Article snippet: Magistrate Judge Page Kelley give specify a reason for recusing herself from Jasiel Correia’s criminal case. Trump confirmed his choices of William Barr as attorney general and Heather Nauert as UN ambassador amid speculation that White House chief of staff John Kelly could soon depart. Here are some notable quotes from the prosecution sentencing memoranda filed Friday in Michael Cohen’s two cases. NAMES The Gleitsman Award was given to Malala Yousafzai, who came to international attention after a masked gunman shot her in retaliation for speaking out in support of girls’ right to education. Gary Cohn, President Trump’s former top economic adviser and an ex-Goldman Sachs executive, got a cold reception from a newly elected House Democrat during an off-the-record event Thursday. Federal prosecutors said Trump directed the payments to ward off a potential sex scandal that threatened his 2016 campaign. A jury rejected arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense during the August 2017 ‘‘Unite the Right’’ rally. Republicans pushing to hang on to power in Wisconsin and Michigan aren’t stopping at curbing the authority of incoming Democratic governors, they’re trying to hamstring AGs as well. President Trump is unleashing a barrage of tweets aimed at everyone from Robert Mueller to former FBI director James Comey to former Justice Department officials. Opinion | Erwin Chemerinsky The crucial question will be how this is handled in a cou... Link to the full article to read more