LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday lifted a curfew imposed on part of the city’s downtown to curb crime in the wake of raids on undocumented migrants that prompted protests. The restriction on people’s movements went into place last Tuesday, affecting about one square mile of the city’s downtown between 8 …
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By Ted Hesson and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. immigration officials have walked back limits on enforcement targeting farms, restaurants, hotels and food processing plants just days after putting restrictions in place, two former officials familiar with the matter said, an abrupt shift that followed contradictory public statements by President Donald Trump. U.S. Immigration and …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s X Corp sued New York on Tuesday, challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism, disinformation, harassment and foreign political interference. X said the law known as the Stop Hiding Hate Act violated the First Amendment …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 250 groups representing farmers, ranchers, and agrochemical companies urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to seek their input on future activities of the Make America Healthy Again commission, after the body’s first report pointed to pesticides as a possible health risk. The farm sector has been pushing for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The NAACP said it will not invite Donald Trump to its annual convention next month, the first time the 116-year-old civil rights organization has not asked a sitting U.S. president to attend its convention. Derrick Johnson, president of the nonpartisan National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, accused the Republican president of …
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By Joe Brock and David Shepardson PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday that he wanted civil aviation to return to a 1979 zero-tariff trade agreement but noted it is part of broader trade talks. Speaking at the Paris Airshow, Duffy said the White House was aware that the U.S. is a …
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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A federal jury in Colorado on Monday ordered My Pillow founder Mike Lindell to pay $2.3 million in damages, finding that Lindell’s statements about election fraud were false and defamed an employee of voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems. The lawsuit was filed by Eric Coomer, former director of product strategy for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not plan to call Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2024, after a weekend shooting left one of the state’s lawmakers dead and another injured. Trump, a Republican, issued a statement after Saturday’s shooting saying such “horrific violence” would not …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday told staff it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants, the Washington Post reported late on Monday. Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including its Homeland Security Investigations division, told leaders at the …
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By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled proposed changes to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that would make some business-related tax breaks permanent while making more limited the deduction for state and local income taxes, angering some colleagues in the House of Representatives. …
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