By David Shepardson and Jody Godoy ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google will face a trial in September on antitrust enforcers’ proposals to make it sell off part of its advertising technology business to address the company’s dominance over tools used by online publishers to sell ads. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, …
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By Bianca Flowers (Reuters) -House Democrats are calling on the Smithsonian inspector general to launch an investigation into U.S. President Donald Trump’s March executive order targeting federally funded museums, arguing that the directive may violate federal law and compromise the institution’s independence. In a letter signed by 71 Democrats that was first shared with Reuters, …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is poised to ask Congress to cut funding for several of the Justice Department’s law enforcement offices under a budget proposal that would likely hamper its ability to carry out the Trump administration’s pledge to crack down on violent crime, three sources familiar with the …
(This May 1 story has been corrected to say ‘2024’, not ‘2004’, in paragraph 10) By Jarrett Renshaw TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump capped a week-long celebration of his first 100 days – interrupted by a shakeup of his national security team – with a trip to deep-red Alabama on Thursday to …
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By Doyinsola Oladipo, Karen Freifeld and Rich McKay (Reuters) -Lawyers, teachers and politicians marched among thousands of demonstrators across the U.S. on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, the targeting of lawyers and judges, and the power of wealthy decision-makers. Jennifer Vasquez Sura, whose husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a U.S. resident …
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(Reuters) – Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, whose hits included the satirical anthem “Supermodel” from the “Clueless” movie soundtrack and the groundbreaking single “I Kissed a Girl,” died early on Thursday in a Minneapolis-area house fire, media outlets reported. She was 66. Her manager John Porter confirmed her death in a statement to the Minnesota Star Tribune. …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Nancy Lapid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reprised various misleading claims about vaccines this week, including that the measles vaccine contains cells from aborted fetuses and the mumps vaccination does not work. Kennedy’s comments come as the U.S. battles one of its worst outbreaks of measles in …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has joined with industry groups in asking a federal court to scrap a Biden-era regulation barring consumer credit reports from including medical debt, according to court papers. In a motion submitted on Wednesday in a Texas federal court, the CFPB joined two industry groups representing banks, credit unions …
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By Steve Holland, Gram Slattery and Erin Banco WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump ousted his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Thursday and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement in the first major shakeup of Trump’s inner circle since he took office in January. Trump, in a social media post, …
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By Andrew Chung, John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in its bid to strip temporary protected status for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, a move that would clear the way for their deportation from the United States. The Justice Department asked the justices to …
