By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Pedro Pascal, star of indie director Ari Aster’s new pandemic-era neo-Western “Eddington”, said on Saturday that storytelling and self-expression were the perfect way to fight back against political turmoil in the United States. “Fear is the way that they win, for one. And so keep telling the stories and …
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By David Morgan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax bill on Friday over concerns it did not do enough to cut spending hours before Moody’s stripped the federal government of its once top-tier credit rating. Trump is pushing lawmakers in the Republican-controlled …
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(Reuters) -At least 21 people were killed overnight in Kentucky and Missouri when severe storms that spawned tornadoes ripped across the two states, officials said on Saturday, and the death toll is expected to rise. In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear said early on Saturday at least 14 people were killed in his state. “Kentucky, we’re …
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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -A U.S. judge expressed frustration on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration had yet to provide sufficient details about its efforts to bring back a man deported in error from the United States and sent to a prison in El Salvador. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said at a hearing that …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration agreed on Friday to permit the sale and possession of devices that let gun enthusiasts convert semiautomatic rifles into weapons that can shoot as fast as machine guns. The agreement came in a settlement announced by the Department of Justice resolving lawsuits brought under Trump’s Democratic …
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By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Pop singer Dawn Richard told a jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial on Friday that she often saw the hip-hop mogul beat his then-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, who earlier testified that Combs physically and emotionally abused her throughout their 11-year relationship. Richard recounted an incident at Combs’ Los …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday kept in place its block on President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime, faulting his administration for seeking to remove them without adequate legal process. The justices, in a brief and unsigned opinion, granted a request …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Brad Heath WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department plans to press ahead with a merger of its two agencies that investigate drug and firearms offenses, though the effort would still need approval from Congress, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. In a meeting on Thursday, officials from …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration lost a bid on Friday to lift a judge’s order barring it from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own including Libya and El Salvador without first hearing their concerns about their safety. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on …
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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a federal judge’s order to halt large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, part of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government. The Justice Department’s request came after U.S. District …
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