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A New Right-Wing Smear Campaign Targets a Former FBI Official to Distract From Russia Scandal

Rep. Mark Meadows (left) and Rep. Jim Jordan talk during a press conference calling on the president to declassify the Carter Page FISA applications.Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What happens when the politics of personal destruction intersect with a Trumpian conspiracy theory? Unfortunately, I’ve seen it, thanks to…

Senate Republicans Vote Down Effort to Maintain Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, defeated a bipartisan bid to keep sanctions in place against companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The Trump administration announced last month it was planning to remove the sanctions targeting the energy…

William Barr’s Testimony May Not Sit Well With Donald Trump

Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Based on Tuesday’s testimony by William Barr, Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the president may already regret the nomination. Trump has spent nearly two years raging against the Justice Department for allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties…