Trump fires campaign manager in shakeup for election push
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump fired Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager who helped him win Republican presidential nominating contests but clashed with other advisers on how to appeal to the broader general electorate, several people…
‘Economikes’: the gatekeepers of Clinton’s economic policy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton has no shortage of economic advisors. Scores of world-class experts pour ideas into her campaign on the policies she should champion in her bid for the White House.
Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans set up vote to expand FBI spying
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set up a vote late on Monday to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s authority to use a secretive surveillance order without a warrant to include email metadata and some browsin…
American Muslims see Trump rhetoric fueling prejudice, hate incidents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About three months ago, Sarah Ibrahim’s son came home from his fourth-grade class at a Maryland school with a disturbing question.
In separate speeches Obama, Biden, Carter target Trump policies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, his vice president and defense secretary took aim on Monday at policies of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump they said would alienate Muslims globally along with U.S. allies and neighbors.
Obama takes turn as ‘America’s pitch man’ to help sell TPP trade deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made a plug on Monday for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal to a group of 2,400 investors looking at locating business in the United States, saying the deal would help boost the global economy.
Biden to rebuke Trump foreign policy ideas, defend Obama strategy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden on Monday will denounce Republican Donald Trump’s call for a halt to Muslim immigration as an appeal to intolerance and defend the U.S. fight against Islamic State at a time of dissent within the Obama administration over Syria policy.
U.S. justices to mull president’s power to nominate officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review a lower court decision that invalidated part of a former U.S. labor board official’s tenure, in a case that could curb the next president’s power to staff top positions in his or her administration.
Trump seeks to clarify comments on guns at Orlando nightclub
(Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was referring to security staff, but not patrons, in comments that if more people had been armed during a Florida nightclub shooting last week, fewer would have died.
Obama immigration win at Supreme Court could benefit Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming days decides a high-profile immigration case in favor of the Obama administration, the ruling could have an unexpected beneficiary: Republican presidential contender Donald Trump.
