NEW YORK: President Trump urged a federal appeals court to rule that he qualifies as a government employee under a law that would let him dodge a defamation suit by E Jean Carroll, a columnist who claims he raped her two decades ago.
Trump on Friday asked the court to reverse a district judge’s finding from October that presidents aren’t covered by the Westfall Act of 1988, which protects government workers from being personally sued for actions related to their official duties.
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President Trump has decided to withdraw from another major arms control accord, according to senior administration officials, and will inform Russia on Friday that the United States is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty, negotiated three decades ago to allow nations to fly over each other’s territory with elaborate sensor equipment to assure that […]
USA-IMMIGRATION-DNA:Trump administration seeks sweeping DNA collection of immigrants, U.S. sponsors The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a sweeping expansion of its collection of DNA and other biometric data of immigrants, to go beyond detained migrants in order to include U.S. citizen sponsors and others. Reuters
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