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By David Hood-Nuño WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former longtime Federal Bureau of Investigation employee is suing the agency and U.S. Department of Justice alleging he was fired over displaying a Progress Pride Flag in his office, according to a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. David Maltinsky had worked at the …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -When President Donald Trump began an extraordinary campaign this summer pressuring Republican lawmakers to redraw state congressional maps, starting with Texas, some Democrats feared it could hand a dozen new seats to Republicans in next year’s midterm elections. Since then, however, a series of court rulings and aggressive moves by Democrats …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge issued an unusual dissenting opinion on Wednesday lambasting an earlier ruling that blocked Texas Republicans from using a new congressional map, saying he had been cut out of the decision-making process by two other judges on a three-judge panel. U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith said in his …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said on Wednesday it reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 plaintiffs who blamed the utility for starting the 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires in Oregon. The payout boosts the amount PacifiCorp has agreed to pay wildfire claimants to close to $1.7 billion, including a …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The administration of President Donald Trump will soon announce details of payments to farmers hurt by low crop prices and trade disputes, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday.  U.S. farmers have been saddled this year with record harvests and lost billions of dollars in soybean sales to China when …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday said he was resuming his long-stalled court proceeding to determine whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador in March. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said he would demand sworn testimony from administration officials to determine …

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