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Rudy Giuliani Is Now Claiming Collusion May Not Be a Crime

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During two separate television interviews Monday morning, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani openly questioned whether collusion with the Russian government—a reported focus of the special counsel’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to the Kremlin—is a criminal offense.  The attempts to downplay the gravity…

Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities

Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia in 2013.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica.  Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva…

The FBI Released Documents on the Carter Page Wiretap. Then Trump Had a Twitter Meltdown.

Former Trump campaign advisor Carter PageJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the Justice Department released previously-classified documents on the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. The documents, a redacted version of the bureau’s 2016 application for a top-secret warrant to surveil Page under the…

Michael Cohen Reportedly Taped Conversation With Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model

Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two months before the 2016 election, Michael Cohen—President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney and fixer—surreptitiously recorded Trump discussing a payment to a Playboy model who alleged she’d had an affair with the president. The New York Times reported Friday that the FBI discovered the…