By Steve Gorman PROVO, Utah (Reuters) -The Utah trade school student charged with murdering right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk made a brief court appearance on Monday, where his new legal defense team confirmed they will seek a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed to a trial. Tyler Robinson, 22, is …
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By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – LA28 on Monday said it has chosen Highland Electric Fleets as the official electric school bus provider for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a partnership that will deploy 500 zero-emission buses to support transport operations. Rather than acquiring new vehicles, LA28 plans to repurpose yellow electric school …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters)` -A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission chair to withdraw a plan to end government subsidies for wireless use on school buses after they were initially created under a COVID-era program. The lawmakers led by Senator Ed Markey noted that in the 2024 budget …
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(This September 26 story is repeated without any changes to the text) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI has fired a group of its agents photographed kneeling on the street in an attempt to de-escalate tensions during a racial justice protest in Washington in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by …
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By Brad Heath WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million federal court records found. So far this year, about 10% fewer people have …
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The United States and Mexico launched a new bilateral initiative aimed at disrupting the flow of illicit firearms across their shared border, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday. The announcement came during the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Security Implementation Group, formed earlier this month during Secretary Rubio’s visit to Mexico …
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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress has until Tuesday to pass legislation keeping the federal government open or trigger a partial shutdown. WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN? Congress is supposed to allocate funding to 438 government agencies before October 1, the start of the fiscal year. But lawmakers rarely meet this deadline …
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(This September 26 story is repeated without any changes to the text.) By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the legality of his bid to limit birthright citizenship in the United States, teeing up a major test of one of his most contentious policies that could …
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By Rebecca Cook and Daniel Trotta GRAND BLANC, Michigan (Reuters) -A man who crashed his vehicle through the front doors of a Michigan church opened fire with an assault rifle and set the church ablaze, killing at least four people and wounding at least eight others before dying in a shootout with police, officials said. …
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By Kristina Cooke, Phil Stewart and David Ljunggren (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was directing the U.S. military to deploy to Portland, Oregon and to protect federal immigration facilities against “domestic terrorists”, saying he was authorizing them to use “full force, if necessary.” Ordering the latest crackdown on a Democrat-led city, Trump …
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