House will not reach healthcare deal before two-week break
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Deep divisions cut short Republican hopes for a quick revival of Obamacare replacement legislation on Wednesday, as Congress prepared to leave town for a two-week recess without a deal to end party infighting.
House Democrats press Trump to release tax returns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives ramped up their efforts to force the release of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, calling it a critical issue of transparency and national security.
Trump drops Steve Bannon from National Security Council
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump removed his chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council on Wednesday, reversing his controversial decision early this year to give a political adviser an unprecedented role in secu…
Senator talks all night as Democrats fight Trump court nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic senator delivered a 15-1/2-hour, all-night speech denouncing President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee on Wednesday, joining an effort to block Senate confirmation of Neil Gorsuch in a heated political show…
White House: more Obama regulation rollbacks coming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to sign “several more” measures into law before the end of April to roll back Obama-era regulations under the time-limited Congressional Review Act (CRA), a White House official said on Wednesday…
Russia says Lavrov-Tillerson meeting to discuss Syria, global security
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will discuss global security, including the Syria, North Korea and Ukraine situations, during the latter’s visit to Moscow, the ministry said on Wednes…
Trump to speak with Germany’s Merkel, Japan’s Abe: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later on Wednesday, the White House said in a statement that gave no other details.
Trump wins Scottish golf course privacy rights case
LONDON (Reuters) – A grandmother who had sued a luxury Scottish golf resort founded by U.S. President Donald Trump for breaching her privacy by photographing her urinating on the course, lost her case on Wednesday.
Senators urge Tillerson to meet with activists in Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should meet with “democratically-minded” activists in Russia as well as government officials during his visit there later this month, two senators urged him in a letter released on Wednesday….
Contentious cases await Trump’s U.S. high court nominee Gorsuch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If confirmed as expected this week by the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee would join his new fellow justices in time to act on divisive cases concerning religion, guns and big business, underscoring Ne…
