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Gorsuch seen as business-friendly on labor, workplace issues

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Gorsuch seen as business-friendly on labor, workplace issues

Gorsuch seen as business-friendly on labor, workplace issuesWASHINGTON (AP) — In a decade as a federal appeals court judge, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has criticized courts for giving too much power to government agencies that enforce the nation's labor and employment laws. As a lawyer in private practice, he also backed curbs on some class-action lawsuits.


The Latest: Press Secretary Sean Spicer responds to SNL skit

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, file photo, executive producer Melissa McCarthy speaks at the "Nobodies" panel at Viacom's TV Land portion of the Winter Television Critics Association press tour, in Pasadena, Calif. McCarthy lampooned White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, where she taunted reporters as “losers,” fired a water gun at the press corps and even used the podium to bash a Wall Street Journal journalist. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):


Scandal-hit Fillon stays in race for French presidency
French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday vowed to fight on for the presidency despite a damaging scandal involving taxpayer-funded payments to his wife for work a newspaper alleges she did not do. At a news conference in Paris, Fillon, 62, apologized to France for what he said was an error of judgment regarding the employment of family members, though he said his wife's work as parliamentary assistant over 15 years had been genuine and legal. Fillon, a former prime minister, called the news conference after members of his own center-right party, The Republicans, urged him to quit the race to give the party time to find a replacement candidate.
Trump's immigration ban faces new legal hurdle on Monday

Abdishakur is greeted by her mother Warsma at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, VirginiaBy Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced a legal hurdle on Monday that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. The government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring entry to the United States of people from seven Muslim-majority countries and halting the U.S. refugee program. A federal judge in Seattle suspended the order on Friday, opening a window for travelers from the seven countries to enter.


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