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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland RIYADH, May 20 – President Donald Trump was taking off on Air Force One when the latest bad news pinged into the inboxes of his besieged staff – a report that he had told Russian officials that fired FBI Director James Comey was “a nut job”. Officials on board

.@RepAlGreen (D-TX) w/ the strongest demand for impeachment of Trump of any House Democrat I’ve seen so far. “He must be charged.” pic.twitter.com/pCbd678oi4 — Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) May 15, 2017 Democratic Congressman Al Green called for impeaching President Trump on Monday, saying Congress must prove to the country that the laws apply to everyone. “President

By Chris Kahn NEW YORK, May 16 – A majority of Americans, including a growing number of Republicans, want to see an “independent investigation” sort out any connections between Russia and President Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday. The May 10-14 poll, which was conducted

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) – The anger behind Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday had been building for months, but a turning point came when Comey refused to preview for top Trump aides his planned testimony to a Senate panel, White House officials said. Trump,

WASHINGTON, May 10 – Russia’s foreign minister sarcastically acknowledged the abrupt dismissal of FBI director James Comey by saying ‘Was he fired? You’re kidding. You’re kidding’ as he posed on Wednesday for photographs with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. President Donald Trump stunned Washington on Tuesday with his decision to fire Comey, whose agency

WASHINGTON, May 10 – President Donald Trump defended his firing of FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, fighting a storm of criticism that the ouster was aimed at blunting an agency probe into his presidential campaign’s possible collusion with Russia to sway the 2016 election. The Republican president’s abrupt move on Tuesday stunned Washington and

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 10 – U.S. President Donald Trump ignited a political firestorm on Tuesday by firing FBI Director James Comey, who had been leading an investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign’s possible collusion with Russia to influence the election outcome. The Republican president said he fired Comey, the

By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, April 27  – The FBI has provisionally decided not to share an iPhone unlocking mechanism used by a contractor to open the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters because the agency does not own the mechanism, two U.S. government sources said on Tuesday. The FBI is