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By Julia Harte (Reuters) -Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she “cannot support” a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding. In an open letter to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Kornbluth said …

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By Steve Holland and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump unveiled a deal with UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca on Friday under which the company will sell some medicines at a discount to the government’s Medicaid health plan in exchange for tariff relief, similar to a drug pricing pact reached last week with Pfizer. The deals …

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By Renee Hickman CHICAGO (Reuters) -A producer for WGN-TV, a Chicago television station, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Friday in a residential area of the city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. The DHS said in a statement that Debbie Brockman “was placed under arrest for assault on a …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The federal government has awarded 10 construction contracts worth $4.5 billion that will add 230 miles of barrier along the southwest U.S. border, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. The contracts will add hundreds of miles to a so-called Smart Wall border security system that includes steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol …

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(Fixes typographical error in paragraph 15) By Luc Cohen and Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -Donald Trump achieved a long-sought goal when federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey, but the U.S. president’s loud campaign against his adversary may have undermined the case by opening the door to a claim of vindictive prosecution.  …

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By Diana Novak Jones, Dietrich Knauth and Jeenah Moon CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Illinois, five days after another U.S. judge blocked a similar deployment in Portland, Oregon. U.S. District Judge April Perry said that permitting Guard …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge in Chicago temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops in the state on Thursday in response to a lawsuit filed by the Illinois attorney general. (Reporting by Diana Jones; Editing by Jasper Ward and Caitlin Webber)

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Thursday that the government could dismiss air traffic controllers who repeatedly fail to show up for work during the government shutdown as flight delays continue to rise. “If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work, and …

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By Sarah N. Lynch, Luc Cohen and Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime foe of President Donald Trump, was charged on Thursday with lying on a mortgage application, as the administration steps up its use of government power against his perceived political enemies.  A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, returned …

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