House Speaker Ryan to retire in latest Washington upheaval
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election and will leave his post at the start of 2019, further unsettling a Republican Party rocked by Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency ahead of November’s pivo…
ACLU sues Trump administration for separating immigrant couples
BOSTON (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging what it calls a pattern by President Donald Trump’s administration of detaining illegal immigrants seeking to legalize their status based on marriages to U.S. citizen…
U.S. Senate Judiciary chairman seeks vote on special counsel bill – CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee wants the panel to vote as soon as Thursday on a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting the U.S. Special Counsel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential electio…
House Speaker Ryan announces retirement in January
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, dealing a blow to the Republican Party just months ahead of pivotal congressional elections, said on Wednesday he will not seek re-election to Congress in November and will relinqu…
Striking Oklahoma teachers push for more funds, Republicans say done
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A strike by Oklahoma educators demanding more school funding entered a 10th day on Wednesday, as the state’s Republican leaders warned they plan no further increases after approving $450 million in new revenue to boost teacher…
House Speaker Ryan won’t seek re-election, will retire in January
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, told Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday he will not seek re-election in November, his office said.
House Speaker Ryan told confidants he won’t run again: Axios
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, has told confidants he will announce soon that he will not run again in November, Axios news site reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of …
Bipartisan group of senators introduce proposal to protect Mueller
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of senators will introduce legislation on Wednesday to protect the office of the special counsel, one day after the White House said U.S. President Donald Trump had the authority to fire a special prosecutor in…
Missing hyphens will make it hard for some people to vote in U.S. election
ATLANTA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fabiola Diaz, 18, sits in the food court of her Georgia high school and meticulously fills out a voter registration form.
Congressional panel to grill Trump’s consumer chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mick Mulvaney, head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is due to face lawmakers on Wednesday who want to know why he has dropped cases against payday lenders and pulled back from regulating the market for sm…
