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By Matt Tracy (Reuters) -Pro-democracy activists and labor groups held hundreds of rallies and other events across the United States on Saturday protesting the Trump administration’s push for Texas to redraw its congressional map in favor of Republicans. Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke was among those who spoke on Saturday in Texas, from which dozens of …

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By AJ Vicens (Reuters) -The Republican governors of three states are deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., at the request of the administration of President Donald Trump, who has portrayed the city as awash in crime. The announcements on Saturday of troops from hundreds of miles away in West Virginia, South Carolina …

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By Rory Carroll and Lisa Richwine BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) -Director Spike Lee’s multi-part documentary series for ESPN Films about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked a national debate when he protested racial injustice nearly a decade ago, will not be released, the filmmaker and ESPN said.  “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have …

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By P.J. Huffstutter CENTRAL LAKE, MICHIGAN (Reuters) -The frost came in late April, sliding across the hills before dawn. Juliette King McAvoy stepped into the orchard, hoping the cold had spared the cherry buds. But they glittered in the morning sun like glass, just as dead. Weather had damaged much of the family orchard’s crop for …

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By Sarah N. Lynch, Tim Reid and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department agreed on Friday to scale back President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempted takeover of the District of Columbia’s police force, in a deal negotiated with city officials at the urging of a federal judge. Under the accord presented by the two …

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(Refiles to remove extraneous words in last paragraph) By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A divided federal appeals court on Friday cleared U.S. President Donald Trump to resume mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that a lower court had lacked jurisdiction in temporarily blocking this. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the …

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By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The District of Columbia’s attorney general sued Donald Trump on Friday in a bid to impede his attempted takeover of Washington’s police force, escalating a power struggle between the Republican U.S. president and the U.S. capital city’s Democratic leadership. Here is an explanation of what federal law says about Trump’s authority over …

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By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats took aim at the Trump administration after Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Navy and Air Force were poised to cancel nearly completed software projects worth over $800 million. The reason for the move was an effort by some officials at the services to steer new projects to companies …

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By Tom Polansek and Leah Douglas (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a facility in Texas that produces sterile flies to fight the flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm, Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday. The plan signals increasing worries about the risk of screwworm, a parasitic …

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