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By Valerie Volcovici HARRIMAN, Tennessee (Reuters) -Steve Hicks worked for 34 years at the Y-12 National Security Complex – which enriched the uranium for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and to this day remains a key site in the United States nuclear weapons complex.  He is spending his retirement managing …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser “better get her act straight” or she won’t continue in her role too far in the future. “It was unsafe,” Trump told reporters. “It was horrible and Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long because …

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By Steve Holland, Brendan O’Brien and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI agents searched the home of John Bolton, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump turned persistent critic, on Friday in what a source familiar with the matter said was part of a national security probe. The investigation is focused on the potential criminal …

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(Corrects final paragraph to say effort to improve government websites will end in three years) By Alexandra Alper and Courtney Rozen (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will appoint Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to spearhead the new National Design Studio that will seek to make digital services at federal agencies more efficient, two officials familiar with …

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(Corrects spelling of name in paragraph 2 to Mark, not Marc) MUNICH (Reuters) -The Gulf Coast of the United States is increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, a scientist has warned in a new study, 20 years after Katrina devastated New Orleans and hundreds of miles of coastline. Mark Bove, a meteorologist with the German reinsurer Munich …

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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Erik Menendez, who along with his brother Lyle has served 35 years of a life prison term for fatally shooting their parents as they watched television in their Beverly Hills, California, home in 1989, was denied parole on Thursday. The decision by California parole commissioners was announced after a …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday ordered a halt to new construction at “Alligator Alcatraz” and barred bringing more detainees to the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades touted by President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams also ordered the removal of some equipment …

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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The California legislature approved on Thursday a redistricting plan aimed at giving Democrats five more seats in the U.S. Congress, countering a partisan advantage President Donald Trump sought from a Republican move to redraw political maps in Texas. California Democrats pushed their three bills through the state Senate and …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and is therefore ineligible to participate in any ongoing cases. The ruling is a setback for Trump’s Justice Department, which …

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