By Jason Lange and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Only one in four Americans believe that recent recommendations for fewer vaccines from President Donald Trump’s administration were based on scientific evidence and facts, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The administration, while still in the process of setting new vaccination policies, has signaled that young and …
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to cancel a plan to make surplus plutonium from Cold War-era atomic bombs available as a fuel for nuclear power operators, saying its a proliferation risk. Trump signed executive orders in May that ordered the government to halt much of its …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former FBI acting director Brian Driscoll and two other former senior officials who were fired without cause last month sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, alleging they were dismissed in a “campaign of retribution” that targeted officials viewed as insufficiently loyal. The lawsuit alleges that FBI Director Kash Patel …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal government is barring states from allowing electric vehicles and other clean cars to use carpool lanes without meeting vehicle occupancy requirements starting October 1, California officials said on Wednesday. California Governor Gavin Newsom said single drivers with the state’s Clean Air Vehicle decal will no longer be …
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By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Washington-based federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from firing U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter while she appeals a lower court’s ruling against her attempt to stop the administration from terminating her. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and called for prayers for him. “We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. (Reporting by Jasper Ward; editing by Costas Pitas)
By Bo Erickson and Ann Saphir (Reuters) – Stephen Miran, a top White House economic adviser, moved closer Wednesday to becoming a Federal Reserve governor, furthering President Donald Trump’s effort to exert more direct control over interest rate policy and the central bank’s broader role. Members of the Republican-controlled Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 in …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The leader of a Mexico-based megachurch with 5 million followers worldwide has been hit with federal sex trafficking charges in the United States, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Naason Joaquin Garcia, the self-styled apostle of the Guadalajara-based evangelical church La Luz del Mundo (The Light of the World), was taken …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former U.S. Justice Department employee who hurled a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a single charge of assaulting, resisting and impeding officers. Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office had sought to indict …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge partially overturned bribery and fraud convictions against a former top Tennessee legislator and his staffer, in a blow to federal anticorruption efforts that have come under assault by Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his former chief of staff Cade Cothren remain …
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