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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the federal judge overseeing a challenge to Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie to step aside from the case, accusing her of a “pattern of hostility” toward the president. Justice Department lawyers said U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell’s impartiality might …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that critical programs handled by the Education Department for student loans and nutrition would be transferred to other departments as part of his effort to shutter the agency. Trump, who signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at dismantling the …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense released new guidance on Friday on how it will enforce President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military, and asked a federal judge to lift her recent order blocking the ban. The memorandum from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense said …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Education must continue funding grants supporting teacher preparation programs in eight Democratic-led states after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to allow President Donald Trump’s administration to cancel them. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to pause a lower-court judge’s order …

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By Jasper Ward and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration. The surprise …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter white supremacists and anti-government extremists, according to sources familiar with the matter.  The …

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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk held a meeting for more than an hour at the Pentagon on Friday morning as the close ally of President Donald Trump called for the prosecutions of any Pentagon officials leaking false information about his visit. Musk, who is making sweeping cuts …

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(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the heads of government agencies to grant federal officials access to unclassified agency records, data and systems to stop waste and fraud, the White House said on Friday. The order was posted on the White House website on Thursday while a fact sheet …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday extended by 30 days a March 21 deadline for New York state to end Manhattan’s congestion pricing program. The U.S. Transportation Department in February rescinded federal approval of the program that had been issued under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden after a lengthy review. …

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