Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
Arab American Institute: There were nearly twice as many anti-Arab hate crimes as FBI reported
Maria Butina is accused of infiltrating American political organizations
Butina accused of secretly working to develop personal relationships with influential Americans and infiltrate political organizations for the purpose of advancing Russian interests in the US
Maria Butina, 29, arrested on Sunday on charges of conspiring to act as an agent of the Russian government in the US without notifying the attorney general
11 are charged with conspiring to hack computers, steal documents and release them; 12th is charged with conspiring to infiltrate election administration groups' computers
Texts between Peter Strzok and colleague and lover Lisa Page are at center of accusations that Robert Mueller’s probe of 2016 Trump campaign is biased
Lawmakers vote along party lines to confirm a lawyer who briefly represented a Russian bank with ties to the Kremlin to head the Justice Department’s criminal division
1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which held that US Constitution protects abortion right, is one of high court's most controversial and divisive decisions of past century
Well before Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, president began methodically naming conservatives to federal courts
Justice Anthony Kennedy's departure gives President Donald Trump a coveted opportunity make the second high court appointment of his term
Move gives Trump the chance to fundamentally alter the make-up of the nation's highest court
Decision backs the president's broad authority to limit travel for national security reasons
Three days after filing a lawsuit nothing had changed
Justices rule 5-4 that cellphone tower records kept by service providers are protected under the Constitution
Agency says notion that all mass shooters are mentally ill is 'misleading and unhelpful'
Peter Strzok exchanged a series of anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer
More than 70 former US Attorneys wrote that the 'zero tolerance' policy has caused children 'unnecessary trauma and suffering'
Christopher Wray responds to Republican critics following a scathing report about the bureau's handling of 2016 Hillary Clinton email server investigation
Manafort becomes the first former Trump associate to go to prison
President also took FBI Agent Strzok to task for texting 'we'll stop' Trump from winning the presidency during the investigation
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