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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has nominated Pierre Gentin, chief legal officer of consulting firm McKinsey & Co, to serve as general counsel at the U.S. Commerce Department, according to U.S. Senate records. On Monday, Trump also nominated other officials to serve in the department, including Neil Jacobs to head the National …

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By David Shepardson and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Unions representing U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block the Trump administration’s plan to offer buyouts to federal workers, even as a U.S. official told Reuters that more than 20,000 employees are planning on quitting. The American Federation of Government Employees and two other …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday introduced a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s proposed fee on methane emissions, one of the previous Environmental Protection Agency’s final measures to force big oil and gas producers to slash emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas. The resolution introduced by Republican Senators John …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday effectively banning transgender girls and women from participating in female sports events in schools and colleges, a White House official said. The order, entitled “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” would fulfill a pledge Trump made during the 2024 presidential campaign. …

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By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two separate groups of FBI employees sued the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday, seeking to protect the identities of those agents and others who investigated supporters of Donald Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Participants in the riots who were pardoned by …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s contentious nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence cleared a major hurdle on Tuesday when a Senate committee backed her for confirmation despite doubts about her lack of experience and past statements seen as supporting U.S. adversaries. Senator Tom Cotton, chairman of the Senate …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday it would be fine to put American criminals in prisons in another nation, adding there were countries who will take criminals from the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday described as “very generous” an offer by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will vote later on Tuesday on the nomination of Pam Bondi to serve as Attorney General, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in a floor speech on Tuesday. (Reporting by David Morgan and Katharine Jackson; editing by Susan Heavey)