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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion, Axios reported on Friday citing administration sources. “Estimates are still ongoing and there is no reportable final number,” a White House spokesperson told Reuters. Alcatraz was closed as a maximum-security prison in 1963 after 29 years …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s nearly $50 million lawsuit against the journalist Bob Woodward for publishing tapes from interviews for his 2020 best-seller “Rage” as an audiobook. The decision by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in Manhattan is a victory for Woodward, his publisher …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration will release more than $1 billion for after-school and summer education programs it froze two weeks ago under a review that withheld money for a range of K-12 school programs, a senior administration official said on Friday. Early in July, the Trump administration said it would …

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By Jan Wolfe BOSTON (Reuters) -A group of Democratic-led states urged a federal judge in Boston on Friday to deal another blow to President Donald Trump’s attempts to limit birthright citizenship, even though a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month made it more difficult for lower courts to block White House directives. Lawyers for New …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A prominent entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt clothing technology startup CaaStle was criminally charged on Friday with defrauding investors out of more than $300 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Authorities said Christine Hunsicker, 48, of Lafayette, New Jersey, promoted CaaStle to investors as a more than $1.4 …

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By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Friday tossed a lawsuit brought by Humana that challenged the U.S. government’s reduction in the health insurer’s star ratings for government-backed Medicare plans. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, dismissed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed four proclamations granting two years of regulatory relief from Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency regulations, the White House said. The proclamations cover coal plants, taconite iron ore processing facilities and certain chemical manufacturers that produce chemicals related to semiconductors, medical device sterilization, advanced manufacturing, and national defense …

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