By Nandita Bose, Ted Hesson and Costas Pitas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday that the border deal being negotiated in the U.S. Senate was the “toughest and fairest” set of reforms possible and vowed to “shut down the border” the day he signs the bill. The bipartisan talks have hit a critical …
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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group opposed to affirmative action on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions while a dispute over the practice proceeds in a lower court. The request came from Students …
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By Alexandra Ulmer and Jason Lange (Reuters) -From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, wealthy donors have thrown tens of millions of dollars at Republican U.S. presidential candidate Nikki Haley in an effort to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House. They have learned a hard lesson: Big money cannot win the Republican presidential …
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By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of Arab American leaders in Dearborn, Michigan skipped a meeting on Friday with President Joe Biden’s campaign manager that was organized ahead of a possible visit to the battleground state by Biden on Feb. 1, two participants and two sources said. Biden’s likely visit …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday agreed with a finding by the New York attorney general that the state’s former governor, Andrew Cuomo, violated federal law by sexually harassing female employees and retaliating against those who spoke out. As a result of its findings, the federal agency signed a settlement with …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to return to the Pentagon on Monday, nearly a month after being secretly admitted to a hospital for complications from an undisclosed prostate cancer surgery in December, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday. Austin’s secrecy surrounding his condition and his Jan. 1 hospitalization caught …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department plans to send additional law enforcement resources to help Washington, D.C., battle the perpetrators of violent crime and carjackings, the department said on Friday. “This surge in law enforcement resources will build on the Department’s efforts to target the individuals and organizations that are driving violent crime in the …
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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency buys Americans’ internet browsing information from commercial brokers without a warrant, the agency’s director told Democratic Senator Ron Wyden in a letter made public on Thursday. Wyden, who released the Dec. 11 letter, called upon U.S. intelligence officials to stop using Americans’ personal …
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(Reuters) – A CalTrain passenger train struck and killed person at a crossing near Palo Alto in California’s Santa Clara County on Friday, according to a report by the state’s emergency services. The California Emergency Management Agency report said the incident occurred at around 7:24 a.m. local time, near Mile Post 32.5 on the San …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday paused approvals for pending and future applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG)from new projects, a move cheered by climate activists that could delay decisions on new plants until after the Nov. 5 election. The Department of Energy (DOE) will conduct a review during …
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