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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Justice Department that accused the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago of unlawfully interfering with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins in Chicago was a setback …

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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration agreed on Friday to pause efforts to block immigrants who are living in the U.S. illegally from accessing certain federally funded social services in 20 Democratic-led states that sued over the policy changes. The U.S. Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Deena Beasley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. A Department of …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Education on Friday said five school districts in Democratic-leaning northern Virginia were violating federal law by allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and other facilities matching their gender identity. The agency gave the districts which educate about a third of Virginia’s public school students, 10 days to …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on Friday that a nationwide injunction he issued in February that blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship should remain in place. In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston said his earlier nationwide injunction was the only way …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration will release more than $5 billion in previously approved funding for K-12 school programs that it froze over three weeks ago under a review, which had led to bipartisan condemnation. KEY QUOTES “(The White House Office of Management and Budget) has completed its review … and …

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By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants. FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to …

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By Steve Holland, Nandita Bose and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday he has not considered granting a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even as her attorney indicated she would “welcome any relief.” Trump’s remarks came as the White House is facing a …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge by parents in Washington state to laws addressing the rights of transgender runaway children who seek gender-affirming care at shelters. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said two anti-transgender nonprofits and several parents whose teenage children exhibited …

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By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday he had a good meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and got the impression that the head of the U.S. central bank might be ready to lower interest rates. The two men met on Thursday when Trump made a rare …

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