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(Repeats story issued on March 16 with no changes to text.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans, under pressure to move forward on President Donald Trump’s tax cut and border security agenda, are at odds over how much spending they can cut from the federal budget without leaving constituents who rely on social safety net programs …

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By Kanishka Singh, Mike Scarcella and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday suspending security clearances for lawyers and other employees at New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and restricting their access to federal buildings and officials. “Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an …

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By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) -The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to grapple with another bird flu strain that has infected humans and caused egg prices to hit record highs. The spread of avian influenza, commonly …

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By Karolos Grohmann PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee executive board on Monday recommended the inclusion of boxing in the Los Angeles 2028 summer Olympics, ending a years-long saga regarding the sport’s Olympic future. The IOC last month granted provisional recognition to World Boxing in a major step towards the sport’s inclusion in …

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By Rich McKay and Tatiana Bautzer (Reuters) -Portions of Pennsylvania, New York and Mid-Atlantic and Southeast states were still under a National Weather Service watch for damaging wind and tornadoes, as the death toll from weekend storms rose to 36 people across six states. In a White House statement, President Donald Trump said he was …

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Bayer said on Monday that it welcomed a new law about to be passed in the U.S. state of Georgia to better protect the maker of crop protection chemicals against glyphosate litigation. The company said in a statement to Reuters that the law has yet to be signed by Georgia’s governor and that …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A Rhode Island doctor who is an assistant professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported to Lebanon even though a judge had issued an order blocking the U.S. visa holder’s immediate removal from the country, according to court papers. The expulsion of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, is set …

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By Jody Godoy LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice’s newly confirmed head of antitrust enforcement said her division will review what it spends on expensive economic consultants as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to cut costs across the federal government, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. Assistant Attorney General …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional the Trump administration’s actions to deport international students and scholars who protest or express support for Palestinian rights. The lawsuit, filed on Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeks a nationwide temporary …

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By Nathan Layne, Jack Queen and Helen Coster -The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an extraordinary statement that a judge did not have the authority to block its actions. The deportation operation followed a move by …

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