Trump Picks Mulvaney To Be Next Chief Of Staff
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, CATHERINE LUCEY and JILL COLVIN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday picked budget director Mick Mulvaney to be his next chief of staff, ending a chaotic search for a new chief of staff that had been inching forward with the feel of an unfolding reality TV show.…
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Held at US Border Dies in Custody
By COLLEEN LONG and ASTRID GALVAN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A 7-year-old girl picked up with her father and dozens of other migrants along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border suffered seizures and spiked a high fever in immigration custody and later died, federal officials said. An autopsy was scheduled to try to…
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Trump’s Search For New Chief Of Staff Has Reality TV Feel
By CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE , WASHINGTON (AP) — Serious contenders are hiding from view. Celebrity hangers-on are applying via Twitter. Fresh names circulate practically on the hour. And the man in charge is stoking much of the confusion. President Donald Trump's hunt for a new chief of staff has taken on the feel of…
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Trump Invokes ‘Advice-Of-Counsel’ Defense In Campaign Probe
By JIM MUSTIAN , Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump offered a simple defense Thursday to accusations he broke campaign finance law by directing attorney Michael Cohen to orchestrate hush-money payments to conceal Trump's alleged affairs: He was following terrible advice from a bad lawyer. "I never directed Michael Cohen to break…
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Man Killed In Strasbourg Was Market Shooter
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The office of the Paris prosecutor, which handles terrorism cases in France, says a man killed in Strasbourg in a shootout with police has been identified as the main suspect in a Christmas market attack that killed three people. The man was identified as Charif Chekatt, a 29-year-old whom police had…
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