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(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday launched investigations into Stanford University and three University of California schools to ensure they comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down race-conscious admissions. The 2023 ruling effectively prohibited affirmative action policies that were long used to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other …

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By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama’s government has approved safe passage for former President Ricardo Martinelli to travel to Nicaragua, where he has been granted asylum, a top Panamanian official said in a press conference on Thursday. “This asylum is recognized and the safe conduct is granted for strictly humanitarian reasons,” Foreign Minister Javier …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet decided not to charge former President Jair Bolsonaro with fraud in his vaccination records, asking the Supreme Court to throw out the case, a document showed on Thursday. Gonet said he could not press charges against Bolsonaro based only on allegations from a plea-bargain deal with a former …

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By Jonathan Spicer and Tuvan Gumrukcu ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey said on Thursday it rejected “prejudiced” foreign statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and protests it triggered, following the detention of nearly 1,900 people since the nationwide demonstrations began eight days ago. After the arrest and subsequent release of seven local journalists covering …

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By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Brendan O’Brien ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors charged an El Salvadoran man on Thursday with illegal possession of a firearm, hours after federal officials arrested him in an early morning raid in Virginia and alleged he was a leader of the MS-13 international criminal gang. Henrry Josue Villatoro, 24, made a …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A local official in New York on Thursday rejected Texas’ effort to enforce a $100,000 judgment against a New York doctor accused of sending abortion pills to the state, escalating an unprecedented interstate conflict. Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck said in a statement that he would not allow Texas Attorney …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was cited as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday. “Our policy is still to not engage in direct negotiations while under …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dua Lipa won the dismissal on Thursday of a lawsuit in Manhattan accusing the British pop star of copying her 2021 megahit “Levitating” from a 1979 disco song. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla said L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer failed to show “substantial similarity” between “Levitating” …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration invited companies to email the Environmental Protection Agency to seek presidential exemptions from nine clean-air regulations, including mercury limits for power plants and limits on hazardous air pollutants in plastic production by March 31, the latest use of rarely used measure aimed at lifting burdens for business. The EPA …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Greenland’s Democrats will announce a four-party coalition government on Friday, local media said on Thursday, following an election overshadowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in taking control of the island. The expected announcement of a broad coalition would come on the day that U.S. Vice President JD Vance is set to visit …

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