Senate intel panel wants to interview everyone at Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that wanted to interview President Donald Trump’s son, campaign chairman and everyone else who was at a meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower….
Mitch McConnell: ‘The man in the middle’ of U.S. healthcare war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For seven years, U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell vowed to slay Obamacare if only his Republican Party controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House. Pull it out “root and branch,” he pledged.
Silicon Valley mostly quiet in internet surveillance debate in Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc , Alphabet Inc’s Google , Apple Inc and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance law, weakening prospects for privacy reforms that would fu…
Trump, Putin had previously undisclosed visit at G20 dinner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner for G20 leaders at a summit earlier this month in Germany, a White House official said on Tuesday.
Ex-U.S. House Speaker Hastert released from Minnesota prison
(Reuters) – Former U.S. House of Representative Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and moved to a Chicago halfway house after serving a 13-month sentence for a financial crime tied to sex abuse, federal records showed on …
After healthcare failure, Republicans face similar divisions on tax reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Congress unveiled a fiscal 2018 budget plan as a first step to major U.S. tax reform on Tuesday, only to face the same divisions between conservatives and moderates that helped killed their efforts to replace Obama…
CalPERS says considering making own private equity investments
MONTEREY, Calif. (Reuters) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) on Monday said it was considering making direct investments in private companies, a potential major shift in strategy that would be the first such action by a U.S. public pension fund.
U.S. House panel to consider self-driving car legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House subcommittee will vote on Wednesday on a sweeping proposal to allow automakers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards and bar states from imposing driverless car …
Trump says Iran complying with nuclear deal but remains dangerous threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday declared that Iran was complying with its nuclear agreement with world powers, but warned that Tehran was in default of the spirit of the accord and that Washington would look for…
California lawmakers approve landmark extension to climate policy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s legislature passed a package of bills that extends the state’s signature plan to address climate change by a decade, sending Governor Jerry Brown a cap-and-trade plan that uses market forces to cuts greenhouse gas e…
