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(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is set to tap health industry lobbyist Don Dempsey for a top White House budget job, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the m...

By Karen Sloan (Reuters) - Two major U.S. state bar associations have pushed back after President Donald Trump took aim at efforts to promote more diversity in the legal profession. Trump in an execut...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has issued an executive order designed to eradicate workforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government and the ...

By Dan Catchpole, Nate Raymond SEATTLE (Reuters) -A federal judge blocked Donald Trump's administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president's executive order curtailing the right to...

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama and four other countries in Central America and the Caribbean starting late next week...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has revoked U.S. security protection for Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State in his first administration and had been a loyal Trump ally before c...

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate committees on Thursday approved President Donald Trump's choices to run energy and environmental policy - officials who, if backed by the full Sena...

By Andrea Shalal and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. agencies under President Donald Trump were pushing ahead on his orders to reshape the federal bureaucracy, scrapping diversity programs,...

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday she would consider direct payments to farmers to offset losses from proposed tariff...