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By Michael Erman and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) – An expanding coalition of health and consumer advocates is campaigning against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to the top U.S. health job over concerns about his activism against vaccines and other health issues, according to the groups’ representatives. Obamacare advocate Protect Our Care, influential consumer group Public …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic negotiators in the U.S. Congress are closing in on a deal for a stopgap bill to fund the government through March 14, averting a partial shutdown that would otherwise begin Saturday, a source familiar with the talks said on Monday. The measure would likely keep the roughly $6.2 trillion …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team will arrive at the Pentagon on Monday, a Pentagon spokesperson said, after a delay in signing an agreement after the Nov. 5 election to formally begin the transition process. Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder said that Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks spoke with the Trump transition …

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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans take control of the U.S. Congress next month, they plan to rely on a maneuver called “reconciliation” to achieve his ambitious tax-cutting and border-hardening goals over the opposition of Senate Democrats.  Here is an explanation of how that works: WHAT IS RECONCILIATION? The U.S. …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court judge has taken the rare step of revoking his decision to retire from active service on the bench, depriving Republican President-elect Donald Trump of the ability to fill a judicial vacancy. U.S. Circuit Judge James Wynn, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama on the …

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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Democratic former New York state lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin’s challenge to corruption charges involving campaign contributions from a developer in a case that involves the scope of federal bribery law, allowing the case to proceed. The justices turned away Benjamin’s appeal …

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(Reuters) -ABC News has agreed to give $15 million to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving the civil case brought against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll, a court document filed on Saturday showed. The lawsuit, filed on March 19 in …

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