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By Ryan Patrick Jones (Reuters) -Law enforcement agencies are preparing for hundreds of thousands of people to attend a celebration in Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary on June 14, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Matt McCool told a press briefing on Monday. McCool said thousands of agents, officers and specialists …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge said that three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting can keep their seats, even as he denied the nonprofit a preliminary injunction to block U.S. President Donald Trump from removing them. In a decision on Sunday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington, D.C. said …

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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Los Chapitos, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, labeling it a Specially Designated Global Terrorist as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to tackle cross-border drug trafficking. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it designated Los Chapitos under illicit drug and …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would support the arrest of California Governor Gavin Newsom over possible obstruction of his administration’s immigration enforcement measures, amid protests in the state. Trump border czar Tom Homan threatened on Saturday to arrest anyone who obstructed enforcement efforts in the state, including Newsom and Los …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. last Friday after his wrongful deportation to his native El Salvador in March should not end a judge’s investigation into whether Trump administration officials should be held in contempt for violating a court order, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said. In a …

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By Helen Coster MAHOPAC, New York (Reuters) -Democratic voter Joe Mayhew, a union representative from Pawling, New York, was one of several people at a rowdy town hall with Republican Representative Mike Lawler on Sunday keen to point out potential pitfalls with President Donald Trump’s budget. He fears proposed changes to Medicaid requirements could have …

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By P.J. Huffstutter COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) -On a warm spring morning, volunteers at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective plucked cucumbers from a greenhouse where a state psychiatric hospital once stood and the land lay fallow. Now the state’s largest food bank is working that ground again, part of an urgent effort to shore up supplies amid …

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