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The Federal Reserve is an independent organization, meant to be insulated from politics, and the Supreme Court suggested this year that President Donald Trump would need a reason, or cause, to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Judges on a U.S. appeals court on Thursday said they likely lacked the power to second-guess President Donald Trump's decision to strip hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain.
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The renewable industry accused the Interior Department of obstructing wind and solar projects for political reasons.
The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered sacrosanct by investors and economists.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating a new classification of non-career federal workers who can more easily be fired if they fail to carry out a president's priorities,
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The motion is part of a lawsuit lawyers for the cities filed in US District Court in February accusing the government of launching an unconstitutional attack on localities.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order creating a new classification of non-career federal workers, the White House said. The new classification will be for employees expected to leave their positions when the president who appointed them leaves office,