WASHINGTON Special counsel Robert Mueller has sent a warning to individuals in President Donald Trump’s orbit: If they lie about contacts between the president’s campaign and Russians, they’ll end up on the wrong end of federal criminal charges. With the disclosure of the first criminal cases in his investigation, Mueller also showed that he will […]

WASHINGTON Major tech companies plan to tell Congress Tuesday that they have found additional evidence of Russian activity on their services surrounding the 2016 U.S. election. Facebook, for instance, says a Russian group posted more than 80,000 times on its service during and after the election, potentially reaching as many as 126 million users. The […]

BRUSSELS Catalonia’s ousted regional president will give a news conference in Brussels on Tuesday, European officials said, as speculation mounted that he might seek political asylum in Belgium and try to avoid possible prosecution in Spain for declaring Catalan independence. Carles Puigdemont arrived in Brussels on Monday, the same day that Spanish prosecutors announced they […]

BEERSHEBA, Israel A century to the day after Australian troops broke through Ottoman defenses in a daring First World War victory, nearly 200 horsemen — including descendants of the soldiers who fought that day — paraded Tuesday through the streets of a southern Israeli city in a memorial to those killed in a battle that […]

ATWATER, Calif. Google’s self-driving car spin-off is accelerating efforts to convince the public that its technology is almost ready to safely transport people without any human assistance at all. Waymo, hatched from a Google project started eight years ago, showed off its progress Monday during a rare peek at a closely guarded testing facility located […]