Conservative U.S. commentator Charles Krauthammer dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer, who gave up a psychiatric career to become one of the leading conservative political commentators in the U.S. media, died on Thursday at the age of 68, the Washington Post and Fox News s…
Trump tries to defuse immigrant crisis, but policy hit by confusion
WASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation we…
Melania Trump’s jacket mixes message during visit to detained immigrant children
MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – First Lady Melania Trump’s visit on Thursday to a Texas shelter housing migrant children separated from their parents was overshadowed by a jacket she wore with the words: “I really don’t care, do u?” scrawled in white brush …
U.S. spending bill would halt transfer of F-35s to Turkey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate committee passed a spending bill on Thursday including a provision to block Turkey’s purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets unless it drops a plan to buy S-400 missile defense systems from Russia…
Trump: North Korea ‘total denuclearization’ started; officials see no new moves
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday North Korea was blowing up four of its big test sites and that a process of “total denuclearization … has already started,” but officials said there was no such evidence since a land…
Despite Trump order, border child separations could go on: legal experts
(Reuters) – The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump’s order meant to end the practic…
Majority of Americans say Trump should agree to interview with Mueller: poll
(Reuters) – Most Americans think President Donald Trump should agree to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, if asked, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
U.S. House OKs farm bill with major food stamps changes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a massive Republican farm bill with changes to the government food stamps program that make it unlikely to become law in this form.
SEC judge appointments unconstitutional, U.S. high court says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court gave presidents more control over key jobs in federal agencies on Thursday, ruling that the way the Securities and Exchange Commission selected in-house judges who enforce investor protection laws violated …
U.S. House approves farm bill with major food stamps changes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives approved a massive farm bill renewal on Thursday with changes to the government food stamps program that make it unlikely to become law in this form.
