By Puyaan Singh (Reuters) -The Texas Department of State Health Services on Friday reported 59 new measles cases in three days, bringing the total to 481 in the state, while New Mexico’s health department reported 54 infections, adding six, as the disease spreads across the country. Cases in Gaines County, the center of the outbreak, …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. is asking defense contractors for information on space-based interceptors to knock out incoming missile threats, as the Pentagon explores President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense shield. The idea of strapping rocket launchers, or lasers, to satellites so they can shoot down enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles as they …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week. Columbia’s leaders applied to the city’s police commissioner …
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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in March, but President Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariffs could undermine the labor market’s resilience in the months ahead amid sagging business confidence and a stock market selloff. The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday suggested steady momentum in …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican member of the U.S. Senate on Thursday called the chamber’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer – the highest-ranking Jewish U.S. elected official – “Fuhrer,” a reference to the title used by Adolf Hitler. Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno, who was elected in November, made the comment to reporters outside the …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order that compels voters to prove they are U.S. citizens and bars states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in Boston federal court, followed two other lawsuits against Trump’s order. …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor announced on Friday that he is launching investigations into whether people improperly leaked information about the prosecutions of President Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin said in an email seen by Reuters that …
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By Tim Reid and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m. They were from panicked colleagues at the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told investors who he said were investing money in the United States that his policies would never change, as global stock markets tumbled for a second day following his announced tariff plan and China’s retaliatory measures. “To the many investors coming into the United States and investing …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a bill on Thursday that would require congressional approval for new tariffs, the day after President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new taxes on a vast array of imported goods. Grassley, whose home state of Iowa relies heavily on the global agricultural trade, joined Democratic …
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