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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there, after officials acknowledged an error in his case. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued the order …

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By Gram Slattery and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dozens of staffers were fired from the White House National Security Council on Friday, as President Donald Trump moved to slash the size and scope of the once-powerful body, five sources briefed on the matter said. Staff dealing with most major geopolitical issues, from Ukraine to Kashmir, …

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By Curtis Williams HOUSTON (Reuters) -U.S. regulators have given Venture Global permission to proceed with construction of its CP2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Louisiana, a FERC document showed on Friday. If constructed, CP2 will be the single largest LNG export facility in the U.S. and help the country remain the world’s largest exporter …

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By Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, a policy the Ivy League school called part of President Donald Trump’s broader effort to retaliate against it for refusing to “surrender its academic independence.”  The order provides temporary …

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(This May 22 story is repeated without any changes to the text) By Timothy Gardner, Jarrett Renshaw and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders as soon as Friday that aim to jumpstart the nuclear energy industry by easing the regulatory process on approvals for new reactors and strengthening …

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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the nation’s independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants, seeking to shrink a multi-year process down to 18 months. The requirement was part of a batch of executive orders signed by Trump …

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By David Thomas (Reuters) -A U.S. judge in Washington on Friday overturned President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block, dealing another setback to his administration’s crackdown on prominent firms that represented Trump’s political adversaries or employed lawyers who investigated him in the past. Trump’s order had suspended security clearances for Jenner’s …

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