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MNA Editorial Desk: US president Donald Trump fired the federal government’s top lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and saying the Justice Department would not defend his new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. The White House said on Twitter that Dana Boente, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, would fired Yates, an appointee of former Democratic President Barack Obama, as acting US attorney general. Yates on Monday told Justice Department lawyers in a letter that they would not defend in court Trump’s directive that put a ...

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