By Tom Polansek and Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) -Seth Meyer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief economist since 2021, will leave the agency to work for the University of Missouri’s food and agricultural policy institute, the university said on Tuesday. Meyer’s departure comes after the USDA has lost thousands of research staff to President Donald Trump’s …
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -An uncounted number of extra people have died from AIDS and 2.5 million have lost access to medicine to block the spread of HIV, because of cuts to global programmes since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the U.N. body fighting AIDS said on Tuesday. “Persistent funding shortfalls …
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By David Hood-Nuño and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms, according to plans shared with Congress and reviewed by Reuters. The office, called the Second Amendment Rights Section, expects …
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By Daniel Wiessner -A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by U.S. immigration authorities without first giving them an opportunity to seek release on bond. U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California, certified a nationwide class of individuals who were already living …
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(Reuters) -Foreign visitors to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and other U.S. national parks will pay higher entrance fees than Americans starting in January, President Donald Trump’s administration said on Tuesday. The fee hike follows an executive order Trump signed in July that said additional revenue generated from foreign tourists would be used for conservation and …
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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Tuesday that she will not seek reelection next year, setting the stage for the heavily Democratic city’s first mayoral race in two decades not to feature an incumbent. “It has been the honor of my life to be your Mayor. Together, we have …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday requested he be briefed by December 10 on the results of a review into “potentially unlawful” comments made by U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain. Hegseth made the request in a letter to the secretary of the navy that the defense department posted on …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -In a reversal, Indiana Republicans will meet in December to consider whether to heed President Donald Trump’s demand for a new congressional district map favoring Republican candidates, part of his national effort aimed at keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican speaker of the state House of Representatives, …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned two giant white-plumed turkeys named Gobble and Waddle on Tuesday, sparing them from Thanksgiving dinner tables and adding to more than 1,600 pardons he has granted this term. The birds, weighing more than 50 pounds (23 kg) each, were raised on a farm in North …
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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing safety at the University of California, Berkeley, in response to a protest at a November 10 Turning Point USA event, the department said on Tuesday, as the Trump administration challenges higher education and the California state university system in particular. The department’s …
