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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court rejected on Monday a request by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to allow it to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United States. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ordered North Carolina’s election board on Monday to not throw out any ballots cast by voters in November in a close race for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court and to certify a sitting Democratic justice’s electoral victory. Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Myers in Raleigh sided …

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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers, deepening cuts at the Pentagon that have shaken the Department of Defense at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term in office. Hegseth has long been vocal about how …

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By Gram Slattery and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was freezing billions of dollars in future research grants and other aid until the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college concedes to a number of demands from the Trump administration, a senior department official said. The …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday pushed forward in defending U.S. rules easing access to the abortion drug mifepristone from a legal challenge that began during Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration. The U.S. Department of Justice in a brief filed in Texas federal court urged a judge to dismiss the …

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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -A lawyer who represented a government whistleblower in a case that led to U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment during his first term sued the Trump administration on Monday for revoking his U.S. security clearance, calling it “unconstitutional retaliation.” Lawyer Mark Zaid said in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, …

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By Karen Freifeld and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – At least three people died and seven others, including two children, were missing after a small boat capsized in choppy seas off the California coast in a suspected migrant smuggling attempt north of San Diego, U.S. officials said on Monday. Four survivors rescued after the “panga”-style open …

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By James Oliphant and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed the backlash against an AI-generated image of him as the pope posted by the White House on social media, saying it was a harmless joke, but communications experts said they did not see the funny side. The weekend AI-generated posts …

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