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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate should make changes to House budget reconciliation bill provisions that phase out clean-energy tax credits, including easing start-date requirements, Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah said on Tuesday. Curtis, one of a handful of Senate Republicans who have said they want to preserve some of the clean-energy tax credits in …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy WASHINGTON (Reuters) -National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya told a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday that he was hopeful President Donald Trump’s administration would reach a settlement with universities that have had research grants suspended. Dozens of scientists, researchers and other employees at the NIH issued a rare …

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By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will restart enforcement of the decades-old law outlawing foreign bribery, with a scaled-down approach aimed at reducing burdens on U.S. companies, according to a memo and remarks by a top official. The new approach, detailed in a memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, will …

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By Idrees Ali (Reuters) -A long-planned celebration in Washington for the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary will coincide with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday on Saturday.  While the Army has said it has no plans to recognize Trump’s birthday, the president will play a major role in the celebrations, which have been altered to include a …

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(Corrects paragraph 7 to show that USAID restored existing contracts in March. Adds statements from MANA and State Department, paragraphs 8-11) By Rich McKay FITZGERALD, Georgia (Reuters) -Reaching into one of the giant white sacks piled up in his Georgia food-processing plant, Mark Moore pulls out a fistful of shelled peanuts – what he calls …

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By Brad Brooks, Jane Ross, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Monday ordered U.S. Marines into Los Angeles and intensified raids on suspected undocumented immigrants, fueling more outrage from street protesters and Democratic leaders who raised concerns over a national crisis. Some 700 Marines based in Southern California were …

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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors and video game studios reached a tentative agreement on Monday with new conditions for the interactive media contract, pending review from the actor guild’s national board. A press release from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) detailed …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein, Michael Erman and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all 17 members of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and is in the process of replacing them, his department said on Monday, drawing protest from many vaccine scientists. The move …

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By Joseph Ax and Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) -Soon after scattered protests broke out in Los Angeles on Friday in the wake of federal immigration raids, President Donald Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke by phone. Trump never mentioned any federal response, according to Newsom, who described the conversation as “very cordial” on MSNBC on …

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By Christian Martinez (Reuters) -Even as protests against raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stretched into a fourth day Monday in Los Angeles, city workers began a cleanup of graffiti and other weekend damage across the city. Maintenance workers could be seen removing anti-ICE graffiti spray painted on City Hall as other workers covered …

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