By Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to tighten federal grant approvals, with grant award decisions to now undergo evaluation by Trump’s political appointees, the White House said. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The Trump administration has threatened to cut federal funds for various agencies and …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The founder of a neo-Nazi group was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for plotting to sabotage Baltimore’s power grid, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland said. Brandon Russell, 30, of Orlando, Florida, was found guilty at trial earlier this year …
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By Andrew Chung and Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court order that barred U.S. government agents from making immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles based on tactics that critics have called racial profiling. In an emergency filing, the Justice Department asked the high …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum that requires universities to collect admissions data to prove they are not engaged in efforts to shape their student bodies along racial lines, according to the White House. But the largest higher education policy and lobbying organization in the U.S. said the …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the Commerce Department to begin work on a new census that excludes immigrants in the U.S. illegally, revisiting a push from his first term that was later rejected by the courts and reversed by his successor. Trump made his census order in an …
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By Sarah N. Lynch, Jana Winter and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI has agreed to help track down Democratic Texas lawmakers who fled their state to thwart Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn said on Thursday, but it was unclear whether federal agents would take action. The FBI has …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Friends and family of an Alabama social worker detained by U.S. immigration authorities are pushing for her release days after she was pulled over for an alleged speeding violation, a case that reflects the broad sweep of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Giovanna Hernandez, 24, was stopped by local police …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Friends and family of an Alabama social worker detained by U.S. immigration authorities are pushing for her release days after she was pulled over for an alleged speeding violation, a case that reflects the broad sweep of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Giovanna Hernandez, 24, was stopped by local police …
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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration is aiming to construct the largest federal migrant detention facility in the United States on a military base in Texas, the Pentagon said on Thursday, the latest move to use military resources to make good on his immigration agenda. Trump has stepped up arrests of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, …
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI is firing another round of employees, including former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, in its latest moves against officials who worked on issues that drew President Donald Trump’s ire, four people briefed on the matter said on Thursday. Driscoll, who temporarily served as the bureau’s director early this …
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