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| U.S. House speaker says Obamacare replacement will pass this year | | Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:53 AM | |
|  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives' Republican leader said on Tuesday that legislation to replace former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law would be completed this year, trying to dispel the idea that the party is retreating from its campaign promise to dismantle Obamacare quickly. "The question is how long does it take to implement the full replacement of Obamacare," House Speaker Paul Ryan told a news briefing. "We hope to get this done as fast as possible." Ryan was responding to questions about Republican President Donald Trump's weekend interview with Fox News in which he said it might take until next year to replace the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, which Republicans consider federal government overreach.
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| Appeals court presses Trump administration on travel ban | | Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:46 AM | |
|  By Dan Levine and Emily Stephenson SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's order temporarily banning U.S. entry to people from seven Muslim-majority countries came under intense scrutiny on Tuesday from a federal appeals court that questioned whether the ban unfairly targeted people over their religion. During a more than hour-long oral argument, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pressed a government lawyer whether the Trump administration's national security argument was backed by evidence that people from the seven countries posed a danger. Judge Richard Clifton, a George W. Bush appointee, posed equally tough questions for an attorney representing Minnesota and Washington states, which are challenging the ban.
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| China "mending its ways" on unethical organ transplants, official says | | Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:38 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Beijing's top official on transplants said on Tuesday Beijing was "mending its ways" from a murky past when organs were taken from detained or executed prisoners. Dr Huang Jiefu also told a Vatican conference bringing together nearly 80 doctors, law enforcement officials and representatives of health and non-government organisations that his participation, which medical ethics groups have criticised, was not an attempt to whitewash the past. "China is mending its ways and constantly improving its national organ donation and transplantation systems," said Huang, a former deputy health minister who is director of Beijing's transplant programme.
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| Colombia president's campaign allegedly took Odebrecht cash - official | | Wednesday, February 08, 2017 1:25 AM | |
|  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos's 2014 election campaign allegedly received as much as $1 million from Brazil's Odebrecht SA, the country's attorney general said on Tuesday, as fallout from a massive corruption scandal continued. A portion of some $4.6 billion allegedly paid by engineering company Odebrecht to Otto Bula Bula, a former Liberal Party senator, was designated for the Santos reelection campaign, Colombia's Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez said in a statement.
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| Amnesty says Syria executes, tortures thousands at prison; government denies | | Wednesday, February 08, 2017 12:09 AM | |
|  By John Davison and Stephanie Nebehay BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian government executed up to 13,000 prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The Syrian Justice Ministry denied the Amnesty report, calling it completely "devoid of truth", Syrian state news agency SANA reported late on Tuesday. Amnesty said the executions took place between 2011 and 2015, but were probably still being carried out and amounted to war crimes.
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| In court, Trump administration argues for travel ban | | By Dan Levine and Emily Stephenson SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration asked a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to rule a federal judge was wrong to suspend a travel ban the president imposed on people from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees. "Congress has expressly authorized the president to suspend entry of categories of aliens," attorney August Flentje, special counsel for the U.S. Justice Department, said under intense questioning from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump's Jan. 27 executive order barred travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering for 90 days and all refugees for 120 days, except refugees from Syria, whom he would ban indefinitely.
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| Senior Democrat says Trump court pick avoided questions 'like the plague' | |  By Susan Cornwell and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick of avoiding answering questions "like the plague" and dodging efforts to gauge his judicial independence during a meeting that deepened his concerns about the nominee. Neil Gorsuch, the federal appeals court judge from Colorado who the Republican president nominated last week to a lifetime job on the high court, met privately with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York as he continues to try to build support for his confirmation by the Senate.
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| Takata to plead guilty Feb. 27: court documents | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan's Takata Corp is set to plead guilty Feb. 27 in federal court in Detroit to a single felony count of wire fraud to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into ruptures of its air bag inflators linked to at least 16 deaths worldwide, according to a court filing Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors also charged three former senior Takata executives in Japan with falsifying test results to conceal the inflator defect linked the recall of about 100 million air bag inflators worldwide. Takata has agreed to pay a $25 million fine, $125 million in a victim compensation fund, including for future incidents, and $850 million to compensate automakers for massive recall costs, the Justice Department said.
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| Homeland Security chief regrets rapid rollout of Trump travel ban | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeland Security chief John Kelly told a congressional panel on Tuesday he should have delayed U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries and on all refugees so he could brief Congress on the executive order. The temporary ban ignited international protests as the United States revoked 60,000 visas and detained some travellers who landed in the United States unaware the order had been signed while they were in flight.
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| Exclusive - Italian diesel probe omitted key tests for Fiat Chrysler models | |  By Laurence Frost and Silvia Aloisi PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler vehicles were allowed to skip key tests for illegal engine software during Italy's main emissions-cheating investigation in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal, according to the transport ministry's own report. The report, presented to a European parliamentary committee in October but never officially published, will be seized upon by environmental groups pressing MEPs to vote on Thursday for tougher EU oversight of vehicle testing by national authorities. "It's imperative that we break this cosy relationship between national testing authorities and their domestic carmakers," said Julia Poliscanova, a vehicle emissions specialist at Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment.
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| Donald Trump Jr. takes over Washington hotel near White House | |  Donald Trump Jr. has taken the reins of the Trump International Hotel near the White House after critics charged it was a conflict of interest for U.S. President Donald Trump to run the hotel while also running the federal government that is leasing the building to his company. A filing with the District of Columbia government last week showed that the younger Trump took over as president of the company that runs the luxury hotel as well as a restaurant and spa in the building. The filing left unresolved a controversy about Trump's leasing the Old Post Office, the historic government building that houses the hotel.
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