By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Wendy Ortiz was surprised to find out she was being fined by U.S. immigration authorities for being in the country illegally – but it was the amount that truly shocked her: $1.8 million. Ortiz, 32, who earns $13 an hour in her job at a meatpacking plant in …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Head Start preschool programs for low-income U.S. children are scrambling to cope with funding cuts and delays, as they feel the squeeze of President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting drive. Local administrators and advocates for the program that serves nearly 800,000 children and families say the closure of five U.S. Department of …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Laura Loomer once had to chain herself to a building to get attention. Not any longer. A far-right activist who has jockeyed her way up from online agitator to self-appointed presidential adviser, Loomer has long been one of President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters. She has recently found herself at …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States announced on Monday the formation of a new unit that will crack down on federally-funded universities that have diversity, equity and inclusion policies using a civil anti-fraud law, the Justice Department said in a memo. The creation of the “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” marks the latest …
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By Maria Tsvetkova, Karen Freifeld and David Shepardson NEW YORK (Reuters) – The investigation into why a Mexican Navy training ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, shearing the top of its masts, will look into a possible engine failure and the role of a tug boat that assisted it in backing out of its …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court let Donald Trump’s administration on Monday end temporary protected status that was granted to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States by his predecessor Joe Biden, as the Republican president moves to ramp up deportations as part of his hardline approach to immigration. The court …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. attorney for New Jersey said on Monday she was charging a member of Congress from the state with assault and impeding law enforcement during a scuffle caught on video earlier this month at a privately run immigration detention center in Newark. The lawmaker, U.S. …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Lawyers for a Guatemalan man who says he was deported to Mexico despite his fears he would be persecuted there have asked a judge to order the Trump administration to facilitate his return immediately after officials acknowledged making a mistake in his case. The attorneys made the request on Sunday …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – New Jersey Transit trains will begin running again on Tuesday after the agency reached a tentative deal on Sunday with striking rail engineers on wage increases, ending a three-day work stoppage that had left tens of thousands of commuters to New York scrambling to find alternative transportation. The statewide rail …
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