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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court delivered setbacks to environmental interests in a series of recent rulings including by further restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority and relaxing requirements for environmental impact studies for proposed projects. While cases involving President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and other issues captured attention during its …

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By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -Former criminology graduate student Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to killing four Idaho college students in 2022, a move that would spare him the death penalty under a deal with prosecutors, according to the family of one of the victims. Kohberger, 30, was pursuing a doctoral degree in criminal …

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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Iran-linked hackers have threatened to disclose more emails stolen from U.S. President Donald Trump’s circle, after distributing a prior batch to the media ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. In online chats with Reuters on Sunday and Monday, the hackers, who go by the pseudonym Robert, said they had roughly …

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By Brad Brooks and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The man suspected of shooting two firefighters dead and wounding a third after setting a blaze along a popular mountainside trail in Idaho was described by authorities on Monday as a young drifter whose motives remained a mystery a day after the ambush attack. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday blamed AT&T for technical issues in a conference call he held with American faith leaders but the wireless carrier said its analysis showed the disruption was not caused by its network. Trump urged the wireless carrier’s boss to handle the situation and also said …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT President Donald Trump’s administration, since taking office in January, has made funding …

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(Adds dropped words in paragraph 1) By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial on Monday said he would remind jurors of their obligation to deliberate and follow his instructions about the law, after the jury warned that one member of the 12-juror panel may not be …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Monday subpoenaed a former Pfizer executive after he declined to voluntarily comply with the committee’s oversight into whether the company intentionally delayed clinical trial results of its COVID-19 vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election. The committee subpoenaed Philip Dormitzer, the company’s former global head of vaccine research, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it halted a series of healthcare fraud schemes that sought to bilk the federal government out of $14.6 billion. The operation, which the department called the largest healthcare fraud initiative in its history, led to criminal charges against 324 defendants and the seizure of more …

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