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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued the city of Boston and its Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu to challenge an ordinance that restricts police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement carrying out U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda. The lawsuit filed in Boston federal court marked the latest in a legal …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Governor Kathy Hochul and migrant advocacy groups said on Thursday that dozens of people were detained in parts of New York state after raids in Cato and Fulton by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal agents. “I am outraged by this morning’s ICE raids in Cato and Fulton, where more …

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By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO (Reuters) -Florida’s plan to eliminate vaccine mandates would make inoculations optional for several million school-age children and college students, a move that disease experts said will accelerate declining immunization rates and put more people at risk of diseases such as measles across the country. For entry to kindergarten through …

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By Brad Brooks, Helen Coster and Julia Harte (Reuters) -Just one day after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his plan to stop requiring vaccines for grade-school children and others, the needed approval by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature is already showing signs of a heated battle to come. DeSantis’ surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, who joined the …

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By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) -Florida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, state officials have said, alarming public health experts concerned the move could trigger outbreaks of certain infectious diseases. Here is a look at how the plan might be challenged in court. WHAT IS THE STATE DOING? Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, …

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By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected on Thursday the notion of a U.S. constitutional crisis as President Donald Trump’s far-reaching executive actions test legal boundaries and spark tension with the judiciary. Amid hundreds of legal challenges, federal judges have frequently blocked or slowed numerous Trump policies, provoking …

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By Brad Brooks and Maria Tsvetkova Sep 3 (Reuters) -In Los Angeles, Francisco “Chavo” Romero and a dozen other immigration activists were out before dawn on a recent summer morning, gathering near an ICE staging area so they could tail the immigration agents’ vehicles and send alerts over social media on the officers’ whereabouts. In …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his recent vaccine policies and their stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s successful first-term pandemic initiative to speed vaccine development during a combative Senate hearing on Thursday. Half a dozen heated exchanges focused on the details of Kennedy’s …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington, D.C., sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday over his deployment of National Guard troops in the capital city, a move likely to heighten tensions between the Republican president and the city’s Democratic leaders. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, seeks a …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold an injunction issued by …

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