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By Luc Cohen, Andrew Goudsward and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, told a top Justice Department official in July that she was not aware of any “client list” belonging to the late financier and never saw President Donald …

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By Luc Cohen and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, reporters witnessed. Video posted hours later on X by WJLA television showed him arriving at a family home in Maryland …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender is leaving the government after less than five months, the Treasury Department said on Friday, another abrupt departure by a senior official in the young Trump administration. Faulkender is the second Senate-confirmed official to leave the department this month, following IRS Commissioner Billy Long, …

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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -Texas and Florida on Friday asked a federal judge to let them join a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone, saying that they need to step in to protect their abortion policies after changes to other Republican-led states’ abortion laws. The lawsuit is currently …

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By David Shepardson and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration will conduct a “major” tariff investigation on furniture entering the United States, a step toward imposing higher duties on a sector already seeing tariff-fueled price increases. “Furniture coming from other Countries into the United States will be Tariffed at …

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By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would probably expand his crime crackdown to Chicago, intervening in another city governed by Democrats, and threatened to take full control of Washington, D.C., rather than only its policing. Saying without evidence that violent crime was out of control …

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By Idrees Ali and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the head of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency and two other senior military commanders, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, the latest move by President Donald Trump’s administration to purge officials at the Pentagon. It was not immediately clear why Lieutenant General …

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By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) -A federal judge paused portions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ planned regulatory changes to the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace on Friday, just days before they were due to take effect. U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson in Baltimore in his ruling sided with a challenge …

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