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US NSA director Timothy Haugh fired, Washington Post reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of the wiretapping and cyber espionage service, the U.S. National Security Agency, was fired on Thursday, the Washington Post reported, citing two current and one f...
Apr 03, 2025
US plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University, official says
By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump plans to freeze $510 million in grants to Brown University over what it calls antisemitism on ca...
Apr 03, 2025
US Senate confirms Trump loyalist to lead Justice Department civil rights unit
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department'...
Apr 03, 2025
Kirkland & Ellis in talks with White House to avoid executive order, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - Kirkland & Ellis, the largest U.S. law firm by revenue, is in talks with the White House to avoid an executive order similar to those levied against several of its rivals, the Wall Street ...
Apr 03, 2025
US judge blocks $11 billion Trump administration health funding cut for now
By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from cutting more than $11 billion in public health grants allocated to U.S. states dur...
Apr 03, 2025
Democratic-led states sue over Trump's order overhauling elections
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order that compels voters to prove they are U.S. ci...
Apr 03, 2025
US Senate Republican calls top Democrat Chuck Schumer 'Fuhrer'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican member of the U.S. Senate on Thursday called the chamber's top Democrat Chuck Schumer - the highest-ranking Jewish U.S. elected official - "Fuhrer," a reference to t...
Apr 03, 2025
Tufts student detained by Trump administration defends right to advocate
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A Tufts University student from Turkey, who was arrested last week in Massachusetts by U.S. immigration officials after advocating for Palestinians amid Israel's war...
Apr 03, 2025
US Senate Republicans to vote on Trump's sweeping tax cut plan
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans planned a first step on Thursday toward advancing President Donald Trump's sweeping tax cut agenda with a procedural vote that will test p...
Apr 03, 2025
US warns public schools of legal action, withholding funds over DEI
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Education Department warned on Thursday it would withhold federal funds from public schools and take legal actions if they continued with diversity, eq...
Apr 03, 2025
