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By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will not recommend appointing a special prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case, his press secretary said on Thursday, amid pressure from some of his supporters and renewed public scrutiny on the convicted sex offender’s connections to powerful figures. “The president would not recommend a …

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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a new classification of non-career federal workers who can more easily be fired if they fail to carry out a president’s priorities, the White House said. The new classification, called Schedule G, will be for employees involved in policy making …

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(Reuters) -The New York State Public Service Commission has terminated its offshore wind transmission planning process due to stalled federal permitting, to protect state ratepayers from premature infrastructure costs, it said on Thursday. This halts the Public Policy Transmission Need process of seeking proposals to deliver up to 8 gigawatts of offshore wind power into …

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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration said on Thursday that decisions related to solar and wind energy projects on federal lands will be reviewed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s office to end what calls preferential treatment for renewable energy sources. The added scrutiny is aligned with Trump’s pledge to undo the clean energy and climate change …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced the nomination of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer to be a federal appeals court judge over protests from Democrats, who accuse him of using aggressive tactics to enforce the U.S. president’s agenda at the Justice Department. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has moved to install a Republican majority at the federal board that hears private-sector labor disputes and oversees union elections, which has been paralyzed by his unprecedented firing of a Democratic member. The White House sent the nominations of Scott Mayer, chief labor counsel at Boeing Co, and …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. health department is giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees to help them track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the country, it said on Thursday. Giving ICE access to the personal data …

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By Ammu Kannampilly, Jonathan Landay and Jessica Donati (Reuters) -With 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations nearing expiry in a U.S. government warehouse in Dubai after President Donald Trump’s aid freeze, it took a warning of “wasted tax dollars” for a top U.S. official to eventually agree to a deal for the supplies to …

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By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) -A group of Democratic attorneys general sued Thursday to block the implementation of portions of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule set to go into effect next month that they say could lead to nearly 2 million people losing their health insurance. The attorneys general of …

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(Corrects spelling of diplomat’s last name, paragraph 5) By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Among the scores of offices the U.S. State Department eliminated last week in its dramatic revamp, the shuttering of one little-known office has raised particular alarm among U.S. diplomats. The small team at the Department’s Office of Casualty Assistance, which supports U.S. …

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