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By Nate Raymond and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. judge barred the Trump administration from rapidly deporting hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted, tortured or killed there. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s preliminary injunction on Friday was the …

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By Daniel Trotta and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen met on Thursday with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador in a case that has pitted a defiant Trump administration against the courts and fanned the prospect of a constitutional conflict. The senator posted on X an image …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is looking to cut some $40 billion in funding from its Department of Health and Human Services, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a preliminary budget document it had obtained. This cut would represent roughly one third cut of the health department’s discretionary spending, it …

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By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) -Members of Congress have called on the Trump administration to cease applying any unauthorized artificial intelligence system toward its effort to slash government spending, according to a letter they sent on Wednesday. Nearly 50 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives signed onto the message, seen by Reuters, expressing concern about …

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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and wasting U.S. taxpayer money. Rubio in a statement said he was closing the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik is considering running for governor of New York next year, according to a person familiar with her plans. If the six-term congresswoman secured the Republican nomination, she’d be taking on Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul. Stefanik was President Donald Trump’s pick for US ambassador to the …

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By Wa Lone and Promit Mukherjee TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) – More students living in the United States are applying to Canadian universities or expressing interest in studying north of the border as U.S. President Donald Trump cuts federal funding to universities and revokes foreign student visas. Officials at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus said …

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