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US seeks consent decree on Columbia over protests, WSJ reports

(Reuters) -The Trump administration is working to force Columbia University into a consent decree that would legally bind the school to follow federal guidelines in how it combats antisemitism, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources familiar with the ...
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Trump suggests farmers could petition to keep workers without legal status

By Jeff Mason and Leah Douglas (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that farmers will be able to petition the federal government to retain some farmworkers in the U.S. illegally, provided the workers leave the country and return ...
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US March deficit falls to $161 billion, customs revenue grows but still small

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government posted a $161 billion budget deficit for March, down 32%, or $76 billion, from a year earlier, a decline due largely to a calendar shift for benefit payments as receipts continued to grow, the Treasury Department said ...
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How the House’s requirement to prove US citizenship could affect the ability to register to vote

ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. House on Thursday approved legislation requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for anyone registering to vote, something voting rights group have warned could disenfranchise millions of Americans. The requirement has been a top election-related priority for President Donald Trump and ...
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In the Texas GOP Senate primary, Paxton and Cornyn trade early attacks

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A supercharged U.S. Senate GOP primary in Texas between Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton is kicking off with personal attacks and expectations of a high-spending race in a year when Senate Republicans will be defending key ...
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RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts

(WASHINGTON) -- Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a towering sandstone arch in rural Arizona with a group of Navajo Nation leaders, the impact of his agency’s cuts ...
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US Senate confirms Trump’s FTC commissioner pick

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick for the third Republican commissioner on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, despite criticism from Democrats over Trump’s move to oust two commissioners from the consumer protection and antitrust agency. The confirmation of Mark Meador, ...
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Four Republican US senators back Biden-era energy tax credits

(Reuters) -Four Republican senators are asking Congressional leadership to preserve energy tax credits included in the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act in the impending budget reconciliation bill, according to a letter circulated on Thursday. In the April 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the ...
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US March budget deficit falls to $161 billion, customs revenue rises

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government posted a $161 billion budget deficit for March, down 32% or $76 billion from a year earlier, a decline due largely to a calendar shift for benefit payments as receipts continued to grow, the ...
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Musk: Anticipate savings of $150 billion from DOGE in FY2026

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk said at a White House cabinet meeting on Thursday he expects $150 billion in savings in FY2026 from the work done by the Department of Government Efficiency. In March, Musk had said he was ...
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US Army turns over helicopter safety memo to Congress

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army has turned over to the Senate a 2024 report detailing why it routinely failed to use a safety system known as ADS-B on helicopter flights around ReaganWashington National Airport, Senator Ted Cruz said Thursday. Cruz, ...
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Trump must face defamation lawsuit from Central Park Five defendants

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger ...
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