Trump signs executive order to slash regulations  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically pare back federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced.

Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs  —  REDUCING REGULATION AND CONTROLLING REGULATORY COSTS  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 …

EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban  —  Dozens of foreign service officers and other career diplomats stationed around the world are so concerned about President Donald Trump's new executive order restricting Syrian refugees and other immigrants from entering …

A Dangerously Isolated President  —  The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one.  The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.

Trial Balloon for a Coup?  —  Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours  —  The theme of this morning's news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field.  But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it happened the way it did.

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the fatal shooting in the city of Québec  —  The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, issued the following statement today after hearing of the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec located in the Ste-Foy neighbourhood of the city of Québec: