Defiant U.S. prosecutor fired by Trump administration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A prominent U.S. prosecutor said the Trump administration fired him on Saturday after he refused to step down, adding a discordant note to what is normally a routine changing of top attorneys when a new president takes office.
U.S. civil liberties group ACLU seeks to tap anti-Trump energy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union is launching what it bills as the first grassroots mobilization effort in its nearly 100-year history, as it seeks to harness a surge of energy among left-leaning activists since the November elec…
Trump’s revised travel ban dealt first court setback
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Wisconsin dealt the first legal blow to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban on Friday, barring enforcement of the policy to deny U.S. entry to the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum in the U…
Trump to ask Merkel for advice on Putin, Ukraine: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will ask Chancellor Angela Merkel for advice on how to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. officials said on Friday, as the U.S. and German leaders meet next week after sometimes pointed disagr…
White House says Trump did not know Flynn was representing Turkey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not know until this week that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had been working as a representative for Turkey, although the issue was raised with…
Sessions asks 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys to resign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign on Friday, including Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had been asked to sta…
White House welcomes strong jobs data in potentially rule-violating tweets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A series of tweets by White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Friday commenting on strong February job creation figures may have run afoul of federal guidance barring most officials from commenting on key economic data within an hou…
Maryland to join other states in court challenge to Trump’s travel ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Maryland became the latest state to join in legal challenges against President Donald Trump’s revised temporary travel ban on Friday, with its attorney general saying it would join a lawsuit brought by Washington and other states…
House leader: ‘very difficult’ to speed up end to Medicaid expansion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Friday it would be “very difficult” to accelerate the end of enrollment in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, as some conservative members of his Republican Party hav…
Trump chooses Gottlieb to run FDA; Pharma breathes sigh of relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a conservative health policy expert with deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the White House said on Friday.
