By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration aims to deport over his pro-Palestinian activism. The arrest of Khalil, who is in immigration custody in Louisiana after …
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By Daniel Wiessner and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Federal judges in California and Maryland on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who lost their jobs as part of mass firings carried out at 19 agencies. The back-to-back rulings were the most significant blow yet to the effort …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has sought to evict an art house cinema from city property for screening Oscar-winning “No Other Land,” a film about the Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He also wants to halt future grant payments to the non-profit O …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top U.S. Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer on Thursday said he would vote to advance a Republican stopgap funding bill, signaling that his party would provide the votes to avert a government shutdown. “I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down,” he said in a speech …
By Costas Pitas and Jack Queen (Reuters) -Cable outlet Newsmax Media has paid $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 U.S. election for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, according to a regulatory filing. The companies settled privately last year, but the …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday told Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that you can never predict the future, when asked during an interview if he could rule out a recession. Vance also said the economy is strong. (Reporting by Jasper Ward)
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – U.S. agencies are defying a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at businesses and organizations that contract with the federal government, groups suing over the ban said in a court filing on Thursday. The groups, along with the city of Baltimore, told U.S. …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for leaking classified U.S. national security documents online, was sentenced by a military judge to a dishonorable discharge on Thursday after pleading guilty to obstructing justice. Teixeira, 23, was sentenced by a judge …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House has directed the FBI to stop conducting background checks into dozens of U.S. President Donald Trump’s top staffers, and to transfer the process to the Pentagon, ABC News reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The report said the directive came last month after White House officials deemed the …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to PBS and NPR stations, sued the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday to lift a freeze on funds meant to support the country’s emergency alert system. According to a complaint filed in the Washington, D.C., federal court, FEMA put $38.3 …
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