James B. Comey made his appeal during a meeting last week with the deputy attorney general, who wrote the memo used to justify his firing.
Agents said they were still under a cloud from the F.B.I.’s role in the election and that President Trump’s firing of James B. Comey further hurt morale.
President Trump returned from a weekend away determined to act after months of growing frustration with the F.B.I. director, according to people close to the president.
A spokeswoman also said that the recommendation from the deputy attorney general to fire James B. Comey had not been made at the president’s direction.
A day after dismissing the F.B.I. director amid an investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, the president met with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov.
White House officials blocked reporters from covering the meeting with President Trump and top Russian officials but gave a Russian photographer access.
Hillary Clinton’s satisfaction at seeing the F.B.I. director lose his job is offset by worries that it could derail the Russia inquiry, her friends say.
After President Trump fired James B. Comey, politicians on both sides of the aisle changed their attitudes toward the ousted F.B.I. director. The dismissal added another volatile element to the partisanship engulfing the capital and raised the prospect of another confirmation fight in the Senate.
The Trump administration has brought politics into investigations and other matters of law enforcement where past White Houses have steered clear.
Read about how voices from across ideologies (and around the internet) reacted to President Trump’s decision to fire the F.B.I. director.
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Senators voted 51 to 49 to block a measure that would have undone a regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.
The education secretary gave her first commencement address at a historically black university amid some jeers and turned faces.
The secretary of education in Puerto Rico has pushed for closings and consolidations to save money. Teachers fear the cuts will cost them their jobs.
The parent of the messaging app Snapchat reported earnings that missed Wall Street expectations in almost every regard.
“Amélie” will close on May 21. In this 360 video, get a last look at the onstage perspective of Phillipa Soo and her young co-star, Savvy Crawford. Twenty-First Century Fox disclosed on Monday that settlements and potential litigation cost it $10 million in its fiscal third quarter, a total of $45 million in nine months.
The action would extend an order restricting travelers through airports in 10 Muslim-majority countries from carrying laptops, tablets and other devices in the cabin.
Authorities are scrambling to address cases of racism and far-right extremism in the German military, which critics say have been overlooked for too long.
The prosecutor says Betty Jo Shelby, who is charged with manslaughter, panicked when she shot Terence Crutcher. Her lawyer says he could have been reaching for a gun.
As the president seeks closer ties with China, experts say relations with Southeast Asian countries may suffer if he doesn’t contest Beijing’s claims in the disputed sea.
For the athletes from Grootfontein Agri College, most who had never been out of southern Africa, competing at the Penn Relays was only part of the adventure.
The start-up had $730 million in sales last year and raised just $42 million, a relatively modest sum for a high-flying Silicon Valley start-up.
From Kendall Jenner to the Fyre Festival, the risks of being a tastemaker have been exposed.
In the drama “Arlington” and the installation “Rooms,” the Irish playwright Enda Walsh conjures a subversive throng of unreliable narrators.
Derek Jeter, the team’s longtime captain, will get a plaque in the Bronx and have his No. 2 retired on Sunday.
Mr. Boykin, known as Big Black, was the skateboarder Rob Dyrdek’s bodyguard and buddy on their reality show “Rob & Big,” and later appeared on “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory.”
One man died at least a month ago and the other more recently, the authorities said, and warm temperatures caused their corpses to rise to the surface.
In a lawsuit that is a sharp rejoinder to a crackdown on Chinese spies, a physics professor alleged that an F.B.I. agent ignored repeated warnings that he was innocent.
After his swift and brutal victory, the mixed martial arts fighter has been accused of violating “the morals of martial arts,” and has gone into hiding. Four men have accused Ed Murray, Seattle’s first openly gay mayor, of sexually abusing them as minors during the 1980s. The mayor maintains that he is innocent.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winner on the Attica prison uprising, criminal-justice reform and the war on crime.
On the southern edge of Singapore’s Chinatown, Keong Saik Road has transformed from a famous red-light district to one of the city’s trendiest places.
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