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By Idrees Ali and Brendan O’Boyle (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration can use the military to go after Latin American drug gangs that have been designated as global terrorist organizations and has directed the Pentagon to prepare options, U.S. officials said. The Trump administration designated Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and other drug gangs as well as …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Office of Personnel Management issued new guidance on Friday directing all federal agencies to eliminate any record of an employee’s COVID-19 vaccination status, prior noncompliance with vaccine mandates, or requests for exemptions from such mandates. “Things got out of hand during the pandemic, and federal workers were fired, punished, or sidelined …

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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The Trump administration is allowing the U.S. National Weather Service to restore most of the hundreds of jobs eliminated by the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency once led by Elon Musk, several members of Congress said on Tuesday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, parent agency of the NWS, plans to …

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By Sarah N. Lynch, Brad Heath and Jana Winter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI has asked local police to submit the names of people tied to drug cartels and gangs to the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list created after 9/11, which could land more Americans on the list, according to law enforcement documents seen by Reuters. …

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(Reuters) -A shortage of intravenous and injectable saline solutions in the United States has now been resolved, U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Martin Makary said on Friday. A shortage of IV fluids, which provide nutrients to the body or replenish fluids lost due to injury or illness, had forced hospitals to curtail elective procedures …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The federal judiciary’s information technology systems have been targeted by “recent escalated cyberattacks of a sophisticated and persistent nature,” the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said in a statement on Thursday. The statement follows a Politico report late on Wednesday that the judiciary’s electronic case filing system had been compromised in a …

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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Two people died on Thursday after a helicopter they were on board crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River, shutting the waterway to traffic near Alton, Illinois, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Preliminary information indicated the MD 369 helicopter hit power lines before the crash, according to the National …

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