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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who works as a security guard at a California cannabis farm said on Wednesday that U.S. officials arrested him during an immigration raid last week and held him for three days without explanation. George Retes, 25, told reporters he was manhandled by federal agents who …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar in its beverages in the U.S. after his discussions with the company. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the Transportation Department is rescinding $4 billion in U.S. government funding for California’s High-Speed Rail project. “This project was severely overpriced, overrregulated, and never delivered,” Trump said in a social media post. “The railroad we were promised still does not exist and never …

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By Andrew Goudsward NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -A federal judge in Tennessee failed to rule on Wednesday on the legal status of Kilmar Abrego, the migrant returned to the U.S. after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, prolonging uncertainty about the fate of Abrego, who was in the courtroom. Federal prosecutors sought to convince U.S. District …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked fellow Republicans critical of his administration’s handling of the case of dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On social media and in the Oval Office, Trump lashed out at allies he said were falling for a “hoax” pushed by Democrats, who “unlike Republicans … …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters.  The lawsuit filed in Boston federal court claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacked the …

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(Reuters) -The Trump administration transferred 28,000 acres (11,331 hectares) in a remote part of Northwest Alaska to a native corporation, putting more land near a proposed mining road under local control. The move is aligned with President Donald Trump’s pledge to remove barriers to energy and resource development in the state. “By putting land into …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. farmers on Tuesday slammed a project that got an up-to $4.9 billion loan guarantee from former President Joe Biden’s administration to transmit electricity from wind and solar farms in the Midwest to cities.  The 800-mile (1,290 km) Grain Belt Express transmission project backed by private company Invenergy would transmit …

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