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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes funding to PBS and NPR stations, sued the White House late Monday after President Donald Trump sought to fire three of its five board members. The nonprofit corporation, which was created by Congress in 1967 and provides funding for more than 1,500 …

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By Mario Fuentes and Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) -U.S. immigration officials’ deportation of a woman to Cuba last week, separating her from her 1-year-old daughter, has drawn fresh attention to what critics say is the Trump administration’s willingness to split up families as part of its migration crackdown. Heidy Sanchez, interviewed by Reuters on Monday, …

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket suffered a technical issue on Tuesday as it ascended into space on its sixth flight, causing a Lockheed Martin satellite it was supposed to place into orbit to crash into the Pacific Ocean. About two minutes following liftoff from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in …

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By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba on Tuesday arrested high-profile dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer for violating the terms of his parole just three months after releasing the activist from jail as part of a Vatican-brokered deal with the Biden administration. Ferrer had failed to attend two mandatory court hearings, a violation of Cuban law and …

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By Vladyslav Smilianets and Thomas Peter ZHOVTI VODY, Ukraine (Reuters) – As Kyiv and Washington work on a deal that will give the U.S. a share of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, Ukrainians who live with seams of iron beneath their feet have a message for Donald Trump: don’t take advantage of us, these resources are ours. …

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(Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a network based in Iran and China that it accused of procuring ballistic missile propellant ingredients on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to increase pressure on Tehran. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it was …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has received nearly 39,000 immigrants deported from the United States since the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, of which 33,000 are Mexicans, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday. Speaking in her regular morning press conference, Sheinbaum said that although Mexico decided to accept non-Mexicans deported from the …

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