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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic lawmakers are demanding an explanation from the Pentagon over an order to pause offensive cyber operations against Russia during negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The pause in such cyber operations, which is not unusual during sensitive diplomatic initiatives, was first reported by The Record and was confirmed to Reuters …

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By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With less than two weeks to go before a March 14 deadline, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress appear to be nowhere close to a deal to avert a government shutdown that would throw Washington into deeper turmoil. The talks have been complicated by President Donald Trump, …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge late Friday extended an order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from withholding federal funding from medical providers in four Democratic-led states that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth under 19. U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction preventing the administration enforcing two …

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By Jeff Mason and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was becoming contentious on Friday when Vice President JD Vance, sitting on a couch across from Trump in the Oval Office, weighed in with a zinger. “With respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by the Democratic Party over a recent executive order it says violates federal election law by giving him too much power over the independent Federal Election Commission. The lawsuit filed in the Washington, D.C., federal court by three national Democratic committees is the …

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(Reuters) – Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration have denied that the White House intends to dismantle the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, apparently contradicting statements the president himself made to reporters earlier this month. In court filings submitted late Monday, Justice Department attorneys rejected claims from a union representing CFPB workers that seeks a …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to abortion clinics and limit harassment of patients in a challenge brought by anti-abortion activists who have argued that their free speech rights were being violated.  The justices …

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MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country’s drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. It’s one of several U.S. counternarcotics efforts in Mexico derailed in recent weeks by the …

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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Gone are the crowded arenas, the pulsing playlists, the off-the-cuff 90-minute campaign speeches. Now that Donald Trump is back in the White House, he is favoring a new style of communication with the American public – almost-daily appearances direct from the Oval Office.  In the nearly four weeks since …

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By Patrick Wingrove, Michael Erman and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the new U.S. health secretary, has promised to address an epidemic of chronic illness with President Donald Trump’s backing, but his broad agenda from making food healthier to studying vaccines may clash with government spending cuts. Trump on Thursday ordered the creation …

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