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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk purged less than 50 workers from the agency that maintains the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal, the Department of Energy said on Sunday, after far wider layoffs there were suddenly rescinded, causing chaos among staff. On Friday, sources told Reuters that …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of workers terminated by the Trump administration at the National Institutes of Health has been revised to 1,165, according to an NIH internal email seen by Reuters on Sunday, down from an initial 1,500. The email, sent to senior NIH leaders on Saturday night, said some names …

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By Michael Georgy, Menna AlaaElDin (Reuters) -Islamic State, the militant group that imposed hardline Islamist rule over millions of people in Syria and Iraq for years, has been trying to stage a comeback in the Middle East, the West and Asia. On Feb. 1, the media branch of IS’s Afghan branch, Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), …

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By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) – Amazon workers in North Carolina voted against joining a union, a big win for the retail giant which has vigorously opposed organized labor at its facilities across the United States. About three-quarters of voters were opposed, marking a setback for union officials who have long coveted Amazon because of how …

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By Jessica DiNapoli and Julia Harte (Reuters) – Some of the 75,000 U.S. federal workers who the Office of Personnel Management says accepted a resignation buyout offer were ready to retire anyway. Others were motivated by looming federal workforce cuts or an order to return to the office. Many bristled at Donald Trump’s description of …

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(Reuters) – The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in a major shakeup, CNN reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the matter. The move comes after President Donald Trump last week dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States. The national archivist is …

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By Luc Cohen and Tom Hals NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge extended a block on Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team from accessing payment systems at the U.S. Treasury Department on Friday, while another judge allowed the billionaire’s DOGE staffers to access records at health, labor and consumer financial protection agencies. Musk’s so-called Department of …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge in Texas on Friday upheld a rule adopted during Democratic former President Joe Biden’s tenure that allows socially conscious investing by employee retirement plans, saying it remains valid even after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that curbed agencies’ regulatory power. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, …

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