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Republican senators criticise Trump after he mocks Kavanaugh accuser
Three Republican senators have now criticised President Trump’s speech mocking a woman who’s accused his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault.
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FactCheck: how bad is it for Donald Trump?
Mr Trump’s former personal lawyer has pleaded guilty to eight charges in total – including causing an unlawful campaign contribution.
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Trump hits back at former lawyer over ‘Playboy model payment tape’
The FBI is reported to have a tape recording of Trump talking to his former lawyer Michael Cohen – just two months before he became President – about paying hush money to a Playboy model he was alleged to have had an affair with. Today the President described it an “inconceivable that a lawyer would…
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FactCheck: Trump’s excuse for Russia comments doesn’t make sense
The President’s made a rare admission of error, after appearing to accept Vladimir Putin’s word over his own intelligence agencies.
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James Comey on Trump, Russia, Hillary Clinton and the USA’s border policy
The former FBI Director, James Comey, has told Channel 4 News he has suffered many sleepless nights for his role in bringing President Trump to the White House. Speaking to presenter Jon Snow, he said: “I’m a pretty good sleeper, so it’s typically either late at night before I go to sleep or early in the…
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UK and US issue Russia cyber attacks warning
For the first time ever, British and US intelligence services have come together to issue a stark warning about what they describe as pre-planned and co-ordinated cyber attacks on millions of internet devices by Russian state-sponsored hackers. The US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre promised to push…
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Senator Richard Blumenthal: Facebook ‘have failed to come clean with the American people and the world’
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and seasoned prosecutor, discusses Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the FBI raids on Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, which the President has denounced as a disgraceful witch-hunt.
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Q&A on Cambridge Analytica: The allegations so far, explained
What has Cambridge Analytica actually been accused of? And why should you care?
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Alleged hacker avoids extradition to US
The alleged computer hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited to face charges in the US after winning his High Court appeal. The 33-year-old was first arrested in October 2013, suspected of hacking into FBI, US Central Bank and Nasa systems. Outside court, Mr Love, who has Asperger’s syndrome, said he hoped the decision would…
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West Wing creator discusses his new film ‘Molly’s Game’
He’s Hollywood’s most celebrated and highest-paid screenwriter, known for razor-sharp dialogue in his TV series The West Wing and films such as The Social Network. Now Aaron Sorkin has directed a film for the first time.
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No, the CIA didn’t kill Bob Marley
Incredible revelations about Bob Marley are circulating on the internet. According to the story, a retired CIA officer with weeks to live has confessed to assassinating the singer. But it’s fake news.
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Trump denies Russia collusion following Flynn guilty plea
President Trump has tweeted that he fired his former national security adviser General Mike Flynn “because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI”. An interesting move, given he might have tried to keep the media focus today on his tax cutting bill, which was passed late last night by the Senate, despite controversy…
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Masha Gessen: Trump and Putin ‘a new generation of monsters’
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has admitted lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials during the transition. Earlier, I spoke to Masha Gessen, journalist and long-time critic of Vladimir Putin, who has written a book called The Future is History, which argues that totalitarianism has reclaimed Russia. I started…
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America’s long history of meddling in other countries’ elections
As the FBI investigates claims that Russian meddling helped Donald Trump become president, FactCheck looks at America’s own track record of interfering with democratic elections.
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Trump vs Obama in numbers
How does Mr Trump’s performance compare with how Mr Obama was doing a year after his election?