By Ted Hesson and Suheir Sheikh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When U.S. immigration agents swooped down to arrest a Salvadoran man in Mount Pleasant, a Washington area known for its Hispanic immigrant population, residents alerted neighbors who flocked to the scene, chanting at officers to get out before the man was hauled away. And when Immigration …
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s global tariffs and his bid to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, unprecedented assertions of executive power that underlie his economic policy, are now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide how far he can go to reshape and control the levers of …
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By Amina Niasse (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania-based pharmacist who gained fame during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic dressing up as Superman to deliver vaccines has the suit at the ready again. In September, Mayank Amin, who owns an independent pharmacy called Skippack pharmacy in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, gave thousands of COVID shots as patients …
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By Ted Hesson and Emily Green WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to refrain from deporting Guatemalan unaccompanied migrant children with active immigration cases while a legal challenge plays out. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee based in Washington, D.C., kept in place an earlier judicial block on the …
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By Dawn Chmielewski and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated the suspension of talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves and said TV broadcasters should lose their licenses over negative coverage of his administration, adding fuel to a national debate over free speech. Kimmel has been embroiled in …
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By Steve Gorman NEW YORK (Reuters) -About a dozen New York state and local elected officials were arrested on Thursday during protests at a Manhattan building where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operate holding cells cited by a federal judge for inhumane conditions. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 state lawmakers were …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The death of a Black college student whose body was found hanging from a tree on a university campus in Mississippi this week was ruled a suicide after an autopsy, police said in a statement on Thursday. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was found dead early on Monday near the pickleball …
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm the top auto safety official along with dozens of other nominees, including officials overseeing highways and pipelines. The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm Jonathan Morrison to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and 47 other nominees, the first time the …
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By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Mariam Sunny ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. vaccine advisers voted on Thursday to revise the use of one of two key childhood vaccines under review, another step in U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s push to rewrite U.S. immunization policy. The group, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and …
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(Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday that he believes he has the votes to pass a stopgap funding bill on Friday that would avert a government shutdown. House Republicans hope to pass the stopgap, known as a continuing resolution or “CR,” on Friday and send it on to the Senate, which would …
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