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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -Families of transgender teens and LGBT advocacy groups on Friday said that U.S. health agencies had violated a court ruling that blocked them from enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order halting federal funding to healthcare providers that offer gender transition treatments to people under 19. The plaintiffs said the U.S. Centers …

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By Nathan Layne, Alexandra Alper and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government agency that provides weather forecasts is planning another round of mass layoffs as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to thin the ranks of the U.S. civil service, a person familiar with the plan said on Sunday. The planned layoffs of 1,029 …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service shot an armed man outside the White House early on Sunday after a confrontation, and the man is now in an area hospital, it said in a statement. President Donald Trump was not in the White House at the time, as he is spending the weekend at his Florida …

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By Nathan Layne and Aleksandra Michalska PARKERSBURG, West Virginia (Reuters) -Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over. Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed …

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By Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by a firing squad, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair or …

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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A lawyer asked to offer independent arguments on whether to end the U.S. Department of Justice’s corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams recommended on Friday that the case be dismissed. But the lawyer, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, urged that the case …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was appointing Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In February, weeks after taking office, Trump fired the center’s president, replaced the board of …

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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said it had canceled grants and contracts worth about $400 million to Columbia University because of what it described as antisemitic harassment on and near the school’s New York City campus. Friday’s announcement was made in a joint statement by the departments of Justice, …

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By Andrew Hay SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was in an advanced state of Alzheimer’s and died of heart disease and other factors likely days after his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of a rare virus spread by mice, according to autopsy results released on Friday in New Mexico. The 95-year-old …

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