Trump tax plan faces rockier road after bruising healthcare loss
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will take a lead role in crafting legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax code, eyeing an August target date as President Donald Trump seeks his first legislative victory following the failure last week of a long-pro…
Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to work with Trump on peace efforts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was committed to working with U.S. President Donald Trump to advance peace efforts with the Palestinians and with the broader Arab world.
Threatened U.S. pullout might help, not hobble, global climate pact
OSLO (Reuters) – A 2015 global pact for fighting climate change will benefit in some ways at least if U.S. President Donald Trump carries out a threat to pull out, backers say, in a shift from gloom about the fate of a deal that took two decades to neg…
Italian prime minister to meet Trump in U.S. on April 20: diplomatic sources
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in the United States on April 20, diplomatic sources said on Monday.
Trump son-in-law met executives of sanctioned Russian bank, will testify
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, in Dece…
Trump’s son-in-law to oversee government revamp
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, already a White House senior adviser, will take on the additional task of overseeing an effort to overhaul the federal government, the White House said on Monday.
‘Religious left’ emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era
(Reuters) – Since President Donald Trump’s election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York’s Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw.
Pence revives talk of U.S. moving Tel Aviv embassy to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday revived talk of the possibility the United States may move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, saying President Donald Trump was seriously considering the matter.
Trump to sign order on Tuesday easing energy regulations: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will sign an order on Tuesday aimed at making it easier for companies to produce energy in the United States, administration officials said on Sunday.
Republican lawmaker quits conservative House group over healthcare conflict
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Ted Poe resigned from the House Freedom Caucus on Sunday over the conservative legislative group’s role in sinking a healthcare overhaul championed by President Donald Trump.
