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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski disclosed this week that the threat of political retaliation from President Donald Trump is real enough to make her anxious about speaking out about his tariffs, executive orders and cuts to federal agencies. “We are all afraid,” Murkowski told a summit of nonprofit and tribal …

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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Thursday ordered a social media vetting for all U.S. visa applicants who have been to the Gaza Strip on or after January 1, 2007, an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters showed, in the latest push to tighten screening of foreign travelers. The order to …

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By Douglas Gillison and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created to serve as a watchdog for American consumers against predatory business practices, said on Thursday it planned to dismiss as much as 90% of its remaining workforce, resuming mass firings less than a week after a federal court …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s administration argued on Thursday that Trump has broad authority over media access to the White House and asked a U.S. federal appeals court to keep a judge from lifting restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press. Justice Department lawyer …

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By Alexandra Alper and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday to extend a federal hiring freeze, which was set to expire this month, through July, the White House said. Trump first imposed a hiring freeze through an executive order on January 20, his first day in …

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By Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Tom Hals NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court urged the Trump administration on Thursday to back off from its escalating confrontation with the judiciary while upholding a judge’s order to facilitate the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador. “The executive will lose much from a …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The proficiency testing program of the FDA’s Food Emergency Response Network …

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