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By Jana Winter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., is exposing the FBI’s fleet of unmarked cars, potentially risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work, nine current and former employees of the bureau warned. The surge, which the White House has said …

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By Julie Steenhuysen and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen seven new members for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s panel of vaccine experts, an internal CDC document showed on Wednesday. The Department of Health and Human Services has directed the CDC to name the new members …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Washington museum in what U.S. authorities have called an anti-Israel hate crime pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a raft of criminal charges. Elias Rodriguez, 31,  of Chicago, is facing nine federal charges including murder of a foreign …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Multiple health groups and medical associations called on U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to step down in a joint statement on Wednesday, saying he was disregarding decades of lifesaving science and reversing medical progress. The statement, signed by more than 20 groups, comes after multiple former directors of …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school. The decision by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston marked a major …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to swiftly hear a bid to preserve his sweeping tariffs pursued under a 1977 law meant for emergencies after a lower court invalidated most of the levies that have been central to the Republican president’s economic and trade agenda. The …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The Texas legislature on Wednesday passed a bill enabling private citizens to sue anyone who mails or distributes abortion medication to or from Texas, fortifying the state’s existing ban on the medical procedure. House Bill 7 now heads to the desk of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it …

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By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Jeff Mason and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Senior U.S. national security officials said on Wednesday that military operations against cartels would continue, setting the stage for a sustained military campaign in Latin America even as basic questions about a deadly strike against a vessel from Venezuela remained unanswered.  The …

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By Lisa Richwine and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Los Angeles drug dealer known as the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that she supplied the dose of the powerful prescription anesthetic that killed “Friends” star Matthew Perry. Jasveen Sangha, 42, who admitted operating her North Hollywood home as a “stash house” …

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