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Yuri Gripas / Reuters 'There Is a Real Risk Here Things Will Spin Out of Control'
The White House picked a fight by firing James Comey—but now risks losing its grip on the controversy it provoked.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters 'A President Who Doesn't Play by Any Rules'
International media react to the Comey firing.
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Alexander Shcherbak / TASS via Getty Trump Trolls His Critics
Accused of being Nixonian and trying to bury an investigation of ties to Russia, the president meets and greets Russian officials and Nixon’s most famous aide.
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AP Will Republicans Check Trump's Presidential Power?
Richard Nixon’s dismissal of the Watergate special prosecutor was met with bipartisan outrage. It’s less clear whether the public, and its political leaders, will respond in kind to the firing of FBI director James Comey.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Firing of the FBI Director Tests Conservatives
James Comey’s dismissal asks the right which they value more: defending a president whose policy agenda they generally support or defending the norms that preserve liberal democracy.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Republicans Rush to Support Trump
Some GOP lawmakers criticized the firing of FBI Director James Comey, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stood by the president and rejected calls for a special prosecutor.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Was Russia the Real Reason Trump Fired James Comey?
The White House’s official rationale—that the FBI director was too harsh on Hillary Clinton—makes no sense.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Giuliani Says He's Not a Candidate for FBI Director
The former New York City Mayor is in Washington in the midst of the drama surrounding the firing of James Comey.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Anthony Kennedy's Choice
The Supreme Court’s conservative swing vote faces a fateful decision.
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Susan Walsh / AP This Is Not a Drill
The firing of FBI director James Comey poses a question: Will the law answer to the president, or the president to the law?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Democrats Call for an Independent Investigation Into the Election After Trump Fires FBI Director
Congressional reaction split along partisan lines after news broke that the president had dismissed James Comey.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters 'An Act of Presidential Imperialism'
Historians of the United States call the FBI director’s firing an extraordinary moment—but not entirely unprecedented.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Convenient Dismissal of James Comey
President Trump fired his FBI director for his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, removing an official who had become a thorn in his side.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey
A White House statement said he acted on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Did James Comey Misunderstand the Clinton Email Case?
The FBI director incorrectly told a Senate panel that Huma Abedin forwarded thousands of emails to her husband Anthony Weiner.
