WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s hostage envoy Adam Boehler said on Sunday that U.S. meetings with Hamas on the release of hostages held in Gaza were very helpful and he did not rule out additional encounters with the Palestinian militant group. Boehler said his meetings with Hamas leaders in recent days were designed to pinpoint …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their six-month stopgap government funding bill on Saturday to avoid a potential government shutdown on March 14. The proposal would fund the government through September, the end of the 2025 fiscal year, and mostly maintain levels of spending passed during …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their six-month stopgap funding bill on Saturday, which if passed by Congress would avert a government shutdown on March 14 and extend current government funding through fiscal year 2025. (Reporting by Bo Erickson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Labor has reinstated about 120 employees who were facing termination as part of the Trump administration’s mass firings of recently hired workers, a union said on Friday. The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, said the probationary employees had been reinstated immediately and …
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By Nandita Bose, Suzanne McGee and Michelle Conlin (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump wooed the cryptocurrency industry’s elite at the White House on Friday, hosting a first-of-its-kind summit focused on his plans for a government-owned stockpile of digital assets. Trump welcomed a wide range of industry players including Zach Witkoff, one of the founders of …
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By Luc Cohen and Chris Prentice MIAMI (Reuters) -After Attorney General Pam Bondi on her first day in office last month said the U.S. would limit its enforcement of foreign agent laws, defense lawyer Edward Shohat spotted an opening to get a high-profile case dismissed. The Justice Department did not immediately grant his request to …
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By Nandita Bose and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies by using tokens already owned by the government, disappointing some in the market who had hoped for a firm plan to buy new tokens. The announcement, made on Thursday ahead of …
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By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would soon decide whether to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, following a Reuters report that his administration planned to take that step. Such a move would be a stunning …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The fired head of a federal watchdog agency said on Thursday he was ending his legal battle over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to remove him from office after a federal appeals court allowed the White House action. Hampton Dellinger, who had headed the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, said in …
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By Brendan Pierson and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed the administration’s request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling …
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