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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The team led by U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, set up at least 20 group chats on the commercial Signal app to coordinate official work on issues involving China, Gaza, Middle East policy, Africa and Europe, Politico reported on Wednesday. Waltz, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others have …

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By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Elon Musk poured millions of dollars into a Wisconsin Supreme Court race and even donned a local cheese-shaped hat at a political rally, only to have his candidate soundly defeated in a race viewed as an early referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency. Musk’s high-profile involvement has raised questions over whether the …

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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen funds to some Maine educational programs over the state’s refusal to ban transgender women from sports, said a press release from Secretary Brooke Rollins. The administration of President Donald Trump has taken aim at Maine after a dispute between Republican Trump and Democratic Governor …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday named a lawyer who represented several of his top aides in criminal probes to a senior post in the U.S. Justice Department. Trump picked Stanley Woodward, who has been serving as a White House lawyer to Trump, to be associate attorney general, the third-highest …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress will hold its first hearing in more than three years on a long-running push to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States. The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 on whether to end the practice of changing the clocks twice a …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to temporarily restore funding for programs that provide legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in San Francisco late on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from cutting off funding that advocates said …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge dismissed corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday, even as he said the Trump administration’s argument that the case should be dropped because it was hindering the Democratic politician’s help with an immigration crackdown “smacks of a bargain.” The Justice Department’s request …

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