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Career US Justice Department official in charge of public corruption cases resigns
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, ...
Jan 27, 2025
Judge drops restrictions on some Oath Keepers from entering US Capitol
(Reuters) -A federal judge on Monday dropped restrictions on Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers who was freed after being sentenced over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Ca...
Jan 27, 2025
Transgender inmate sues over Trump's order curtailing LGBT rights
By Nate Raymond and Mike Scarcella BOSTON (Reuters) - A transgender woman serving in a federal prison has filed a lawsuit arguing that President Donald Trump's executive order directing the U.S. gover...
Jan 27, 2025
US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 18...
Jan 27, 2025
Trump to order end to DEI in military, reinstate troops who refused COVID vaccines, Hegseth says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will soon sign executive orders removing diversity, equity and inclusion from the military and reinstating thousands of troops who were kicked out fo...
Jan 27, 2025
Elon Musk says $1 million election giveaway wasn't an illegal lottery
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Elon Musk asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action by voters who said the world's richest person defrauded them into signing a petition to support the U...
Jan 26, 2025
Trump directs US government to override California water policies if necessary
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order directing the federal government to override the state of California's water-management practices if they are found to be in...
Jan 26, 2025
Explainer-What is FEMA, US emergency agency under fire from Trump?
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whos...
Jan 26, 2025
Trump issues executive order establishing review council for FEMA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering ...
Jan 26, 2025
Exclusive-Trump administration memo tells USAID to put "America First" in reviewing foreign aid
By Humeyra Pamuk, Maggie Michael and Lena Masri WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration urged U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers to join the effort to transform how Wash...
Jan 26, 2025
