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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs dangled a friend of his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura off the balcony of a 17th-floor apartment in September 2016, the friend testified on Wednesday at Combs’ sex trafficking trial. Bryana Bongolan, Ventura’s friend, told jurors in Manhattan federal court that Combs then came up to …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday they would act quickly on President Donald Trump’s request to slash $9.4 billion in spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting, hoping to file a bill as soon as Thursday. “Yesterday the White House sent the rescissions package. It’s …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration said Wednesday there is no viable path forward for California’s High-Speed Rail project and warned it may rescind $4 billion in government funding in the coming weeks. The U.S. Transportation Department released a 315-page report from the Federal Railroad Administration that cited missed deadlines, budget shortfalls and …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court appeared likely on Wednesday to conclude that President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing automatic birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, though it may wait for the Supreme Court to first decide whether to narrow judicial orders that have prevented it from taking effect. During arguments in Seattle, a majority …

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(Corrects figure in paragraph 14 to $300 million, not billion) By David Morgan and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk plunged on Tuesday into the congressional debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination” that will increase the federal deficit. Several fiscally conservative Republicans in the U.S. …

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