By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) -Rohit Chopra, head of the top U.S. watchdog agency for consumer finance, announced early Saturday his time in office had ended after President Donald Trump fired him overnight, according to a letter Chopra posted online and a person familiar with the situation. Chopra’s dismissal ends a term at the Consumer Financial …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. authorities restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport on Friday, after a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter killed 67 people this week. Investigators were able on Friday to recover the helicopter’s black box, which captures flight data and voices in the …
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(Reuters) – The Eaton Fire that scorched more than 14,000 acres (57 square km) east of Los Angeles has been 100% contained, fire officials said on Friday, a largely symbolic milestone more than three weeks after two devastating wildfires broke out on either side of Los Angeles. The larger Palisades Fire, which has consumed 23,448 …
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By Jonathan Landay, Steve Holland and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is moving to strip a slimmed-down U.S. Agency for International Development of its independence and put it under State Department control, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday, in what would be a significant overhaul of how Washington allocates U.S. …
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By Jasper Ward and Dave Sherwood WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would once again restrict financial transactions with many Cuban military- and government-linked entities, just weeks after the Biden administration had sought to roll those sanctions back. Rubio said the Trump administration would re-create the “Cuba Restricted List,” which …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Friday that any collective bargaining agreements reached with federal workers within 30 days of his inauguration will not be approved, the latest salvo in the U.S. president’s bid to remake the federal workforce. In a memo addressed to the heads of all executive departments and agencies, …
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By Sarah N. Lynch, Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department on Friday that appeared to focus on FBI agents and others who worked on cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol. The shakeup, detailed in …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer use official resources, including man hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, it said in guidance issued on Friday. It said service members and civilians are allowed to attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours. The …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. government websites were online and accessible on Friday, and the Office of Personnel Management said media reports that the sites would be taken offline were based on misinterpretation of a memo. The memo dated Wednesday had ordered federal agencies to scrub mentions of “gender ideology” from contracts, job descriptions and social media …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former senior adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, was arrested on charges he conspired to steal Fed trade secrets for the benefit of China, the Justice Department announced on Friday. Rogers, who worked as a senior adviser in the Fed’s division of international finance from 2010 until 2021, allegedly …
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