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By Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) -Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge on Thursday to drop the criminal charges against them, arguing that President Donald Trump’s hand-picked U.S. attorney who obtained the indictments against them was unlawfully appointed. In a …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Thursday the government would release the closely watched employment report for October, but without the jobless rate after a weeks-long federal government shutdown. “The household survey wasn’t conducted in October, so we’re going to get half the employment report. We’ll get the jobs part, but …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture directed its staff to identify grants for possible termination in the early months of the second Trump administration by searching for more than two dozen specific words and phrases related to diversity and climate change, according to documents seen by Reuters. The effort was undertaken …

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By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration can approve new personalized treatments for rare and deadly genetic diseases based on data from a handful of patients, two of the agency’s top officials said on Wednesday. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and Chief Medical and Scientific Officer Vinay Prasad said in an …

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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats appear more fired up than Republicans about voting in next year’s congressional elections following the party’s victories in recent state and local contests, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, which showed Republican President Donald Trump’s approval steady at 40%. The six-day poll, which closed on Wednesday, showed 44% of …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Representative Adelita Grijalva in her first day in office on Wednesday signed the discharge petition to start the process for a vote on directing the Justice Department to release files related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  It remained possible that one of the Republicans who had signed the petition …

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