By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) -A U.S. court on Friday threw out a Chicago judge’s order directing a top U.S. border official to report to her daily on his agents’ activity as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis went too far in directing U.S. Customs …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Three individuals were injured after a fire broke out at HF Sinclair’s Navajo refinery in Artesia, New Mexico, on Friday, the company said in a statement. The Dallas, Texas-based refiner responded to a fire at the Navajo facility at approximately 1:10 p.m. ET today. The fire has been extinguished, the company said. …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -In a testament to Kim Kardashian’s power to grab the spotlight, the head of NASA felt compelled this week to set the record straight when the reality TV queen said she believed a well-worn conspiracy theory that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was a fake. In a new episode of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday that officials had stopped a potential attack in Michigan, arresting multiple people, without providing further details. Five people, including some teenagers, were being questioned on Friday, according to two sources. “This morning, the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it warned four companies that it plans to take enforcement action over their sale of unapproved fluoride-based prescription drugs for children, as part of a broader federal push to remove ingestible fluoride supplements from the market. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic …
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By Steve Gorman and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Democratic lawmakers in Virginia cleared a first big hurdle on Friday in their bid to redraw congressional maps in their favor next year — a move that counters Republican-led redistricting efforts in other U.S. states at President Donald Trump’s urging. Separately, Ohio’s redistricting commission approved a new map …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump’s latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster and bypass a Democratic roadblock to reopening the partially shuttered federal government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has repeatedly defended the filibuster for years, has not changed his position on the …
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By David Hood-Nuño and Disha Raychaudhuri WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) -A year ago, Karlene Sinclair-Robinson was writing loans and hosting education seminars for small businesses and entrepreneurs as finance director of Community Business Partnership, a community development financial institution, or CDFI, in northern Virginia. Now, she’s helping shut it down for good on December 31. The …
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(Reuters) -Heavy rains lashed New York on Thursday, killing two people in the city, Mayor Eric Adams said, while accompanying storms disrupted flights and weather authorities warned of floods in some areas. Media have reported incidents of flooding and damage while officials at the city’s JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports said flight schedules were disrupted. …
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By Tim Reid and JC Whittington WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In some neighborhoods of heavily Democratic Washington, Halloween displays with a decidedly political tone have long been a tradition. Nine months into Republican President Donald Trump’s second term, some residents are staging anti-Trump yard displays prompted in part by his administration’s budget cuts, job layoffs and norm-breaking …
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