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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed pardons for 23 anti-abortion protesters on Thursday, the White House said, including a set of people convicted of blockading a clinic entrance. The people had been tried for conspiring in 2020 to overrun a Washington reproductive health clinic and setting up a blockade to intimidate patients and staff. …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is requiring most federal employees to return to work in person full time, a move that is likely to spark backlash and legal challenges from unions. WHAT DOES TRUMP’S ORDER DO? Trump on Monday directed the heads of all federal agencies to “take all necessary steps to …

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By Andrea Shalal and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. agencies under President Donald Trump pushed ahead on Thursday on his orders to reshape the federal bureaucracy, scrapping diversity programs, rescinding job offers and sidelining more than 150 national security and foreign policy officials. The Republican president has made little secret of his disdain for the …

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By Dan Catchpole and Nate Raymond SEATTLE (Reuters) -A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” Seattle-based U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued a temporary restraining order at the urging of four …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent executive branch agency, to resign by end of day on Thursday or face termination, a source close to PCLOB said on Wednesday. The three members are Chair Sharon Bradford …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hannah Lang (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a directive backing federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, a day before he is due to visit the state he won as part of his sweep of battleground states in November’s election. The Lumbee tribe is recognized as a …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of the U.S. Senate on Thursday backed President Donald Trump’s nominee John Ratcliffe, a former House of Representatives member who served as Director of National Intelligence during Trump’s first term, as director of the CIA. The Senate voted to confirm Ratcliffe by 74-25, as 20 Democrats and …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate committees on Thursday approved President Donald Trump’s choices to run energy and environmental policy – officials who, if backed by the full Senate, will seek to maximize fossil fuel output and scrap chunks of climate policy. The panel voted 18-2 to approve former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum …

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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday she would consider direct payments to farmers to offset losses from proposed tariffs, modeled after the approach taken in Trump’s first term. If confirmed, Brooke Rollins would lead the $200 billion agency and its nearly 100,000 employees …

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