By AJ Vicens DETROIT (Reuters) – Two men alleged to have played key roles in the virulent online exploitation network known as 764 have been arrested and charged, and face potential life sentences in prison, the Department of Justice said. Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, and Prasan Nepal, 20, allegedly led a core subgroup of 764 known …
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By John Kruzel, Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy on Wednesday toward a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major test of religious rights and the separation of church and state in American education. The justices heard …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to ensure migrants held at Guantanamo Bay are given a chance to raise any concerns about their safety before being deported to El Salvador or countries other than their places of origin. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has not spoken to El Salvador’s president about returning a man mistakenly deported from Maryland, and the top U.S. diplomat refused to comment on reported contacts with El Salvadoran authorities. Asked if he thought El Salvadoran President Nayib …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted on Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to head NASA and to serve as commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. Trump’s pick to head the space agency, entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, is CEO of payment processing company Shift4 Payments and a business partner of …
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(This April 29 story has been corrected to say ‘detain’ instead of ‘arrest’ in paragraph 4) By Rich McKay and Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has begun the first prosecutions of migrants for illegally entering a military zone created along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the mantras within President Donald Trump’s administration since he took office in January has been “promises made, promises kept” even as many of his campaign pledges remain unfulfilled. In the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in the White House, federal courts have slowed or halted …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s approval rating held steady this week, but discontent is rising over his handling of the economy and hardline approach to immigration, amid concern about a global trade war and a push to increase deportations, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The three-day poll completed on Sunday showed 42% …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked that he would like to succeed Pope Francis, who died last week at the age of 88. Trump, asked about whom he’d like to see become the next Catholic pontiff, told reporters: “I’d like to be pope. That would be my No. 1 choice.” Trump …
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -About 40 federal government employees who worked on coal-mining and firefighter safety before their jobs were eliminated were asked to return to work this week, although it’s unclear if their positions will be permanently reinstated, West Virginia’s senator and the agency’s union said on Tuesday. The employees are from the …
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