Former President Donald Trump's onetime top adviser surrendered to federal authorities Monday. Bannon was indicted last week for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers he's working to keep the Justice Department out of politics after four years of chaos during the Trump presidency.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok have stepped up efforts to curb the spread of misinformation about the election, but researchers say falsehoods thrive nearly unchecked on live videos.
Twitter permanently suspended an account from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon after he suggested Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.
Red flags abound in a story about Hunter Biden that provides fodder for President Trump and his allies. The allegations rest on speculation and assumptions rather than journalistically sound facts.
In an indictment unsealed on Thursday, federal prosecutors said Bannon and three others "orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors."
Before going public, data scientist Christopher Wylie helped the now defunct company figure out how to target people online. In a new memoir, he offers details of the project and the players.
The Fire and Fury author offers surprising stories about the president. But there may never have been a more polarizing president, nor an author less likely to be read as a neutral recorder of facts.
Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is investigating alleged violations of federal records laws. Jared Kushner's lawyer disputes some of Cummings' assertions about what he told the committee.
Alexander Nix, who was suspended from the firm on Tuesday, is heard saying that he had met Donald Trump "many times" and deployed deceptive tactics to support his election campaign.
During a stop on his European tour, Bannon told a conference of the far-right National Front party in France, "Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor."
The ritzy event drew stars from across Washington's media firmament. But all eyes were on President Trump, who offered quips, burns — and even some news on North Korea. That is, if he wasn't joking.
Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who nearly upset Sen. Thad Cochran in a bitter 2014 race, is teasing that he will mount a conservative primary challenge to Republican Sen. Roger Wicker.
Journalist Joshua Green describes the right-wing provocateur as a "very shrewd analyst of American politics." Right now, Green says, Bannon is particularly attuned to the #MeToo movement.
"I'm someone who just found his way into this story of our time," the Fire and Fury author says. He stands by the work that has created a rift between President Trump and former adviser Steve Bannon.
The president has no choice right now other than to align himself with the Republican establishment both legislatively and politically. Will that hold?
The president's lawyer sent the former strategist a cease-and-desist letter claiming his interviews for a new book violated a nondisclosure agreement he had signed with the Trump campaign.
"Even if you thought that this was not treasonous," the former chief strategist is quoted as saying of the Trump Tower meeting, "... you should have called the FBI immediately."
Robert Mercer, co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies and a major conservative donor, had brought attention to his firm. He is resigning amid reports that other company executives chafed at the scrutiny.
