MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wants Congress to pass a bill that includes an increase in funding to secure the country’s borders. Trump made the comments in a speech to House of Representatives Republicans gathered at his Doral resort in Miami to discuss how to turn the president’s policy …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has removed the U.S. Justice Department’s senior career ethics official from his post, according to a person familiar with the matter, in an action likely to stoke fears about whether the department will be able to remain insulated from political pressures and conflicts, Bradley Weinsheimer, …
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By Tom Hals (Reuters) – Quaker groups sued on Monday to prevent U.S. immigration agents from carrying arrests and searches in houses of worship, after the Trump Administration rescinded guidance that protected churches and schools from his mass deportation campaign. Last week, President Donald Trump’s acting secretary of Homeland Security rescinded a Biden Administration order …
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By Nate Raymond and Mike Scarcella BOSTON (Reuters) – A transgender woman serving in a federal prison has filed a lawsuit arguing that President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. government to recognize only two, unchangeable sexes and requiring inmates like her to be housed in men’s prisons violates the U.S. Constitution and federal …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department’s senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to reassign him to a new role working on immigration issues, according to a letter seen by Reuters. “I am honored …
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(Reuters) -A federal judge on Monday dropped restrictions on Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers who was freed after being sentenced over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and some others in the group from entering Washington, D.C., a court order showed. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta lifted his …
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PARIS (Reuters) -The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday. U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm in Merced County, California, they said in a report to …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during the Jim Crow era that stands as one of the toughest such restrictions in the nation. The justices turned …
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(Reuters) – New York City Mayor Eric Adams is ill and is limiting his public schedule this week as he has medical tests, his office said. “Over the last few days, Mayor Adams hasn’t been feeling his best,” Fabien Levy, a City Hall spokesperson, said in a statement on Sunday evening. Levy said the mayor …
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By Sara Merken (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff is returning to private legal practice after his wife’s failed White House bid, joining corporate law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Emhoff, who represents entertainment companies and others in litigation, is joining Willkie as a partner and will split his time …
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