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By Amira Karaoud BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky (Reuters) -Afghan asylum-seeker Wazir Khan Zadran and his family arrived in Kentucky nearly four years ago as the U.S. military withdrew from his country. Now, he worries about the future of his children, especially his girls, if they are forced to return to Afghanistan. The Trump administration said it will …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A sweeping tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would devote an estimated $150 billion to immigration enforcement, an unprecedented sum that seeks to deliver President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations and lock down the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill would provide funding for 10,000 new …

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the U.S. astronauts left on the International Space Station last year by Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule, are on the up after returning to Earth in March, emerging from weeks of physical therapy to ramp up work with Boeing and various NASA programs. “Right now, we’re …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge in Vermont on Wednesday ruled that the continued detention by immigration authorities of a Russian-born scientist at Harvard University was unjustified, removing a key hurdle to the researcher being released from U.S. custody more than three months after she was detained at an airport in Boston. U.S. District …

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By Jack Queen and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs routinely beat his ex-girlfriend and during fits of rage threatened to release sex tapes of her to the internet, a stylist testified on Wednesday at the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. Deonte Nash, who worked as a stylist for Combs and Combs’ former …

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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday rejected U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter’s emergency bid to block the Trump administration from firing her. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled during a hearing that Perlmutter had not shown she would be irreparably harmed if not immediately reinstated as the case …

Judge denies US Copyright Office director’s request to halt her firing Read More »

By Parisa Hafezi and John Irish DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran may pause uranium enrichment if the U.S. releases frozen Iranian funds and recognises Tehran’s right to refine uranium for civilian use under a “political deal” that could lead to a broader nuclear accord, two Iranian official sources said. The sources, close to the negotiating team, said …

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