Robert Mueller examining Flynn’s role in seeking Clinton emails from hackers: WSJ
(Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller is examining what role, if any former national security adviser Mike Flynn may have had in an effort to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Trump likely to rescind Obama ‘Dreamer’ program: media reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to rescind an Obama-era policy that protects nearly 600,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally as children and are known as “Dreamers,” according to media reports on Friday.
Holding keys to debt limit, Democrats weigh tax demands
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress wield little clout nowadays, but they will likely have plenty of influence on the looming issue of the U.S. debt ceiling and party leaders are considering whether they should try to convert that adv…
Treasury chief says ‘debt ceiling will be raised’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the nation’s debt ceiling will be raised in September and that after talks with congressional leaders from both parties everyone is “on the same page.”
U.S. opposes changing NJ Senator Menendez’s corruption trial schedule
(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Friday opposed a last-ditch effort by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez to allow periodic delays in his federal corruption trial in Newark, New Jersey, next month so that he can travel to Washington to cast critical …
Republican Kasich, Democrat Hickenlooper mull joint White House run: media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, have discussed the idea of a joint run for the White House in 2020, Axios and CNN reported on Friday.
Trump slaps sanctions on Venezuela; Maduro sees effort to force default
CARACAS/WASHINGTON/ (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new debt from the Venezuelan government or its state oil company on Friday in an effort to halt financing that the White House said fuels P…
Trump says criticism of him by Republican Senator Corker ‘strange’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump took Republican Senator Bob Corker to task on Twitter on Friday, apparently responding to the Foreign Relations Committee chair’s comment that Trump did not understand the nation’s character and had not dem…
Trump adviser Cohn wrote resignation letter, decided to stay: NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Gary Cohn, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, drafted a letter of resignation over the administration’s weak response to recent clashes between neo-Nazis and anti-racism protesters, but decided to stay on the job, the…
California lawmakers consider spending billions to fix housing
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Affordable housing advocates are closely watching a package of bills currently under consideration by California lawmakers that would invest billions of dollars in helping to alleviate the state’s severe housing crisis.
