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The Trump action was given a boost by a federal appeals court decision earlier Friday by a three-judge panel on the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
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President Donald Trump's administration told Congress on Friday it would cut nearly all remaining jobs at the U.S. Agency for International Development and shut the agency, even as Trump promised tha...
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