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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has ruled President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled Friday that last year's tax overhaul knocked the constitutional foundation from under the health care act dubbed by critics as "Obamacare." Supporters of the law immediately said they will appeal. President Donald Trump is hailing the ruling and says Congress should pass a new law.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is announcing that budget director Mick Mulvaney will be his next chief of staff. Trump tweeted Friday that Mulvaney "has done an outstanding job" in his administration and will take over next year. Trump deemed Mulvaney his "acting chief of staff" but it was not immediately clear what that meant for the length of his tenure. He will replace John Kelly. Trump praised Kelly's service and called him a "great patriot" in the tweet.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Cohen says Donald Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 presidential campaign because Trump thought their stories of alleged affairs "would affect the election." Cohen, the president's longtime personal lawyer, says Trump knew the payments were wrong. The White House is dismissing Cohen's accusations, blasting the media for "giving credence to a convicted criminal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The story of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl raises questions about how well U.S. authorities are prepared for the growing number of Central American families and children showing up at the border with Mexico. The girl, Jakelin Caal, was picked up with her father and other migrants in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. More than seven hours later she began vomiting on a bus en route to a Border Patrol station. Then she stopped breathing _ and died after being airlifted to a hospital.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel's office is pushing back at the suggestion the FBI acted improperly in its interview of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn's lawyers said in a memo this week that Flynn wasn't warned during his FBI interview that it was a crime to lie to them. But prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller say Flynn had lied to the White House about his contacts with the Russian ambassador before the January 2017 interview and repeated the same falsehoods to the FBI.
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