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By Evan Garcia KERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -Search teams plodded through muddy riverbanks and flew aircraft over flood-ravaged central Texas on Monday as hopes dimmed of finding survivors among dozens still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 96 lives, many of them children. Three days after a torrential predawn downpour transformed the Guadalupe …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday threatened the state of California with legal action after the state refused to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports as demanded by President Donald Trump’s administration. “@CAgovernor, you’ll be hearing from @AGPamBondi,” McMahon wrote, using the handles for California Governor Newsom and …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Groups representing U.S. university professors seeking to protect international students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy from being deported on Monday did what no other litigants challenging the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda have done so far: Take it to trial. The two-week non-jury trial that kicked off in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 27-year-old Michigan man was shot dead by U.S. Border Patrol agents after opening fire with an assault rifle on a U.S. Border Patrol station in the southern Texas city of McAllen on Monday, local police said. Ryan Louis Mosqueda fired dozens of rounds at the entrance of the facility shortly before 6 …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in Republican President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill that would prevent its health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Planned Parenthood said the provision is unconstitutional because it singles out members for …

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(Reuters) -Us judge temporarily blocks trump administration from enforcing law barring medicaid funding for planned parenthood health centers

(Corrects institution’s name in headline to Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins) (Reuters) -Measles cases in the United States have already reached a six-year high this year, data from Johns Hopkins University’s outbreak response center showed, as a drop in vaccination rates causes a surge in the disease once eliminated from the country. The U.S. had …

US measles cases hit 6-year high at 1277 cases, Johns Hopkins data shows Read More »

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat on Monday asked a government watchdog to investigate whether cuts at the National Weather Service affected the forecasting agency’s response to catastrophic and deadly flooding in Central Texas. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer asked the Department of Commerce’s acting inspector general Monday to probe whether …

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By Michael Erman and Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) -Several leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit against U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services on Monday, arguing that current policies on COVID-19 vaccines pose an imminent threat to public health. The plaintiffs, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will terminate deportation protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans living in the United States, according to U.S. government notices posted on Monday, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to strip legal status from migrants. The action, effective on September 6, will end …

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