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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned two police officers in Washington who were convicted in the 2020 murder of a 20-year-old Black man named Karon Hylton-Brown, the White House said. In September 2024, Terence Sutton Jr was sentenced to 66 months in prison while Andrew Zabavsky was …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama and four other countries in Central America and the Caribbean starting late next week during his first overseas trip as Washington’s top diplomat, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday. The trip, which Bruce said will also …

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By Dan Levine and Mike Spector (Reuters) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would retain legal fees earned from litigation against drugmaker Merck if he is confirmed as President Donald Trump’s secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a federal ethics disclosure made public on Wednesday. Kennedy, who ended his own …

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(This Jan. 22 story has been refiled to fix a typographical error in paragraph 11) By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s administration has reassigned about 20 senior career Justice Department attorneys, two sources familiar with the moves told Reuters, as the new president moves swiftly to shake up an …

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By David Swanson and Daniel Trotta CASTAIC, California (Reuters) -A new wildfire that broke out north of Los Angeles on Wednesday rapidly spread to more than 9,400 acres (38 square km), fueled by strong winds and dry brush, forcing mandatory evacuation orders for more than 31,000 people. The Hughes fire, about 50 miles (80 km) …

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By Karen Sloan (Reuters) – Two major U.S. state bar associations have pushed back after President Donald Trump took aim at efforts to promote more diversity in the legal profession. Trump in an executive order on Tuesday included state and local bar associations as targets for federal civil probes into private-sector diversity, equity and inclusion …

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