A former Trump business associate and witness in the special counsel’s probe provided “extensive” cooperation to U.S. spy agencies in numerous terrorism and mafia-related investigations, according to a 2009 court filing unsealed Friday. Felix Sater provided the FBI, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency with intelligence on a broad range of topics over the course of more than a decade, Benton ...

CNN added to its stable of retired FBI and CIA officials Friday by hiring Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the bureau due to a lack of candor during an internal probe. McCabe is the 10th ex-FBI or CIA official hired by the network in recent years, with MSNBC having hired five. A vast majority of the 15 CNN/MSNBC analysts ...

The CEO of online retailer Overstock.com resigned abruptly Thursday amid fallout from his remarks last week about taking part in an FBI “deep state” operation against Russian national Maria Butina. Patrick Byrne said in a statement to shareholders that he is resigning because his presence at Overstock could complicated “all manner of business relationships.” Overstock’s shares fell sharply last week ...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ended his presidential campaign Wednesday night, saying that it has “become clear” that he will not become president. “I’m not going to be the president so I’m withdrawing tonight from the race,” Inslee told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Inslee is the third Democrat to withdraw from the Democratic field following California Rep. Eric Swalwell, who dropped out ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the Department of Education to eliminate “every penny” of student loan debt owed by more than 25,000 disabled veterans. Speaking at an AMVETS event in Louisville, Ky., Trump said that the order will erase “hundreds of millions” of dollars in debt for veterans who have been deemed “completely and permanently disabled.” ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Monday he will meet with Attorney General William Barr this week to discuss how to release documents that he says will paint an “ugly and damning” picture of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. “I’m going to meet the attorney general this week to talk to him about how to best tell ...

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez will hold three fundraisers for American ex-patriots in Mexico next month, as Democrats struggle to keep pace with Republicans in fundraising. Bloomberg reports that Perez will host three events in Mexico City on Sept. 28. One event is a happy hour that will cost $25 to attend. Perez will also host a dinner where tickets ...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has removed sections of her campaign website that had disputed claims about her heritage, including the results of a DNA test that showed she had scant traces of Native American ancestry. Until Sunday, Warren’s website included a video of the Democrat receiving the results of the genetic test, which showed that she had between 1/64th and ...

President Donald Trump predicted The New York Times will go out of business after he leaves office Sunday, and that the paper will probably endorse him for president next year to stave off bankruptcy. “The New York Times will be out of business soon after I leave office, hopefully in 6 years,” Trump tweeted. “They have Zero credibility and are ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he expects the inspector general’s report into FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign will be “ugly and damning” for the agency and the Department of Justice. In an interview on Fox News, Graham also said that he wants to find out what role the CIA played in the intelligence-gathering operation against the Trump campaign. ...

FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintrub, a Democrat, berated her Republican colleagues Friday for voting against an investigation into whether Alexander Torshin secretly funneled money to the NRA. But Weintrub did not acknowledge the allegation originated with Fusion GPS. McClatchy published similar allegations on Jan. 18, 2018.  Weintrub acknowledged that she supported the investigation based solely on the McClatchy story. The chairwoman ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the FBI to search for records of any contacts with dossier author Christopher Steele after the bureau cut ties with him as a confidential human source (CHS) in November 2016. Judge Christopher Cooper issued the ruling in favor of Judicial Watch, which has sued the FBI and Justice Department for all of its records ...

Beto O’Rourke on Friday called for mandatory buybacks of so-called assault weapons, and a nationwide gun licensing program. The Democratic presidential candidate unveiled his five-point plan a day after he announced a reset of his campaign. O’Rourke, who is polling in the low single digits, suspended his campaign after a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso on Aug. ...

Bruce Ohr provided the FBI with research that his wife, Nellie, did on behalf of opposition research firm Fusion GPS The Justice Department recently provided some of those documents to Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group One of the documents is a spreadsheet that identifies 80 individuals with purported links to Donald Trump and Russian businessmen Nellie Ohr kept tabs ...

Bruce Ohr’s FBI interview notes contain at least four dubious allegations that Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson provided the Justice Department official. Ohr relayed details of his interactions with Steele and Simpson during 12 separate debriefings in 2016 and 2017. The Justice Department provided the notes to Judicial Watch on Aug. 8. Justice Department official Bruce Ohr relayed at least ...