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Some Republicans in Congress worry about Trump tariffs' toll on their home states
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign promise to impose steep tariffs on imports -- including those coming from close U.S. allies -- has some of his fellow Repub...
Jan 31, 2025
Senate confirms North Dakota's Burgum as Trump interior secretary
(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Doug Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, as President Donald Trump's interior secretary. The vote was 79 to 18. Burgum, 68, will lead an agen...
Jan 30, 2025
US probes release of arrested immigrant in first challenge to sanctuary cities
By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it was probing the release by an upstate New York sheriff's office of an immigrant living in ...
Jan 30, 2025
Explainer-What is DEI, a practice Trump is trying to dismantle?
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since taking office on Jan. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders aimed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion progra...
Jan 30, 2025
US judge blocks Trump administration from transferring transgender inmate
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming car...
Jan 30, 2025
Trump takes aim, without evidence, at diversity policies over midair collision
By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump suggested without evidence on Thursday that the deadly midair collision of two aircraft in Washington was the result...
Jan 30, 2025
US ban on gun sales to adults under age 21 is unconstitutional, court rules
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court held on Th...
Jan 30, 2025
Lawmakers urge Trump to consider new curbs on Nvidia chips used by China's Deepseek
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two U.S. Congress members are calling on President Donald Trump's administration to consider restricting the export of artificial intelligence chips made by Nvidia, alleging Chin...
Jan 30, 2025
Pentagon says US defense, NATO chiefs discuss need for more spending, lethality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte discussed the alliance in a call on Wednesday, including "building a stronger, more lethal NATO Allianc...
Jan 30, 2025
Factbox-What Trump has done to remake US government so far
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on Jan. 20 to remake and reduce the size of Amer...
Jan 30, 2025
