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banning people from seven muslim majority countries coming to the united states. it is already the target of widespread protests in the us and beyond, and now the acting us attorney general has told justice department lawyers not to defend it in court. in a letter, sally yates says she is not convinced it is lawful. sally yates is a barack obama appointee. she was asked to stay on temporarily by president trump, but is due to be replaced within days, depending on senate confirmation by mr trump s pick, jeff sessions. and another very unusual intervention. only 11 days after he left office, former president obama has weighed in to the controversy. his spokesman said american values are at stake, and praised protesters against the executive order. the statement says the former president is heartened by the level of engagement around the country, and says he fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion. an ....
are now the subject of criminal investigations. the new favourite, emmanuel macron, says he has a plan to clean up french politics. and, saddle up cowboy. the new us interior secretary arrives for the first day at the office on his horse! i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. allegations of inappropriate links between the trump campaign and russia just don t go away. today, president trump s attorney general, jeff sessions, has been accused of lying under oath after he failed to disclose to the senate that he d had two meetings with the russian ambassador during the election campaign. a growing number of senior republicans are demanding jeff sessions withdraw himself from overseeing any investigation into the administration s links with russia, while democrats are calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor and even a criminal investigation. this is how this story unfolded. mr sessions joined the trump campaign last february. injuly, he a ....