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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has selected candidates for at least two of the three open positions on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, according to people with direct knowledge of the decision. The expected nominees include Randal K. Quarles, a Treasury Department official in the George W. Bush administration, and Marvin Goodfriend, a former Fed official who is now a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. In picking Mr.

WASHINGTON — George T. Conway III, the husband of the presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, has withdrawn himself from consideration to become the head of the Justice Department’s civil division, he said in a statement on Friday, citing family considerations as he became the latest sign of personnel woes at the White House. Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege to try to prevent James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, from providing potentially damaging testimony to Congress on statements the president made about an investigation into his former national security adviser, two senior administration officials said Friday. Mr.

WASHINGTON — In December 2015, delegates from 195 nations announced to a roar of applause in Paris that they had finally sealed a pact aimed at keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius to avoid the worst ravages of climate change. The negotiators knew even

As news that President Trump was pulling out of the Paris climate accord hit at a luncheon for small-business owners in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, an already happy crowd suddenly turned euphoric. “It was like a major win at a football game,” said Rick Longenecker, a management consultant who had been among the 50 or so attendees who gathered to trade thoughts amid a rapidly improving local economy. While multinational corporations such as Disney, Goldman Sachs and IBM have opposed the president’s decision to walk away from the international climate agreement, many small companies around the co

As news that President Trump was pulling out of the Paris climate accord hit at a luncheon for small-business owners in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, an already happy crowd suddenly turned euphoric. “It was like a major win at a football game,” said Rick Longenecker, a management consultant who had been among the 50 or so attendees who gathered to trade thoughts amid a rapidly improving local economy. While multinational corporations such as Disney, Goldman Sachs and IBM have opposed the president’s decision to walk away from the international climate agreement, many small companies around the co

WASHINGTON — As a businessman, President Trump was a frequent and scornful critic of the concept of climate change.

"America First" takes America out of the lead –- and places the nation virtually by itself. President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord has vast implications, ranging from the environmental and the moral to the diplomatic and the crassly political.

The reaction to President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement was swift Thursday evening. In a press conference at the White House today, President Donald Trump announced that, although the U.S.

Pittsburgh's mayor took to Twitter to reinforce his city's commitment to the Donald Trump made reference to the city while announcing his decision to withdraw the U.S.