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Trump wants to extend federal control over Washington police

15 Aug 2025

By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would ask the Republican-controlled Congress to extend federal control of Washington’s city police force beyond 30 days, escalating his campaign to exert presidential power over the nation’s capital. Trump also asserted that any congressional action could serve as a …

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Trump nominates ex-clerk to Kavanaugh, Scalia to become appellate judge

15 Aug 2025

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is nominating a federal prosecutor who testified in 2018 in support of her former boss Brett Kavanaugh being confirmed to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court to become a life-tenured judge herself. Trump in a post on his social media platform …

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Massachusetts man sentenced to 26 months for threats to synagogues, Israel consulate

14 Aug 2025

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Thursday to more than two years in prison after he threatened to bomb synagogues and kill Jewish children in a series of calls he placed to two local houses of worship and the Israeli consulate in Boston after Israel and Hamas went to war …

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Hegseth supports women’s right to vote, Pentagon says, despite his having reposted video

14 Aug 2025

By Idrees Ali (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth supports a woman’s right to vote, the Pentagon said on Thursday, days after he reposted a video on X of a pastor advocating repealing the right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. “All of Christ for All of Life,” Hegseth wrote on his personal X account last …

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Prosecutors say Florida deputy who punched Black man at traffic stop did not commit crime

14 Aug 2025

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Florida deputy who punched a Black man at a February traffic stop did not commit a crime, prosecutors said in a report on an incident that was condemned by civil rights groups. A video of the incident showed officer D. Bowers punching William McNeil Jr., 22, who recorded the clip. It …

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US Supreme Court declines for now to block Mississippi social media age-check law

14 Aug 2025

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent in a challenge by a trade group whose members include Meta’s Facebook, Alphabet’s YouTube and Snapchat. The justices denied a …

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US health department reinstates task force on safer childhood vaccines

14 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday it is reinstating a federal task force for safer childhood vaccines after 27 years. The original task force was created by Congress under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 to improve the safety, quality and oversight of vaccines administered to American …

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US taking ‘special measures’ to protect people possibly exposed in court records hack

14 Aug 2025

By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government is taking unspecified “special measures” to protect people potentially exposed in a recent hack of court records, a top U.S. Department of Justice official said on Thursday. The hack of the federal judiciary’s filing systems has raised concerns across the judiciary since it …

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Man charged with throwing sandwich at US agent was Justice Dept staffer

14 Aug 2025

By Andrew Goudsward and Jana Winter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A man facing a felony assault charge for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C. worked at the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Thursday. Sean Dunn, 37, assisted lawyers on international cases in …

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