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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The communications app used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said Monday that it had suspended services following a reported hack that exposed some of its messages. The Department of Homeland Security separately said that customs officials had disabled the app on their devices. Portland, …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A group of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday to challenge the Trump administration’s decision to gut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by firing 10,000 of its employees and shuttering entire agencies within the department. Attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia in a …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that aims to reduce the time it takes to approve pharmaceutical plants in the country, as part of new regulations to encourage domestic manufacturing. The order directs the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to streamline reviews and work with domestic manufacturers to provide early …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that bans federal funding for gain-of-function research that typically enhances pathogens. The order also paused any research using “infectious pathogens and toxins in the United States” that could be dangerous to citizens “until a safer, more enforceable, and transparent policy governing such research …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Monday he had nothing to do with the production of an image that showed him dressed like a pope but said it was done in jest. “I just saw it last evening,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He said his wife, Melania Trump, thought it …

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