WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday. Here is information on them. Alvaro Bedoya Bedoya was sworn in May 2022 as an FTC commissioner after being nominated by President Joe Biden. He is a founding director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vice President JD Vance will serve as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee, the party said on Tuesday, a role that will give him valuable face time with top conservative donors heading into the next presidential campaign. No sitting vice president has ever served as the RNC’s finance …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked President Donald Trump on Tuesday for urging the impeachment of a federal judge, laying bare tensions between the country’s chief executive and the judiciary as Trump’s sweeping assertions of power run into judicial roadblocks. In a rare statement, Roberts wrote: “For …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is ordering some of its lawyers who handle sensitive national-security matters to urgently review records from the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy that are due to be released on Tuesday, according to an email seen by Reuters. Christopher Robinson, a National Security Division …
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By James Oliphant, Timothy Gardner and Rich McKay (Reuters) -A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked any deportations that would occur under U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of a little-used wartime law to expedite the expulsion of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Hours earlier, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of …
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By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration gave no sign on Friday of diverting from its plan for a second wave of mass firings and budget cuts across the U.S. government after two federal court rulings ordered the reinstatement of thousands of workers. Even so, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump’s campaign to slash the federal workforce. After days of heated debate, top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer broke the logjam on Thursday night, saying …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the Gaza war violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Friday. Blanche said the investigation is also looking into civil rights violations tied to the demonstrations that roiled the New York campus last year. Blanche, the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Williams Cos said on Friday it appreciated U.S. President Donald Trump’s support for its cancelled Constitution natural gas pipeline project through New York, and that it was interested in dusting off the project under the right circumstances. Trump met with New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday morning for talks that included potentially …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump will meet New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday morning, the U.S. president said, for talks that may include potentially reviving the Constitution natural gas pipeline in the Northeast. The pipeline would bring gas from Pennsylvania’s drilling fields to New York, but Williams Cos canceled the project in 2020 following opposition …
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