Trump forces out Jeff Sessions in midterm election fallout

Washington • Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday as the country’s chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation.Sessions told the president in a one-page letter that he was submitting his resignation "at your request."Trump announced in a tweet that he was naming Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a former United States attorney from