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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has chosen former Senator Kelly Loeffler to head the Small Business Administration. “Kelly will bring her experience in business and Washington to reduce red tape, and unleash opportunity for our Small Businesses to grow, innovate, and thrive,” Trump said in a statement. (Reporting by …

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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will not participate in an environmental case to be argued next week involving a proposed railway in Utah, the court said on Wednesday, a move that followed a call by some Democratic lawmakers for him to recuse over a possible …

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(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked former congressman Billy Long to be commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service tax body. Trump cited Long’s previous experience in real estate and as a business and tax advisor in a post on social-media site Truth Social, where he made the announcement. (Reporting by Costas Pitas)

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors will urge a U.S. judge on Tuesday to sentence Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to nearly 17 years in prison for leaking online highly classified military documents, including records related to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Teixeira, 22, will appear before a federal judge in Boston for sentencing …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, is due in court on Tuesday ahead of his trial on criminal fraud charges over a push to fund Trump’s signature border wall, weeks after he was released from prison on a separate conviction. Bannon, 70, is scheduled to …

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(Reuters) – Tom Cotton is set to be the chair of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee, Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman said in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)