Boston mayor says not subject of federal probe into labor unions
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, a former labor leader, said on Monday that federal agents had not contacted him in connection with what local media has described as a wide-ranging investigation into whether the city’s building unions used…
Republicans Cruz, Kasich reach ‘stop-Trump’ deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican White House rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal on Sunday to stay out of each other’s way in some upcoming state primaries in hopes of blocking front-runner Donald Trump from winning the party’s presidenti…
Billionaire green donor launches U.S. millennial voter drive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer’s super PAC launched a $25 million youth voter drive on Monday in seven political battleground states to help elect candidates that champion climate change policies in November’s gene…
Illinois governor signs higher education stopgap funding bill
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner on Monday signed into law a bill to send $600 million to cash-starved state universities and community colleges, calling the measure “a first step toward compromise between Democrats and Republicans.”
Driven up the wall by Trump, Mexico looks to recast image in U.S.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At first, Mexico’s government did its best to ignore Donald Trump. Then it likened him to Adolf Hitler. Now it has appointed a new ambassador to come up with a better plan.
Obama takes on role of America’s pitchman at German trade show
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama slipped on on a pair of virtual reality glasses bedecked with plastic googly eyes and mused about someday using the technology to talk with his daughter after she leaves home for college.
Obama, Merkel push for trade deal as foreign crises weigh
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would do whatever he could to advance a controversial trade deal with the European Union in his last eight months in office, but warned that time was running short.
Toned-down Trump does not mean retreat from policy: aide
(Reuters) – A promise that U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump will adopt a more presidential campaign style does not signal a retreat from core policies such as his pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border, his top adviser said on Sunday.
Republican financier Koch says Clinton might make better president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, a key source of financing for conservative Republican causes along with his brother, said Democrat Hillary Clinton might make a better president than the candidates in the Republican field….
White House to make decision on 9/11 report by June: Bob Graham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will likely make a decision by June on whether it will release some classified material withheld from the public 9/11 Commission Report, a former U.S. senator who co-chaired the congressional inquiry into the atta…
