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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration intends to focus on New Orleans in the next stage of its city-to-city immigration crackdown, one current and two former U.S. immigration officials said on Friday, confirming plans reported earlier this month. U.S. Border Patrol agents could arrive in the Southern city as soon as Saturday, …

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By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) -Abortion has again become illegal in North Dakota after the state’s Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower court’s ruling that its near-total ban on abortion was unconstitutional. Although a 3-2 majority of the North Dakota Supreme Court’s justices voted to uphold the lower court’s ruling, the state’s constitution requires …

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By Bianca Flowers (Reuters) -Chicago will not apply for federal community violence intervention grants after the Trump administration reshaped the program to focus on law enforcement and immigration, the city said this week, calling the new stipulations an effort to politicize public safety.   “The city of Chicago does not intend to apply for any federal …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new head of the drug evaluation department, Richard Pazdur, has raised concerns about the legality and pace of new initiatives to expedite decisions, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the matter. The agency’s veteran oncology chief Pazdur took over the new role earlier …

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By Jeff Mason and James Oliphant NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump hosted New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday for a meeting that took place without apparent conflict despite their radically different worldviews. Here are some takeaways from their closely watched encounter: CHANGING THE SUBJECT What was the biggest …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of U.S. House lawmakers on Friday called on the Trump administration to enforce key provisions of a rule issued by former President Joe Biden’s administration that requires new consumer protections for disabled passengers using wheelchairs. “These standards ensure that passengers with disabilities can travel safely and with dignity,” …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -An Ohio jury found a white police officer not guilty of murder on Friday in the 2023 fatal shooting of a pregnant Black woman suspected of shoplifting from a grocery store, attorneys in the case and court records said. Connor Grubb, an officer with the Blendon Township Police Department, was also …

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