Shortly after he returned from Moscow in 2015, former national security adviser Michael Flynn told a business associate that he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I had an interesting trip to Moscow (I did meet with Putin)," Flynn wrote in the Dec. 16, 2015 email, obtained by investigators on the House Oversight Committee.

Flynn famously was seated next to Putin at a gala hosted by Russia Today in Moscow that month. Both men have insisted, when asked, that they exchanged brief pleasantries but had no substantive discussions. And a lawyer for Flynn, who is awaiting sentencing for lying to the FBI during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, said nothing about the newly unearthed email that undercuts this argument.

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The email was revealed as part of a broader investigation on the corporate and foreign entanglements with the White House's push to ship nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. Flynn, at the time of his trip to Moscow, was an adviser on a corporate plan to bring dozens of nuclear reactors to the Middle East. The committee documented Flynn's plans to bring up the project to associates in Russia.

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Trump spent as much time at Ground Zero as he did in Vietnam.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore is now home to a national chess champion.

7th grader Cahree Myrick came out on top earlier this week against hundreds of other students.

WJZ’s Devin Bartolotta sat down for a chess board battle against the champ.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Campaign Concedes Trump Voters Are Racist
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Trump campaign sees political advantage in a divisive appeal to working-class white voters https://wapo.st/2SHkQoX

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A judge in New York has granted a request from prosecutors to keep secret documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 sexual abuse plea deal, on the grounds that the materials could hamper their investigation of others in the financier’s milieu.

The documents, which will be shared with Epstein’s attorneys, are believed to concern not only the deal itself, which allowed Epstein to plead guilty to low-level state solicitation charges, but also a clause that granted immunity to any and all potential co-conspirators and named four women suspected of facilitating or participating in alleged crimes against minors.

The documents may also shed light on the 2008 deal, which was kept secret from accusers for nearly a year in what some claim was a violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Controversy over the deal forced the resignation earlier this month of the US labor secretary, Alex Acosta, who was US attorney in Miami at the time.

In a court filing, prosecutors with the southern district of New York argued that the materials could “affect the privacy and confidentiality of individuals … [and that] would impede, if prematurely disclosed, the government’s ongoing investigation of uncharged individuals”.