Friday, February 10, 2017

Ethics review sought after Trump adviser touts Ivanka Trump products

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Ethics review sought after Trump adviser touts Ivanka Trump products

An Ivanka Trump-branded blouse is seen for sale at off-price retailer Winners in TorontoFederal ethics rules prohibit executive branch employees from using their positions to endorse products or for the private gain of friends. "Go buy Ivanka's stuff ... I'm going to go get some myself today," Conway told Fox News in an interview from the White House.


Highlights: The Trump presidency on Feb. 10 at 12:20 P.M. EST
(Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Friday: CHINA Trump changes tack and agrees to honor the "one China" policy during a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a major diplomatic boost for Beijing, which brooks no criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan. RUSSIA-UKRAINE The Washington Post reports White House national security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Moscow's ambassador during the month before Trump took office. Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes Slovenia, the homeland of first lady Melania Trump, as a good place for a meeting with Trump but says the decision on a location is not Moscow's alone.
Trump's travel ban faces multiple legal challenges

Iranian citizen and U.S green card holder Cyrus Khosravi greets his niece and brother after they were detained for additional screening following their arrival to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to visit Cyrus, in SeaTac, Washington, U.S.The White House is not ruling out the possibility of rewriting Trump's Jan. 27 order in light of the actions by a federal judge in Seattle and an appeals court in San Francisco putting the directive on hold, an administration official said. "SEE YOU IN COURT," Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday after Thursday's ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which upheld a lower court's suspension of his ban. The administration has been defending the executive order in the case that produced Thursday's ruling and in more than a dozen additional lawsuits now moving through the U.S. court system.


Trump's immigration order vastly expands border surveillance
As part of President Trump's controversial executive order barring travel to the US from seven Muslim-majority nations, the White House instructed the Department of Homeland Security to escalate the deployment of a biometric monitoring system to evaluate all visitors crossing US borders.
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