By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal prosecutors have charged two men tied to what they allege was an ISIS-inspired plot based out of Michigan to carry out an attack in the U.S., according to a court document made public on Monday. Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud each purchased firearms, including AR-15-style rifles, in recent months …
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By Kat Stafford (Reuters) -The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information. The largest U.S. civil rights group’s Virginia State Conference along with the Advancement Project, a nonprofit focused …
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By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO (Reuters) -The immigration agents’ tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder. “We don’t want you here,” yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-year-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her …
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(This November 2 story is repeated without any changes to the text) By Jasper Ward and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will not attend the Supreme Court’s upcoming oral arguments concerning the legality of his global tariffs. Justices have a Wednesday hearing scheduled for arguments on the tariffs …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -As the U.S. government shutdown disrupts paychecks for federal workers across the country, it is exacerbating the financial woes of lawyers who defend the poorest members of society when they are accused of federal crimes. Some of the private attorneys who work as court-appointed lawyers for indigent federal criminal defendants have …
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(This November 1 story is repeated without any changes to the text) By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Within days of Donald Trump announcing his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, Rick Woldenberg was looking for a law firm to help him sue the U.S. president. “I’m not willing to allow politicians to destroy what we …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would help the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip get treated for his metastatic prostate cancer, after the cartoonist directly appealed to him on social media. “On it,” Trump replied in a brief social media post, after cartoonist Scott Adams posted that he would ask Trump …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The director of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research was placed on administrative leave on Friday, The New York Times reported on Sunday. George Tidmarsh told the newspaper that he was placed on leave after raising concerns about the legal basis of a new program for the …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday it is sending a team to investigate an October 29 close call between a Southwest Airlines jet and a medical helicopter near Cleveland International Airport in Ohio. The NTSB said the two aircraft experienced a loss of separation – meaning they …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump wants to hear from the courts how to fund SNAP food aid benefits for needy Americans and payments could flow by Wednesday as ordered by a U.S. judge, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday. Asked if that could be done to meet a federal judge’s order that partial payments …
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