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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump should block the U.S. House from limiting the regulation of pesticides and “forever chemicals” in its environmental appropriations bill or risk losing Republican support, more than 200 activists aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement said in a letter to Trump. The letter, which also opposes …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Tuesday it found George Washington University had violated federal civil rights law regarding Jewish, American Israeli, and Israeli students and faculty and will seek “immediate remediation” from the school. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement that Washington, D.C.-based GWU had acted “deliberately indifferent to the …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on Americans. The Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision said the unions were …

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By Renee Hickman (Reuters) -Michelle Miller stands in a field of corn, stalks stretching above her perfectly styled hair, holding a tiny microphone and addressing an audience online. She was farming genetically-modified corn in Iowa in 2017, she says, when a tornado hit. Now a social media influencer who goes by the name the “Farm …

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(Reuters) -Ford is recalling more than 103,000 F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. over axle bolts that may break and result in vehicle rollaways or a loss of drive power, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday. A broken axle bolt can damage axle hub splines – components that transfer power from …

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By Rich McKay and Julia Harte (Reuters) -Multiple explosions on Monday at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh killed two people and injured 10 others, according to the company and local authorities. The blasts at the Clairton Coke Works – part of a sprawling industrial complex along the Monongahela River – took place just before …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation’s capital. Trump’s move, which bypassed the city’s elected leaders, was emblematic of his second-term …

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By Dietrich Knauth and Jack Queen (Reuters) -Troops were used to protect federal property and personnel in California in recent months even though intelligence assessments showed little danger, two military officials testified on Monday at a landmark trial over President Donald Trump’s authority to use soldiers to police American streets. The three-day non-jury trial before …

US military was deployed to LA protests despite low risk, general testifies Read More »

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Liberty Mutual will give up $4.7 million in profit to settle a U.S. criminal bribery probe into an Indian subsidiary, in the Department of Justice’s first public enforcement action of a federal anti-bribery law it resumed enforcing in June. In a letter made public on Monday, the Justice Department said the …

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