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By Sarah N. Lynch and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the eldest daughter of former FBI director James Comey and the federal prosecutor in the cases involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. James …

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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI system. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the authors can bring a class action on behalf of all U.S. writers …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it had launched an employment discrimination probe into George Mason University in Virginia, making it the latest college to be targeted by the Trump administration. The civil rights probe will examine whether George Mason, a state university, “is engaged in discriminatory practices” …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration’s plan to amass a database of U.S. food aid recipients for the purpose of checking immigration status and avoiding duplicate enrollment amounts to an unlawful privacy violation, lawmakers said in a letter on Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in June …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner told employees he is confident the Postal Service will be able to demonstrate it can operate successfully as an independent agency. “I am convinced that a strength of the Postal Service resides in our structure as a self-financing independent entity of the executive branch, …

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