By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a case testing the separation of church and state. A lower court blocked the establishment of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. immigration agents rounded up undocumented migrants as well as American citizens in a raid of a Newark, New Jersey, worksite on Thursday that the city’s mayor said involved detaining a military veteran and violations of the people’s rights. The raid in New Jersey’s most populous city, hailed in the …
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By Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s council is set to consider legislation that would allow New Yorkers to take paid sick leave to care for their pets and service animals. Council member Shaun Abreu, who sponsored the bill, said the change could promote health for both pets and their humans. “When …
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(Reuters) – The Trump administration’s Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the name changes as part of a flurry of executive actions hours after taking office on …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a Texas doctor and self-described whistleblower on transgender care for minors, who was accused of illegally gaining access to records about patients not under his care at Texas Children’s Hospital. Just days after Republican President Donald Trump returned to office on Monday, federal …
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By Ted Hesson and Hannah Lang WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is powering ahead with efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement, opening up the possibility of targeting migrants who entered through Biden-era programs and invoking an obscure immigration statute to make it easier to deputize state and local law enforcement to arrest and detain immigrants …
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three sources familiar with the matter and a pair of memos seen by Reuters on Friday. The memos order the division not to file any …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ top human rights official said on Friday that diversity was not a threat and should be treasured, in comments that appeared aimed at Donald Trump over the U.S. president’s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion programs. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk made the comments …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court refused on Friday to allow Iowa to implement a law allowing for the arrest and prosecution of people who are in the country illegally. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Republican-led state’s law, which had been set to take effect in July …
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By Susan Heavey and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday barred Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, and others in its top ranks from entering Washington – and specifically the U.S. Capitol – unless they get court permission, after President Donald Trump ordered them released from prison. …
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