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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sarah Palin’s lawyer faulted the New York Times on Tuesday for failing to apologize to the former Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate for false statements in a 2017 editorial about gun control as jurors heard opening statements in the retrial of her defamation case against the newspaper. A lawyer …

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By Gram Slattery, Simon Lewis and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said at the White House on Monday he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States, suggesting that doing so would be like smuggling a terrorist into the country. His remarks came during an Oval …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Vermont on Monday ordered the Trump administration not to deport a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested upon arriving for an interview for his U.S. citizenship petition. District Judge William Sessions ordered President Donald Trump and other senior officials not to remove Mohsen …

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(Reuters) -A Venezuelan man currently in immigration detention was arrested in February inside a New Hampshire courthouse by federal agents who tackled him and knocked over a bystander, surveillance footage showed.  Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez is in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Texas, ICE records show.  Marquez Colmenarez had arrived at a courthouse in …

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By Brad Brooks and Ismail Shakil (Reuters) -Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist. Within hours of Harvard taking its stand, the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was freezing $2.3 billion …

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By Gram Slattery and Sarah Morland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants to deport some violent criminals who are U.S. citizens to Salvadoran prisons, a move that experts said would violate U.S. law. Trump’s comments marked the clearest signal yet that the U.S. president is serious about deporting naturalized and U.S.-born …

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By John Shiffman and Andrew Hay (Reuters) -The suspect in a weekend arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s official residence said he “harbored hatred” against the Democrat and would have beaten him with a hammer if he had encountered the governor inside the mansion. After turning himself in to the state police, the 38-year-old …

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By Jonathan Landay and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to slash the State Department budget by about half, according to internal planning documents reviewed by Reuters, a reduction that could see nearly 30 U.S. missions shut and steep cuts to foreign aid. The proposed cuts of nearly $30 billion in …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Monday to bolster Ukraine in its war with Russia, another effort to pressure the Trump administration to back the Kyiv government, sources familiar with the effort said. Representative Greg Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced …

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