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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -Over 30% of U.S. students in their last year of high school lack basic reading skills, the lowest performance in over three decades, according to test results released on Tuesday that the administration of President Donald Trump pointed to as justification for its push to shrink the federal government’s …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The main gauge of U.S. poverty did not change significantly in 2024, and household income also remained about level except for gains among the wealthiest Americans, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday. Overall, many aspects of the Census Bureau data on poverty, income, and insurance for the final year of former …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -An LGBTQ rights attorney has been charged in a federal indictment with lying during a judicial inquiry into whether he and others engaged in “judge shopping” in order to challenge Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Carl Charles, an attorney at Lambda Legal, was charged in an indictment …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -New York officials said on Tuesday that 17.6 million fewer vehicles have entered congested Manhattan since the city launched its first-in-the-nation congestion pricing program in January, down 12%. The program charges most passenger vehicles a toll of $9 during peak periods to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street, in a bid …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is in talks with Homeland Security Investigations about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters. The voter registration data was gathered over the last several months by …

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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s allies have pressed to charge Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and two other prominent political foes with a crime that the federal government rarely prosecutes, a Reuters review of eight years of court records shows. The Justice Department opened investigations into Cook and the others for …

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