By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, and announced plans to shake up the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his latest moves to upend institutions in Washington. The national …
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By Lisa Baertlein and Leah Douglas (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday that grantees of the Food for Progress aid program could resume their operations for agreements made in fiscal year 2024 or earlier, according to an email seen by Reuters. On Wednesday, Reuters reported the program and other U.S. food aid …
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(Reuters) – Russell Vought, who was confirmed by the Senate as the head of the Office of Management and Budget on Thursday, took over control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Vought is now the acting director of the CFPB, according …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s security clearances and stopping his daily intelligence briefings as there was no need for his predecessor to receive classified information. In a post on Truth Social, Trump referenced a report by Special Counsel Robert Hur that described Biden last year …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A coalition of mostly Democratic-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Friday to stop a Trump administration panel led by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments. The 19 states led by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, …
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By Alexandra Alper and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as “Special Advisor to the Director” at the Office of …
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By Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been tasked by President Donald Trump to oversee a drastic downsizing and reshaping of the federal government, spoke at a JPMorgan Chase conference on Thursday and discussed his broad efforts to reshape the government, according to source familiar with the situation. The conference …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration agreed on Friday not to publicly name FBI employees involved in investigations into the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as the president said some would be fired. The agreement, which a federal judge approved, came after two groups of …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Democratic attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia on Friday asked a federal judge to enforce his order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants, loans and other funding. Their emergency motion came the day after the states told U.S. District Judge John McConnell …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Tennessee’s Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors is not unlawful, reversing the position taken by the government under his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden. The justices heard arguments on December 4, with conservative justices signaling their …
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