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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday announced that it had rolled back Biden-era guidance that limited federal immigration arrests near sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals and churches. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman rescinded the order on Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. Huffman also issued a …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is carrying out targeted immigration enforcement actions, the White House border czar told CNN on Tuesday, adding that a now-suspended program for refugees needs examination before it can continue. Tom Homan gave no details about what operations were underway, saying only that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was enforcing …

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s new administration is likely to do away with the White House’s National Space Council, a cabinet policy panel that lobbyists at Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been pushing to axe, according to three people familiar with the plans. Trump’s aides and SpaceX’s top lobbyist Mat Dunn in recent …

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By Kanishka Singh and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he plans to remove over 1,000 of former President Joe Biden’s appointees from their government positions, and that he had “fired” four individuals immediately, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley. “YOU’RE FIRED!”, Trump wrote …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Department of Homeland Security is firing all the members of its various advisory committees, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The January 20 message, signed by Acting Secretary Benjamine C. Huffman, says the move is being made “in alignment with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) commitment to eliminating the misuse …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Harvard University will provide additional protections for Jewish students under a settlement announced on Tuesday that resolves two lawsuits accusing the Ivy League school of becoming a hotbed of rampant antisemitism. Harvard said it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, including specific examples of discrimination and …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate is expected to hold a confirmation vote on Tuesday on John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA Director, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said. “In his confirmation hearing, Mr. Ratcliffe promised to return to the CIA’s core mission. That means recruiting spies to collect intelligence and providing objective intelligence …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – Native American activist Leonard Peltier said spending the rest of his life in home confinement after being granted clemency by former President Joe Biden is “as good as freedom,” after Biden’s own FBI director opposed commutation for a man sentenced to life for the killing of two FBI agents. Biden, …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court gave a boost on Tuesday to a female Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed her 2004 conviction for murdering her estranged husband was tainted by what her lawyers called “sexist stereotyping” by prosecutors who presented to the jury evidence about her sex life and revealing …

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