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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Sunday said she is suspending imports of live cattle, horses and bison through the southern U.S. border over the damaging pest New World screwworm, a measure that immediately drew opposition from Mexico. “I am announcing the suspension of live cattle, horse, & bison imports through U.S. southern …

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(Corrects story link in paragraph 11) By Doyinsola Oladipo and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEWARK (Reuters) -Travelers flying in and out of New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport were increasingly edgy about a host of recent problems at the busy airport, but they were most alarmed about two separate equipment outages in the last two weeks …

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HOUSTON (Reuters) – (This May 9 story has been corrected to clarify that the additional review was ordered by FERC, not by the U.S. Court of Appeals, and to delete a reference to the court ordering FERC to reconsider the ramifications of the CP2 project on air quality, in paragraph 5) U.S. federal regulators recommended …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a Democrat who is running for governor, was arrested on Friday on a charge of trespassing at a privately run federal immigration detention center while three U.S. lawmakers were on site for an unannounced inspection, officials said. Mayor Ras Baraka was taken …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is aiming to bring the first group of white South Africans to the United States via its refugee program as soon as next week, three people familiar with the matter said, a divisive effort given that Trump has been blocking refugee admissions from the rest …

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By Doyinsola Oladipo, David Shepardson and Dan Catchpole NEWARK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A facility that guides air traffic in and out of Newark airport suffered a new 90-second communications outage early on Friday, the second in two weeks that prompted an air traffic controller to complain “Scopes just went black again” to a nearby FedEx flight. The …

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