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1 day ago | 
jp.reuters.com | Brendan O'Brien |Dave Sherwood
５月１３日、米国務省は、キューバを２０２４年に米国のテロ対策に全面的に協力しなかったとする国のリストに入れ、前年のバイデン前政権による決定を覆した。写真はハバナ、２０１７年５月撮影（２０２５年 ロイター） [１３日 ロイター] - 米国務省は１３日、キューバを２０２４年に米国のテロ対策に全面的に協力しなかったとする国のリストに入れ、前年のバイデン前政権による決定を覆した。 国務省は声明で、キューバには少なくとも１１人の米国人逃亡者がおり、そのうちの数人はテロ関連容疑に問われているが、キューバ政府は「米国への引き渡しについて協議する意思がない」と指摘した。 キューバのロドリゲス外相は、虚偽に基づくとして非難した。 キューバと米国の法執行協力の再開を理由に、バイデン前政権は前年、キューバをリストから外した。 テロ対策に協力しているかどうかに関するこのリストは、国務省が米議会に提出するよう法律で義務付けられているもので、テロ支援国家リストとは異なる。 バイデン前政権はテロ支援国リストからもキューバを除外したが、トランプ大統領は就任早々にその決定を覆し、厳しい制裁を新たに科した。...
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1 day ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Brendan O'Brien |Dave Sherwood
By Brendan O'Brien and Dave Sherwood, ReutersThe US State Department has placed Cuba on a short list of countries it says did not fully cooperate with US counterterrorism efforts in 2024, reversing a decision by the Biden administration the previous year.
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5 days ago | 
ksl.com | Doina Chiacu |Brendan O'Brien
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that an 80% tariff on Chinese goods "seems right," making his first suggestion of a specific alternative to the 145% levies he has imposed on Chinese imports ahead of weekend talks to contain a trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
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1 week ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Brendan O'Brien |Bo Erickson |Mike Stone |Ryan Jones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Friday proposed a $163 billion cut to the federal budget that would sharply reduce spending on education, housing and medical research next year, while increasing outlays for...
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1 week ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Brendan O'Brien |Susan Heavey |Bill Berkrot |Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration will revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status, returning to a threat he issued against the Massachusetts school last month as part of his wider attack on elite...
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2 weeks ago | 
ksl.com | Brendan O'Brien
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Former U.S. Rep.George Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a brief and scandal-plagued tenure, was sentenced by a federal judge on Friday to more than seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft.
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2 weeks ago | 
usnews.com | Brendan O'Brien
By Brendan O'BrienChicago (Reuters) - An Illinois judge on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb that killed seven people, local media reported. Robert Crimo III, 24, pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery in March shortly before his trial was set to begin for the shooting in Highland Park that also injured over 40 people.
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3 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Brendan O'Brien |Doina Chiacu
(Reuters) - Four Democratic U.S. representatives arrived in El Salvador on Monday hoping to compel the Trump administration to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported and now held in a notorious prison in that country.
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3 weeks ago | 
usnews.com | Frank McGurty |Brendan O'Brien
(Reuters) - Multiple people were hospitalized on Thursday after reports of an active shooter at Florida State University, according to media reports. The gunfire was reported at midday at the Student Union building on the FSU campus in the state capital of Tallahassee. Students and faculty were advised to shelter in place as police responded to the reports. More than 42,000 students attend classes at the main campus.
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1 month ago | 
azdailysun.com | Brendan O'Brien
The suspect in an arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence told state troopers that he used homemade Molotov cocktails to set the mansion on fire and that he would have beaten Shapiro with a hammer if he had encountered him inside. After turning himself into law enforcement authorities, the 38-year-old suspect, Cody Balmer, said that he "harbored hate" toward the governor, according to a summary of a police interview with him filed in court.
