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How many alleged drug boats has the US attacked? It depends on who you ask

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -How many suspected drug boats has the U.S. military destroyed in the waters off Venezuela? It might be as high as six or as low as four, depending on who you ask. The latest confusion arose on Sunday when U.S. President Donald Trump announced the United States …

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Bondi rebukes Democrats as she faces criticism over DOJ leadership

By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, appearing before a Senate panel on Tuesday, criticized Democratic lawmakers in personal terms as she faced pushback over the Justice Department’s enforcement efforts in Democratic-led cities and investigations of President Donald Trump’s critics. Bondi, appearing before the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, …

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Furloughed federal workers are not guaranteed compensation, Axios reports

(Reuters) -The White House is not guaranteeing compensation for hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are on forced time off during the government shutdown, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a White House memo. The Republican-led Senate rejected dueling measures to fund federal agencies for a fifth time on Monday, with insufficient support for both …

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Medical helicopter crashes on California highway, injuring three

(Reuters) -A medical emergency helicopter crashed on Monday on a busy stretch of Highway 50 in the California city of Sacramento, injuring three, the air transport operator said, although there was no patient aboard. Survivors were taken to hospital to be treated, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty said in a post on X, after the aircraft …

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US Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge’s order requiring Alphabet’s Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games. The justices turned down Google’s request …

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Illinois sues to stop National Guard deployment as Trump escalates clash with states

By Nate Raymond and Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas headed to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump then escalated the widening clash with …

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Fire breaks out at chemical maker Dow’s Texas plant

(Reuters) -A fire broke out at Dow’s chemical Plant B in Freeport, Texas, on Monday, the company said in a Facebook post. The fire was contained within the facility block and all employees were accounted for, Dow said in an update. (Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Christian Schmollinger)

US appeals court to reconsider Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law it struck down

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal appeals court will reconsider its recent decision declaring “plainly unconstitutional” a Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms of the state’s public schools and universities. In a brief order, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said its 17 active judges …

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Fire at Ford supplier set to disrupt business for months, WSJ reports

(Corrects paragraph 5 to specify Hyundai Motor’s North America unit) (Reuters) -A fire that broke out at Novelis’ New York plant in Oswego will disrupt business at Ford and other automakers for months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.  Ford, the biggest user of the plant’s aluminum, will likely flag potential implications of the …

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Harvard must face lawsuits over theft of body parts by ex-morgue manager, court rules

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Harvard University can be sued by families alleging it mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school and whose parts were then sold on the black market by the former manager of its morgue, Massachusetts’ top court ruled on Monday. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a …

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