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Donald Trump ally, Roger Stone, gets 40 months in prison for impeding US congressional probe into 2016 presidential election
•Stone was convicted in November, 2019, on all seven counts of an indictment that accused him of lying to the Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to tip the 2016 election.
Donald Trump impeachment inquiry: William B Taylor Jr displayed a demeanour Democrats hoped Robert Mueller had exhibited
•With a more-in-sadness-than-anger tone, William B Taylor Jr told lawmakers that in decades of public service under administrations of both parties, he had never seen any president warp foreign policy for his own personal advantage the way Donald Trump tried to do.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death gives Donald Trump a political boost in face of impeachment inquiry; Russia raises concerns over Islamic State group chief’s ‘umpteenth death’
•President Donald Trump on Sunday said that the elusive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been killed, dying "like a dog" in a daring nighttime raid by US special forces in northwest Syria
In Donald Trump's America, nationalism has become a substitute for patriotism; India should take heed, here's why
Aakar •The developments in Donald Trump's America is what happens to countries where the mad and rabid narrative of nationalism takes over, as it has in India.
US judge orders Justice Department to release unredacted copy of Mueller grand jury documents by 30 October
•Many of the key witnesses in the Trump orbit, including former White House counsel Don McGahn, submitted to voluntary interviews before Mueller's team rather than appear before the grand jury, making it unclear how much significant new information tied to the president is contained in the grand jury transcripts.
US intelligence chief Dan Coats will leave office on 15 August, announces Donald Trump; John Ratcliffe likely to be next head
•US intelligence chief Dan Coats will leave office on 15 August, President Donald Trump announced, the latest high-profile departure from his turnover-plagued administration.
Donald Trump was not exonerated of obstructing investigation into Russian meddling in elections, Robert Mueller tells US Congress
•Robert Mueller denied Wednesday that Donald Trump had been exonerated of obstructing his two-year investigation into Russian election meddling but -- in his first testimony before Congress on the probe -- he again declined to accuse the US president of a crime
Former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify at high-stakes hearing over probe into Donald Trump's Russia links today
•Former special counsel Robert Mueller will face congressional interrogators in a high-stake televised hearing about Donald Trump's alleged Russia links on Wednesday.
Democrats to conduct hearings on Robert Mueller report as investigations against Donald Trump pick up pace; focus to be on Russian collusion
•President Donald Trump says it’s 'case closed'. But Democrats are just getting started with Robert Mueller. House Democrats have scheduled a series of hearings this coming week on the special counsel’s report as they intensify their focus on the Russia probe and pick up the pace on an investigative “path” — in the words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi — that some of them hope leads to impeachment of the president.
Donald Trump announces special counsel Emmet Flood’s exit following conclusion of Mueller report investigation
•US President Donald Trump announced that a member of his legal team, Emmet Flood, will leave his post later this month after helping him handle the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign