Trump names his former defense lawyer Alina Habba to be interim US attorney for New Jersey

Former defense attorney and White House counselor Alina Habba is a New Jersey native who’ll succeed John Giordano as interim U.S. attorney in the state where the president has several golf clubs. Giordano is being nominated ambassador to Namibia, the president said. Habba has been a rising star in Trump’s orbit after representing him in...