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By Dietrich Knauth and Tom Hals (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from using the military to fight crime in California, as the Republican president threatened to send troops to more U.S. cities including Chicago. San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration willfully violated a …

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By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, an extraordinary effort to militarize the country’s third-largest city that was likely to trigger a legal battle with local officials. “We’re going in. I didn’t say when, but …

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By Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa on Tuesday announced that she will not run for re-election next year, potentially complicating her party’s efforts to maintain control of the chamber. “After a tremendous amount of prayer and reflection, I will not be seeking re-election in 2026,” Ernst …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday that it would pay state and local law-enforcement officers’ salaries and benefits in places where governments join a program to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The offer, which begins October 1, would also provide up to 25% of an officer’s salary …

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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed reports on social media that he is in ill health, saying he was busy over the Labor Day weekend giving media interviews and visiting his Virginia golf course. “I was very active over the weekend,” Trump told reporters in the Oval …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration will ask the Supreme Court for an expedited ruling on tariffs that a U.S. appeals court found illegal last week. The court ruling on Friday threatens to undercut the Republican president’s use of the levies as a key economic policy tool. The court allowed …

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By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will offer supervisors incentives to leave the agency or to take demotions, according to memos seen by Reuters, the latest in a series of voluntary programs reshaping the agency. The SEC has decided to provide “supervisor-graded employees with voluntary options” following an agencywide …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress returns on Tuesday with less than a month left to perform one of its core functions – keeping federal agencies funded and averting a partial government shutdown – a job that it has struggled to perform in recent years. The chamber’s bitter partisan divides have hardened in …

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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will relocate the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, noting the southern state’s strong support for him while criticizing Colorado’s voting practices. The move, first reported by Reuters, benefits a state that overwhelmingly supported Trump’s three Republican presidential bids, at …

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