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Byline: Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak CSAKVAR, Hungary - Under Communism, farmers labored in the fields that stretch for miles around this town west of Budapest, reaping wheat [...]

Outright fraud is rare, officials said. A Times investigation found that the program helps underwrite oligarchs, mobsters and far-right populists. BRUSSELS -- European Union officials, questioned about new revelations of [...]

CSAKVAR, Hungary -- Under Communism, farmers labored in the fields that stretch for miles around this town west of Budapest, reaping wheat and corn for a government that had stolen [...]

Byline: Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak He brokered a White House meeting for Hungary's prime minister. He spends $320,000 on parties and takes positions at odds with American policy. He [...]

He brokered a White House meeting for Hungary's prime minister. He spends $320,000 on parties and takes positions at odds with American policy. He says he knows what President Trump [...]

Byline: Matt Apuzzo Within days of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States government began writing new laws, reinterpreting old ones and crafting aggressive new policies to defeat Al [...]

Byline: Sabrina Tavernise, Katie Benner, Matt Apuzzo and Nicole Perlroth WASHINGTON - Law enforcement officials have sounded the alarm for months: Homegrown terrorism, including by white supremacists, is now as [...]

WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement officials have sounded the alarm for months: Homegrown terrorism, including by white supremacists, is now as big a threat as terrorism from abroad. But the mass [...]

BRUSSELS -- The European Union launched an ambitious effort earlier this year to combat election interference: an early-warning system that would sound alarms about Russian propaganda. Despite high expectations, however, [...]

Byline: Matt Apuzzo and Adam Satariano LONDON - Less than two weeks before pivotal elections for the European Parliament, a constellation of websites and social media accounts linked to Russia [...]

LONDON -- Less than two weeks before pivotal elections for the European Parliament, a constellation of websites and social media accounts linked to Russia or far-right groups is spreading disinformation, [...]

Byline: Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, produced a report of more than 400 pages that painted a deeply unflattering picture of President Trump [...]

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, produced a report of more than 400 pages that painted a deeply unflattering picture of President Trump but stopped short of accusing him [...]

BRUSSELS -- Hakeem al-Araibi thought he had escaped the reach of the Bahraini government when he fled to Australia years ago as a political refugee. But last year he ventured [...]

BUDAPEST -- The International Investment Bank, an obscure Russian financial institution with a small-time balance sheet, is an unlikely source of global intrigue. In more normal times, its plans to [...]

BRUSSELS -- Since her Brexit plan was overwhelmingly rejected last month, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain has repeatedly set off for Brussels, ostensibly to negotiate new terms for her [...]

STOCKHOLM -- When South Africa opened its books on the atrocities of the apartheid era in the 1990s, a tantalizing series of faded documents reignited one of the continent's enduring [...]

BRUSSELS -- Belgium's prime minister, under pressure from the right and left, submitted his resignation Tuesday in the face of a populist revolt over his migration policy, which opponents say [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO BRUSSELS -- The trade group Safer Phosphates would seem to have a pitch-perfect message for an environmentally conscious European Union. It advocates cleaner soil and healthier food, [...]

BRUSSELS -- The trade group Safer Phosphates would seem to have a pitch-perfect message for an environmentally conscious European Union. It advocates cleaner soil and healthier food, with a website [...]

WASHINGTON -- The special counsel and defense lawyers asked a federal judge on Monday to schedule sentencing this fall for President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, a [...]

Byline: ADAM GOLDMAN, JULIAN E. BARNES, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- When a suspected hit man for Russian intelligence arrived in Florida about four years ago, F.B.I. [...]

WASHINGTON -- When a suspected hit man for Russian intelligence arrived in Florida about four years ago, F.B.I. surveillance teams were alarmed. The man approached the home of one of [...]

THE HAGUE -- In a city that symbolizes international peace and justice, the ambassador from Burundi has had a lonely job. As her government faces accusations of murder, rape and [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- Long before the convictions last week of two former members of President Trump's inner circle, the political left's expectations for the Russia investigation were at [...]

WASHINGTON -- Long before the convictions last week of two former members of President Trump's inner circle, the political left's expectations for the Russia investigation were at a fever pitch. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Paul Manafort's services did not come cheap. His consulting work helped prop up foreign strongmen, who in turn kept him in $12,000 bespoke suits from Beverly Hills. But [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO and MAGGIE HABERMAN WASHINGTON -- Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by The National Enquirer to buy the silence of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by The National Enquirer to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Russian woman who tried to broker a secret meeting between Donald J. Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, during the 2016 presidential campaign was charged [...]

WASHINGTON -- One year after President Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, agents say they have less confidence in the ethics and vision of the bureau's new leadership, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the front-runner to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, once argued that President Bill Clinton could be impeached for lying to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was abandoning Obama administration policies that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, signaling that [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's congressional allies trained their fire on the special counsel investigation on Tuesday, armed anew with a damaging report showing that the lead F.B.I. agent assigned to [...]

WASHINGTON -- A much-anticipated report about the F.B.I.'s handling of its investigation into Hillary Clinton was scheduled to be released on Thursday, and few were looking forward to it more [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department's inspector general on Thursday painted a harsh portrait of the F.B.I. during the 2016 presidential election, describing a destructive culture in which James B. Comey, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors on Monday accused President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case. In court [...]

WASHINGTON -- For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump's lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal. No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in his son's name. [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump's lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal. No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether [...]

WASHINGTON -- The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing of Mr. McCabe's [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been granted his permanent security clearance, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday, ending a period of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on [...]

The investigation into President Trump's campaign and its ties to Russia is best known today by the man who runs it, Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel. But the [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's new legal team made a chaotic debut as Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was tapped recently to be one of the president's lawyers, potentially exposed his client [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump on Thursday directly contradicted his earlier statements that he knew of no payment to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress who says she had an affair [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump hired on Wednesday a Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, a sign that the White House sees no immediate end to its legal [...]