Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders denied the story which said counterintelligence officials wondered if the new president was working for Russia, and therefore was a national security threat.
Nearly a year after President Trump fired James Comey, the former FBI director has a new memoir, A Higher Loyalty. He talked to NPR about the book and his decisions in the run-up to the 2016 election.
President Trump abruptly scrapped plans to attend a hemispheric summit meeting in South America this weekend. The White House says Vice President Pence will go in Trump's place.
The two lawmakers leading the committee's Russia investigation said Thursday that they aren't satisfied with President Trump's response to its request regarding former FBI Director James Comey.
Sessions was among Trump's most ardent supporters in 2016, but according to reports from ABC News and others, the president remains furious with his choice to recuse himself from Russia inquiries.
Attorney General Sessions' recommendation that President Trump fire the FBI Director has raised eyebrows. Sessions had promised to keep his distance from an investigation of last year's campaign.
The FBI director's firing has sparked new calls for an independent probe into Russia's election hacking and possible ties to the Trump campaign. Here are the shapes such an investigation could take.
President Trump summarily fired the FBI director, giving little reasoning except for a memo from a Justice Department official who criticized James Comey's handling of the Clinton email probe.
Lawmakers are increasingly skeptical of President Trump's claims, but they want the Justice Department to answer whether it has been investigating the Trump campaign.
Director James Comey refused to publicly respond to the media reports even as he dismissed them privately, a senior administration official says. The official says the FBI initiated the discussion.
The FBI director, appearing with other top U.S. intelligence chiefs at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, said Russia targeted Republican National Committee Web domains no longer in use.
Speaking at a private event, the failed Democratic presidential candidate talked about the Russian president and what she believes contributed to her defeat to Donald Trump.
Director James Comey says the FBI's review of new emails involving Hillary Clinton doesn't change the decision not to press charges against Clinton over her use of a private server.
FBI Director James Comey said ultimately Hillary Clinton should not be charged in connection with her private e-mail server. However, some of the facts of the case he laid out differ from hers.
The man whose attack on a nightclub resulted in the deaths of 49 victims bought his guns legally, James Comey says. The shooter, he adds, also had three different contacts with a 911 dispatch service.
After a speech about encryption and privacy, James Comey said he puts tape over his laptop's camera. Privacy activists seized on that as hypocritical, given the FBI's stance on "unhackable" devices.
An independent review of how the FBI implemented the recommendations made in the 9/11 Commission Report also says new threats to the U.S. challenged the bureau's "change-resistant culture."
