Article snippet: President Trump made a direct appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling over Twitter Wednesday. On a trip to campaign for a congressional candidate, Rudy Giuliani said the president was not issuing a directive to the Justice Department, as Democrats had suggested. The executive order is part of a push by the Trump administration to crack down on cities and states that generally don’t comply with US immigration authorities. The White House has announced that the Treasury is imposing sanctions on two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor. In a statement, former President Obama says he’s publicly supporting candidates for governor and the U.S. Senate but also for state legislatures. The most inscrutable message that came out of Donald Trump’s Tampa rally Tuesday evening was a letter. The Mass. House and the Senate have been working for nearly three years on bills to update the state’s 25-year-old school funding formula. The reduction under consideration would pick up where President Donald Trump left off in 2017 in scaling back a program intended to offer protection to the world’s most vulnerable people. In a statement, former President Obama says he’s publicly supporting candidates for governor and the U.S. Senate but also for state legislatures. The social network said it had removed 32 pages and fake accounts that engaged in activity around divisive soc... Link to the full article to read more