Special Counsel Mueller filing shows Manafort drafted Ukraine op-ed despite gag order
WASHINGTON (Reuters on Friday ) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller late on Friday unveiled a trove of evidence against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to convince a judge that he violated a gag order by ghost-writing a…
U.S. House committee ‘may reconsider’ WHO cancer agency funds
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. congressional committee members warned on Friday that Washington’s funding of the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency could be halted unless it is more open about its operations.
Special Counsel Mueller produces evidence that Manafort drafted op-ed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled a trove of documents on Friday showing what he said was “irrefutable evidence” that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort violated a court gag order by ghost-w…
U.S. top court takes up Republican challenge to Maryland electoral district
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday added a second case to its docket on a contentious issue that could have major consequences for American elections, agreeing to decide whether Democratic lawmakers in Maryland unlawfully drew a co…
White House pressures Big Corn to meet on U.S. biofuels policy
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration called two lawmakers from the U.S. corn belt to convince them to join talks about potential changes to biofuels policy to ease the burden on oil refineries, according to a spokesman for one of the law…
Mueller turns over evidence for ex-Trump campaign manager Manafort’s trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has turned over more than 400,000 emails, financial records and other documents to defense attorneys for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to demonstrate what evide…
Farenthold should resign if misconduct accusations true: senior House Republican
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, on Friday told Fox News Channel that fellow Republican Representative Blake Farenthold should resign if an ethics investig…
Former Trump adviser interviewed in Congress in Russia probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Walid Phares, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Friday in its investigation of possible Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. electi…
Congressman Franks says resigning immediately
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Trent Franks said on Friday that he would resign from Congress effective immediately, instead of the Jan. 31 date he previously had set following the announcement of a probe into accusations of sexual harassme…
U.S. tax revamp still incomplete as Republicans eye social program cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Even before completing their overhaul of the U.S. tax code, Republicans in Washington have begun turning their attention to changes and possible cuts in the social safety net of government programs for the poor, children, elderly…
