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(Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday moved to put more of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits to oil and gas development, in a last-minute bid to complicate President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to boost drilling in the area. The Interior Department, which manages ANWR, said it had identified areas of the refuge …

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(This Jan. 15 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of the name from Kahlil to Khalil in the last subheading) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiators reached a phased ceasefire deal on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the U.S. and Qatar said, after 15 months of bloodshed that has …

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By Tom Hals (Reuters) -Democratic states’ attorneys general launched a legal bid this week to defend Biden administration policies on immigration, the environment and guns, just days before Donald Trump takes office on Monday. Trump has vowed to deport millions of people who are in the country illegally, roll back environmental rules and sweep away …

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By Brendan Pierson, Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone in the United States, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo decided that the three states can continue …

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(In second paragraph, corrects Husseini’s comment to say “Criminal! Why aren’t you in The Hague” instead of “Criminal! You belong in the Hague”) By Daphne Psaledakis, Humeyra Pamuk and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several journalists who are outspoken critics of U.S. support for Israel loudly lambasted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said he believes climate change is real and a threat but that the agency he is poised to oversee is just authorized, not required, to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin, speaking at …

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By Pete Schroeder (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate Bill Pulte to be the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). “Bill needs no formal introduction to the Great Citizens of our Country, because they have seen, and many have experienced, his philanthropy firsthand,” Trump wrote in a …

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