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WASHINGTON — It began at 6 p.m. Thursday as a conspiratorial rant on conservative talk radio: President Barack Obama had used the “instrumentalities of the federal government” to wiretap the Republican seeking to succeed him. This “is the big scandal...

National Security Council staff members are using President Donald Trump's tweets as a guideline for policy. The apparent reason: Their boss, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, has failed to provide them with an "orderly flow of council documents...

There is clear, unambiguous evidence that “Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated...

Lie #1: Trump: I Don’t Know Putin Trump: “I’ve Never Met Putin. I Don’t Know Who Putin Is.” “I’ve never met Putin. I don’t know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I’m a genius. I said, “Thank you very much” to the newspaper and that...

Our Putin Don’t worry too much about whether Trump and the Russian leader are working together. Worry about what they have in common. By SUSAN B. GLASSER FEB. 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — On June 18, 2001, I attended Vladimir V. Putin’s first meeting with...