S. distracted with domestic politics and COVID. How should Donald Trump and the west respond? If you’re President Trump, and you’re looking for a prudent policy that safeguards the transatlantic community and keeps Russia at bay, the situation …

Why should America anchor Germany’s defense? It cuts deals with Russia, has never met its NATO commitment, and is the most anti-American nation in Europe.  President Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country. A little more than half of …

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, a staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, was hospitalized in critical condition after a suspected poisoning on Thursday morning. Navalny was on a flight to the Siberian city of Tomsk when he fell ill, and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk where he was brought to intensive care. …

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, admitting that he altered an email that he used to apply for a FISA warrant against former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith changed the email, which was originally sent to him by the CIA and which he was forwarding to …

Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump wins reelection, his second term “will be Moscow’s for the taking.” The comments came after MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace asked “with the finding that there was this elaborate and intricate web of connections and contacts between Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 and …

The Senate Intelligence Committee released the fifth and final volume of its report on the Russia investigation on Tuesday, concluding that Russia attempted to influence the Trump team but also that the FBI gave “unjustified credence” to the Steele dossier. The committee found that Russia “took advantage” of the Trump team’s “relative inexperience in government, …

Sia is staying mum on her kid’s private lives from now on. The “Chandelier” singer revealed on “The Kyle & Jackie O Show” on Sunday that she regrets opening up about her adopted children because her “job is to protect them and not blab about what’s going on in their lives.” “I made a bit …