Deepa Babington

London

Editor at Reuters

Reuters editor. Previously based in London, New York, Rome and Athens. Views expressed here are my own.

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El Salvador blocks US senator from visiting wrongly deported Salvadoran man

1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Steve Holland |Idrees Ali |Diego Ore |Deepa Babington

SAN SALVADOR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Wednesday authorities in El Salvador had denied him access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man mistakenly deported and being held in a notorious prison in the...
Judge to consider Trump's compliance with order over wrongly deported man

1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Deepa Babington |Luc Cohen |Kristina Cooke |Jeff Mason

(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday will consider her next steps on what she called the Trump administration's failure to update her on efforts to return a man illegally deported to El Salvador, in a case critics say shows the administration may...
Trump strikes deals with five top firms as legal industry faces crackdown

1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Brendan O'Brien |Deepa Babington |Sara Merken |Sarah Morland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that five more law firms had agreed to devote a total of at least $600 million in free legal work to causes he supports, marking new concessions offered by major firms facing a White...
US human rights advocates sue to block Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor

1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Nate Raymond |Deepa Babington |Alexia Garamfalvi

(Reuters) - Two U.S. human rights advocates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal...
Well-timed options trades ahead of Trump's tariff pause draw questions

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Richard Cowan |Paritosh Bansal |Deepa Babington |Saqib Ahmed

NEW YORK (Reuters) -In the minutes before President Donald Trump's social media post on Wednesday pausing tariffs sent the U.S. stock market rallying, some unidentified options traders placed bets worth millions of dollars that the market would...
US House moves toward vote on budget plan to push Trump tax cuts extension

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Richard Cowan |Bo Erickson |Deepa Babington |Richard Chang

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday advanced a measure that would lay the groundwork for extending President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, despite opposition from all Democrats and three Republicans.
US given one day to show evidence for deporting Columbia University protester Khalil

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Deepa Babington |Luc Cohen |Alistair Bell

JENA, Louisiana (Reuters) -An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the case on Friday, a month after his arrest in...
Trump orders fresh review of Nippon Steel's bid for US Steel

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Brendan O'Brien |Mike Scarcella |Deepa Babington |Doina Chiacu

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday directed a powerful U.S. national security panel to take a fresh look at Nippon Steel's bid for U.S. Steel to help determine if "further action" is appropriate, raising hopes for an elusive greenlight for...
US Health Dept may ask fired staff to keep working, reinstate others

3 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Michael Erman |Deepa Babington |Ahmed Aboulenein

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of employees fired this week from the Department of Health and Human Services and the public health agencies it oversees may be asked to temporarily continue working for two months and others could be reinstated,...
Exclusive-All local workers, US diplomats to be fired from USAID, sources say

3 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Deepa Babington |Jonathan S. Landay

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ordering the firing of thousands of local workers and American diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency...