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By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday raised hopes for another month-long pause on steep new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, saying they could take effect on April 2, and floated a 25% “reciprocal” tariff on European cars and other goods. A White House official, …

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By Will Dunham (Reuters) – A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water – a precious resource for lunar missions – resides on the moon’s surface in places such as the permanently shadowed craters at its poles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to put on hold a federal judge’s order requiring the government to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients for past work. The administration filed a request urging the justices to halt Washington-based U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s order, …

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By Dan Levine and Michael Erman (Reuters) -A meeting of a committee which advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy has been canceled, a committee member told Reuters, the second such disruption to a federal vaccine advisory panel since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the nation’s top health official earlier this month. …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Alexandra Alper and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to undertake more large-scale layoffs of workers, while the president let downsizing czar Elon Musk take a star role at his first cabinet meeting and discuss his ambitious budget-cutting targets. A new memo instructed agencies …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday briefly extended an order reinstating the head of a federal watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistleblowers who had challenged his firing by President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington said Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, could …

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By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico is working with the United States to reach an agreement on tariffs before an impending deadline, a senior Mexican government official said on Wednesday, and the U.S. recognized its work to control migration and fentanyl trafficking. Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Luis Rosendo Gutierrez, following a meeting in …

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By Richard Cowan and Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s Republicans are trying to pass a tax cut extension that would reduce federal revenue by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, while cutting about $2 trillion in spending over that timeline. The plan, which is now under consideration in the Senate after …

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