WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired on Wednesday after receiving unrelenting criticism from President Donald Trump for recusing himself from an investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential race. In a step that could have implications for the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Trump replaced Sessions with Matthew […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will oversee all matters under the Justice Department’s purview, including the Russia probe that had been supervised by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a department spokeswoman said on Wednesday. “The Acting Attorney General is in charge of all matters under the purview of the Department of Justice,” […]
Two years after Donald Trump was elected president of the U.S., the midterm elections ushered in a wave of historic firsts for marginalized and minority groups. The midterms saw the Democrats retake the House of Representatives, and the Republicans gain ground in the Senate. Gubernatorial races were also up for grabs. Voters also elected a […]
(Reuters) – The freshman class of the new Congress will boast the largest number of military veterans in nearly a decade, including a record number of former servicewomen, bolstering a corps of ex-military lawmakers that has been depleted in recent years. More than 150 military veterans ran as either Republicans or Democrats for the U.S. […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider working with Democrats to regulate social media companies, after he and other conservatives accused companies such as Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google of allegedly stifling right wing views. In an extended news conference on Wednesday, Trump, however, urged caution in any […]
A POTENTIAL deal that would boost working and residency rights for Irish and US citizens in each other’s countries could be a “win-win” situation, Fine Gael TD John Deasy has said. The deal on the table would see the US offer around 5,000 work visas for Irish people very year, in return for an easing […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday infrastructure and healthcare would be on the agenda in 2019, after Republicans widened their majority in the Senate but lost control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s elections. McConnell told reporters that senators likely would tackle Obamacare fixes and prescription drug prices […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump will meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this weekend after all, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, but they will make it an abbreviated discussion in deference to their French hosts and hold off more detailed talks until another meeting later in the month. The on-again, off-again, on-again meeting will […]
(Reuters) – U.S. Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican, won re-election late Tuesday despite publicly losing a corporate supporter shortly before Election Day and being criticized by some within his own party for inflammatory remarks on immigration and race. Just days before the Nov. 6 elections, agricultural dairy cooperative Land O’Lakes pulled its support for […]
Bay of Quinte MPP Todd Smith, who took over as Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development after Jim Wilson resigned, made his first appearance in his new role at his home riding on Tuesday. Smith travelled to a new Belleville subdivision to trumpet the government’s Bill 47, the Making Ontario Open for Business Act. Holding his […]