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By Matt McKnight TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) -Two firefighters who were responding to a wildfire in the state of Washington when they were detained by U.S. border agents are being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma, a U.S. congresswoman said on Saturday. U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, a Democrat who represents the district where the detention …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is advancing plans to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a White House official, after U.S. President Donald Trump raised the prospect on Monday. Restoring the Department of War name for the government’s largest department would likely require …

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(Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday called on Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, days after a senior public health official was fired and four others resigned in disputes over Kennedy’s unorthodox opposition to vaccines. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, wrote in a …

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By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -A new $250 “visa integrity fee” imposed on travelers to the United States risks piling more pressure on the struggling travel industry, as overseas arrivals continue to fall due to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and hostility to many foreign countries. Overseas travel to the U.S. fell 3.1% year-on-year …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration has fired some Environmental Protection Agency employees after they signed a letter critical of the Trump administration’s policies in late June, the EPA said on Friday. The EPA did not mention how many people were fired and said the June petition had information that the agency …

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(Reuters) -Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed a bill redrawing the state’s congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five U.S. House seats from Democrats to Republicans, and Missouri’s governor quickly embarked on a similar move. The Texas ratification came after the state’s legislature passed the measure …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday blocked Texas from enforcing a first-of-its-kind state law restricting Glass Lewis and ISS, two of the best known proxy advisers, from advising shareholders on diversity, environmental and governance practices. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright in Austin, Texas, issued preliminary injunctions against the state’s Republican Attorney General …

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