Trump orders review of financial rules to prevent future crises
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Treasury Department on Friday to examine two powers given to regulators to police large financial companies following the 2008 financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Top U.S. officials to testify in Trump-Russia probe reboot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Friday it had invited FBI, NSA and Obama administration officials to testify as it restarts its investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. electi…
Indian techies, IT firms fret as Trump orders U.S. visa review
MUMBAI (Reuters) – For Grishma, an Indian software designer, President Donald Trump’s review of the visa programme for bringing highly skilled workers into the United States comes at a bad time.
Ex-Illinois Governor Blagojevich loses bid to cut prison term
(Reuters) – Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich lost his latest bid for leniency as a federal appeals court refused to shorten his 14-year prison term in a vast public corruption case, including an effort to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.
U.S. retailers bet on Congress over Bolivia to thwart Trump border tax issue
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Target Corp , Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other retailers are shelving considerations to move supply bases closer to the United States in the face of a possible border tax, banking instead on killing support for the tax idea in Congres…
Trump, Republicans face tricky task of averting U.S. government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress face their first major budget test next week, with the threat of a U.S. government shutdown potentially hinging on his proposed Mexican border wall as well as…
Trump administration may change rules that allow terror victims to immigrate to U.S.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Raj, a Sri Lankan fisherman, sought refuge in the United States in 2005, he had precisely the kind of fear of returning home that U.S. asylum laws require.
U.S. judicial panel finds Texas hurt Latino vote with redrawn boundaries
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – A special federal judicial panel ruled for the second time in two months on Thursday that the Republican-led Texas Legislature deliberately redrew political boundaries so as to unfairly diminish voter clout of the state’s…
Global finance leaders find a more temperate Trump in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump took power in January pledging to overhaul a global order that he said cheated middle-class Americans with a promise to tear up trade agreements and impose tariffs on China and Mexico.
Group sues Trump for repealing U.S. wildlife rule in rare legal challenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An environmental group sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday over the repeal of a U.S. rule intended to protect wildlife, in the first court challenge to a law being used by Republicans to ease federal regulati…
