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By Kanishka Singh and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday his government may stop giving grants to Harvard University, which has refused to concede to his demands regarding hiring, administration and speech regulation. “And it looks like we are not going to be giving them any more grants, right Linda?” …

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By Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Ten days earlier, dozens of Venezuelan …

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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. economy contracted for the first time in three years in the first quarter, swamped by a flood of imports as businesses raced to avoid higher costs from tariffs and underscoring the disruptive nature of President Donald Trump’s often chaotic trade policy. The Commerce Department’s advance gross domestic product …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Golfers teeing off at Trump Turnberry in Scotland on Wednesday would have been oblivious to Greenpeace’s protest against the U.S. President on the sand a few hundred metres away, which was only properly visible from the air. Environmental group Greenpeace said its activists raked Donald Trump’s portrait into the sandy beach alongside …

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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on entities it accused of being involved in the illicit trade of Iranian petroleum and petrochemicals ahead of a new round of U.S.-Iran negotiations on Saturday, as Washington seeks to ramp up pressure on Tehran. The U.S. State Department said in a …

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(This April 29 story has been corrected to say the Paramount board is laying groundwork for possible settlement, not that it will settle the suit, in the headline) (Reuters) – The board of Paramount Global , the parent company of CBS News, outlined acceptable financial terms for a potential settlement with U.S. President Donald Trump …

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By Nora Buli and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) -Equinor stands to lose billions of dollars on its massive wind power project offshore the state of New York unless U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration reverses a decision to halt the construction, the Norwegian group said on Wednesday. In a blow to the nascent U.S. offshore wind …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is open to peace in Ukraine and intense work is going on with the United States, but the conflict is so complicated that the rapid progress that Washington wants is difficult to achieve, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump, who says he wants to be remembered …

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