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Turkish justice minister to meet with US counterpart over Gülen extradition
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ will travel to U.S. on May 7 to meet with his U.S. counterpart Jeff Sessions to discuss the extradition and temporary arrest of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of masterminding the July 2016 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist
An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has learned.
The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was under investigation, according to federal court records.
WikiLeaks releases more top-secret CIA docs as U.S. considers charges
WikiLeaks released what it claims is the 31-page user guide for a CIA device code-named “Weeping Angel.” It can turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV’s built-in microphone.
Muslim doctor arrested for female genital mutilation
A Detroit emergency room physician was charged Wednesday with mutilating the genitalia of two 7-year-old girls in what is believed to be the first case of its kind brought under federal law.
US Senator: RT and Sputnik are "designed to undermine our democracy"
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) claims RT and Sputnik are "designed to undermine our democracy" and even compared them to Nazi propaganda while promoting her bill, a reaction to alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 election.
The link between a N.Y. District Attorney fired by Trump and the President of Turkey
A Turkish banker, sanctions and Iran − the plot thickens as the NYPD arrests an executive suspected of helping transfer funds to Iran when sanctions were firmly in place.
FBI director confirms agency investigating ties between Russia and Trump campaign
FBI Director James Comey said Monday he had no information to support claims by President Donald Trump that he was wiretapped by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
“I have no information that supports those tweets,” Comey told the House Intelligence Committee, adding that the Justice Department, along with the FBI, had no information to support the allegations.
Trump’s executive ordered blocked again by controversial ruling
In a ruling issued on Wednesday afternoon, a Haywain federal judge, prevented the President of the United States from enforcing the new executive order to block migrants from terror-riddled countries.
However, the judge went on and ruled over issues that the legal world in the US will have to have long debates about.
White House says Trump did not know Flynn was 'lobbying for Turkey'
The White House said on March 10 that U.S. President Donald Trump did not know until this week that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had been lobbying for Turkey's interest.
Sessions asks US prosecutor of Turkish-Iranian businessman, 45 Obama-era attorneys to resign
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign on March 10, including Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had been asked to stay on in November 2016 by then President-elect Donald Trump and is the chief prosecutor in the case of an arrested Turkish-Iranian businessman.