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By Brendan Pierson U.S. foreign aid organizations suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its freeze of nearly all foreign aid spending said on Friday that they are owed more than $671 million for past work that a court has ordered be paid by a Monday deadline. Foreign aid contractors involved in the lawsuit said in …

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By Evan Garcia CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) – In the race to save the endangered ocelot, scientists are trekking the United States, pursuing fertility treatments and striving to kickstart a new generation of the wild cat. Ocelots roamed the southwestern U.S. in the 1800s, but have since dwindled to fewer than 100 in two small …

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(This March 8 story has been corrected to show that Kristofcak works on civil litigation, and is not a prosecutor, in paragraph 12) By Sarah N. Lynch and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of a key U.S. Justice Department task force that combats drugs and organized crime was fired on Friday, amid a …

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By Daniel Trotta LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) – The state of Kentucky passed a camping ban last year, frustrated by the growing ranks of homeless people and their encampments. Then came the human consequences. Louisville police cited Samantha Crabtree on September 27 for unlawful camping. She was in labor and leaking amniotic fluid when police arrived. …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – An environmental nonprofit sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Citibank on Saturday, seeking billions of dollars for solar and other projects frozen by the bank as the Trump administration slashes federal spending. Climate United Fund alleges that in freezing the grant money, approved by Joe Biden’s administration, the “EPA …

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By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s executive orders terminating security clearances and taking other actions against two prominent law firms may violate constitutional protections and represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, according to legal experts. The two firms targeted by the Republican president have …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday fired at least two senior career officials at the U.S. Justice Department, including the head of the office that handles presidential pardon requests, according to a social media post and sources familiar with the matter. Liz Oyer served as pardon attorney since 2022, a career Justice Department …

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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -A small plane with five people aboard crashed on Sunday into the parking lot of a retirement community in southern Pennsylvania, authorities said. The five people aboard the plane survived the crash near the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, airport and were transported to local hospitals, Manheim Township fire chief Scott Little said at …

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By Chad Terhune (Reuters) -As a measles outbreak spreads across West Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is fighting an uphill battle to convince some parents that vitamin A – touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus – will not protect their children. The 53-year-old pediatrician in the city of Lubbock is working …

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By Dan Levine and Leah Douglas -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links. The CDC’s move comes amid one …

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