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US Senate Republicans look to advance part of Trump agenda this week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans aim to vote this week on their own plan to advance President Donald Trump's agenda on border security, immigration, fossil fuel production and defense, p...
Feb 18, 2025
Senate advances nomination of Trump FBI pick Kash Patel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to advance the nomination of Kash Patel to be the director of the FBI, putting a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and a critic of the bure...
Feb 18, 2025
US Senate confirms Cantor Fitzgerald's Lutnick to head Commerce Department
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday 51-45 to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee Howard Lutnick, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Wall Street firm Cantor...
Feb 18, 2025
Trump scores win in suit challenging Elon Musk's cost-cutting powers
By Jack Queen and Tom Hals NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's administration scored a victory on Tuesday when a judge ruled in its favor in a challenge by Democratic attorneys general from a group of...
Feb 18, 2025
Trump signed three presidential actions on Tuesday, aide says
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders and a presidential memorandum on Tuesday, a White House aide said. Trump signed an order relating to the affordability and availabil...
Feb 18, 2025
Trump suggests Musk will not take part in any space-related government decisions
PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - President Donald Trump suggested on Monday he will not let billionaire Elon Musk take part in any space-related government decisions, when the president was asked about...
Feb 18, 2025
Tax enforcers, rocket scientists, bank regulators fired as Trump slashes federal workforce
By Pete Schroeder, Nathan Layne and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration targeted bank regulators, rocket scientists and tax enforcers on Tuesday as it sought to fire tho...
Feb 18, 2025
US appeals court blocks Biden-era student debt relief plan
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration lacked authority to pursue a student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments f...
Feb 18, 2025
Exclusive-Merck vaccine case linked to HHS Secretary Kennedy delayed, company says
By Dan Levine and Mike Spector (Reuters) - Merck and a woman suing the drugmaker agreed to halt a trial over alleged injuries from the drugmaker's human papillomavirus vaccine in a case with ties to U...
Feb 18, 2025
Judge expected to rule on Musk and DOGE access at several US agencies
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - A federal judge is expected to rule on Tuesday on a request by 13 U.S. states to temporarily block Elon Musk and the government downsizing team known as DOGE set up by Presiden...
Feb 18, 2025
