By Ted Hesson and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday defended FEMA’s response to deadly floods in Texas last week, saying her agency acted swiftly and that Texas officials had praised the administration’s actions. During an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Noem denied that a memo she issued …
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(Corrects year of shooting, paragraph 4) By Ryan Patrick Jones (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate report released on Sunday said a “cascade” of failures allowed a gunman to shoot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year and faulted Secret Service discipline including the lack of firings in the wake of the attack. The report, …
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(Fixes advisory line to note that update adds details of Afghan resettlement program in paragraph 13) By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department began firing more than 1,350 U.S.-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps, a move critics say …
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump defended Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday amid backlash against her from some of Trump’s supporters over how the Justice Department handled the investigation into the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele. Trump said “nobody cares about” Epstein, and that more time or energy must …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Saturday that she was in talks with five Republican-led states to build another detention site inspired by the “Alligator Alcatraz” facility in Florida. “We’ve had several other states that are actually using Alligator Alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us,” Noem told …
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A California farm worker died on Friday after U.S. immigration agents raided a cannabis nursery and arrested hundreds of workers, a worker advocacy group said, while a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt some of its most aggressive tactics in rounding up undocumented immigrants. Dozens of migrant-rights …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Maria Alejandra Cardona KERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -President Donald Trump defended the state and federal response to deadly flash flooding in Texas on Friday as he visited the stricken Hill Country region, where at least 120 people, including dozens of children, perished a week ago. During a roundtable discussion after touring Kerr …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Friday granted a request from the Trump administration and industry groups to scrap regulations adopted during the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency that would have removed consumers’ medical debts from their credit reports, court papers showed. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan, whom Trump appointed in 2019, …
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QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadorean gang leader Jose Adolfo Macias, known as “Fito,” on Friday accepted a court’s request to be extradited to the United States to face drug and gun charges. Macias, who escaped from prison in January 2024, was recaptured in late June by security forces in the coastal city of Manta and transferred to …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday refused to allow Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and two of his co-defendants to plead guilty under agreements that would have spared them the death penalty. The ruling by a 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals …
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