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US Markets Volatile After Report That Flynn Could Testify The Trump Administration Told Him To Contact Russia
Friday, December 1, 2017 - 12:43pm | 283Former security adviser Michael Flynn has agreed to testify against President Donald Trump, members of the Trump family and White House officials on their willful contact with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to Friday reports. Flynn confessed during a Friday hearing that...
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Goldman Sachs Continues To Meander In Post-Earnings Trading Range
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - 2:42pm | 398Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) stock has done a whole lot of nothing since reporting a huge earnings beat on Oct. 17. In fact, after an initial sell-off, the stock is now down 0.3 percent overall in the two weeks since it blew analyst earnings expectations out of the water. Here’s a...
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Paul Manafort, Rick Gates Indicted
Monday, October 30, 2017 - 9:03am | 477Updated 9:30 a.m. ET to include document and details regarding charges. In the first charges since special counsel Robert Mueller launched his five-month federal investigation into the 2016 election, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and former business...
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Your Quick, Handy Guide To The Grand Jury Investigation That Could Bring Down The President
Monday, August 7, 2017 - 2:00pm | 792The convening of a grand jury to look into Russia’s meddling in U.S. politics guarantees the issue will be a long, taxing drag on President Donald Trump’s already side-tracked agenda, his family and the keyboard he uses to vent on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR). Though the grand jury’s...
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Special Counsel Mueller Digging Deeper Into Russia, Trump And The Money Trail
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 4:33pm | 404Not a few weeks after Donald Trump Jr. revealed his campaign interactions with foreign informants, officials are sharpening their inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. A grand jury impaneled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly been investigating the matter for weeks...
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Feds Bust Reputed Bitcoin Baron In $4 Billion Scheme To Launder Drug Money, Ransomware, Bribes And Identity Theft Scams
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 12:35pm | 689A Russian criminal mastermind used his bitcoin currency exchange to launder $4 billion from a vast network of interlocking syndicates engaged in public corruption, identity theft, ransomware extortion, dark web drug deals and a raft of other global cybercrimes, federal prosecutors allege. A grand...
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Trump Troubles Mean More Delays For GOP Agenda
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 10:59am | 849Republicans in Congress promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the first day of a new GOP administration. Five months later, the overhaul remains stalled, just one part of an agenda paralyzed by the probe into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia. The U.S. Senate is working on...
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State Election Officials Baffled By Report 39 States 'Hit' By Russian Hackers
Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 1:16pm | 643State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems. The June 13 Bloomberg story said that...
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Pleading The 25th: Critics Invoke Little-Known Amendment To Oust Trump
Monday, May 29, 2017 - 8:59pm | 841The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed after former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated to ensure a smooth transfer of power if a president dies or is considered unfit, has suddenly become a serious topic of conversation surrounding President Donald Trump. For all the talk of...
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Special Prosecutor Holds Key For How A Trump Impeachment Might Unfold
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 2:54pm | 794President Donald Trump might have drawn headlines away from his domestic troubles with his first state trip abroad, but ongoing investigations into his team’s Russian ties and financial dealings aren’t going away. Which means the steady murmurs of impeachment will likely remain when he...
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Mueller Rep As Rigorous, Relentless Investigator Greeted With Bipartisan Approval
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 10:18am | 1048Robert Mueller’s bulletproof reputation as a relentless, by-the-book investigator virtually guarantees a rigorous and wide-ranging investigation of President Donald Trump’s ties to the Kremlin, the former FBI director’s supporters say. “I can’t think of a better...