WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he will speak to his Taiwanese and Israeli counterparts on Friday about tariffs after holding a long discussion with the Vietnamese earlier. Greer said he was speaking with multiple countries after U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would temporarily lower the hefty duties he …
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By Jeff Mason, Tom Hals WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will seek to get major U.S. law firms to do free legal work to support his trade team’s negotiations with other countries after four firms in recent weeks agreed to donate legal services to his administration. “We have a lot …
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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. The court’s decision came after the Justice Department asked the justices to …
By Ted Hesson and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration aims to convince some immigrants without legal status to self-deport by adding them to a database of dead people, thus rendering their Social Security numbers inoperable, an administration official told Reuters. Immigrants who were legally admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration but …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is looking for ways to cut staffing by an additional 20% as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters earlier in the day reported that the regulator, which monitors banks and backstops deposits via its …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will identify the cause of autism by September, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday, setting a deadline for an answer that has eluded scientists for decades. Autism diagnoses in the United States have increased significantly since 2000, …
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By Jonathan Landay and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee on Thursday said he suspected a task force formed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was pursuing a “witch hunt” for intelligence officers it deems disloyal to President Donald Trump. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said in …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twelve protesters were charged on Thursday with felony vandalism for their actions during a June 2024 pro-Palestinian protest at Stanford University in which demonstrators barricaded themselves inside the office of the school president. Those charged, ranging in age from 19 to 32, entered the building and demonstrated a “conspiracy …
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By Nate Raymond, Omar Younis, Roselle Chen BOSTON (Reuters) -When Zaya Perysian received her new passport in the mail in late January, she knew exactly who to blame for why it listed her, a transgender woman, as male: U.S. President Donald Trump. First the California social media influencer took to TikTok to express her frustrations …
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By Leah Douglas and Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has fired previously reinstated probationary workers after an appeals court on April 9 cleared the way for the Trump administration to fire thousands of employees, according to five sources familiar with the situation. The agency, which sits within the Department of …
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