A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to conduct rigorous sweeps of facilities serving states with looming election deadlines like Pennsylvania and North Carolina, so any ballots still in the system reach election officials in time. Read the full story here.
Millions of mail-in ballots haven’t been received by election offices in critical battleground states, where recent slowdowns in mail deliveries risk some votes not arriving in time to count for the presidential election. Read the full story here.
Of the 29 states that require mail-in ballots to arrive on or before election day, 28 have seen periods in recent weeks of average delivery times of more than six days, a Wall Street Journal analysis found. Read the full story here.
Trump campaign adviser sought corroboration for Indian’s allegations against Hillary Clinton. Read the full story here.
Behind the scenes, Michael Cohen hired RedFinch Solutions, then allegedly stiffed it–and his boss. Read the full story here.
A $100,000 real-estate brokerage fee that was part of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s guilty plea came from representing a company owned by a member of the Qatar royal family. Read the full story here.
Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information he considered damaging to Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Read the full story here.
Roger Stone said in an Aug. 4, 2016, email: “I dined with my new pal Julian Assange last nite.” Now, Mr. Stone says, “I never dined with Assange.” Either way, it’s gotten Robert Mueller’s attention. Read the full story here.
Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online “trolls” flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney from securing a top job in the incoming administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows. Read the full story here.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty last week to lying to the FBI about his conversation with a Russian diplomat, told an American businessman that U.S. sanctions on Russia would be “ripped up” under the Trump administration, a whistleblower told a congressman. Read the full story here.
Project backers drafted memos for President Trump and Flynn allies continued to push the plan after the Trump security adviser was ousted. Read the full story here.
Russian Twitter accounts began heaping praise on Donald Trump and ripping his rivals earlier than previously thought–within weeks after he announced his bid for the presidency in June 2015. Read the full story here.
As President Trump’s national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn promoted a controversial private-sector nuclear-power project in the Middle East that had once involved Russian companies, according to former security-council staffers and others familiar with the effort. Read the full story here.
VEB, a Russian state-run bank under scrutiny by U.S. investigators, financed a deal involving Donald Trump’s onetime partner in a Toronto hotel tower at a key moment for the project, according to people familiar with the transaction. Read the full story here.
Former national security adviser Mike Flynn interacted with a graduate student with dual Russian and British nationalities at a 2014 U.K. security conference, a contact that came to the notice of U.S. intelligence but that Mr. Flynn, then the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, didn’t disclose. Read the full story here.
U.S. investigators have examined contacts Attorney General Jeff Sessions had with Russian officials during the time he was advising Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. Read the full story here.