WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Friday looked set to advance a bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown, after a sufficient number of minority Democrats joined with the majority Republicans in support. Voting continued. (Reporting by Bo Erickson and Richard Cowan in Washington)
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pleaded not guilty on Friday to a new indictment, which added accusations that the hip-hop mogul forced employees to work long hours and threatened to punish those who did not assist in a two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, entered his plea to the new indictment before …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA on Friday said it received a one-week deadline extension to submit its plans for mass layoffs to the top U.S. personnel agency given the number of high-priority space missions the agency is grappling with this month. Federal agencies faced a deadline of late in the week to turn in …
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By Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) -Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico rose to 294 on Friday, surpassing all U.S. cases recorded in 2024, as an outbreak that began in late January in West Texas spreads. The U.S. reported 285 total infections last year, based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and former Republican Senate candidate nominated by President Donald Trump to oversee government health insurance programs, said on Friday he would not commit to opposing cuts to Medicaid, which provides health care to many poor Americans. Oz, who has never held …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge said California cannot enforce a state law meant to shield children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled on Thursday that the trade group NetChoice deserved a preliminary injunction because it was likely to show the California Age-Appropriate …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has pledged to crack down on people within the intelligence community who leak information to journalists. Gabbard, who oversees 18 spy agencies, said she would be “aggressively pursuing recent leakers” in order to hold them accountable for unauthorized disclosures. “Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s policy of deporting some foreign nationals who participate in pro-Palestinian protests is unconstitutional, lawyers for a detained Columbia University student said. In their first filing since U.S. authorities articulated the legal basis for arresting Mahmoud Khalil, his lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday rejected the city’s effort to temporarily block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from emptying its reserves and returning the money to the U.S. Federal Reserve or Department of the Treasury. U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox said Baltimore did not deserve a preliminary injunction …
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LA MALBAIE, Canada (Reuters) – The United States will likely revoke visas of more students in the coming days, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, following the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration aims to deport over his pro-Palestinian activism. “In the days to come, …
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