By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who led efforts to restructure the money-losing U.S. Postal Service for nearly five years, has resigned effective immediately, the agency said on Monday. DeJoy, a former logistics executive and major Republican political donor who took over in 2020, had clashed with lawmakers over reforms at the …
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Five transgender U.S. military members asked a judge on Monday to block actions against them under President Donald Trump’s transgender ban, including administrative leave and exclusion from training exercises. The motion in Washington federal court was filed as the Trump administration is asking U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes to undo …
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(This March 21 story has been corrected to fix the crypto firm’s name to, “a16z crypto,” from “Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, a16z,” in paragraph 2) By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force held its first public meeting with experts on Friday, focusing on how securities laws might apply …
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By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) -Days before Republicans took the helm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January, the agency’s five commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue Elon Musk. Since 2022, the agency had been investigating whether the billionaire, a close ally of incoming President Donald Trump, had violated …
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By John Kruzel, Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state and prompted a challenge by non-Black voters. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by …
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. agency responsible for unaccompanied migrant minors will be allowed to share sponsors’ immigration status with law enforcement agencies under a regulatory change, a move critics say could discourage families from claiming their children. The U.S. Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for the children until they …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that more countries will be added to the Abraham Accords, the series of normalization that his administration negotiated between Israel and some Gulf countries during his first term. Trump, speaking to reporters at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, said more countries want to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump, said on Monday that members of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency team were getting death threats on a daily basis. Musk was speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House. His team, with Trump’s blessing, has presided over massive cuts to …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration brought its bid to purge the federal workforce to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, challenging a judicial directive to rehire thousands of fired government employees and arguing that the judge overstepped his authority. The Justice Department in a filing asked the Supreme Court to block a …
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(This March 21 story has been corrected to change the date of formal publication to Tuesday, March 25, not Monday, in paragraph 8) By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal …
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