Trump’s economic advisory group clashes with populist image
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s team of economic policy advisers is packed with moguls from the hedge fund and investment banking industries that he has railed against in the past.
Senior ex-CIA official: Putin made Trump ‘an unwitting agent’ of Russia
(Reuters) – A former top CIA official attacked Donald Trump on Friday as a danger to national security, saying President Vladimir Putin had made the Republican presidential candidate an “unwitting agent” of Russia.
Clint Eastwood: Trump says ‘dumb things’ but people should ‘get over it’
(Reuters) – Clint Eastwood, the 86-year-old four-time Oscar winner, excoriated the current generation of Americans as weak and overly sensitive while backing Donald Trump even though the Republican presidential hopeful has “said a lot of dumb things.”
California mayor charged in youth camp strip poker scandal
(Reuters) – The mayor of Stockton, California, was arrested on Thursday on a felony eavesdropping charge stemming from a strip poker game he is accused of surreptitiously recording at a summer camp he hosts for disadvantaged inner-city children, prosec…
Obama, Senate Democrats urge Zika funding vote as reserves run low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday said it was time for Congress to lay aside politics and to act to provide additional money to combat the Zika virus before government funding dries up.
Obama warns Trump not to spread details of security briefings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama confirmed on Thursday that Donald Trump will get national security briefings ahead of the November election, but he warned the Republican candidate, whom he has called “unfit” for office, that information f…
Amid campaign turmoil, Trump allies urge him to get back on track
WASHINGTON/PORTLAND, Me. (Reuters) – Supporters of Republican Donald Trump urged him to get back on message on Thursday after a week of dropping opinion poll numbers and a war of words with ranking Republicans over his U.S. presidential campaign.
In slap at Trump, some wealthy Republicans campaign for Clinton
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Groups of wealthy Republicans unhappy with Donald Trump have been privately courting prominent peers to join them in backing Democrat Hillary Clinton’s U.S. presidential bid, several people involved in the effort told Re…
Former U.S. security officials call Trump comments ‘disgraceful’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of former U.S. national security officials, including some who have worked for top Republicans, called Donald Trump’s recent comments about NATO, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and other matters “disgraceful” in a letter r…
House Speaker Ryan: No point in lame duck vote on TPP deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that he saw no point in bringing up the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal for a vote in any “lame duck” session of Congress later this year after November elections, because “we do…
