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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Monday rescinded two Biden administration memos that encouraged states to address how climate change and equity impact infrastructure projects. Duffy and the department said the memos were in conflict with the intent of Congress in passing the $1 trillion infrastructure law in 2021 and …

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By Jonathan Allen and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday ordered that Palestinian Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil not be deported for now as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on some anti-Israel protesters, and set a court hearing in the case for Wednesday. Trump publicly denounced Khalil and said more …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman on Monday said Lyle and Erik Menendez must fully acknowledge lies they told about the shotgun murder of their parents 35 years ago before he would support their release from prison. “We have laid out a pathway for the Menendez brothers to potentially get …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4% in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by U.S. ally Israel’s war in Gaza and the resulting college campus protests, a Muslim advocacy group said on Tuesday. The Council on American Islamic Relations said it recorded the highest …

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(Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe. This would increase transparency for consumers as well as the FDA’s oversight of food ingredients considered to …

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By Andrea Shalal and Timothy Aeppel WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -A key economic adviser to President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back on talk of recession stemming from uncertainty around his administration’s tariff policies, even as a survey of American households showed consumers growing more pessimistic about their prospects, and U.S. stocks plunged. In an interview …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that a former chief of Russian state oil and gas company Rosneft cannot plausibly claim to own a $300 million superyacht that U.S. authorities seized in 2022, in a win for the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. District Judge Dale Ho’s decision boosts …

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By Joey Roulette, Patrick Wingrove and Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – NASA is eliminating its chief scientist role and closing down an office that studies policy matters on space and technology, in a round of layoffs affecting 23 employees, the agency said on Monday. NASA’s acting administrator Janet Petro told employees by email on Monday the …

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