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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A legal advocacy group on Monday asked the U.S. Court of International Trade to block President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners, arguing the president overstepped his authority. The lawsuit was filed by the nonpartisan Liberty Justice Center on behalf of five small U.S. businesses that import goods from …

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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday asked a federal court to throw out a regulation capping credit card late fees at $8, saying it agreed with business and banking groups that alleged in a lawsuit that the rule was illegal.  The filing in federal court in Texas by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …

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By Nathan Layne and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chief information officer at the Internal Revenue Service said he would resign, according to an email sent to staff and seen by Reuters on Monday, the latest in a string of high-profile departures at the tax-collecting agency in the run-up to the April 15 filing deadline …

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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Seven Republican U.S. senators have sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, urging him to scrap a Biden administration rule restricting global access to AI chips before it kicks in next month. The letter, signed by senators Pete Ricketts, Tommy Tuberville and Thom Tillis, argues that the AI diffusion …

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By Nate Raymond and Jack Queen (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday moved to cut off all federal education funding for Maine’s public schools after state officials said they would not comply with demands that it ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports teams. The U.S. Department of Education’s announcement came shortly before a …

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(Reuters) -Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of utility Edison International, said on Friday it had submitted an initial plan to rebuild the areas within its service territory that were devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires in January. The preliminary plan was submitted to California Governor Gavin Newsom and is estimated to cost between $860 …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday refused to limit the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement activities in places of worship, ruling against a group of 27 religious organizations that had sued the administration for dropping a longstanding policy against enforcement in sensitive locations. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington, who was appointed …

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