By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is ending the work of a U.S. aid agency launched by Republican former President George W. Bush to reduce poverty and promote economic growth around the world, according to a recording of a staff meeting and an email to staff seen by …
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By Mike Scarcella and David Thomas (Reuters) -Two U.S. judges grilled a Justice Department lawyer on Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting prominent law firms WilmerHale and Perkins Coie, at hearings testing claims that the president’s actions were retaliatory and unlawful. Attorneys for Perkins Coie asked U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk’s drive to slash federal programs and the size of the federal workforce came under attack at a town hall meeting held by Representative Byron Donalds, as Republicans in the U.S. Congress find themselves increasingly having to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda. Donalds, who represents a southwest …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Willie Phillips, a Democratic commissioner on the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, resigned on Tuesday, opening the way for President Donald Trump to nominate another member who would give the five-member panel a Republican majority. The resignation of Phillips, whose term had been set to go through June 30, 2026, allows Trump to …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three senior Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday urged the Federal Aviation Administration to address significant safety issues at Reagan Washington National Airport and maintain reduced air traffic after a series of troubling incidents. Representatives Rick Larsen and Steve Cohen and Senator Tammy Duckworth in a joint letter to the FAA seen …
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration was prepared to carry out deportations of dozens of Venezuelan migrants detained in Texas under a 1798 law historically used only during wartime without judicial review and contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court’s prior orders, lawyers told the justices Monday. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys …
(Reuters) -The White House on Monday denied a report that it has begun searching for a new defense secretary after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reportedly shared details of a U.S. attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on a commercial messaging app. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the National Public Radio story on the search was …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President JD Vance went to the Vatican on Saturday to meet senior Catholic Church officials who have been sharply critical of his administration’s policies, in the first such in-person talks of the second Trump presidency. Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with Pope Francis over U.S. President …
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By Andrew Chung, Luc Cohen, Kristina Cooke and Jack Queen (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court early on Saturday temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices. “The Government is directed …
(Reuters) – Lawyers for Venezuelan men detained by the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to block what the lawyers said were the men’s imminent deportation without the judicial review required by the Supreme Court. “Many individuals have already been loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport,” lawyers for the …
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