Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and an ally of fellow Republican Trump, made the request to U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil two days before she is due to hold a hearing in the case in federal court in Manhattan.
Denver was the only higher seed to win on its home court Sunday. The Western Conference’s No. 1 seed — the Denver Nuggets — opened with a 119-80 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
“This is not a gun problem. This is a mental health problem, this is a social problem, this is a cultural problem, this is a spiritual problem,” Trump said.
The Philippines is “stoking the fire” of regional tensions by offering expanded military base access to the United States, whose goal is to interfere in China’s affairs with Taiwan, Beijing’s ambassador to Manila said on Friday.
Friday, the Justice Department announced it was pursuing charges against three sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as well as dozens of others believed to be responsible for funneling fentanyl into the United States.
An evangelical Christian former mail carrier’s fight with the U.S. Postal Service over his refusal to work on Sundays gives the Supreme Court another chance to widen religious rights but also has led to a debate over whether religious people have more of a legal right than others to weekend days off from work.
A former lawmaker in India’s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday.
Friday, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow a person in the state to be sentenced to death by an 8-to-4 vote of a jury.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Saturday reported raising $14.5 million during the first three months of this year, with contributions accelerating sharply after he announced he was about to be criminally indicted.
China launched a weather satellite on Sunday as civilian flights altered their routes to avoid a Chinese-imposed no-fly zone to the north of Taiwan which Beijing put in place because of the possibility of falling rocket debris.
