(Reuters) -The plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was abruptly delayed amid growing backlash over its execution by Brad Smith, the Department of Government Efficiency lead at HHS, Politico reported on Monday, citing two officials. The secretive approach of Smith, who has ties with one HHS agency, …
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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Monday toward a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state’s unemployment insurance tax in the latest religious rights case to reach the justices. They heard arguments in an appeal …
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three congressional Democrats sought documents on Monday from the head of the Federal Communications Commission as part of a probe into what they called “sham” investigations into media outlets including CBS, NBC and ABC launched by the agency under President Donald Trump to try to intimidate the news media. The …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency withdrew principles providing guidance to banks for climate-related financial risk, the financial regulator said on Monday. Since taking office on January 20, President Donald Trump has announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, canceled U.S. global climate finance and severed …
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(Reuters) – Lockheed Martin on Monday said the U.S. Army had awarded it a contract worth up to $4.94 billion to produce Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). Defense companies are seeing a surge in weaponry demand, driven by conflicts across the globe. The Pentagon has been prioritizing purchases of the PrSM, which is to replace the …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin said on Monday it is targeting “late spring” for the second launch of its giant New Glenn rocket, as the U.S. FAA closed an investigation into the rocket’s landing failure that followed an otherwise successful debut mission in January. The two-stage New Glenn rocket launched for …
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(Reuters) – Retired NFL star defensive back Richard Sherman’s house was robbed while his family was at home, the former Super Bowl champion said on social media on Monday, asking for information to catch the perpetrators. A post on X showed screengrabs of multiple individuals inside the former Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers cornerback’s …
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(This March 28 story has been corrected to say that cases in Texas, not Texas and New Mexico, rose 20% in the headline and paragraph 1) (Reuters) – The Texas health department said on Friday that the number of measles cases in the state rose 20% since its last report three days ago, as experts …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department said on Monday it was pulling out of a lawsuit that challenges a Republican-backed Georgia election law as discriminatory, abandoning a position it took under Democratic President Joe Biden. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said recent increases in Black voter turnout in the battleground …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday it will investigate a close call between a Delta Air Lines plane and a group of Air Force jets near Reagan Washington National Airport last week. The Delta Airbus A319 received a cockpit collision warning alert that another aircraft was nearby, and controllers issued …
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