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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -The U.S. Forest Service faced criticism from current and former employees who say federal workforce reductions under the Trump administration have left fire teams understaffed, as the country grapples with decade-high U.S. wildfire numbers this year. The agency, which oversees the nation’s largest wildland firefighting force, rejected those claims, saying it …

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By Ammu Kannampilly and Andy Sullivan TAVETA, Kenya (Reuters) -The Trump administration’s decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found. Reuters has identified 21 unfinished projects in …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge who faced Republican demands for impeachment after blocking Elon Musk’s government review team from accessing sensitive Treasury Department records will consider whether to release grand jury testimony from the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan was assigned …

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By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) -More than 20 Democratic attorneys general on Monday sued to block a Trump administration policy that bars migrants living in the U.S. illegally from accessing federally-funded programs for low-income families that provide early childhood education, food and healthcare, saying it could force the programs to shutter altogether. The attorneys general …

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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A last-minute settlement between Meta Platforms shareholders and the company’s leadership last week ended an $8 billion trial and spared Mark Zuckerberg from testifying about alleged violations of Facebook users’ data. It also took the heat off the state of Delaware, which has been plagued by criticism from technology …

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(Clarifies reference to genocide in paragraphs 2 and 10) By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins. The American football team dropped …

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By Sriparna Roy and Sneha S K (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it has appointed George Tidmarsh, a seasoned biotech executive and longtime Stanford University professor, as the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Tidmarsh, an adjunct professor of pediatrics and neonatology at Stanford University, will oversee …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to visit the Federal Reserve’s Washington headquarters this week to review its $2.5 billion renovation, Semafor reported on Monday, citing White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott is in talks to attend the visit as well, the report added, citing a person …

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