US A-G Sessions resigns 'at Trump request'

By Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo
Updated November 8 2018 - 12:31pm, first published 12:27pm

US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has been pushed after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted in his place a Republican Party loyalist with authority to oversee the remainder of the special counsel's Russia investigation.

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