By Candelaria Grimberg BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, increasingly a poster child for rightwing politics and free-markets, is hosting allies of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro at a summit in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Buoyed by the election win of ideological ally Trump, Milei is kicking off the …

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By Kyoko Gasha and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance unit, was killed on Wednesday morning outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in what police described as a targeted attack by a gunman lying in wait for him. Thompson, 50, was shot around 6:45 a.m. ET (1145 GMT) outside the …

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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday their willingness to uphold a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors in a major case that could affect various other state laws targeting transgender people. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has chosen former Senator Kelly Loeffler to head the Small Business Administration. “Kelly will bring her experience in business and Washington to reduce red tape, and unleash opportunity for our Small Businesses to grow, innovate, and thrive,” Trump said in a statement. (Reporting by …

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(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked former congressman Billy Long to be commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service tax body. Trump cited Long’s previous experience in real estate and as a business and tax advisor in a post on social-media site Truth Social, where he made the announcement. (Reporting by Costas Pitas)

By Patricia Zengerle, Steve Holland and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the U.S. Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, met with a lukewarm response from some Senate Republicans on Wednesday over allegations about his personal and professional life. Even as Hegseth made his case to Republican lawmakers whose support he’d …

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By David Lawder and Ismail Shakil WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated University of Maryland finance professor Michael Faulkender as deputy U.S. Treasury secretary, returning him to the department where he helped implement a pandemic relief program that kept paychecks flowing to workers idled by COVID-19. Faulkender served as Treasury’s assistant …

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By Lawrence Delevingne and Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON Reuters) -U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would nominate Paul Atkins to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, putting a prominent and experienced conservative Washington insider atop Wall Street’s major regulator. The appointment of Atkins, a lawyer and former top SEC official who has advocated …

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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google, Visa and Apple. Slater is expected to continue the department’s …

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By David Lawder and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had picked Peter Navarro, a fiercely loyal former aide who did jail time related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, to be senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, largely reprising a role he played during Trump’s first …

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