By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A Los Angeles jury on Tuesday found Grammy-nominated rapper A$AP Rocky not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon in a 2021 altercation with another hip-hop artist in Hollywood. Rocky, the romantic partner of singer Rihanna and father of her two sons, turned around and …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Local prosecutors in Florida said on Tuesday their hate crimes unit was probing a shooting by a male suspect who, according to police, fired on two men he thought were Palestinians but turned out to be Israeli visitors. The Miami-Dade state attorney’s office said its hate crimes unit “reviews every …
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By Jack Queen and Tom Hals NEW YORK (Reuters) – A judge on Tuesday declined to immediately block Elon Musk’s government efficiency department from directing firings of federal workers or accessing databases, but said the case raises questions about Musk’s apparent unchecked authority as a top deputy to President Donald Trump. Washington-based U.S. District Judge …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Aaron Lukas, a career government official, as deputy to newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a source familiar with the plan said. Gabbard, a former U.S. representative with little intelligence experience, was confirmed as the top U.S. spy last week in a …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has reversed a plan to shut down the government website that ships free COVID-19 tests to households, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Jasper Ward; Editing by Tom Hogue)
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will block the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One until the news agency stops referring to the Gulf of Mexico. Trump signed an executive order in January directing the Interior Department to change the name of the body of water …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Grindr, the gay dating app, is not liable to an anonymous male user for having matched him with four adult men who raped him when he was 15 years old, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, said Section 230 …
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By Susan Heavey and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. prosecutors to appear in court this week to address why they are seeking to dismiss criminal charges filed against New York Mayor Eric Adams. The hearing comes after a Justice Department official appointed by Republican President Donald Trump …
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(Reuters) – The United States Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that it accidentally fired several agency employees working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak, over the weekend, NBC news reported. “Although several positions supporting [avian flu] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to advance the nomination of Kash Patel to be the director of the FBI, putting a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and a critic of the bureau on track to run the most prominent U.S. law enforcement agency. The Senate voted 48-45 along party lines …
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