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WASHINGTON -- President Trump is confident that neither his former campaign chairman nor his former national security adviser has damaging information about him to offer prosecutors, a White House lawyer [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has dispatched an experienced federal hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student last year, [...]

WASHINGTON -- White House officials once debated a scorched-earth strategy of publicly criticizing and undercutting Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian efforts to disrupt last year's election. [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON -- White House officials once debated a scorched-earth strategy of publicly criticizing and undercutting Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating [...]

WASHINGTON -- At least six of President Trump's closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday. The disclosures came [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday abruptly postponed an interview with President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, shortly after the publication of his opening statement, which asserted [...]

WASHINGTON -- Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his [...]

Byline: SHARON LaFRANIERE, MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN Correction Appended WASHINGTON -- Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant [...]

BRISTOL, Va. -- For seven years, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives followed an unwritten policy: If you needed to buy something for one of your [...]

WASHINGTON -- As an up-and-coming politician in Alabama, Jeff Sessions watched as his state's poultry industry illegally hired Mexican and Central American immigrants to jobs that had once been filled [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, has given Congress a point-by-point rebuttal of a dossier alleging that he has deep ties to Russian officials -- an effort [...]

WASHINGTON -- A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO and MAGGIE HABERMAN WASHINGTON -- A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black [...]

WASHINGTON -- As F.B.I. director, James B. Comey had widespread support from his agents, according to internal survey data released Wednesday that contradicts President Trump's claim that he fired Mr. [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert S. [...]

Byline: MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATT APUZZO and MAGGIE HABERMAN WASHINGTON -- In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction [...]

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday threw out lengthy prison sentences for three former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors and ordered a new trial for a fourth involved in [...]

WASHINGTON -- Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to the former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, and [...]

Byline: MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON -- Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's attempts to disrupt last year's presidential election, has issued subpoenas from a Washington-based grand jury in recent weeks, according [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- The Trump administration has brought a man suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda to the United States to face trial in federal court, backing off its hard-line position [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's lawyers and aides are scouring the professional and political backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, looking for conflicts of interest [...]

Byline: MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MAGGIE HABERMAN and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- President Trump's lawyers and aides are scouring the professional and political backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel [...]

The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father's former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior [...]

Byline: JO BECKER, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father's former Russian [...]

WASHINGTON -- Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that [...]

Byline: MATT APUZZO, JO BECKER, ADAM GOLDMAN and MAGGIE HABERMAN WASHINGTON -- Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary [...]

President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three [...]

Byline: JO BECKER, MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian [...]

Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, has added to his legal team one of the nation's most prominent trial lawyers, Abbe D. Lowell, his lawyers said on [...]

WASHINGTON -- Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were running a multimillion-dollar, off-the-books bank account in Virginia to fund undercover operations at a time when the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail. At the F.B.I., the [...]

President Trump has added John Dowd, a veteran lawyer in Washington, to his legal team in the face of investigations related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, as well [...]

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel examining Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, has requested interviews with three high-ranking current or former intelligence officials, the latest indication [...]

WASHINGTON -- In the days since the dramatic congressional testimony last week by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, numerous questions have swirled about the role that Attorney General [...]

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on Thursday disputed an article that appeared in February in The New York Times about contacts between President Trump's advisers and Russian intelligence [...]

WASHINGTON -- James B. Comey, the recently fired F.B.I. director, said Thursday in an extraordinary Senate hearing that he believed President Trump had tried to derail an investigation into his [...]

WASHINGTON -- Christopher A. Wray was the government's top criminal prosecutor in 2004 when the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and the deputy attorney general, James B. Comey, threatened [...]

WASHINGTON -- From his first days in office, President Trump repeatedly put pressure on his F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. He demanded loyalty. He asked that an investigation into an [...]

Byline: ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- Christopher A. Wray was the government's top criminal prosecutor in 2004 when the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and the deputy [...]

WASHINGTON -- The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff [...]

Byline: MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security [...]

Senators expect the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to testify next week about his conversations with President Trump, congressional officials said on Wednesday, setting up a test of the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, spoke in December with Russia's ambassador to the United States about establishing a secret communications channel between the Trump transition [...]

WASHINGTON -- American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according [...]

Byline: MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON -- American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence [...]

WASHINGTON -- John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, described on Tuesday a nerve-fraying few months last year as American authorities realized that the presidential election was under attack and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence [...]