Trump advisers to meet Tuesday to discuss Paris climate agreement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Advisers to President Donald Trump will meet on Tuesday to discuss whether to recommend that he withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a White House official said on Monday.
Highlights: The Trump presidency on April 17 at 5:13 p.m. EDT/2113 GMT
(Reuters) – Highlights for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday:
Trump appointee Gorsuch energetic in first U.S. high court arguments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s appointee Neil Gorsuch on Monday showed himself to be a frequent and energetic questioner during U.S. Supreme Court arguments in his first day hearing cases as a justice, at one point even apologizing for…
Pence warns North Korea of U.S. resolve shown in Syria, Afghan strikes
SEOUL/PYONGYANG (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence warned North Korea on Monday that recent American military strikes in Syria and Afghanistan showed President Donald Trump’s resolve should not be questioned, but Pyongyang vowed to continue mis…
Wall Street banker Cohn moving Trump toward moderate policies
WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) – In a White House marked by infighting, top economic aide Gary Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs banker, is muscling aside some of President Donald Trump’s hard-right advisers to push more moderate, business-friendl…
With Trump pick aboard, top U.S. court tackles religious rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set this week to hear a closely watched case testing the limits of religious rights, and new Justice Neil Gorsuch’s judicial record indicates he could tip the court toward siding with a church challengin…
Thousands at rallies demand Trump release tax returns
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched through midtown Manhattan and dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns and to dispute his claim that the public does not care abo…
In about-face, Trump nominates new head of export bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump nominated former Republican lawmaker Scott Garrett as president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States on Friday, completing an about-face over an institution he had denounced as “featherbedding” fo…
Trump administration says no U.S. trading partners manipulate currency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration declined to name any major trading partner as a currency manipulator in a highly anticipated report on Friday, backing away from a key Trump campaign promise to slap such a label on Ch…
Trump White House will not make visitor logs public, break from Obama policy
PALM BEACH, FLA. (Reuters) – The Trump administration will not make public White House visitor logs, the records that detail who has visited President Donald Trump and his staff on official business, his office confirmed, in a departure from a practice…
