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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Long-time Justice Department immigration attorney James McHenry will serve as acting U.S. attorney general until President Donald Trump’s pick, Pam Bondi, can be confirmed by the Senate, a Justice Department official said on Monday. McHenry will be charged with running the Justice Department, which Trump has vowed to shake …

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By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump on Monday appointed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation vice chair Travis Hill to lead the agency on an acting basis, the White House said. Hill, who is also widely seen as the top contender for the job permanently, has worked in banking policy and regulation in …

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By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered an inauguration speech in which he invoked the 19th century expansionist doctrine of “Manifest Destiny” in laying out plans for space exploration. Doubling down on his pre-inauguration threat to …

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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s transition team asked more than a dozen senior career diplomats to step down from their roles, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said, as the newly inaugurated president moves quickly to shape his foreign policy and the diplomatic corps. Among those expected to step aside …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert Salesses will serve as acting defense secretary until President Donald Trump’s choice for the position, Pete Hegseth, is confirmed by the Senate, two U.S. officials said on Monday. Salesses is deputy director of the Washington Headquarters Services, which is focused on human resources, facilities and resource management within the Pentagon. Hegseth could …

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(Reuters) -Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States on Monday. Here are thematic highlights of his speech. ECONOMY/INFLATION “I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation, and rapidly bring down costs and prices. The inflation crisis was …

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