(Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that discussions with House Speaker Mike Johnson over plans to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts are going well and the bill is moving forward better than expected. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal,)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will host CEOs and leaders from several companies that have made investments in the U.S. to tout their historic commitments, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Doina Chiacu)
By Ryan Patrick Jones and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Monday it has started using polygraph tests to aid investigations aimed at identifying the source of leaks emanating from within the law enforcement agency. “We can confirm the FBI has begun administering polygraph tests to identify the source …
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By Nate Raymond, Jack Queen and Kanishka Singh BOSTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it was probing whether Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review violated civil rights laws when the journal’s editors fast-tracked consideration of an article written by a member of a racial minority. News of the new probe came …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has tapped a former White House official to serve as the acting head of the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration. The TSA confirmed on Monday Ha Nguyen McNeill has been named deputy administrator and is serving as acting head of the agency that provides security at U.S. airports …
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By Nandita Bose and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration touted the early results of his immigration crackdown on Monday despite concerns over due process, as Trump acted to take further steps while photos of alleged criminal offenders were displayed on the White House lawn. Trump signed three executive orders on Monday. …
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(Reuters) – A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther King’s last civil rights campaign caught fire early on Monday morning and was badly damaged. The inside of the Clayborn Temple was gutted by flames, leaving only exterior walls standing, Memphis Fire Chief Gina Sweat told a press …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to turn over the names of any migrants flown recently from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay to El Salvador so he could determine whether they were deported in violation of a court order he issued. U.S. District Judge …
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By Elizabeth Howcroft and David Gauthier-Villars (Reuters) -While hosting the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump at a conference in Bulgaria on Sunday, crypto company Nexo Capital said it plans to return to the American market, two years after it paid a $45 million fine to settle U.S. regulatory charges. Donald Trump Jr. was …
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By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A pair of Democratic officials recently fired from a credit union watchdog have sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior government officials, alleging that their removal was “patently unlawful.” Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking to …
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