By Tom Hals and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Elon Musk is testing the limits of legal and ethical restrictions on the role of special advisers in U.S. presidential administrations, according to some legal experts and lawmakers who oppose the billionaire’s mission against what he deems wasteful government spending. Here is a look at …
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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday blocked a settlement between families who have sued Alex Jones over his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, saying their attempt to divide the bankrupt conspiracy theorist’s assets exceeded his court’s authority. The decision complicates a proposed …
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By Mike Scarcella, Nate Raymond and Luc Cohen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from moving transgender women to men’s prisons and ending their gender-affirming care. In a broad ruling temporarily halting an executive order that Trump, a Republican, signed on his first day back in office on Jan. …
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(Reuters) – U.S. clean-energy companies are headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Republican lawmakers not to kill lucrative tax credits contained in former President Joe Biden’s landmark climate change law. Hundreds of representatives from firms in the solar, wind and other renewable-energy sectors are meeting with members of Congress from both parties to …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate committee voted on Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominee Howard Lutnick, billionaire chairman and CEO of Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, to run the Commerce Department. The Senate Commerce Committee voted 16-12 with all Democrats except Senator John Fetterman opposing the nomination. Lutnick said last week …
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By Duncan Miriri and Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. move to freeze billions in financial aid boosts the need for New York State to alter a law in support of countries struggling to pay back debt, Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz told Reuters. Stiglitz and other academics have long supported controversial proposals …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense is developing plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing two U.S. defense officials. President Donald Trump and officials close to him recently expressed interest in pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, leading Pentagon officials to begin drawing up plans for a …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would like to close the U.S. Department of Education using an executive order but acknowledged he would need buy-ins from Congress and teachers’ unions to fulfill his campaign pledge to do so. Trump has spent his first weeks in office pushing through …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday said it had canceled an ongoing multi-year investigation into the impact of trade policy on under-served communities and workers at the request of the Trump administration. The ITC, an independent, nonpartisan federal agency told witnesses that it was canceling a hearing on …
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By David Shepardson, Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday it has completed interviews with air traffic controllers in its investigation into the collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington that killed 67 people. The salvage …
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