An Internal Revenue Service staffer pleaded guilty Wednesday to leaking confidential details about former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen to Michael Avenatti, the former attorney of adult film star Stormy Daniels who claims to have had an affair with Trump before he became president.
Read moreWaving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans jammed a highway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by the leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him and his advisers.
Read morePuerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Sunday evening that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat, but he will not seek re-election or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party.
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Bulgarian police have detained a suspect who is allegedly behind the hacking of the national revenue agency, an attack that leaked the personal and financial data of millions of Bulgarians and companies.
Read moreA U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama.
Read moreBritish police opened a criminal investigation on Friday into the leaking of confidential diplomatic memos that cost the U.K. ambassador in Washington his job.
Read moreBritain’s ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate having a “special relationship.”
Read morePrime Minister Theresa May backed Britain’s ambassador to the United States on Tuesday after President Trump cut off contact with him following the leak of diplomatic cables that branded Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
Read moreTaking to Twitter on Monday, President Donald Trump blasted the British ambassador who called the Trump administration “inept” and “dysfunctional” in leaked diplomatic cables.
Read moreThe British government was hunting Monday for the source of a leak of diplomatic cables from Britain’s ambassador in Washington that branded President Donald Trump’s administration “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
Read moreBritain’s ambassador to the United States described the Trump administration as “diplomatically clumsy and inept” and said he doubted it would become “substantially more normal,” according to a leaked diplomatic cable published Sunday.
Read moreWhen President Trump’s internal polling suggested he was trailing Democrats in crucial states this year, he tried to bury the bad numbers. When the findings leaked to the media anyway, an infuriated Trump disputed the poll’s existence, then tried to dismiss its importance, then fired three of the pollsters.
Read moreA military judge took the rare step Monday to remove a prosecutor accused of misconduct from the war crimes case of a decorated Navy SEAL.
Read moreAttorneys for a decorated Navy SEAL facing a murder trial in the death of an Islamic State prisoner will try again Friday to have the case dismissed after their client was unexpectedly freed from custody.
Read moreA judge delayed the murder case Wednesday of a decorated Navy SEAL to first make sure the government’s monitoring of defense team emails did not compromise his right to a fair trial.
Read moreA lawyer for a Navy SEAL accused of murder wants military prosecutors and a judge removed from the case for their roles in snooping on emails sent to the defense team and a journalist in an effort to find the source of news leaks.
Read moreSpecial counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration to Attorney General William Barr last month about how the findings of his Russia investigation were being portrayed, saying he worried that a letter summarizing the main conclusions of the probe lacked the necessary context and was creating public confusion about his team’s work, a Justice Department official said Tuesday night.
Read moreIndonesia’s transportation safety board denied on Thursday that it leaked details from its probe into the crash of a Lion Air flight in October.
Read moreFreed from a military prison almost two years ago, WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning returned to federal lockup on Friday for refusing to testify about the same military and diplomatic disclosures that ended her career as an Army intelligence analyst.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday denied Roger Stone’s request that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office prove it did not violate a court order sealing the indictment against the longtime Republican operative and former Trump associate.
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