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By Costas Pitas and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury on Friday released a draft design for a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate 250 years since the declaration of American independence in 2026. The front of the potential design showed Trump in profile with the word “liberty” above him and “1776-2026” …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal workers’ union filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s alteration of furloughed U.S. Department of Education employees’ out-of-office email messages to include language blaming Democrats in the U.S. Senate for the government shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees in a lawsuit alleged the administration violated employees’ …

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By Gram Slattery and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has directed his team to review federal aid to Portland, Oregon, that can be cut as his anger with the city’s anti-government and anti-fascism protesters mounts, the White House said on Friday.   “We will not fund states that allow anarchy,” White House spokeswoman …

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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison over his conviction on prostitution-related charges, with the judge rebuking the hip-hop mogul for subjecting two former girlfriends to years of abuse. Combs, 55, was stoic as U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian announced …

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By Daniel Wiessner and Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A coalition of unions, employers and religious groups filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s bid to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign workers. The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco is the first to challenge a …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democratic-led city during the government shutdown. Vought said $2.1 billion for major Chicago subway projects — the Red Line Extension and …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail birthright citizenship was declared unconstitutional by a second U.S. appeals court on Friday, handing him another defeat on a core piece of his hardline immigration agenda whose ultimate fate may lie with the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court again cleared the way on Friday for Donald Trump’s administration to revoke a temporary legal protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the United States, backing a key priority of the Republican president as he pursues a policy of mass deportations.  The justices granted the …

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