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Explainer-The legal battles over redistricting in Texas and California
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas lawmakers approved a new congressional map this week at the behest of President Donald Trump, seeking to preserve his Republican Party's slim majority in the U...
Thomson Reuters Aug 22, 2025
US halts worker visas for commercial truck drivers, Rubio says
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is immediately pausing the issuance of all worker visas for commercial truck drivers, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday. ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to rac...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
Judge rules Alina Habba was unlawfully appointed as US Attorney in New Jersey
By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday sided with two New Jersey criminal defendants who sought to block a former personal lawyer to President Donald Tru...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
US continues visa vetting even after admission, official says
(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department's continuous vetting applies to "all of the more than 55 million foreigners who currently hold valid U.S. visas," a department official said on Thursday, including...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
DOJ blocks use of justice grants for legal aid to migrants in US illegally, email shows
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department this week ordered states, local governments and non-profits not to use existing federal grant funds to provide legal services to imm...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
Trump says he will go on patrol in Washington with police, military
(Corrects grammar in headline. No changes to story body) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he would patrol the streets of Washington, D.C. on Thursday night with the police and mi...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
US farm agency plan to close flagship research site threatens critical research, critics warn
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to close its flagship laboratory near Washington, D.C., could undermine research on pests, blight and crop genetics cruc...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
US to rule on biofuel waivers, but big oil refiners may need to wait, sources say
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration is expected to rule on a growing backlog of requests from small oil refiners seeking relief from U.S. biofuel laws as early as Fri...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
Trump's civil fraud penalty is thrown out by New York appeals court
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state appeals court threw out on Thursday an approximately half-billion dollar penalty that Donald Trump had been ordered to pay after a judge found that the U.S. presi...
Thomson Reuters Aug 21, 2025
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