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The former congressman, who overhauled financial regulation after the 2008 crisis, sits on the board of a bank that was just seized by the government. What happened?

Recently, the Administration proposed a new border rule that one advocate called “asylum Ticketmaster.”

Though the Covid-19 national emergency and public health emergency will both end in May, federal student loan payments will remain paused through June.

Republican Sarah Sanders, who was White House press secretary during the Trump Administration, vows to fight President Joe Biden's policies if elected Arkansas governor in November (Oct. 25) (AP Video: Andrew DeMillo)

Crypto assets that have prices should be viewed more like internet stocks than currency, said Brian Brooks, the former U.S. Acting Comptroller of the Currency.

"Your employees will get sick and may die," one doctor told meat processor JBS early in the pandemic.

President Biden campaigned on the promise of undoing the draconian immigration policies of the Trump era. As the midterms approach, is it too late?

It’s time to do away with the S.U.V. loophole.

As Russia’s independent media fades to black, there is new demand in the country for U.S.-backed media and technology that has roots in the Cold War.

White House officials ultimately decided that a settlement had become a greater political liability than any potential fallout from a broken promise.

Former President Trump sued the committee and the archives in an attempt to halt the transfer of his records.

It’s hard to consign the Trump years to the history books when we remain in the middle of the crisis that it sparked.

Jury selection begins for Soviet-born Florida businessman Lev Parnas and Ukraine-born investor Andrey Kukushkin.

Jury selection begins for Soviet-born Florida businessman Lev Parnas and Ukraine-born investor Andrey Kukushkin.

A businessman who once pitched himself as someone who could expose corruption in the Trump Administration over its dealings in Ukraine is facing trial in New York City.

The Trump Administration slashed refugee quotas—bringing the number resettled in every state to the lowest in years.

One Administration agreed to and the other completed a full withdrawal of U.S. troops without securing the release of a Navy veteran held captive by the Taliban.

After twenty years, it hardly needs saying that America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were disastrous to U.S. interests and standing.

Maybe Mexico will pay for repairs? Severe weather in southern Arizona appears to have damaged parts of the border wall erected by the Trump Administration. The Tucson Sentinel reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have confirmed “historic” flooding at the nation’s border with Mexico is to blame for the destruction. That appears to include several wide-open metal gates ...

Attorney General Mark Brnovich is leading a coalition of attorneys general in filing a petition challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s “Delay Rule,” which postponed the Trump Administration’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR).

President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration announced that it intended to release the millions of withheld vaccines when they take office after the governors submitted their request to the HHS. Rather than hold onto second vaccine doses, Biden plans to instead accelerate shipment of first doses and use the levers of government power to provide the required second doses in a timely manner. There were about 95,000 active COVID cases in the state on Jan. 11. Michigan health officials are urging patience as the vaccination process unfolds, while the state attempts to secure more doses to meet the need. Read: Michigan health departments urge patience on COVID vaccines: ‘Demand is overwhelming’“It’s a tremendous relief to add vaccination to the resources we have to prevent COVID-19 from causing additional harm, but this process will take time,” says Jimena Loveluck, MSW, health officer with Washtenaw County Health Department.

Whitmer and other governors earlier requested the release of millions of previously held-back doses of the COVID-19 vaccineLANSING – Millions of previously held-up doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine have been released to Michigan and other states. After the governors sent the letter, the incoming Biden administration announced that they will release all of the available vaccine doses that the Trump Administration is holding back. “Michigan and states across the country remain ready to get more shots in arms, which is why the Trump Administration’s decision to grant our request and release millions of doses of the vaccine is so crucial,” said Governor Whitmer. There is still more work to do, which is why yesterday, I sent a letter to the Trump Administration requesting permission to directly purchase up to 100,000 doses of the vaccine for the state of Michigan. To learn more about Michigan’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts, visit Michigan.gov/COVIDvaccine.

According to Whitmer, since she and eight other governors sent a letter to the Trump Administration requesting that it distribute the millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses that are being held back, there has been no response. Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting permission to purchase up to 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines for the state. According to Whitmer, since she and eight other governors sent a letter to the Trump Administration requesting that it distribute the millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses that are being held back, there has been no response. “We remain ready to accelerate distribution to get doses into arms,” said Whitmer. After the governors sent the letter, the incoming Biden administration announced that they will release all of the available vaccine doses that the Trump Administration is holding back,” read a statement from Whitmer’s office.

Read: Experts: Capitol riot product of years of hateful rhetoricIn response, lawmakers are calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Learn more: What is the 25th Amendment and how does it work? The Vice President and Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment, or Congress should impeach and remove the President. — Brenda Lawrence (@RepLawrence) January 7, 2021Rep. Haley Stevens, Michigan’s 11th DistrictI encourage those with the authority to invoke the 25th Amendment to exercise that power. pic.twitter.com/5VK8DLTLn4 — David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) January 7, 2021Speaker of the U.S. House Rep. Nancy Pelosi, from California, previously introduced legislation in October requesting Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.

It will be the first time the Census Bureau has missed the deadline to turn in its numbers since it was created in 1976. READ: Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump planData from the census is key for a variety of reasons such as federal funding for states, but it determines what kind of representation a state has in Congress. Michigan could lose 1 House seat, census estimate showsPreliminary numbers from the U.S. census indicate Michigan could lose clout in Washington, D.C. and in the Electoral College. While Michigan’s population grew about 1% since the last census in 2010, the national average for population growth was 6% this year. The final census numbers are not official, but the preliminary numbers put Michigan’s population at 9,986,857 versus the 9,884,116 in 2010.

U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said the government had to post a public notice within three days — including on its website and the websites of all other relevant government agencies — that new DACA applications were being accepted. Garaufis also ordered the government to put together a status report on the DACA program by Jan. 4. “Every time the outgoing administration tried to use young immigrants as political scapegoats, they defiled the values of our nation. The Trump administration had announced the end of the program in 2017, leading to the legal challenges that wound up in front of the Supreme Court. For the second time, a court has ordered the administration to resume processing DACA applications.

The Trump administration on Friday suspended all federal student loan payments through the end of January and kept interest rates at 0%, extending a moratorium that started early in the pandemic but was set to expire at the end of this month. By extending payments by one month, the administration is effectively leaving it to the Biden administration or Congress to decide whether to provide longer-term relief to millions of student borrowers. In announcing the extension, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rebuked Congress for failing to act. DeVos won praise for using her authority to pause federal student loan payments in March. A federal lawsuit filed against DeVos in April alleged that thousands of overdue borrowers were still getting pay withheld despite the mortarium.

Maloney wrote that the Commerce Department — which oversees the Census Bureau — missed a Nov. 24 deadline to give the documents to the committee. Maloney threatened a subpoena if “a full and unredacted set” of the requested documents are not given to the committee by Dec. 9. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Census Bureau switched its deadline for wrapping up the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from the end of July to the end of October. The Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule of two and a half months for processing the data collected during the 2020 census — about half the time originally planned. The bureau has not officially said what the anomalies were or publicly stated if there would be a new deadline for the apportionment numbers.

WASHINGTON – Members of the White House coronavirus task force held a news briefing on Thursday afternoon to discuss the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The news conference comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge across the U.S. Conditions inside the nation’s hospitals are deteriorating by the day as the coronavirus rages across the U.S. at an unrelenting pace and the confirmed death toll surpasses 250,000. The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 in the U.S. has doubled in the past month and set new records every day this week. As of Tuesday, nearly 77,000 were hospitalized with the virus.

"So far I think it's not terribly damaging, it's really still early days," David Adelman told CNBC's "Capital Connection" on Monday. "If it were to persist for weeks or even more than a month, I think the damage would be substantial." President-elect Joe Biden waves to reporters after attending briefings with members of his "Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board" in Wilmington, Delaware, November 9, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersIn a tweet on Sunday, Trump appeared for the first time to publicly acknowledge that Biden had won the election. But he has continued to say the election was "rigged," a claim that has been rejected by election officials.

A senior administration official said Monday that U.S. health officials are "extremely encouraged" by the announcement that Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is highly effective in preventing Covid-19. "It is a great day for science. It is a great day for humanity when you realize your vaccine has 90% effectiveness. Health officials fear the situation could become especially dire as people also get the seasonal flu and hospitals fill up. Even with a vaccine, some infectious disease experts warn the coronavirus is likely to become as "endemic" as the annual flu virus.

DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Rep. Rashida Tlaib announced Wednesday they’re preparing to challenge the result of the 2020 Census. City and state officials argued that more time was needed to count due to the hurdles posed by COVID-19. The city of Detroit is in a lawsuit against the federal government to prove it counted Detroit properly. It is basically preemptively challenging the Census Bureau into proving Detroit was properly counted and thereby forcing congressional oversight over the Bureau. Click here to learn more about the U.S. CensusClick here to see more national and state census response data

The deadline to complete the 2020 Census has been shifting back and forth due to the coronavirus pandemic and numerous court rulings. Each Michigan resident counted in the census accounts for $3,000 in federal funding provided to the state. However, federal funding for states are based on the entire state’s census response rate, not just the response from individual communities. States are essentially competing against one another for federal funding associated with the census. The 2020 Census is a 9-question survey designed to count the population across the country and five U.S. territories.

Nevada health officials have ordered nursing facilities in the state to immediately suspend the use of two tests, manufactured by the companies Quidel and Becton, Dickinson and Co., after the officials said the tests repeatedly delivered false positives. Nevada officials said 23 out of 39 positive antigen test results from both Quidel and BD were later found by PCR to be negative, according to a directive issued last week. He urged nursing homes to continue to use the tests, saying "there is no scientific reason to not comply with this." The Trump administration is requiring nursing homes to routinely tests residents and staff in an attempt to detect new Covid-19 cases more quickly. The coronavirus has hit nursing homes in the U.S. especially hard, and the administration has shipped thousands of tests across the nation.

NEW YORK – Chinese-owned TikTok asked a judge to block the Trump Administration's attempt to ban its app, suggesting the video-sharing app's forced deal with Oracle and Walmart remains unsettled. An app-store ban of TikTok, delayed once by the government, is set to go into effect Sunday. President Donald Trump set this process in motion with executive orders in August that declared TikTok and another Chinese app threats to U.S. national security. But he also said he could retract his approval if Oracle doesn't “have total control.”The two sides in the TikTok deal appear at odds over the corporate structure of TikTok Global. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, said Monday that it will still own 80% of the U.S. entity after a financing round.

Today, on behalf of the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice sent draft legislation to Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “For too long Section 230 has provided a shield for online platforms to operate with impunity,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. The draft legislation reflects important and helpful feedback received thus far. The Department of Justice’s draft legislation focuses on two areas of reform, both of which are, at minimum, necessary to recalibrate the outdated immunity of Section 230. Section 230 immunity is meant to incentivize and protect online Good Samaritans.

Today, on behalf of the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice sent draft legislation to Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “For too long Section 230 has provided a shield for online platforms to operate with impunity,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. The draft legislation reflects important and helpful feedback received thus far. The Department of Justice’s draft legislation focuses on two areas of reform, both of which are, at minimum, necessary to recalibrate the outdated immunity of Section 230. Section 230 immunity is meant to incentivize and protect online Good Samaritans.

NEW YORK Video app TikTok said it will wage a legal fight against the Trump Administration's efforts to ban the popular, Chinese-owned service over national-security concerns. TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, insisted Monday that it is not a national-security threat and that the government is acting without evidence or due process. President Donald Trump has issued two executive orders in August, first a sweeping but unspecified ban on anytransaction with ByteDance, to take effect within 45 days. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have shared concerns about TikTok that ranged from its vulnerability to censorship and misinformation campaigns to the safety of user data and childrens privacy. But the administration has provided no specific evidence that TikTok has made U.S. users data available to the Chinese government.

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WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a news briefing at the White House at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. It is believed that Trump will address the country’s coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Wednesday’s conference, but the White House has not confirmed the topic of the briefing. Wednesday’s briefing comes one day after Trump led his first White House coronavirus task force news briefing since April on Tuesday. The U.S. is currently seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases from coast to coast. COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have been increasing by about 400,000 new cases each week since June 29.

WASHINGTON The White House coronavirus task force will host a news conference at 11 a.m. on Wednesday to address the rising number of COVID-19 cases across the country. Other states like Texas and California also reported an increase of around 48,000 COVID-19 cases each in the last week. COVID-19 cases are climbing at a rapid pace in Arizona, Georgia, North and South Carolina and more states. As of Tuesday the state is reporting a total of 66,627 COVID-19 cases and 6,005 deaths. New Michigan COVID-19 cases per day since June 22:

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The administration cast the effort as a way to free up jobs in an economy reeling from the coronavirus. The ban, while temporary, would amount to major restructuring of legal immigration if made permanent, a goal that had eluded the administration before the pandemic. Trump imposed a 60-day ban on green cards issued abroad in April, which was set to expire Monday. The administration is proposing a new way of awarding H-1B visas, the official said, awarding them by highest salary instead of by lottery. H-1B visas are capped at 85,000 a year for people with highly specialized knowledge and minimum of a bachelors degree, often in science, technology, engineering, teaching and accounting.

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REUTERS/Carlos BarriaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a Trump administration attempt to withhold millions of dollars from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, upheld a pair of lower court rulings that blocked the administration from placing immigration-related conditions on law enforcement grants. The decision follows Trumps remarks on Wednesday that suggested he might restrict coronavirus aid to states and cities with sanctuary policies. If youre going to get aid to the cities and states for the kind of numbers youre talking about - billions of dollars - I dont think you should have sanctuary cities, Trump told reporters at the White House. Federal appeals courts have issued divergent rulings over Trumps attempts to restrict funding to sanctuary cities, setting up a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives to testify during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing about the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 3, 2020. The Treasury is recommending the Trump administration push back the April 15 tax deadline amid concerns over coronavirus, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters on Wednesday. More from Smart Tax Planning:Where to get your tax return done for freeDon't celebrate that big tax refundTrump could get a tax break for donating his salaryHow exactly this delay would unfold was not clear. Owners of small businesses face a deadline next week: March 16 is the tax return deadline for partnerships and S-corporations. As Treasury secretary, Mnuchin has the authority to push out the deadline for tax filings and payments for up to six months, said Nicole Kaeding, vice president of policy promotion at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.

Let me first say a word or two about the Office of Justice Programs. Our largest account is a pot of money called the Crime Victims Fund, which supports thousands of local victim assistance programs and victim compensation programs in every state. One of the biggest victim service and public safety challenges were facing as a nation is the scourge of human trafficking. The Trump Administration and the Department of Justice are attacking this problem from all angles, using every means at our disposal. Our task forces initiated more than 2,500 investigations nationwide in a single year, and victim service grantees reached more than 8,300 clients over a 12-month period.

At 5% of a year's GDP it's several times greater than the worst possible losses estimated by the most pessimistic economists. It could provide additional pay to workers who stay at home, either because they are quarantined or sick. And, yes, it could also be used to pay for badly needed infrastructure in this country. The money would be available should the US economy experience widespread shutdowns, losses and bankruptcies. But the right way to think about this is the same way we view hurricanes or other natural disasters, except on a national scale: temporary assistance to help people get back on their feet.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and members of the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Task Force hold a press briefing at the White House on January 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said on Tuesday there will likely be more cases of coronavirus in the United States, and he asked a Senate subcommittee to approve $2.5 billion in funding to fight the outbreak after proposing cuts to the department's budget. Cuts to the CDC "are not going to help us deal with this," said Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington. Azar also said the U.S needs to build out the manufacturing capacity for surgical masks. He said the country currently has a stockpile of 30 million N95 surgical masks, but HHS estimates suggest the country needs 300 million masks.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and members of the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Task Force hold a press briefing at the White House on January 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. The White House is planning to ask Congress to approve an emergency spending package to help the Trump administration battle the spread of the coronavirus, a source familiar with the situation told CNBC on Monday. The proposed spending deal could be sent to Congress as soon as this week, the source said. The Trump administration in late January imposed travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines for at-risk citizens returning to the U.S.A White House official told CNBC on Monday that President Donald Trump is receiving "regular updates" on the virus. The White House official told CNBC that the market is reacting to the news of the day, and said that the economy remains strong.

The Trump Administration today launched the federal school safety clearinghouse website: SchoolSafety.gov. This website is a one-stop-shop of resources for Kindergarten through Grade 12 (K-12) administrators, educators, parents and law enforcement to use to prepare for and address various threats related to safety, security, and support in schools. President Trump established the Federal Commission on School Safety to review safety practices and make meaningful and actionable recommendations of best practices to keep students safe. The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse and SchoolSafety.gov were developed to fulfill one of the key recommendations from the Federal Commission on School Safety. SchoolSafety.gov includes:The School Safety Readiness Tool, an assessment that assists users in evaluating their respective schools safety posture across ten foundational elements of school safety.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and members of the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Task Force hold a press briefing at the White House on January 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. U.S. health officials have instituted a mandatory 14-day quarantine of Americans traveling from China, starting this Sunday, marking an extraordinary step in the Trump administration's efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus which has sickened more than 10,000 people in Mainland China. "I want to stress the risk of infection for Americans remains low, and with these and our previous actions, we are working to keep the risk," Azar said Friday, as he declared a public health emergency due to the virus. The emergency declaration provides funding for states and local health officials to deal with the viral outbreak, and flexibility to reassign federal health workers in their communities to help with the response. Federal health officials have resisted such extraordinary measures until now.

Possible reforms or updates to the 2010 law have been a central focus of the Democratic presidential primary. But the court directed a lower court to decide whether the rest of the landmark health-care law should be tossed out. The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare's core provisions in a landmark decision in 2012. After the Democratic states lost their appeal before the 5th U.S. Health policy experts believed the appeals court decision would likely delay the Supreme Court hearing the landmark case until after the 2020 presidential election, with a ruling possible in 2021.

The FDA changed Gottlieb's official twitter handle @SGottliebFDA to @SteveFDA. Another account @FDACommissioner appears to contain the agency's tweets from Gottlieb's interim replacement from April 5 when he left to Dec. 17. The FDA made Gottlieb's tweets available for download as an HTML file on its website after several reporters noticed the deleted tweets earlier this week and tweeted their outrage. Social media content meets that definition, according to the U.S. government. In a statement, the FDA said deleting Gottlieb's tweets was a "logistical decision made at the staff level that is in compliance with all applicable law."

The Department of Justice today announced awards of more than $333 million to help communities affected by the opioid crisis. The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug crisis this country has ever faced, said Attorney General William P. Barr. The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program ($23.8 million) will address the treatment needs of people using opioids. The Opioid Affected Youth Initiative ($7.9 million) will develop effective programs for children, youth and their families who have been affected by the opioid crisis and drug addiction. The Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program ($17 million) is being made available to address the impact of the opioid crisis on forensic laboratory operations.

Gretchen Whitmer has informed the U.S. Department of State that local communities and jurisdictions in Michigan will continue to support the resettlement and welcoming of refugees after the Trump Administration began requiring written consent from states. Michigan has a rich history of welcoming refugees and other immigrants to our state, Whitmer said. We recognize the value of being a welcoming state, and the contribution of refugees to the fabric of our communities. In a similar executive order, the White House released the presidential determination for refugee resettlement for Fiscal Year 2020, lowering the refugee resettlement goal from 30,000 to 18,000. She has directed Michigans State Refugee Coordinator and the Office of Global Michigan to work with local communities to provide compliance assistance so that they can continue the welcoming work in which they are already engaged.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence greet U.S. troops at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq November 23, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstVice President Mike Pence visited Iraq on Saturday to reassure Iraqi Kurds of U.S. support after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria drew criticism that Washington had betrayed its Kurdish allies there. The visit also served to bolster U.S. troops ahead of next Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. "We spoke about the unrest that's been taking place in recent weeks here in Iraq," Pence told reporters. Pence said he reiterated Trump's commitment to an independent and sovereign Iraq.

Even so, if the governors stay silent, the resettlement agencies cannot place refugees in those states. Resettlement agencies have been scrambling to get written consent from local officials. The lawsuit was filed in a Maryland federal court by the three resettlement agencies HIAS, a Jewish-American nonprofit group, Church World Service, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services. Conservative states like Texas and Tennessee have sued in the past to stop refugee resettlement. Under the new policy, resettlement agencies must now spend more time and resources getting written consent from officials to confirm they want refugees.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 17, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats will hold a vote to push forward with the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Monday. Less than two weeks earlier, Pelosi had brushed off the calls from Republicans to hold a vote that formally authorized the impeachment probe. Republicans have complained that Democratic leaders especially Pelosi and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff are conducting the investigation in the dark. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was quick to deride the Democrats' latest move as "backtracking."

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the future of the US relationship with China at the Wilson Center's inaugural Frederic V. Malek Public Service Leadership lecture, in Washington, DC, on October 24, 2019. "The United States does not seek confrontation with China," Pence said in a speech on the future of the two countries, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday denied that the U.S. is seeking to "decouple" from China, despite "the many challenges we face in the U.S.-China relationship." Pence added: "People sometimes ask whether the Trump Administration seeks to 'decouple' from China. "The United States seeks engagement with China and China's engagement with the wider world in a manner consistent with fairness, mutual respect, and the international rules of commerce," he said.

Altria's big investment in Juul isn't looking so hot now amid growing concerns about health risks tied to vaping and a broad regulatory crackdown on e-cigarettes. But the tobacco giant is unlikely to give up on Juul anytime soon. (CNN) - Leading e-cigarette company Juul Labs will stop selling several flavored products in the United States, the company announced Thursday. This latest move comes after the Trump Administration announced the US Food and Drug Administration would issue guidance that would remove flavors from the market. It also comes amid efforts to ban the sale of flavored products in some states.

Leading e-cigarette company Juul Labs will stop selling several flavored products in the United States, the company announced Thursday. Only tobacco, mint and menthol flavors will remain for sale. Meanwhile, Juuls mango, creme, fruit and cucumber flavors have already been removed from the online store which was the only place the company sold these products directly to 21-and-up consumers in the United States after it pulled them from retail locations late last year. These flavored pods will continue to be sold abroad. It also comes amid efforts to ban the sale of flavored products in some states.

BEIJING China's top trade negotiator, Liu He, will lead the country's delegation to the U.S. for the next round of discussions one week after China's National Holiday, Commerce Ministry Vice Minister Wang Shouwen said Sunday. CNBC previously reported, citing sources, that the next round of U.S-China trade talks would be held from Oct. 10 to 11. Wang did not confirm a specific date for the talks in his response Sunday, as part of a press event for 70th anniversary celebrations. He did note they would be held in Washington, D.C."We look forward to the 13th round of negotiations," Wang said in Mandarin, according to a CNBC translation. The world's two largest economies have been locked in escalating trade tensions for more than a year.

The United States grants Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants whose home countries have been devastated by war or natural disaster and are deemed too dangerous to return. Since then the Trump administration has extended TPS for Honduras and Nepal. The Department of Homeland Security announced it would extend TPS to Syrians based on the eight-year-long civil war in Syria. The 7,000 Syrian beneficiaries can now re-register for TPS and remain in the United States with work permits through March 2021, the statement said. The protection is limited to those who have lived in the United States since Aug. 1, 2016.

Wall Street analysts said importation was far from being put into place and was limited to certain drugs from Canada. Many drug purchase agreements in Canada forbid the re-export of drugs to other countries, according to a Canadian government memo obtained by Reuters. It would exclude biologics, infused drugs, injected drugs, inhaled drugs for surgery and certain parenteral drugs. The Trump Administration has experienced several recent failures in its efforts to bring down drug prices. Drug pricing is an important election issue for Trump and also for Democrats, many of whom have said they would support importing medicines to lower U.S. drug prices.