APRNEWS - Governors of multiple East Coast states are refusing to deploy National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border amid a growing outcry over a Trump administration immigration policy that has led to migrant children being separated from their parents.

REUTERS - Oil and gas drillers bid on only a tiny fraction of Gulf of Mexico acreage offered on Wednesday in the largest lease sale in American history, a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to rapidly pump up investment in the region.

REUTERS - In a decision expected to test the Trump administration’s approach to tobacco regulation, U.S. health advisers will vote this week on whether to allow Philip Morris International Inc to claim its novel iQOS tobacco device is less harmful than cigarettes.