Trump to meet with Schumer and Jeffries as government shutdown looms

Washington — President Trump plans to meet this week with Democratic leaders as Congress seems to be barreling toward a government shutdown, according to a source familiar with the plans.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both New York Democrats, have repeatedly asked Republican leaders to negotiate with them on

Lindsey Halligan sworn in as interim U.S. attorney

Washington — Lindsey Halligan, one of President Trump’s former defense lawyers who then joined him in the White House, took over a key federal prosecutor’s office in Virginia on Monday following the departure of the U.S. attorney amid apparent pressure from the president. Halligan takes the helm of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern