By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The Democratic-led Virginia House of Delegates voted on Wednesday to amend the state constitution to allow legislators to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps next year, heightening a multistate, mid-decade redistricting war spawned by President Donald Trump. Passage of the Democratic-sponsored resolution, on a party-line vote of 51-42, sent the measure to the …
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser on critical minerals is set to meet officials of about 30 critical minerals companies in Sydney on Friday, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. and Australia step up cooperation to diversify supply. Joshua Kroon, deputy assistant secretary for critical minerals and metals at the …
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By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) -A top U.S. border official won’t have to appear before a judge in Chicago on Wednesday after a U.S. appeals court paused her order directing him to come to court every weekday to answer questions about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city. Just hours before U.S. Border …
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By Jack Queen and Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -Portland police testified on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s order to deploy National Guard troops in their city inflamed protests and increased violence, in a trial over whether the troop deployment was legal. The Portland trial, before U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, marks the first time a judge …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave on Wednesday, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as “a mob of rioters” in a sentencing memo, said four people familiar with the matter. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Samuel …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Guard is planning to train hundreds of troops in each state to be part of a rapid-response force focused on civil disturbance missions by the start of next year, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday. President Donald Trump has increasingly embraced using the military to support his domestic agenda, including deploying …
By Susan Heavey and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s top health official on Wednesday said evidence does not show that Kenvue’s pain medicine Tylenol definitively causes autism but that it should still be used cautiously, a month after the president said U.S. health officials would recommend limiting its use. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Wednesday that it is actively debating how to interpret the wording of a law that limits when a president can use members of the National Guard in a challenge to President Donald Trump’s bid to dispatch troops to the Chicago area. The justices ordered the …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -An Illinois jury on Wednesday found a former sheriff’s deputy guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black woman in her home in a case that drew national attention. Sean Grayson, 31, who was dismissed from his job with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, had been charged …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not seek a third term in office, a marked shift after months of teasing the idea despite constitutional limits though it was unclear whether it was his final word on the matter. Trump, who is …
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