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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to serve as the interim administrator of NASA, a role that has remained vacant since Trump withdrew his initial nominee. Duffy will temporarily take over the post that has been in the spotlight due to Trump’s feud with billionaire Elon Musk, who wanted …

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By Jane Ross and Maria Alejandra Cardona KERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that killed at least 119 people on July 4. At a morning news briefing in Kerr County, where the …

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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sued California over its regulation of eggs and chicken farms, saying that the state’s anti-animal cruelty laws created “unnecessary red tape” that had raised egg prices throughout the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, argues that the federal Egg Products …

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(Corrects paragraph 2 to say measles cases in the U.S. were at their highest “since” 1992, not “in” 1992, and updates headline to include the word ‘disease’) By Sriparna Roy and Siddhi Mahatole (Reuters) -Confirmed measles cases in the U.S. reached 1,288, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Wednesday, the …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a social media influencer who used Twitter posts that resembled Hillary Clinton ads to spread false information about the 2016 presidential election and help Donald Trump win. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said no rational …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court maintained on Wednesday a judicial block on a Republican-crafted Florida law that makes it a crime for immigrants in the United States illegally to enter the state. The justices denied a request by state officials to lift an order by Florida-based U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams …

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