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By David Shepardson and Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Wednesday it will end the U.S. Transportation Department’s consideration of race or gender when awarding billions of dollars in federal highway and transit project funding set aside for disadvantaged small businesses. A judge in September in Kentucky ruled that a federal program enacted …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A judge on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Transportation Department from withholding federal funding from New York as the Trump administration seeks to stop Manhattan’s congestion pricing program. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman, who a day earlier had issued a temporary restraining order, issued a preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from …

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By Doina Chiacu and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he plans to negotiate aspects of the “big, beautiful” tax bill, expressing dissatisfaction with certain provisions while being satisfied with others. His comments followed billionaire Elon Musk’s criticism a day earlier, in which Musk argued that the bill detracts from …

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By Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Trump’s budget chief said on Wednesday that the White House intends to send Congress a package next week to formalize cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk’s team targeting federal government spending. For months, Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Congress have urged the administration to institute …

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By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. will impose visa bans on foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday, and he suggested the new policy could target officials regulating U.S. tech companies. Rubio did not name any specific instances of censorship. But …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Harvard University should have a 15% cap on the number of foreign students it admits and that the Ivy League school needs to show the administration their current list of students from other countries. “Harvard has got to behave themselves. Harvard is treating our country with …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Termination notices are expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week, Politico reported on Wednesday, likely marking the end for a media broadcaster founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda. The termination notices would affect the 800 remaining workers at the agency, which operates in nearly 50 languages …

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