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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -As U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to reduce the size of the federal workforce through rapid-fire mass layoffs and buyouts, some Democratic governors are courting the newly unemployed to come to work for state governments instead. On Monday, New York filled digital billboards in Washington’s Union Station encouraging former …

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By David Shepardson and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Saturday declared President Donald Trump’s firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the scope of presidential power likely to be decided at the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington had …

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By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan servicer Navient sitting in limbo, according to an advocacy organization. The agency’s work stoppage also calls into question the …

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(This Feb. 26 story has been corrected after the University of California clarified that the lab has sent some bird flu tests out of state for months, in paragraphs 1, 8 and in the headline) By Tom Polansek (Reuters) – California’s only lab that can confirm lethal bird flu in poultry has shifted some testing …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a conservative group’s challenge on free speech grounds to Indiana University’s policy for monitoring and reporting what the school considers to be bias-motivated incidents. The justices declined to hear Washington-based group Speech First’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling denying its …

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By Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths — only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave. Nicholas …

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