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Court: Government can’t block immigrant teens from abortion

2018-03-31 06:21:52 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court in Washington has told the Trump administration that the government can’t interfere with the ability of pregnant immigrant teens being held in federal custody to obtain abortions. A judge issued an order Friday...

Trade Conflict Fears To Keep Markets On Edge

2018-03-30 08:50:53 UTC
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A full-scale global trade war has not broken out yet - but that hasn’t stopped the market from fretting about one or analysts from warning about the potential cost. Whether such concerns remain a driving force for asset pri...

Fox Host Faces Ad Boycott After Bullying Parkland Student

2018-03-29 17:42:58 UTC
The right-wing propaganda giant Fox News host Laura Ingraham's put-down of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg as a whiny high school kid has prompted him to mount something more potent than a whine — a call for an ad boycott, which has already ...

Trump Nominates His Doctor To Replace Veterans Affairs Secretary

2018-03-29 01:26:48 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump ousted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday in response to heavy criticism and nominated his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, to replace him in the latest turnover am...

Repeal the Second Amendment, Retired Supreme Court Justice Says

2018-03-27 19:09:32 UTC
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, responding to this past weekend's March For Our Lives in several cities, is proposing what some might call a radical solution to prevent further gun violence — repealing the Second Amendment. In ...

Porn Star Was Threatened to Keep Silence on Trump

2018-03-26 05:27:53 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An adult-film actress who claims she had sex with Donald Trump before he was president said on Sunday she had been threatened in 2011 while in a parking lot with her infant daughter to discourage her from discussing the rela...

Young Americans to Lawmakers: 'We Vote You Out!'

2018-03-25 16:49:35 UTC
Chanting 'never again' and 'we vote you out,' hundreds of thousands of young Americans answered a call to action from survivors of last month's Florida high school massacre and rallied across the country demanding tighter gun laws. In some of t...

Hundreds of Thousands Against US Gun Lobby

2018-03-24 23:07:15 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Americans galvanized by last month’s Florida school massacre rallied in cities across the country on Saturday to demand tighter gun laws. Carrying signs with slogans such as “If they choose guns o...

European Union: It is not clear what Trump wants

2018-03-23 16:29:14 UTC
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s trade chief is unsure what Washington wants in return for a permanent EU exemption from steel tariffs but she warned on Friday that she would resist pressure to cut EU duties on U.S. cars. European Trad...

Iraq war architect and Trump's national security adviser: John Bolton

2018-03-23 07:49:19 UTC
Washington — US president Donald Trump ousted National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and chose as his replacement John Bolton, a staunch hawk who served as part of the national security brain trust of then-President George W. Bush during the laun...

Trump sets China tariff plan, Dow plummets 720 points

2018-03-22 20:30:02 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global stocks had sold off on Thursday on the expectation of tough action from Trump, with U.S. markets down as much as 2.93 percent, plummets 724.42 points. The Dow and Nasdaq stock indexes had fallen as much as 2 percen...

Trans-Atlantic under Trump is worse than it has been in decades

2018-03-22 07:36:03 UTC
From nationalism to NATO spending, the trans-Atlantic relationship under US President Donald Trump is worse than it has been in decades. But, note practitioners and scholars, it doesn't have to stay that way. No American president in recent mem...

Democratic Rep. Lipinski wins Illinois congressional primary

2018-03-21 07:16:22 UTC
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Dan Lipinski held off a stiff challenge from businesswoman Marie Newman to win a nationally watched congressional primary in Illinois, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The AP called the r...

US film studio 'The Weinstein Company' filed for bankruptcy

2018-03-20 07:04:02 UTC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. film and TV studio The Weinstein Company, whose ex-Chairman Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment and assault, said on Monday it filed for bankruptcy and was ending all non-disclosure agreements that may ...

Hillary Clinton Explains Her Comments on Trump Voters

2018-03-19 17:02:19 UTC
The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, provided an explanation for some recent comments she made that she understood 'upset or offended' some Americans. Clinton, on a trip to India, had talked...

Republican: Trump will pull out of Iran nuclear deal in May

2018-03-18 19:24:32 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he expects President Donald Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement in May. “The Iran deal will be another issue that’s ...

McCabe: Trump's "ongoing war on the FBI"

2018-03-17 07:51:45 UTC
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the FBI's former No. 2 official Andrew McCabe, prompting McCabe to say he is being targeted because he is a crucial witness into whether Trump tried to obstruct the Russia investigation. "He is fac...

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller targets Trump Organization

2018-03-15 20:38:09 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents, including some related to Russia, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people briefed on the matter. Details of the s...

'We want change, we don't feel safe in schools anymore'

2018-03-14 18:09:57 UTC
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. students spilled out of classrooms by the thousands on Wednesday morning, waving signs and chanting slogans like “We want change” in a coast-to-coast protest against gun violence prompted by a deadly rampage at a Fl...

Rex Tillerson did not mention Trump

2018-03-13 21:29:32 UTC
Tillerson was ousted barely four hours after he returned from an Africa mission and with no face-to-face conversation with the president, the latest casualty of an unruly White House that has seen multiple top officials depart in recent weeks. Cit...

Trump's new team in place before US-North Korea summit

2018-03-13 21:14:06 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo. ...

Porn star to Trump: I'll give you back the money!

2018-03-13 03:13:35 UTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The adult-film actress who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump before he became U.S. president offered on Monday to return $130,000 that Trump’s personal lawyer paid her in what she said was hush money to remain silen...

Officials worried "impeachment lawyer" might join WH

2018-03-11 06:05:13 UTC
(Reuters) - Veteran Washington lawyer Emmet Flood is under consideration for a White House job assisting U.S. President Donald Trump with the Russia probe, according to a person familiar with the matter. Flood, who advised former President Bill...

Trade war: Trump sets 25% tariff on steel, 10% on aluminum

2018-03-08 21:42:32 UTC
WASHINGTON/SANTIAGO (Reuters) - President Donald Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum on Thursday but exempted Canada and Mexico, backtracking from earlier pledges of tariffs on...

EU Schools Trump On Trade: You're Wrong! Trade Wars Are 'Easy to Lose'

2018-03-08 03:59:42 UTC
The EU has said US tariffs would be met with a "proportionate response." The European Council, IMF and WTO have warned Trump he is very wrong about trade wars being easy to win. The European Commission on Wednesday presented its strategy for re...