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(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will allow actor Mel Gibson to own guns again, despite his 2011 conviction on a domestic violence charge, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The Times, citing unnamed sources familiar with the Justice Department decision, reported that Gibson, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, was among nine other …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday declined at this time to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from requiring arts organizations to certify they will not promote “gender ideology” to obtain grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, denied a request …

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By Erin Banco, Gram Slattery, Karen Freifeld and Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – At least six White House National Security Council officials have been fired or reassigned, according to several people familiar with the matter, in what appears to be the first significant purge of Donald Trump’s second presidency. The shakeup at the NSC, which advises …

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(Reuters) -Kirkland & Ellis, the largest U.S. law firm by revenue, is in talks with the White House to avoid an executive order similar to those levied against several of its rivals, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The news comes as President Donald Trump wages a pressure campaign against his perceived enemies in …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Education Department warned on Thursday it would withhold federal funds from public schools and take legal actions if they continued with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that the administration of President Donald Trump has attempted to dismantle. In letters sent to top state education officials, the federal Education …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of employees fired this week from the Department of Health and Human Services and the public health agencies it oversees may be asked to temporarily continue working for two months and others could be reinstated, officials said on Thursday. “There were some programs that were cut that are being reinstated,” Secretary of …

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