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US judge to block Trump from revoking thousands of migrants’ legal status

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge said she will block President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to cut …

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US House drops probe for data from university over pro-Palestinian protestor cases

By Karen Sloan (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Thursday dropped its probe for information from Northwestern University over its law school’s representation of pro-Palestinian protestors. A lawyer for the Republican-led Committee on Education and the Workforce, Matthew Berry, said during a court hearing in Chicago federal court that the committee was …

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US FDA to phase out animal testing in drug development

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it plans to replace animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with “human-relevant methods,” including the use of AI-based models. The new approach would help improve drug safety, lower research and development costs and drug prices, the agency said. …

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US lawmakers wants to stop clock switching. But what time?

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers held their first hearing Thursday in more than three years on a long-running debate to end the practice of switching clocks twice a year. The Senate Commerce Committee heard testimony on whether to make daylight saving time permanent or remain on standard time year round. The Senate …

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Trump must face defamation lawsuit from Central Park Five defendants

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park. Philadelphia-based U.S. District Judge Wendy …

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Trump suggests farmers could petition to keep workers without legal status

By Jeff Mason and Leah Douglas (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that farmers will be able to petition the federal government to retain some farmworkers in the U.S. illegally, provided the workers leave the country and return with legal status. Trump’s comments during his Cabinet meeting are, though vague, the most …

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Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The cybersecurity industry has gone mostly quiet after President Donald Trump took action against one of its prominent members. Trump on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of security clearances of SentinelOne executives and employees, part of a campaign to use the might of the U.S. government to crush …

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Official travel resumes at US National Institutes of Health, HHS spokesperson says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health may resume official travel for conferences and meetings as of Thursday, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told Reuters. Official travel had been suspended since February 26. “Effective April 10, official travel may resume following established approval processes within each Institute and Center,” …

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US March deficit falls to $161 billion, customs revenue grows but still small

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government posted a $161 billion budget deficit for March, down 32%, or $76 billion, from a year earlier, a decline due largely to a calendar shift for benefit payments as receipts continued to grow, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The Treasury reported that net customs duties in …

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Four Republican US senators back Biden-era energy tax credits

(Reuters) -Four Republican senators are asking Congressional leadership to preserve energy tax credits included in the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act in the impending budget reconciliation bill, according to a letter circulated on Thursday. In the April 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the four senators said repealing the tax credits would disrupt investment …

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