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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 900 former U.S. Department of Justice employees on Wednesday warned the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee against confirming President Donald Trump’s nominee Emil Bove to serve as an appellate court judge, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The letter comes one day before the panel will vote …

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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -For years, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies benefited from conspiracy theories that fueled the conservative MAGA movement and targeted his political enemies. Now the persisting furor over files related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has forced Trump into an unfamiliar role: trying to shut a conspiracy theory …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Democratic U.S. senators on Wednesday urged Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr to end investigations into CBS News and other media outlets. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Ed Markey, in a letter to Carr first reported by Reuters, urged the commission “to end its partisan attacks on …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and its allies are trying to obtain voter data from states and inspect voting equipment, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, in moves it said had caused concern among state and local election officials. The Post said “the most unusual activity” was taking place in Colorado, where it said …

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(Reuters) -Clean energy companies are asking California leaders for help getting their projects going before changes to federal subsidies in President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tax and spending law make them more expensive and difficult to build. In a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders circulated on Wednesday, five trade groups …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday called on Congress to award another $19 billion to overhaul the aging U.S. air traffic control system after lawmakers approved an initial $12.5 billion over five years in funding. “We are going to need more money from the Congress,” Duffy said at a …

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(Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired two top leaders at the department, chief of staff Heather Flick Melanson and deputy chief of staff for policy Hannah Anderson, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.  Matt Buckham, who currently serves as Kennedy’s White House liaison at the HHS, will serve …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON -The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency must release months-overdue funding notices for security grants that help cities, ports, synagogues and other entities prevent terrorist threats, Democratic Senator Andy Kim said in a letter sent to the Trump administration on Wednesday. President Donald Trump has floated dismantling or reshaping dFEMA, and the …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department explored bringing criminal charges against Minnesota judges and defense lawyers who discussed requesting virtual court hearings to protect defendants from being arrested by federal immigration officers, according to five people familiar with the matter. In February, FBI agents in Minneapolis opened a preliminary inquiry into …

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