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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has been appointed to serve as the acting librarian of Congress, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman confirmed on Monday, after President Donald Trump recently fired Carla Hayden. The White House announced that Hayden was being fired as librarian of Congress on May 9, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. House committee released a budget proposal that includes more than $1.5 billion to replenish and maintain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and cancels a congressionally mandated sale, following huge sales from the facility in 2022. The proposal from the House Energy and Commerce Committee released late on Sunday contains $1.32 billion to …

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By Jeff Mason and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration intends to accept a Boeing 747-8 airplane as a gift from the Qatari royal family that would be outfitted to serve as Air Force One, according to a source briefed on the matter. The luxury plane, which would be one of the most …

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(This May 9 story was refiled without any changes to text.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration must temporarily halt its sweeping government overhaul because Congress did not authorize it to carry out large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, a federal judge said on Friday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would sign an executive order that he said would reduce prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices by between 30% and 80%. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would sign the executive order on Monday morning. “They will rise throughout the World in order …

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By David Shepardson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration was forced to briefly slow arriving and departing planes at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday because of a new telecommunications issue, the agency said. The Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control suffered a new problem that briefly led the FAA to …

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