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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 United States attorneys who were appointed during prior presidential administrations. Many of the prosecutors who were nominated by former President Barack Obama have already left, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration are being asked to leave by the Justice Department "in order to ensure a uniform transition." ''
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again stressing that action is needed "now" to save consumers from what he describes as the coming "Obamacare disaster." In his weekly address on Saturday, Trump said "The law is collapsing around us." But conservative Republicans are demanding tougher changes in insurance requirements and Medicaid than the House GOP health care bill proposes and they're warning they'll oppose the bill if it isn't reshaped.
SEATTLE (AP) — The federal judge who halted nationwide implementation of President Donald Trump's initial travel ban says he won't immediately rule on whether his restraining order applies to the revised ban because of procedural reasons. The states of Washington and Minnesota, as well as the Justice Department, have only filed notices. Washington's attorney general says he's reviewing the order with his legal team to determine the next steps.
BOSTON (AP) — A group of gay veterans will be allowed to march in Boston's upcoming St. Patrick's Day parade. The group, OutVets, was initially barred from participating, but organizers of the March 19 event, Boston's Allied War Veterans Council, have reversed course after being roundly criticized. The lawyer for OutVets says the group has received a letter allowing it to march and is "actively reviewing" it.
SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a Seattle synagogue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood was vandalized with anti-Semitic Holocaust-denying graffiti. The Seattle Times reports a police officer discovered the spray-painted message Friday morning on an exterior wall of Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Rabbi Daniel Weiner says the message reads "The Holocaust is fake history." The "s'' characters in the graffiti are dollar signs. Weiner describes the graffiti as a "really is a toxic mix."
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