Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Tuesday's Headlines: FBI chief confirms probe of possible coordination between Kremlin and Trump campaign

Trump is dealt his hardest truth: He was wrong; Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Twitter day; House Republicans unveil health-care-bill changes to corral votes; Trump takes another shot at quarterback who wouldn't stand for national anthem; Gorsuch's first day of hearings features sharp-edged differences alongside a familiar confirmation script;
 
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FBI chief confirms probe of possible coordination between Kremlin and Trump campaign
James B. Comey acknowledged his agency's wide-ranging investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election during a hearing before lawmakers. But he refused to answer whether specific individuals close to the president had fallen under suspicion of criminal wrongdoing. The FBI does not typically disclose the existence of probes, but Comey said he was authorized by the Justice Department to do so in this case.
Trump is dealt his hardest truth: He was wrong
The FBI director's testimony on wiretapping and the Russia probe put the White House on the defensive, and threatens to damage the president's credibility not only with voters, but also with lawmakers of his own party.
 
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Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Twitter day
The president's Twitter accounts were active during testimony on Trump-Russia ties. But the posts were misleading, inaccurate or simply false.
 
House Republicans unveil health-care-bill changes to corral votes
Changes unveiled late Monday addressed numerous GOP concerns about the legislation, ranging from the flexibility it would give states to administer their Medicaid programs to the amount of aid it would offer older Americans to buy insurance. Backers also appeared to overcome a major obstacle after a key group of hard-line conservatives declined to take a formal position against the American Health Care Act.
 
Trump takes another shot at quarterback who wouldn't stand for national anthem
During a rally in Kentucky, the president cited a report that NFL owners are avoiding Colin Kaepernick out of fear of drawing "a nasty tweet from Donald Trump."
 
Gorsuch's first day of hearings features sharp-edged differences alongside a familiar confirmation script
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch promised to remember the "modest station we judges are meant to occupy in a democracy" if he is elevated to the nation's highest court, as the hearings began amid Democratic doubts about his impartiality and whether he should be before them in the first place.
 
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Rex Tillerson will visit Russia but skip NATO meeting next month
The announcement of the secretary of state's mid-April trip comes as the FBI and Congress are scrutinizing the Kremlin's alleged cyberattacks during the presidential campaign and its meetings with several Trump campaign officials.
Trump aide Paul Manafort laundered payments from Ukraine party with Russia ties, according to new documents
Manafort resigned as Trump's campaign manager in August after his name surfaced next to payments totaling $12.7 million in a registry of secret payments from the Party of Regions called the "black ledger." Manafort has denied receiving those payments.
Andrew Napolitano reportedly pulled from Fox News over debunked wiretapping claims
His assertions that British intelligence officials spied on Trump at the request of then-president Barack Obama have been cited by President Trump and his press secretary Sean Spicer. The British as well as National Security Agency Director Michael S. Rogers have denounced the allegations as false.
A cop fires. A teen dies. Yet six police body cameras somehow miss what happens.
Controversy over a 2014 fatal shooting highlights the possibility that body cameras — used by nearly every major department in the nation — may be selectively edited to bolster police accounts of incidents without providing the transparency sought by reform advocates.
Martin McGuinness | 1950–2017
IRA revolutionary who fought British rule — then negotiated peace — dies at 66
McGuinness helped forge the Good Friday peace agreement and served for a decade as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, a position created as part of a power-sharing agreement between Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists.
U.S. said to ban carry-on electronic devices on flights arriving from certain countries beginning Tuesday
The ban was made public in a tweet from Royal Jordanian Airlines that was later deleted. Two sources have confirmed the new restrictions on items including laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices.
She thought she'd saved her daughter from MS-13 by smuggling her to the U.S. She was wrong.
Maria Reyes sent for her daughter, Damaris, when she was 12 to protect her from gang violence in El Salvador. It found her in the Washington suburbs instead.
Trump wants to defund PBS. 'Sesame Street' brutally parodied him for decades.
There are only three known episodes in which "Donald Grump" or "Ronald Grump" appears, each time playing the villain in a moral allegory.
Ivanka Trump moves into a West Wing office, acknowledging there's 'no modern precedent' for her role
Ivanka Trump will not be on the government payroll or officially bound by its ethics rules, but she said in a statement to Politico that she will "voluntarily" follow those restrictions anyway.
 
     
 
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