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By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal human-resources agency leading efforts by billionaire White House adviser Elon Musk to slash the federal workforce has decided to hire its first new career employee since President Donald Trump took office, according to emails seen by Reuters. The position is a new driver to ferry around leaders …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three Democratic senators on Monday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to “dramatically revise” the United States’ trade relationship with China along with 14 free trade agreements, providing a boost to his push to revamp U.S. trade policy. In a letter to the Republican president, Senators Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin …

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By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday handed out million-dollar checks to two voters in Wisconsin and promised smaller payments to others who help elect a conservative candidate to the state’s top court in a closely watched election. The Tesla CEO, a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, handed out oversized checks …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico was set on fire on Sunday and “ICE=KKK” spray painted on the building in what the party called “a deliberate act of arson.” Fire officials in Albuquerque, the largest city in Democratic-controlled New Mexico, were called to the blaze around 6 …

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By David Lawder and David Shepardson (Reuters) -Canada and Mexico won protections against potential new U.S. auto tariffs in 2018 as part of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade, but there is no evidence that President Donald Trump will honor those commitments as he imposes 25% duties on global automotive imports. The side letters to the …

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By Nate Raymond and Kanishka Singh BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday temporarily barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel’s war in Gaza and was detained by U.S. immigration officials this week. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken into custody by U.S. …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A prominent conservative senator predicted on Sunday that Donald Trump’s tax-cuts and immigration agenda will not advance in the U.S. Senate unless the president and Republican leaders agree to slash federal spending to a level last seen before the COVID-19 pandemic. Republican Ron Johnson, a member of the Senate’s budget …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Boos, jeers and choruses of “do your job” greeted U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz at a town hall on Friday in her Indiana congressional district as she defended sweeping cuts across the federal government, the latest such event by a Republican lawmakers to generate loud voter backlash. Spartz went ahead with the …

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