(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it had charged a captain in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards with murder and terrorism offenses in the 2022 death of American Stephen Troell in Iraq. Mohammad Reza Nouri, 36, helped plan an attack on Troell, 45, who was working at an English language institute in central …
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(Reuters) – The Biden administration on Friday canceled another $4.28 billion in student debt for nearly 55,000 public service workers, the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement. Friday’s action brings the total public service student loans forgiven to about $78 billion for nearly 1.1 million workers, the department said. The White House said …
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By Jack Queen and Helen Coster (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump is adopting a wide-ranging legal strategy in suing media companies over what he describes as false or misleading coverage about him, filing cases under civil anti-fraud laws in addition to defamation lawsuits. Some legal experts say the cases appear aimed at punishing outlets for …
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By Rich McKay and Brad Brooks (Reuters) -The teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student at her Wisconsin school this week was in contact with a California man who was planning his own mass shooting, according to California court records. News of the connection between 15-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow and the Carlsbad, California, …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it was temporarily barring drone flights over dozens of critical infrastructure sites in New Jersey and New York. A frenzy of concern about drones in New Jersey and surrounding states has prompted a dramatic spike in the number of people in the area …
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(Corrects typographical error in headline) (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration plans to temporarily bar drone flights over critical infrastructure locations in New York in the face of widespread public concern, the state’s governor said late Thursday. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement she had spoken to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. deportations of immigrants rose in the past year to the highest level since 2014, according to a U.S. government report released on Thursday, part of a broader push by outgoing President Joe Biden to reduce illegal immigration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported some 271,000 immigrants to 192 …
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By Ted Hesson (Reuters) – Texas is launching a visceral billboard campaign in Mexico and Central America to deter illegal immigration by highlighting sexual assault and other dangers, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Thursday, the Republican’s latest move to stem crossings. “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped,” one of the …
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(Reuters) -Ingrid Lewis-Martin, a former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, has been indicted on bribery charges, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said on Thursday. Lewis-Martin took bribes from two real estate investors in exchange for expediting construction permits for businesses they owned, according to Bragg’s office. “We allege that Ingrid Lewis-Martin …
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By Mariam Sunny and Kamal Choudhury (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ drug to treat a rare genetic disorder, making it the company’s first wholly-owned drug, the health regulator’s website showed on Thursday. The drug, chemically known as olezarsen and branded as Tryngolza, is also the first approved treatment for …
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