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(Reuters) – The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday dropped an enforcement action against the consumer credit bureau TransUnion, adding to the embattled agency’s mass dismissal of cases against financial companies accused of cheating consumers. However, Russell Vought, the agency’s acting director, decided to continue a 2022 case against the fintech lender MoneyLion, according …

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By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., demoted several senior leaders to entry-level positions on Friday as he continued his shakeup of one of the Justice Department’s most crucial offices, according to three sources and an email seen by Reuters. Ed Martin, the interim U.S. …

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By Andrew Hay and Julia Harte (Reuters) – President Donald Trump signed executive orders in January targeting foreigners who espoused hateful ideology and antisemitism, specifically international students involved in university pro-Palestinian protests. For activist groups ranging from Mothers Against College Antisemitism and the Chicago Jewish Alliance to the U.S. wings of Zionist organization Betar and …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House removed a TASS reporter from the Oval Office on Friday once the issue was flagged to them, saying the Russian state outlet was not on the approved media list for U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a White House official said. (Reporting by Nandita Bose; …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of his hardline immigration crackdown suffered another legal setback on Friday when a second federal appeals court declined to lift one of the court orders blocking the Republican’s executive order. The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court …

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By Drazen Jorgic, Laura Gottesdiener and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico on Thursday handed over major figures in the country’s criminal underworld to U.S. authorities, part of a surprise extradition of nearly 30 jailed convicts or others accused of ties to violent drug cartels. Some are aging gang leaders who reigned over international …

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By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in February is on pace to be at or near a record monthly low, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson and two other sources told Reuters. U.S. Border Patrol is on pace to have arrested around …

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By Mariam Sunny and Puyaan Singh (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration took part in a World Health Organization meeting to discuss flu vaccine composition ahead of the upcoming influenza season, an official at the UN agency said on Friday. President Donald Trump, who started …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to make English the official U.S. language, a White House official said on Friday, for the first time in the country’s history. The official did not provide a timing for the signing of the order, first reported by the Wall Street Journal. …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Postal Service employees should not get distracted after reports last week President Donald Trump could unilaterally seize control of the agency, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a video seen by Reuters on Thursday. DeJoy told the Postal Service’s 640,000 employees that the agency was created by a …

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