By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has told lawmakers that he opposes the use of race as a factor when evaluating candidates for elite U.S. military academies, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. Hegseth’s remarks, which have not been previously reported …
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S. health agencies. The move, first reported by health website STAT, follows President Donald …
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By Sriparna Roy and Juveria Tabassum (Reuters) -The Trump administration has withdrawn a plan to ban menthol cigarettes in the U.S., in a setback to health regulators and activists. The Food and Drug Administration had in April 2022 proposed to ban the sale of flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes after several health advocacy groups said …
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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “FEMA has turned out to be a disaster … I think we recommend that FEMA go away,” he said during a tour of …
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By Nandita Bose and Susan Heavey ASHEVILLE, North Carolina/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former top health official who has faced threats since leading the country’s COVID-19 response, should hire his own security, the latest former U.S. official to have their protection cut off since Trump took office this …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Information Agency expects growth in U.S. power generation over the next two years to be mostly driven by new solar plants, it said on Friday. The EIA said in a note that U.S. utilities and independent power producers are expected to add 26 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in 2025 …
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By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have acted with stunning speed to begin removing or sidelining hundreds of government workers, while he has also sought to give himself the power to fire hundreds of thousands more. The Republican president has been in office less than a week but the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed criticism from close ally Elon Musk about a $500 billion artificial intelligence project that Trump announced with great fanfare at the White House earlier this week. Trump announced on Tuesday that ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, which …
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(Reuters) -Firefighters stopped the expansion of a new wildfire north of Los Angeles on Thursday after it spread rapidly, as California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $2.5 billion relief package for the fire-devastated region. The Hughes Fire, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Los Angeles, broke out on Wednesday as emergency services continued to …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order related to the declassification of files on the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., an aide to Trump said. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt)
