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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not take consumers’ fraud complaints or help them block spam calls, and it will not grant early clearance to mergers during the government shutdown, the agency said on Wednesday. The shuttering of the agency that enforces laws against anticompetitive and deceptive business behavior is one small …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday it will hear arguments in January over Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, leaving her in the post for now and teeing up a major legal battle over the first-ever bid by a president to fire a Fed official as …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A member of the Surface Transportation Board fired by President Donald Trump in August filed suit on Wednesday, challenging his removal amid a major railway merger decision set to be considered by the board. Robert Primus called his firing an “illegal removal” and said Trump “did not identify a reason, …

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By Pete Schroeder and Arasu Kannagi Basil (Reuters) -Travis Hill, the acting chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, has been nominated by U.S. President Donald Trump to lead the banking regulator permanently, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the FDIC nominee is widely expected …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A group of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging new U.S. restrictions barring them from using federal grant funding to provide legal services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault if they are immigrants living in the United States illegally. The lawsuit marked the latest legal action by …

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By David Shepardson and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government said on Wednesday it has paused some funds for major transit projects in New York, including the Hudson Tunnel and the Second Avenue Subway, while the Department of Transportation reviews whether any small-business contractors are engaged in improper diversity initiatives.  The Department of Transportation’s …

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