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By Mike Scarcella and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court late on Monday temporarily blocked a court order that allowed Democratic U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to resume her role at the agency, despite the White House’s effort to remove her from office. The Justice Department, in a filing with the U.S. …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Texas Republicans on Monday launched a high-risk, high-reward redrawing of the state’s 38 congressional districts, a move championed by President Donald Trump to protect the party’s narrow U.S. House majority in next year’s midterm elections. Trump has told reporters he expects the effort to yield as many as five additional House …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, said his father’s disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump that led to the Democrat stepping aside as presidential candidate was the result of him taking Ambien due to his travel. “And I’ll tell you what, I know exactly what happened in that …

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By David Shepardson and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it is investigating a near miss between a SkyWest Airlines jet and a U.S. Air Force jet over North Dakota last week. SkyWest Flight 3788, an Embraer ERJ-175 operating as a Delta Connection flight from Minneapolis to Minot, North Dakota, …

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By Nate Raymond and Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University urged a federal judge on Monday to order U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to restore about $2.5 billion in canceled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school. But a lawyer for the Trump administration told the …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a reform of the organ-transplant system and threatened to close a major procurement body, after a probe found premature attempts to start organ retrieval while patients showed signs of life. The investigation conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a division of …

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