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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) – The Democratic Party on Monday asked a U.S. court to block Republican President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling the election system, arguing the changes risked denying eligible U.S. citizens the right to vote. In a lawsuit against the Trump administration filed in Washington, D.C. federal court, the Democratic National Committee said …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Monday the EPA was closing a one-room museum at the agency’s headquarters in Washington which he said cost $4 million to build and $600,000 per year to operate. The EPA administrator said the museum attracted less than 2,000 visitors since it …

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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from stripping deportation protections for some Venezuelan immigrants, writing that officials’ characterization of the migrants as criminals “smacks of racism.”  In a case brought by the National TPS Alliance, a group that advocates for immigrants, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was too early to think about doing so. Trump, who took office on January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has …

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By P.J. Huffstutter RAINELLE, W.V. (Reuters) -The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates’ butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates’ butter contract, due to the federal government’s funding cuts. The next day, President Donald Trump signed a declaration celebrating National Agriculture Day, …

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By Bianca Flowers, Andrew Hay and Julio-Cesar Chavez (Reuters) -Ernest, a lifelong Washington D.C. resident, stood on the National Mall on Friday with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s distinctive shape inspired by African motifs in the background. The vendor, who declined to give his last name, said he saw President …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting migrants to countries with which they had no relationship without giving them a chance to raise claims that they would face persecution or torture if sent there. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a nationwide …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk, who serves as a top adviser to President Donald Trump, will visit the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday to discuss government efficiency with director John Ratcliffe, a spokesperson said on Friday. The CIA has fired a slew of recent hires amid the Trump administration’s massive federal workforce reductions, which are …

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(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday said he is inclined to temporarily block Republican President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his order targeting prominent Washington law firm WilmerHale over its work for Democrats and its connection to a special counsel who investigated him. (Reporting by Andrew Goundsward; Editing by Leslie Adler)

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to allow his use of a 1798 law to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of his hardline approach to immigration, arguing that courts must not encroach on the president’s national security authority. The Justice Department in …

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