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Eight candidates quizzed for FBI chief amid uproar over Comey

Bloomberg The two top officials at the Justice Department have interviewed eight candidates to replace the fired James Comey amid demands from lawmakers of both parties for Donald Trump to turn over any recordings he may have made of his meetings with the former FBI director. Washington continued to be roiled by Trump’s firing of Comey on May 9, citing ...

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Erdogan welcomes decisive Trump meeting amid ‘row’

Bloomberg Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he’s looking forward to a “decisive meeting” with his US counterpart Donald Trump, whose decision to arm Kurdish groups against IS in Syria has stoked tensions between the two NATO members. “If we are strategic allies, then we should make decisions in alliance,” the Sabah newspaper cited Erdogan as telling reporters on Sunday ...

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Travel ban faces second round at West Coast appeals court

Bloomberg Attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department will again come before a federal appeals court to try to salvage President Donald Trump’s order banning travel from six mostly Muslim nations, after a judge said it appeared to be discriminatory. The hearing gets underway at 9:30 a.m. in Seattle. It’s the second time a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court ...

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