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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Tennessee’s Republican attorney general and the group behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision barring race-conscious college admissions filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging a U.S. Department of Education program that awards grants to universities if Hispanics comprise 25% or more of their student bodies. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and …

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By Ryan Patrick Jones (Reuters) -All members of the board that oversees the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump’s administration, the board said on Wednesday. The Trump administration had unlawfully “usurped the authority” of the board by denying awards …

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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump received a phone call from Elon Musk on Monday before the billionaire expressed regret over some of the posts he made on social media last week, according to a White House source with knowledge of the matter. Musk said on Wednesday he regretted some of the posts he made about Trump …

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By Helen Coster (Reuters) -Journalists have been among those injured during protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles in recent days, as police clashed with crowds of protesters and fired less-lethal munitions to disperse them. Since confrontations between demonstrators and law enforcement first flared over the weekend, more than 30 cases of “police violence” against …

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By Idrees Ali and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the deployment of thousands of troops to Los Angeles was about maintaining law and order as federal agents do their job. “The mission in Los Angeles … it is about maintaining law and order on behalf of law …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Two men pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges they kidnapped a friend for three weeks at a townhouse in Manhattan’s upscale SoHo neighborhood, cut him with a chainsaw and set him on fire after dousing him with tequila to try to get him to reveal his bitcoin password. …

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -U.S. military troops deployed to Los Angeles are allowed to temporarily detain individuals until law enforcement agents arrive to arrest them, a senior U.S. military official said on Wednesday.    Major General Scott Sherman, who is leading the deployment of 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines, said the troops did not …

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