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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow it to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for teacher training as part of his sweeping crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives – a policy challenged by eight Democratic-led states.  The Justice Department filed a …

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By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -The end of various pandemic-era student loan support programs likely portends a rise in credit issues for borrowers, although it will take time to understand the full extent of the problem, New York Federal Reserve researchers said on Wednesday.  “We expect to see more than nine million student …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to the Federal Communications Commission’s defense of the mechanism it uses to fund a multi-billion dollar effort to expand phone and broadband internet access to low-income and rural Americans and other beneficiaries. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by the agency …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Space Force said on Wednesday it has cleared Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Vulcan rocket to launch national security satellites for the United States. SpaceX was the first company to handle such missions. “Vulcan certification adds launch capacity, resiliency, and flexibility needed by our nation’s most critical space-based systems,” said Brigadier General …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a regulation targeting largely untraceable “ghost guns” imposed by Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration in a crackdown on firearms whose use has proliferated in crimes nationwide, finding the measure to be consistent with a 1968 federal law. The justices, in a 7-2 ruling …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration sought on Tuesday to contain the fallout after a magazine journalist disclosed he had been inadvertently included in a secret group discussion of highly sensitive war plans, while Democrats called on top officials to resign over the security incident. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi …

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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – America’s top spies on Tuesday shifted the spotlight back to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to explain how highly sensitive details he posted in a telephone chat about imminent U.S. strikes on Yemen were not classified. President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to contain fallout from an …

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