Prosecutor looking into origins of Trump-Russia probe resigns

Nora Dannehy (AP)

A prosecutor who was helping lead the investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has resigned from the US justice department.

Nora Dannehy was a top federal prosecutor on a team led by US attorney John Durham of Connecticut, who was appointed last year to lead a probe into how the FBI and other agencies set out to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and whether the Trump campaign had coordinated with the Kremlin.