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By David Shepardson and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead NASA, entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, faced questions from senators on Wednesday about his ties to Elon Musk and how he would balance Trump’s focus on reaching Mars with the U.S. space agency’s flagship moon program. Isaacman, CEO of payment processing company Shift4 …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted 16-12, largely along party lines on Wednesday, to advance the Trump administration’s nominee to oversee a $42-billion government fund to bring high-speed broadband internet to unserved parts of the U.S. Arielle Roth, who has been nominated to head the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and …

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By Jonathan Landay, Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday moved to reinstate at least six recently canceled U.S. foreign aid programs for emergency food assistance, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The quick reversal of decisions made just days ago underscored the rapid-fire nature of Trump’s …

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By Nathan Layne and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service and other top officials are quitting the tax-collecting agency after it struck a deal this week to share data with federal agents on migrants living illegally in the United States. A U.S. Treasury spokesperson confirmed the resignation of commissioner Melanie …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A Democratic former member of the federal agency that enforces U.S. laws banning workplace discrimination filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming her firing by President Donald Trump was illegal and which seeks to allow her to be reinstated to her post. Jocelyn Samuels, one of two members of the Equal Employment …

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(Reuters) -American tennis great Billie Jean King has been honoured with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. King, a 39-times Grand Slam singles and doubles champion who has become an advocate for social equality, is the first woman to be given a star in the new sports entertainment category. “The important thing …

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(Reuters) -The largest U.S. egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods, is cooperating with a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into high egg prices and whether producers have conspired to raise them, the company said on Tuesday. The DOJ sent Cal-Maine a civil investigative demand last month, the Ridgeland, Mississippi-based company said in a regulatory filing, adding that …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change. The move is the latest in a string of efforts by Trump’s administration to pump up domestic energy output and push back against …

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By Jonathan Allen and Luc Cohen JENA, Louisiana (Reuters) -An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the case on Friday, a month after his arrest in New York and transfer to a rural …

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