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President Trump Honors Judge Alan Page With Medal Of Freedom
President Donald Trump presented the Presi- dential Medal of Freedom to former football star Alan Page, 73, on Friday, and the honor comes less than two months after the death of his wife.
In an emotional ceremony at the White House, Trump said his wife, Diane, who died in September of breast cancer, “is looking down on you right now and she is so proud with love.’’
Page, the first Black justice to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court (1993-2016),
U. S. President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and col- lege football player Alan Page November 16, 2018 in Washington, DC.
said in a phone interview when asked about Trump’s statement: “I envisioned the
whole time holding Diane’s hand. The whole thing was emotional for that reason.”
Judge Orders White House To Temporarily Restore CNN Reporter's Press Pass
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta questions President Donald Trump during a news conference at the White House on Nov. 7, 2018.
Trump Considering Changes At 'Three Or Four Or Five' Cabinet Positions
President Trump said Sunday he's considering mak- ing a change to as many as five Cabinet positions amid specu- lation that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec- retary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House chief of staff John Kelly could depart im- minently.
"I have three or four or five positions that I’m thinking about. Of that, maybe it’s going to end up being two. But I need flexibility," Trump said of Nielsen in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
The president indicated he was disappointed with Nielsen's handling of the southern border, which has been a source of tension for the two.
"I like her very much, I re- spect her very much, I’d like her to be much together on the
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border. Much tougher. Pe- riod," Trump said.
The President downplayed multiple reports of a rift be- tween him and Kelly, but sug- gested that it's no longer a guarantee that the chief of staff will remain with the White
House through the 2020 elec- tion.
"We get along well," Trump said of Kelly. "There are certain things I love what he does, and there are certain things I don’t like that he does that aren’t his strength."
"I haven’t even thought about John in terms of this," he added. "But John at some point is going to want to move on."
The President has repeat- edly said he intends to make changes to his Cabinet follow- ing the midterm elections, though he has not provided de- tails.
Trump fired former Attor- ney General Jeff Sessions the day after the midterms, and The Washington Post re- ported last week that Nielsen's departure is ex- pected in the coming weeks.
The order to restore Jim Acosta's access came from Judge Timothy Kelly, ap- pointed a year ago by Presi- dent Trump.
A federal judge on Friday or- dered the Trump administra- tion to immediately return, on a temporary basis, the press pass of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who was barred from the White House last week after a contentious encounter with President Donald Trump at a news conference.
Judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed by Trump a year ago to federal district court in Washington, said the White House must give the cre- dential back temporarily to give Acosta, CNN's chief White House correspondent, a chance to persuade the admin-
istration that he should be al- lowed to keep it.
The White House suspended Acosta's "hard pass," which gives reporters access to the White House complex, shortly after the Nov. 7 news confer- ence. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said she acted be- cause Acosta had refused to surrender the microphone that reporters use to ask questions. Her statement accused him of "placing his hands" on a White House intern who tried to take the microphone back. Acosta's conduct, she said, was "absolutely unacceptable."
Trump addressed the rul- ing during a bill signing on Fri- day, saying that the administration was “writing up rules” regarding journalist con- duct
Betsy DeVos Wants New Regulations That Protect Students Accused Of Sexual Assault And Their Schools
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday released new proposed regulations on how schools should handle sexual assault that will give more benefit of doubt to the accused and walk back Obama-era directives that critics said were unfair to men.
The proposals, which would affect the way schools must interpret the federal Title IX gender equity law, were months in the making and con- tained some major surprises, including a new requirement that colleges conduct live hear- ings for sexual assault cases.
Under the U. S. Department of Education’s proposed regu- lations, schools must let an ac- cused person cross-examine their accuser through a third party, will be able to use a higher standard of evidence to
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decide an accused student’s guilt, and will not have to in- vestigate reports of off-campus sexual assaults involving stu- dents.
The regulations detail sev- eral new steps K-12 schools
will have to take investigating sexual misconduct cases. And the proposed guidelines nar- row the definition of sexual ha- rassment that schools are on the hook for addressing.
The regulations would apply to any school receiving federal funding, meaning all public school districts, virtually all colleges and universities, and some private K-12 schools tak- ing government dollars. Cer- tain provisions would only apply to higher education in- stitutions, but not K-12 schools, and vice-versa.
DeVos vowed in Septem- ber 2017 to reform what she considers a broken system for adjudicating sexual assault on college campuses, citing exam- ples of male students who she said were unjustly punished after being accused of abuse.
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