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WASHINGTON — Less than a week into the Trump administration, Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, hurried to the White House with an urgent concern. The president’s national security adviser, she said, had lied to the vice president about his Russian contacts and was vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow. “We wanted to tell the White House as quickly as possible,” Ms. Yates told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday.

Angella Reid, the first female chief usher to work at the White House, is "no longer employed by the White House," an administration official has told ABC News. Reid was fired, according to sources. One administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, cited “issues with the staff.” Others described tension between Reid, her staff and members of the administration. The abrupt departure, first reported by the Washington Post, is unusual for a White House usher -- a position which does not typically change with administrations.

President Donald Trump tweeted this morning about former acting Attorney General Sally Yates before her scheduled appearance at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Yates is expected to address the concerns that she reportedly raised in January about the veracity of claims made by then–national security adviser Michael Flynn over his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. Yates was fired by Trump on Jan.

After the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court, President Trump is expected to announce nominees to the federal bench on Monday, a White House official confirmed, in a move to fill nearly 130 federal court vacancies. The list of nominees, which was first reported by The New York Times, includes several names on Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court picks — a list widely praised by conservatives. David Stras, an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and Joan Larsen, a membe

Sally Yates, the former acting United States attorney general who drew the ire of President executive order, testified that she informed the White House Counsel that the Department of Justice believed that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn could be subject to blackmail by the Russian government. Yates said that she had two in-person meetings the White House Counsel to discuss concerns about Flynn. "We believed Gen.

President Barack Obama warned then-President-elect Donald Trump not to hire retired Lt. Gen.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories In a highly anticipated hearing, former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified for the first time about why she notified White House officials that President Trump’s newly named national security adviser could be compromised. In the three-hour long hearing on Monday afternoon, members of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee questioned Yates about the former Trump adviser, Michael Flynn.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories “To state the obvious, you don’t want your national security adviser compromised with the Russians,” Yates said of Michael Flynn.  Sally Yates’ testimony Monday on Capitol Hill offered a more complete public account of Michael Flynn’s stunning fall from one of the nation’s top security posts.  Senator Ted Cruz had some pointed questions for former acting attorney general Sally Yates at Monday’s hearing.

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