NSA chief to leave, expects successor this month: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers has announced plans to retire this spring and has said he expected a successor to be nominated and approved by the U.S. Senate this month, according to a report on Friday.
EPA chief Pruitt interested in attorney general job: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, the conservative former attorney general of Oklahoma, is interested in replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions if that job becomes available, sources with knowledge of the…
Republican Senators seek criminal probe of Trump ‘dossier’ author
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two senior Republican U.S. Senators on Friday called for a criminal investigation into the former British spy who compiled a “dossier” in 2016 of allegations of financial and personal links between then-presidential candidate Don…
Court voids Baltimore law requiring ‘no abortion’ clinic disclaimers
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a Baltimore law requiring pregnancy clinics that do not offer or refer women for abortions to post signs disclosing that fact in their waiting rooms.
Tillerson says will stay as top U.S. diplomat through 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday he planned to stay in his post through 2018 despite speculation he might leave soon due to a fractious relationship with President Donald Trump, whom he reportedly called a “mo…
DHS election unit has no plans for probing voter fraud: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s election security unit has no immediate plans to probe allegations of electoral fraud, despite President Donald Trump’s announcement this week he was giving the issue to the agency, acco…
Court voids Baltimore law requiring ‘no abortion’ disclaimers at clinics
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a Baltimore law requiring pregnancy clinics that do not offer or refer women for abortions to post signs disclosing that fact in their waiting rooms.
Ohio Republican Mandel drops run for U.S. Senate seat vs Brown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ohio’s Republican Treasurer Josh Mandel has ended his bid to unseat the state’s Democratic U.S. senator, Sherrod Brown, citing his wife’s health, Mandel said in a news release posted on the Cincinnati Enquirer website.
Ohio Republican Mandel drops run for U.S. Senate seat vs Brown: reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ohio news outlets on Friday reported that Republican Josh Mandel has ended his bid to unseat the state’s Democratic senator, Sherrod Brown.
Republicans, Democrats joust over ‘Dreamer’ immigration effort
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans on Friday downplayed the likelihood of a deal soon with Democrats on saving 700,000 young, undocumented U.S. immigrants from being kicked out of the country in March, a possibility created by President D…
