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FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr speak at the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Trump is directing the U.S. intelligence community to "quickly and fully cooperate" with Barr's investigation of the origins of the multi-year probe into whether Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Officials fear Barr investigation

by Shane Harris The Washington PostMay 24, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new executive order giving the attorney general broad authority to declassify government secrets threatens to expose U.S. intelligence sources and could distort the FBI and CIA’s roles in investigating Russian…

Congress divided after briefing on tensions with Iran

by Karoun Demirjian The Washington Post, Shane Harris The Washington Post, and Karen DeYoung The Washington PostMay 21, 2019

A Pakistani woman lights candles during a vigil for the victims of bomb explosions in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday April 23, 2019. The death toll from the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, rose Tuesday to more than 300. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Sri Lankan bombings, claimed by ISIS, show the group maintains influence

by Shane Harris The Washington Post, Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, and Souad Mekhennet The Washington PostApril 23, 2019

White House says don’t blame Trump

by Shane Harris The Washington Post, and Felicia Sonmez The Washington PostMarch 17, 2019

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 2, 2018 file photo, a video image of Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is played during an event to remember Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, in Washington. Saud Al-Mojeb, Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor, is recommending the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. Al-Mojeb told a press conference in Riyadh Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, that Khashoggi’s killers had been planning the operation since September 29, three days before he was killed inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

CIA: Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killing

by Shane Harris The Washington Post, and Greg Miller And Josh Dawsey The Washington PostNovember 16, 2018

Journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston, Friday, May 27, 2011. Foley, who was working for the Boston-based GlobalPost while reporting on the conflict in Libya, was captured along with two others by Libyan government forces on April 5, 2011. Foley, American freelance journalist Clare Morgana Gillis, of New Haven, Conn., and Spanish photographer Manu Brabo were released by Libyan authorities last week. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Mother of Slain Journalist James Foley Says Filmmaker Took Their Story

by Shane Harris Washington PostSeptember 16, 2018

Protesters outside the White House last month give their assessment of President Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin. (MUST CREDIT: Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

Book Review: Author Investigates Trump’s Ties to Russia

by Shane Harris The Washington PostAugust 23, 2018

In this July 16, 2018, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. Trump and Putin may have reached several historic agreements at their summit in Finland this week. Or, they may not have. Three days later no one is quite sure. With no details emerging from the leaders’ one-on-one discussion on Monday other than the vague outline they offered themselves, officials, lawmakers and the public in the United States in particular are wondering what, if anything, was actually agreed to. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Asks to Meet Putin in U.S.

by Shane Harris The Washington Post, and Felicia Sonmez And John Wagner The Washington PostJuly 19, 2018

Robert Mueller on February 16, 2011, as he testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. (James Berglie/Zuma Press/TNS)

Mueller Probe Faces Question of American Involvement

by Devlin Barrett The Washington Post, Matt Zapotosky The Washington Post, Carol D. Leonnig The Washington Post, and Shane Harris The Washington PostJuly 14, 2018

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

Fight over detained children intensifies

by Shane Harris The Washington Post, David Weigel The Washington Post, and Karoun Demirjian The Washington PostJune 18, 2018