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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -PBS sued Donald Trump on Friday over the U.S. president’s executive order to cut its federal funding, calling it an unconstitutional attack that would “upend public television.” In a complaint filed in the Washington, D.C. federal court, PBS and a public TV station in Minnesota said Trump’s order violated the U.S. …

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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When the Trump administration cut federal funding to Harvard University, it abruptly ended an estimated $180 million that the federal government had poured into U.S. military projects at Harvard in recent years, according to an analysis from a defense software company. The Trump administration announced in April that it was …

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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that billionaire Elon Musk will remain a close adviser, after the Tesla CEO ended a chaotic four-month stint leading the administration’s sweeping cost-cutting campaign. During a farewell event in the Oval Office, Trump lauded Musk’s work as the head of the Department of …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A second man has been indicted in New York after being charged with kidnapping a man for three weeks in Manhattan’s upscale SoHo neighborhood, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his bitcoin password, prosecutors said on …

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By Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bruised Elon Musk explained away a black eye during a White House appearance on Friday by saying that his 5-year-old son had punched him in the face while the two were playing around. Musk made the comments during an Oval Office event with Donald Trump marking …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A runway at Newark Liberty International Airport will reopen on Monday nearly two weeks ahead of schedule following several chaotic weeks of equipment outages, runway construction and air traffic control staffing shortages that caused flight cancellations, diversions and delays, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. Newark Liberty, one of the main …

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By Renee Hickman (Reuters) -A highly-publicized U.S. government report on the health of American children referenced scientific studies that did not exist among citations to support its conclusions in what the White House said were “formatting issues” on Thursday.     The report produced by the Make America Healthy Again Commission, named after the slogan aligned with …

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