Pompeo says appropriate for Trump to ask Ukraine to probe corruption
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was “wholly appropriate” for President Donald Trump to ask Ukraine’s leader to investigate corruption in his country.
U.S. says gene testing firm gets 25-year ban in $42.6 million kickback settlement
A New Orleans-based genetics testing company and its three principals will pay $42.6 million to resolve charges they defrauded the federal government by paying kickbacks for referrals and billing for medically unnecessary tests, the U.S. Department of …
Trump orders agencies to require public input in key ‘guidance documents’
U.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Wednesday requiring federal agencies to go through a similar process of public input and explanation when they issue key “guidance documents” and pledged White House scrutiny.
California set to end private prisons and immigrant detention camps
America’s largest state prison system is moving to quit the practice of farming out inmates to lockups run under contract by private companies, following a nationwide decline in the for-profit incarceration business.
UK PM Johnson urges Trump to reconsider U.S. crash case stance
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to reconsider a decision to let a U.S. diplomat’s wife use diplomatic immunity after she was involved in a fatal car crash in England and then left the country.
Trump seeks healing in case of UK teen killed by U.S. diplomat’s wife
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States will speak to the wife of an American diplomat who was in involved in a fatal car crash that killed a UK teenager.
Trump says he would cooperate with impeachment probe if rights guaranteed
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the White House would cooperate with the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry if House Democrats “give us our rights.”
Biden urges Trump impeachment as U.S. partisan fight deepens
U.S. Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden called for the impeachment of his potential 2020 election foe Donald Trump for the first time on Wednesday, as a partisan fight over a congressional investigation of the Republican president deepened.
Democrat Warren swears off high-dollar fundraisers if she gets presidential nomination
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed to abstain from high-dollar fundraisers if she becomes the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020, extending into the general election campaign her promise not to hold such events during the primary season.
New York City sues online e-cigarette retailers over age verification
New York City has sued more nearly two dozen online e-cigarette retailers, accusing them of selling their products to underage New Yorkers, the city announced Wednesday.
