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The Mueller investigation, probably only half-finished, already has produced 22 indictments and four guilty pleas, most of them based in no way on Steele's dossier. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Special counsel Robert Mueller has spent $3.2 million on Russia investigation

Kelly Cohen · December 5, 2017 3:45 pm

In a Monday letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, Warren suggested the Conway isn't ready to lead that effort, which was announced last week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Elizabeth Warren questions Kellyanne Conway’s qualifications to lead opioid battle

Kelly Cohen · December 4, 2017 8:26 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee last month that he had not yet ordered a review of laws that need to be updated to protect elections from foreign interference. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Dems seek update from Jeff Sessions on efforts to protect elections from foreign interference

Kelly Cohen · December 1, 2017 8:36 pm

The legislation was introduced by Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Wednesday, as the Dec. 31 deadline to renew the often-controversial FISA Section 702 nears. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

House Intelligence Committee approves new Section 702 surveillance bill with tighter rules on ‘unmasking’

Kelly Cohen · December 1, 2017 4:40 pm

Michael Flynn is charged with one count of "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations he had during his time at the White House with Russia's ambassador. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National Security

Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI, will cooperate with special counsel Mueller

Kelly Cohen · December 1, 2017 2:23 pm

Manafort has agreed to pledge four of his properties -- one in Alexandria, Va., one in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and two in New York -- that are worth a combined $11.65 million. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Paul Manafort offers up four properties to make $10 million bail

Kelly Cohen · November 30, 2017 7:49 pm

Criminologists asks Justice Department, FBI to release more crime data

Kelly Cohen · November 30, 2017 7:45 pm

"We're not investigating Antifa as Antifa -- that's an ideology and we don't investigate ideologies," FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

FBI investigating people animated by ‘Antifa ideology’

Kelly Cohen, Joel Gehrke · November 30, 2017 7:12 pm

"I asked the attorney general whether he was ever instructed to take any action he [thought] would hinder the Russia investigation," Schiff said following a closed door committee meeting with Sessions. "And he declined to answer the question." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Adam Schiff: Jeff Sessions would not answer if Trump has asked him to ‘hinder’ Russia investigation

Kelly Cohen · November 30, 2017 6:52 pm

Despite the new order, no documents have to be physically produced until the dismissal motion lawsuit is decided. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Judge grants permission for subpoenas forcing Trump businesses to keep records in emoluments case

Kelly Cohen · November 29, 2017 10:51 pm

Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, tweeted he received an email from the chief of the Office of Special Counsel's Hatch Act Unit about the opening of a case file on White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Kellyanne Conway part of Hatch Act violation allegations case

Kelly Cohen · November 29, 2017 6:17 pm

New DEA field office opening in Kentucky to deal with opioids

Kelly Cohen · November 29, 2017 6:11 pm