Supreme Court dismisses Hawaii travel ban case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday formally dropped plans to hear a legal challenge brought by Hawaii against an earlier version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority nations countries and a ban …
House panels probing Justice Department actions in 2016 campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairmen of two U.S. House of Representative panels on Tuesday said they are probing various Department of Justice actions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including FBI decisions surrounding the investigatio…
Uncorked: senior Republican senator’s ire at Trump bubbles over
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Corker eviscerated President Donald Trump repeatedly on national television on Tuesday, calling him a liar who has debased the country in an extraordinary diatribe against a sitting president by a fellow Republic…
Republicans in U.S. House launch probe of Russia deal involving U.S. uranium
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican leaders of two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives launched an investigation on Tuesday into the purchase by a Russian firm several years ago of a Canadian company that owned some 20 percent of U.S. uranium…
Trump heads for tax meeting amid fight with Republican U.S. senator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump headed for talks with Republican senators on Tuesday to try to build consensus for proposed tax cuts in a meeting that was overshadowed by an exchange of insults between the president and one of the lawmake…
U.S. House panels open probe into Justice Department action during 2016 campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairmen of two U.S. House of Representative panels on Tuesday said they are investigating various Department of Justice actions from last year, including FBI decisions regarding former Democratic presidential cand…
U.S. partisan split widening over Russia probe: court documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are refusing to endorse a Republican move to find out who paid the firm that commissioned a dossier alleging ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, a court…
Trump, key Republican U.S. senator spar ahead of tax meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior Republican senator called President Donald Trump “utterly untruthful” on Tuesday in an exchange of insults on Twitter hours before the president was to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to build consensus for tax refor…
U.S. House Speaker Ryan seeks tax bill vote by late November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday said he wants the House of Representatives to pass a Republican tax cut bill by the Nov. 23 Thanksgiving holiday, echoing President Donald Trump’s call to speed up the party’s efforts to ge…
Senator Corker assails Trump as untruthful, inept: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Corker eviscerated President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the two Republicans exchanged insults on Twitter, saying the president is consistently untruthful and has debased the United States and damaged its stand…