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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The first major winter storm of the new year barreled into the U.S. mid-Atlantic states on Monday, closing down federal offices and public schools in Washington, D.C., after dumping a foot of snow in parts of the Ohio Valley and Central Plains. More than five inches (12.7 cm) had fallen in the nation’s …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines, a decision President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to boost domestic energy production, may find difficult to reverse. The move is considered mostly symbolic, as it will not impact areas where oil and gas development is currently underway, …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lead prosecutor on the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally holding onto classified documents has left the U.S. Justice Department ahead of the president-elect’s return to office, a department spokesperson confirmed on Monday. Jay Bratt, a senior national security official at the department who was detailed to Special …

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(This Jan. 5 story has been refiled to add Biden’s first name in paragraph 3) By Heather Timmons and Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. ethics official charged with preventing government workers’ conflicts of interest is about to take the hot seat in Washington, as President-elect Donald Trump’s new cabinet and other appointees …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives’ bipartisan select committee focused on China will continue in the new Congress, the panel’s leaders said on Monday, reflecting the desire of both Republicans and Democrats to counter Beijing. The panel, led by Republicans since its creation in 2023, aims to …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican President-elect Donald Trump has promised to grant clemency to at least some of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in a failed bid to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Trump has said he expects to begin doing …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Saturday named Stanley Woodward, an attorney who has defended several of the incoming president’s top aides and associates as well as people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, to join his White House legal team. Trump’s transition team said in a statement that Woodward would serve as an …

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(Reuters) – A winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to a broad swath of the U.S. on Sunday, with some 60 million people across more than a dozen states from Kansas to New Jersey under winter weather warnings and advisories. The storm was moving toward the mid-Atlantic, where Washington, D.C. was bracing for …

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he thought it was awful that President-elect Donald Trump was trying to do away with birthright citizenship in the United States. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden said the transition to Trump’s government seemed to be going smoothly, though he …

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