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By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had …

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By Luc Cohen MIAMI (Reuters) – Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal …

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By Douglas Gillison and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Senate banking panel voted on Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nomination of former regulator Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency the White House has effectively put on ice since last month. The 13 to 11 vote, which saw all Republicans …

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By Luc Cohen, Karen Freifeld and Chris Prentice MIAMI – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday she would support revisiting sentencing guidelines for white collar crime because the current framework leads to uneven punishments. The amount of money involved has more sway than the level of culpability, Jackson noted at an …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A handful of Democrats joined the majority Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday in voting to censure Democrat Al Green over shouting at President Donald Trump during his speech.  Representative Green, a Texas Democrat who has repeatedly called to impeach Trump, faced the House censure resolution for yelling at …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign additional executive orders at 2 p.m./1900 GMT on Thursday, the White House said. The Republican president has been considering an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, but there was no word on what the latest orders would address. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing …

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