From top to bottom, Trump’s White House churns through staff: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Forty percent of the staff members who were working a year ago in U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House have since left for other jobs, a new report shows, providing a snapshot of the chaos among Trump’s closest subordinates. FILE PHOTO: A...
Trump to rescind race guidelines in college admissions, WSJ reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to revoke guidelines that encourage considering race in the college admissions process as a way of promoting diversity, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Graduating seniors line up to receive...
Harvey Weinstein charged with assaulting third woman
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Manhattan district attorney on Monday announced new criminal charges against film producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexually assaulting a third woman in addition to the two mentioned in earlier charges. Film producer Harvey Weinstein...
U.S. has plan to dismantle North Korea nuclear program within a year: Bolton
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea’s weapons programs could be dismantled within a year, as the United States and North Korea resumed working-level talks. Bolton told CBS’s...
Kennedy’s departure from high court could benefit business interests
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - In a hotly contested case before the U.S. Supreme Court three years ago, Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote to uphold the broad scope of race discrimination claims that can be brought under the Fair Housing Act. FILE PHOTO: Supreme...
French Holocaust survivor Simone Veil dies at 89
PARIS (Reuters) - Simone Veil, a former magistrate and Holocaust survivor best known in France for legalizing abortion in the 1970s, died on Friday. She was 89 years old. Late Auschwitz survivor and French health minister Simone Veil and her late husband Antoine Veil...
White House’s Bolton: North Korea nuclear program can be dismantled in year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs could be dismantled within a year. FILE PHOTO: U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton...
Senator Collins says won’t support anti-abortion Supreme Court nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key moderate Republican U.S. senator said on Sunday she will not support a nominee to fill a soon-to-be-vacated seat on the Supreme Court who would overturn a key legal ruling that supports a woman’s right to abortion. FILE PHOTO: Senator...
U.S. government says it will detain migrant children with parents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the U.S. border illegally for the duration of their immigration proceedings. A Honduran mother and her 3-year-old daughter...
Trump says he is not seeking new chief of staff, but ‘things happen’
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he is not looking for a new chief of staff to replace John Kelly but at some point, “things happen.” FILE PHOTO: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly listens as U.S. President Donald Trump...