By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic Texas state lawmaker launched a U.S. Senate campaign on Tuesday, challenging a former member of Congress for his party’s nomination in a state no Democrat has won since 1994. State Representative James Talarico, who represents Austin in the statehouse, will face former U.S. Representative Colin Allred, …
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(Corrects to show age range for young children to be vaccinated is six months to 23 months, not to 18 months, in paragraph 6, after physicians group corrected statement) (Reuters) – The American Academy of Family Physicians said on Monday that it recommends all adults over the age of 18, children and pregnant women to …
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court again backed President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration approach on Monday, letting agents proceed with Southern California raids targeting people for deportation based on their race or language in a ruling its liberal justices said makes Latinos “fair game to be seized at any time.” The court …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian woman aboard a North Carolina train, as the U.S. president and his allies sought to use the murder to justify plans to expand his crime crackdown in Democratic-led cities. The killing, which took place on August 22, gained national attention …
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By Daniel Wiessner and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that 19 mostly Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., cannot pursue a legal challenge to the mass firings of 25,000 recently hired federal workers carried out by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Stephen Miran, has a mortgage on a home formerly listed as his primary residence that he is now using as a rental property, according to his latest financial disclosure statement. A filing made public on Friday by the …
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(Reuters) – Democratic lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee have demanded that Stephen Miran pledge to resign from his job as chief White House economic adviser before the Republican-controlled panel takes any more steps to advance his nomination for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Miran said at his confirmation hearing …
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By John Kruzel and Jody Godoy WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump on Monday to keep a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission away from her post for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust. The …
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By Renee Hickman and Heather Schlitz CHICAGO (Reuters) -Several thousand demonstrators marched past Trump Tower as the sun began to set in downtown Chicago on Saturday, protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to flood the city with immigration agents. The protest came after fears of increasing deportations chilled a normally raucous Mexican Independence Day celebration, …
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