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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and is in the process of replacing them, his department said on June 9, drawing protest from many vaccine scientists https://reut.rs/3SMRLZ0
Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, has lost his bid to lead Washington's attorney bar association after an unusually closely-watched election that drew record turnout from the U.S. capital's 120,000 lawyers https://reut.rs/4kByXbv
The Trump administration on June 9 appealed a judge's ruling last week that hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law must be given the chance to challenge their detentions https://reut.rs/4kT1c54
A Massachusetts judge who was criminally charged during the first Trump administration with helping a migrant slip out from a backdoor of her courthouse to avoid arrest by federal immigration agents faced a judicial misconduct hearing on June 9 that could determine if she can remain on the bench https://reut.rs/3FOdsoC
Exclusive: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told the White House in March it had already made substantial progress toward meeting President Trump and Elon Musk's demands for leaner government via voluntary workforce reductions, according to a planning document obtained by Reuters https://reut.rs/3ZTIsKE
Brian Quintenz, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will face questions from lawmakers as they weigh whether he should run an agency poised to take on more oversight of cryptocurrency and prediction markets https://reut.rs/43EWPF2
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya told a U.S. Senate panel that he was hopeful the Trump administration would reach a settlement with universities that have had research grants suspended https://reut.rs/3HBG3hu
The U.S. Justice Department will restart enforcement of the decades-old law outlawing foreign bribery, with a scaled-down approach aimed at reducing burdens on U.S. companies, according to a memo and remarks by a top official. The new approach, detailed in a memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, will focus the DOJ's scrutiny on alleged misconduct that hurts U.S. firms' ability to compete with foreign rivals. It also involves key infrastructure and is tied to operations of a cartel or transnational criminal organization https://reut.rs/3FOdDAi
Two more partners left law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison to join a new litigation firm launched late last month by Karen Dunn and others. With the additions of Melissa Zappala and Rush Atkinson in Washington, at least seven Paul Weiss partners have now joined the newly formed Dunn Isaacson Rhee https://reut.rs/4mVeHTC
The U.S. State Department directed all U.S. missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Trump's ban on foreign students at the Ivy League institution https://reut.rs/3FNbQLU