Trump bump: Court fights draw big money into attorney general races
(Reuters) - Four years ago, Frances Broaddus-Crutchfield, 74, gave $500 to the campaign of Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring. This election cycle, the lifelong Democrat who lives on a farm in Powhatan County, Virginia, upped the ante, donating $6,500...
French actress Jeanne Moreau dies at 89
PARIS (Reuters) - Jeanne Moreau, the quintessential French actress whose mother was an English cabaret club dancer, has died at 89. Moreau, a petite chain-smoker who worked with most of the world's top directors of the first few decades after World War Two, Orson...
Republicans call on new Trump chief of staff to fix White House chaos
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Sunday urged President Donald Trump's new chief of staff John Kelly to rein in the chaos within the White House on Monday but said the retired Marine Corps general will be challenged to assert control. In his first six months in...
Trump urges Republican senators not to give up on healthcare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Republican senators not to give up trying to pass a healthcare bill, after they failed last week to muster enough votes to repeal and replace parts of Obamacare. For the second day running Trump tweeted his...
U.S. health secretary says his job is to follow Obamacare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on Sunday that it was his department's job to follow the law on the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama's signature domestic initiative known as Obamacare. Price, on NBC's "Meet the...
Trump threatens to end insurance payments if no healthcare bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to end government payments to health insurers if Congress does not pass a new healthcare bill and goaded them to not abandon their seven-year quest to replace the Obamacare law. In a Twitter...
Trump replaces chief of staff Priebus after six-month run with Kelly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump replaced his beleaguered White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, after only six months on the job on Friday, installing retired General John Kelly in his place in a major shakeup of his top team. Trump announced the...
Struggling to govern, Trump faces growing Republican unease
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As fellow Republicans labored to repeal Obamacare this week, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly swerved off-topic, escalating concerns in his party about his ability to govern the country six months after taking office. While senators...
Clooney vows to sue French magazine over twins’ photos
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - George Clooney on Friday said he would take legal action against a French magazine that published the first photos of his newborn twins. The "Ocean's Eleven" actor said photographers from Voici magazine "scaled our fence, climbed our tree and...
Republican push to gut Obamacare ends in defeat for Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a stinging blow to President Donald Trump, U.S. Senate Republicans failed on Friday to dismantle Obamacare, falling short on a major campaign promise and perhaps ending a seven-year quest by their party to gut the healthcare law. Voting in...