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By Brad Brooks and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the University of California system to determine if it allowed a hostile environment toward Jews on any of its 10 campuses during protests last year. The department said on Wednesday it would examine whether a “pattern …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it plans to vote next month to explore alternatives to GPS after national security concerns have been raised about relying on a single system crucial to modern life. GPS, short for global positioning system, is a network of satellites and receiving devices …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A divided U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to let President Donald Trump’s administration withhold payment to foreign aid organizations for work they already performed for the government as the Republican president moves to pull the plug on American humanitarian projects around the world. Handing a setback to Trump, the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Representative Sylvester Turner, a former mayor of Houston, who was sworn into office in November, died on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the lawmaker said, hours after he posted about attending President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. The death of Turner, 70, temporarily widens Republicans’ slim majority in the U.S. House of …

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By Blake Brittain, John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state of Texas as well as oil industry interests. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by the U.S. government …

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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -Mayors of four of the largest cities in the U.S. appeared before lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday to defend their so-called “sanctuary city” laws, which restrict local officials in helping enforce federal immigration regulations. The Republicans who lead the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have long …

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