Senate approves Carson for housing secretary job
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.
Biden, not mentioning Trump, defends free press, independent judiciary
(Reuters) – Former Vice President Joe Biden described attacks on the press and the judicial branch as corrosive and dangerous, without mentioning President Donald Trump who has made incendiary comments about both institutions, ABC News reported.
U.S. Senators draft bill to boost employee private stock ownership
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan pair of lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee are planning to introduce a bill that aims to entice private corporations to give their employees larger equity stakes in their companies and promote longer-term…
Trump welcomes stock market surge, consumer confidence on Twitter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed a record surge in the stock market on Thursday, a day after the Dow blasted through the 21,000 mark for the first time after his speech to Congress.
Under fire, Trump’s attorney general removes himself from campaign probes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday he would stay out of any probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election but maintained he did nothing wrong by failing to disclose he met last year with …
Really tremendous: Trump mimic Alec Baldwin co-authors White House ‘memoir’
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Alec Baldwin is taking his “Saturday Night Live” impersonation of U.S. President Donald Trump from the screen to the pages of a satirical White House memoir due for release later this year, Penguin Press said on Wednesday….
Trump’s immigration opening falls flat with key audience: Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s signal of a new openness to immigration reform in a speech to the U.S. Congress did little to win over Democrats who would be essential to revamping the nation’s immigration laws.
House panel to probe possible Russia-Trump campaign collusion: Democrat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee will investigate allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, the top Democrat on the panel said on Wednesday.
Behind scenes, Ivanka encouraged Trump’s change of tone: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Behind the scenes at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka was a key advocate for the more measured, less combative tone he struck in his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, officials …
Republican Issa joins bipartisan House caucus on climate change
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Representative Darrell Issa of California has joined the Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of lawmakers dedicated to fighting climate change, spokesmen for the group and Issa said on Wednesday.
