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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Thursday the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made more than $2.2 billion in payments to a group of states over the past three weeks, meaning it was in compliance with a judge’s order blocking an earlier sweeping pause of federal grants, loans and other …

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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. agency that manages disasters plans to require nearly all employees, including full-time headquarters and regional staff, to be deployed to emergency zones, according to a draft memo to agency employees seen by Reuters. This spring, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will assign all full-time employees roles in …

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By Brendan O’Brien and Doyinsola Oladipo Chicago (Reuters) -An Illinois judge on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb that killed seven people, the state’s attorney’s office said. Robert Crimo III, 24, pleaded guilty to seven …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to impose new rules on federal elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eligible citizens the right to vote. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ruled that the Trump administration cannot enforce parts of …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday issued a warning to a senior party official to back away from plans to help finance progressive primary challenges to Democratic incumbents running for re-election in the 2026 midterm elections, according to media reports. “No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from withholding federal funding from more than a dozen so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with the Republican president’s hardline immigration crackdown. U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco issued the injunction at the request of 16 cities and …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to allow implementation of his executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, one of a series of directives by the Republican president to curb transgender rights.  The Justice Department in a filing requested that the court lift Seattle-based …

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