By Michael Martina, Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard WASHINGTON/TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States plans to ramp up weapons sales to Taipei to a level exceeding President Donald Trump's first term as part of an effort to deter China as it intensifies military pressure on the democratic island,

President Donald Trump laid into the conservative Federalist Society and its "sleazebag" chairman of the board Leonard Leo, accusing him of "hating America."

The Federalist Society is a pillar of the conservative legal movement that once advised Trump on judicial picks. Now he's slamming the group.

Two courtroom defeats dealt a blow to President Donald Trump’s strategy, even as an appeals court reinstated existing tariffs.

The president picked Paul Ingrassia, the current White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which examines public corruption.

Stocks slipped in Asia on Friday and the U.S. dollar drooped with Treasury yields as investors digested an appeals court kept President Donald Trump's tariffs in effect, a day after markets rallied on a separate ruling blocking most of them.

Some social media speculation is that the president is cutting billions of dollars in funding to the Ivy League institution because it rejected his son as a student.

A group of attorneys general, led by Letitia James of New York, argues that National Science Foundation programs are critical for leading in science and technology.