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White House Says Trump Isn’t Considering Firing Mueller

President Donald Trump is not considering firing the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, a top White House lawyer said, after a cascade of Trump tweets revived chatter that the deeply frustrated president may be preparing to get rid of the veteran prosecutor.

Trump Lauds Firing Of Ex-Top FBI Official As β€˜Great Day’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has fired Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director who was a regular target of President Donald Trump’s anger and criticism, just two days before McCabe’s scheduled retirement date. McCabe suggested the move was part of the Trump administration’s β€œwar on the FBI.”

ProPublica Leads Media Into Correction Of Murky CIA Story

The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Students To Walk Out Nationwide Protesting Gun Violence

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In California, Trump Views Designs For Planned Border Wall

President Donald Trump on Tuesday got his chance to inspect prototypes for the β€œbig beautiful border wall” he wants to build to separate the U.S. from Mexico, saying strengthening the border would help stop β€œ99 percent” of illegal immigration β€” or, he allowed, β€œmaybe more than that.”

House Panel’s Initial Report Says No Collusion with Russia

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that pleased the White House but enraged Democrats who had not yet seen the document.

President Trump Plans to Meet Kim Jong Un for Nuke Talks

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump plan to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks, a whiplash development that would put two leaders who’ve repeatedly insulted, threatened and dismissed each other in the same room, possibly in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

Trump Rolling Out Big Trade Tariffs, Sparing Mexico, Canada

After a week of hints and uncertainty, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would announce tariffs on imported steel and aluminum but with temporary exemptions for Canada and Mexico as he seeks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement. He suggested Australia and β€œother countries” might also be spared, a shift that could soften the international blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners.

North Korea Reportedly Willing To Hold Nuclear Talk With US

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed a willingness to discuss nuclear disarmament with the United States and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests during such talks, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday after returning from the North.

Republicans Want Trump to Back off his Tariff Proposal

In a remarkably public confrontation, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump are pleading with him to back away from his threatened international tariffs, which they fear could spark a dangerous trade war. Trump retorted: β€œWe’re not backing down.”

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