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By Wa Lone TORONTO (Reuters) -Harvard University and the University of Toronto have unveiled a contingency plan that would allow select Harvard graduate students to continue their studies in Canada if U.S. visa restrictions prevent them from re-entering the United States. It is the first international student backup strategy announced since the U.S. Department of …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to rule in a dispute involving a Louisiana electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state, with the justices ordering the case to be argued again. State officials and civil rights groups have appealed a lower court’s ruling …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday in favor of Christian and Muslim parents in Maryland who sued to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBT characters are read in a high-profile case involving the intersection of religion and LGBT rights. The justices in …

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By Bhanvi Satija and Michael Erman (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly revamped vaccine advisory panel voted on Thursday to recommend Americans receive seasonal influenza shots that are free from the mercury-based preservative thimerosal despite decades of studies showing no related safety issues. Thimerosal is only used in multi-dose vials of flu …

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Pastor Ara Torosian received a distressed phone call from two Iranian members of his Farsi-speaking church on Tuesday — U.S. federal immigration officers were at their Los Angeles home to arrest them. It was the second such call he received this week. On Monday, an Iranian couple with a 3-year-old was detained …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to deport migrant Kilmar Abrego for a second time, but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported in March, a lawyer for the administration told a judge on Thursday. The deportation will not happen until after …

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By Christian Martinez (Reuters) -New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams, who won as a Democrat in his first mayoral bid in 2021, launched his reelection campaign on Thursday as an independent, after the surprise victory of progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary earlier this week. The mayor did not name Mamdani during the …

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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The man charged with supplying explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May took his own life while in pretrial custody, the Los Angeles County medical examiner ruled in autopsy results made public on Thursday. The coroner ruled the death on Tuesday of Daniel Park, 32, at …

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(Reuters) -Bill Moyers, a key member of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s inner circle who went on to become a guiding force in American journalism during more than 40 years in public television, died on Thursday aged 91. Moyers, who announced he was “signing off” from internet journalism in December 2017, three years after retiring from …

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