(Reuters) -The U.S. Pentagon’s Replicator program, which aimed to field thousands of drones by August, has fallen short of its goals and faced implementation challenges, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. (Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -U.S. Congressional Democrats released on Friday daily schedules belonging to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2014 to 2019, which show Epstein had plans to meet with Republican donors Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and conservative commentator Steve Bannon. The documents, which Democrats on the House Oversight Committee …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a subpoena for records related to the travel history of Fani Willis, the Atlanta area prosecutor who charged President Donald Trump in an election interference case, The New York Times reported on Friday. The Times said that it was not clear whether Willis is the target of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday announced the deployment of Justice Department agents to federal immigration facilities across the United States. The deployment follows a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas. The shooting left one detainee dead. “I am also instructing the Joint Terrorism Task Forces …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. immigration officials on Friday arrested the superintendent of the public schools system in Des Moines, Iowa, acting on what authorities said was a prior deportation order. The superintendent, Ian Roberts, came from Guyana to the U.S. on a student visa in 1999 and was ordered deported in 2024, according …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -The retired financier Howard Rubin has been indicted on sex trafficking charges for allegedly coercing women to fly to New York to perform sex acts with him, including in what he called a sex “dungeon” in his Manhattan penthouse, prosecutors said on Friday. Between at least 2009 and 2019, Rubin ran an …
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Wearing a green sweater and tan pants against a bright blue screen, Marvel comic book superhero creator Stan Lee will return to L.A. Comic Con in holographic form to meet fans of his characters including Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man and Thor. Fans can interact with a hologram of Lee, …
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By Nandita Bose (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Friday said he is ordering the declassification and release of all U.S. government records related to the disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who vanished while attempting a round-the-world flight in 1937. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the mystery surrounding Earhart’s final flight has …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court sided again on Friday with Donald Trump, allowing his administration to withhold about $4 billion in foreign aid authorized by Congress for the current fiscal year as the Republican president pursues his “America First” agenda. The case raises questions involving the degree to which a president …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Martin Shkreli must face a lawsuit by a digital art collective that owns a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and accused the convicted former pharmaceutical executive of copying the album and playing it online without permission. In a 32-page decision on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Pamela …
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