Former Trump campaign chief Manafort to ask judge not to jail him
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is set to ask a federal judge on Friday not to revoke his bail and send him to jail pending trial after Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed new charges of witness t…
Trump’s former lawyer seeks restraining order against Avenatti
(Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, asked a federal court in California on Thursday to issue a restraining order against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, a court document showed.
Trump’s former lawyer requests restraining order against Avenatti
(Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, asked a federal court in California on Thursday to issue a restraining order against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, a court document showed.
Rocky road ahead for ‘Dreamer’ immigrants bill in U.S. House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Speaker Paul Ryan, the U.S. Congress’ highest-ranking Republican, said on Thursday he could not guarantee passage of compromise legislation meant to address the uncertain status of young “Dreamers” brought to the country il…
Pompeo says North Korea sanctions to remain until complete denuclearisation
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – Tough sanctions will remain on North Korea until its complete denuclearisation, the U.S. secretary of state said on Thursday, apparently contradicting the North’s view that the process agreed at this week’s summit would be pha…
Trump gets win at U.S. Supreme Court in China antitrust case
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and against China on Thursday on a disputed aspect of their fraught trade relationship, throwing out a lower court ruling that had allowed two Chinese vitamin C makers to escape $1…
White House to meet automakers, California on fuel efficiency rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials will have a new round of meetings with an automakers trade group and California’s “clean air” agency next week before unveiling a proposal to reverse rules aimed at increasing fuel efficiency, participants s…
Trump’s bank watchdog defends his stock trades to Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. banking regulator who bought financial stocks in the months before he became a regulator for the industry told lawmakers on Thursday that those investments were allowable and proper.
Report rebukes Comey, but says no bias in Clinton email case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former FBI Director James Comey made a “serious error of judgment” when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election that he was reopening an investigation into candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-ma…
New York sues Trump and his charity over ‘self-dealing’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York state attorney general sued U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and his foundation on Thursday, saying he illegally used the nonprofit as a personal “checkbook” for his own benefit, including his 2016 pr…
