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By Jana Winter, Sarah N. Lynch, Andrew Goudsward and Costas Pitas WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The FBI arrested a 30-year-old Virginia man and charged him on Thursday with planting a pair of pipe bombs in Washington the night before the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, …

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has selected a new architect to oversee his $300 million White House ballroom project, a White House spokesman said on Thursday. The change comes after the Washington Post reported Trump and the previous architect disagreed about the size and scope of the addition. Architect …

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By Jan Wolfe and Jack Queen Dec 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday handed a victory to President Donald Trump in his effort to keep National Guard troops in Washington, pausing a lower court order that would have ended the deployment in the coming days. In a written order, the U.S. Court …

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By Nandita Bose and Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s name has been affixed to the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C., nearly nine months after his Department of Government Efficiency seized the nonprofit organization and all but closed it.  The change came ahead of Trump hosting the …

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Dec 4 (Reuters) – Dozens of U.S. solar companies urged federal lawmakers to revoke a Trump administration policy that has stalled project permits, they said in a letter to leaders in Congress on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The letter highlights mounting concerns from project developers over stepped-up scrutiny of solar permits by U.S. President Donald …

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By Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Democrats will put a three-year extension of expiring health insurance subsidies to a U.S. Senate vote next week, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday, a late push to revive a proposal Republicans blocked earlier this year.     Senate Majority Leader John Thune …

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(This story contains language some readers may find offensive) By Bianca Flowers, James Oliphant, David Hood-Nuño and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – During a closed-door White House meeting in his first term, President Donald Trump demanded to know why the U.S. was accepting immigrants from “shithole countries” like Haiti and some African nations, …

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Dec 4 (Reuters) – Congressional lawmakers on Thursday voted to repeal a Biden-era policy that limited the amount of land in an Alaska wildlife refuge that could be leased for oil and gas development. The U.S. Senate voted 49-45 to approve a resolution that revokes the Interior Department’s 2024 rule governing energy development on the …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court restored the 58-month prison sentence for Norman Seabrook, the former head of New York City’s correction officers union who was convicted of bribery, saying a trial judge should not have reduced the sentence because it was much longer than that of the hedge …

Former NYC jail guard union chief’s longer bribery sentence restored by US appeals court  Read More »

By Pratima Desai LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency still intends to purchase cobalt for the National Defense Stockpile but is reassessing its strategy and has no target date for reissuing the tender, a DLA spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. Any purchases of cobalt are likely to cost the agency a …

US defense agency push to stockpile cobalt hits pause as price soars Read More »