WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with the top Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress on Monday to discuss government funding ahead of a September 30 deadline to keep the government open, a White House official said on Saturday. Trump had previously scrapped a meeting with the top Congressional Democrats - Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer - to ... Read more
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Trump Orders Troop Deployment to Portland and ICE Facilities Amid Rising Tensions .QN
Sept 27 (Reuters) - U.S. PresidentDonald Trump on Saturday said he was directing the U.S. military to deploy to Portland, Oregon and to protect federal immigration facilities against "domestic terrorists", saying he was authorizing them to use "full force, if necessary." Ordering the latest crackdown on a Democrat-led city, Trump said in a social media post that he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "to ... Read more
Trump Administration Could Use ‘Backdoor’ Funding Cuts as Government Shutdown Looms .QN
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - With three days to go before a U.S. government shutdown, an advocacy group that tracks federal spending warns that about $8 billion approved by Congress for healthcare and education is at risk of going unused, held back by President Donald Trump's administration. The potential "backdoor cuts" identified by the litigation-focused group Protect Democracy are an example of the way the White ... Read more
Assata Shakur, Notorious Fugitive and Civil Rights Figure, Dies in Exile at 78 .QN
"We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions," the State Department posted on X. Read about innovative ideas and the people working on solutions to global crises with the Reuters Beacon newsletter. Sign up here. Petro, addressing a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, called for a global armed force with the priority to liberate Palestinians, ... Read more
Assata Shakur, Notorious Fugitive and Civil Rights Figure, Dies in Exile at 78 .QN
HAVANA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Assata Shakur, the former Black Liberation Army activist who became a civil rights icon for some and a wanted murderer for others after her conviction in the killing of a New Jersey state trooper, has died at 78 in Cuba, where she lived as a fugitive for decades. Cuba's foreign ministry said on Friday that Shakur had died the day before from "health conditions and advanced age." Read about ... Read more