David S. Cloud

White nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park, surrounded by counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.

A day of heightened tensions and casting blame after white nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville

August 22, 2019 at 5:28 a.m.

Charlottesville was on edge Sunday as police and residents tried to piece together how a white nationalist rally turned deadly when a man rammed his car into counter-demonstrators in an...

Virginia Gov. McAuliffe blames white supremacists, neo-Nazis for inciting deadly clashes in Charlottesville

August 22, 2019 at 5:28 a.m.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Sunday blamed white supremacists and neo-Nazis for inciting deadly clashes in Charlottesville, drawing an implicit contrast with President Trump's refusal to single out any side....

Senators pledge to ‘go where the intelligence leads’ in Russia investigation

August 22, 2019 at 3:46 a.m.

The Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry into Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election will be "one of the biggest investigations" in years and has already involved an "unprecedented" level...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., speaks to reporters after a meeting at the White House on March 22, 2017.

House intel chairman, top Democrat clash over Trump surveillance revelations

August 22, 2019 at 3:40 a.m.

U.S. intelligence agencies inadvertently intercepted communications involving the Trump transition team late last year, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday, a disclosure that President Trump said "somewhat"...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) has said it was "more than possible" that a Trump advisor and others colluded with Moscow during the 2016 campaign.

Lots of smoke but no fire yet in U.S.-Russia investigation

August 22, 2019 at 3:40 a.m.

Roger Stone, a pugilistic Republican political operative who cut his teeth under President Nixon, didn't attend Monday's dramatic congressional hearing into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential race, but he...

Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as President Donald Trump's national security adviser, chats with former Texas Governor and Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and Trump attorney Michael Cohen, center, in the lobby at Trump Tower on Dec. 12, 2016, in New York.

The Trump business associate who led a double life as an FBI informant

August 22, 2019 at 3:25 a.m.

Working from a 24th-floor office in Manhattan's Trump Tower, Felix Sater spent years trying to line up lucrative deals in the United States, Russia and elsewhere in Europe with Donald...

From left, Donald Trump, Bayrock Group founder Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater in New York in 2007.

Trump’s former business associate led a double life as informant

August 22, 2019 at 3:24 a.m.

Working from a 24th-floor office in Manhattan's Trump Tower, Felix Sater spent years trying to line up lucrative deals in the United States, Russia and elsewhere in Europe with Donald...

Congress knew for at least two years about Pentagon efforts to take back bonuses from veterans

August 22, 2019 at 1:39 a.m.

The California National Guard told the state's members of Congress two years ago that the Pentagon was trying to claw back reenlistment bonuses from thousands of soldiers, and even offered...

Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses, decade after going to war

August 22, 2019 at 1:38 a.m.

Short of troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago, the California National Guard enticed thousands of soldiers with bonuses of $15,000 or more to reenlist and go...

President Richard M. Nixon waves goodbye to his staff members outside the White House as he boards a helicopter and resigns the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974. He was the first and still only president in American history to resign the nation's highest office.

CIA releases thousands of previously classified briefings given to Presidents Nixon and Ford

August 22, 2019 at 12:49 a.m.

The CIA pulled the veil back Wednesday on long-classified foreign intelligence briefings it gave President Nixon in the 1970s during both the height of his power and his fall from...

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