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By Tim Reid, Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government began firing thousands of people at multiple agencies on Thursday as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America’s federal bureaucracy, union sources and employees familiar with the moves told Reuters. The Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – A Texas state judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay a penalty of at least $100,000 and stop providing abortion pills to women in Texas, in a win for the state’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton. The case is an early test of conservative states’ power to …

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By Jennifer Rigby and Lisa Baertlein LONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of dollars of life-saving medical supplies are stranded in warehouses and on ships around the world due to President Donald Trump’s move to freeze foreign aid, half a dozen sources familiar with the humanitarian program told Reuters. That order and other Trump …

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By Kenneth Li (Reuters) -Thomson Reuters said on Thursday its business with the U.S. Department of Defense was “inaccurately represented,” in response to accusations on social media by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump that the company played a role in “large scale social deception” for the government. The contract in question was a four-year, …

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By Jack Queen and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has moved to dramatically shrink the size of the federal workforce and mass terminations have already begun at several U.S. government agencies. But a tangled web of laws and regulations around hiring and firing government employees could mire Trump’s efforts in lawsuits and delays.  …

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By Andrew Goudsward, Daniel Wiessner and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Democratic appointees to U.S. agencies tasked with safeguarding federal government employees’ rights pushed courts on Thursday to reinstate them after they were fired by President Donald Trump. Their move came the day after a judge temporarily prevented the Republican president from removing a third …

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By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -All probationary staff at the Office of Personnel Management were fired on Thursday in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the building in Washington, two sources familiar with the dismissal told Reuters. About 100 people were on the call inside OPM, the U.S. government’s human …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a vaccine critic who has pledged to tackle chronic disease, was named U.S. Health Secretary on Thursday after overcoming resistance from the medical establishment and members of Congress with promises to limit his role in vaccination policy. As Kennedy was sworn into the …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday blocked, for now, U.S. health agencies from enforcing President Donald Trump’s order ending all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids gender transitions for people younger than 19. U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson in Greenbelt, Maryland, who was appointed by Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, …

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