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By Douglas Gillison and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to as many as 70 probationary staff members on Tuesday, according to a recipient of a termination letter and multiple people familiar with the matter, the latest move to gut the agency by the administration of President Donald …

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By Leah Douglas, P.J. Huffstutter and Tom Polansek (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has halted work at a network of farm research laboratories at land grant universities in 13 states, according to six lab directors. The lab closures are another hit to U.S. agriculture from President Donald …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday the central bank has not been cut off from any data it needs to do its work.  Speaking before a House panel as the Trump administration has been stripping government websites from various data sets, Powell he wasn’t aware of losing anything the Fed …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A Democrat who served at the U.S. agency that hears appeals by federal government employees when they are fired or disciplined has filed a lawsuit challenging Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to fire her. The lawsuit by Cathy Harris, who the president tried to fire from the Merit Systems Protection …

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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the U.S. Department of Justice’s blockbuster antitrust litigation against Apple and Alphabet’s Google told a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that resources will be a factor in pursuing the cases. Gail Slater, a veteran antitrust attorney and economic adviser to Vice President JD Vance, would …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld R. Kelly’s sex trafficking and racketeering conviction, saying extensive evidence supported keeping the former R&B superstar behind bars for decades. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Kelly’s claims that federal prosecutors failed to prove he led a racketeering …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Barely a month after predicting a new “golden age” under President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans are struggling to move forward on the president’s tax-cut agenda, despite their control of both the Senate and House of Representatives. House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a plan that would cut taxes by about …

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