Month: September 2017

[ad_1] (Reuters) – A tree trimming company has been handed the largest penalty imposed in a United States immigration case, totaling $95 million, after pleading guilty to employing illegal immigrants, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Immigration reform is a major political issue in the U.S., with President Donald Trump saying he will crack down on
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[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A judge in Mexico ordered on Thursday that bank accounts linked to businesses owned by soccer star Rafa Marquez be unfrozen, following a designation in August by the U.S. government that the sportsman was linked to a suspected drug trafficker. Last month, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Marquez, who is
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, summoned Twitter officials to testify
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and top aides have urged conservative Republicans in Congress to craft legislation protecting “Dreamers” brought illegally to the United States as children, a move that could jeopardize efforts to work with Democrats on the issue. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and
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[ad_1] (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has received more than four times as many national-security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday. Apple said it had received between 13,250 and 13,499 national security requests affecting between 9,000 and
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[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kim Kardashian has confirmed reports that she and husband Kanye West are having a third baby, with the couple expected to use a surrogate for the birth. Kardashian’s confirmation, in a trailer released on Thursday for the new series of reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” means that three
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[ad_1] (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said the London transport regulator’s decision to strip Uber Technologies Inc of its license to operate in the capital was “disproportionate” and has put thousands of jobs at risk, according to a BBC report on Thursday. Regulator Transport for London said last Friday that the U.S.-based taxi
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[ad_1] (Reuters) – A toddler shot and wounded two 3-year-old children with a handgun at a Michigan home where a woman was babysitting several youngsters, police and local media said on Thursday. The shooting on Wednesday in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn occurred after the toddler got access to a handgun, Dearborn police said in
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[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS/YANGON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accountability measures in place. It was the first time the United States called for punishment of military leaders behind the repression,
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[ad_1] di BEATRICE GALLUZZO – Il ddl sui Piccoli Comuni è ora legge dello Stato, dopo un percorso travagliato passato attraverso tre legislature e che si conclude, finalmente, con un “si” praticamente unanime a Palazzo Madama: 205 favorevoli e 2 astenuti. La legge Raelacci, dal nome del primo firmatario, il presidente della Commissione Ambiente della
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[ad_1] MONZA – E’ deceduto all’ospedale San Gerardo di Monza, dove era ricoverato in gravi condizioni nel reparto di terapia intensiva e rianimazione, un ragazzino di 13 anni colpito da meningococco di tipo C. A far scattare l’allarme i test che hanno confermato che il giovane di Robecco sul Naviglio, in provincia di Milano, aveva
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[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The Pentagon appointed a senior general to oversee military relief operations in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump’s administration faced calls from lawmakers for a far more robust response to the disaster. The U.S. territory of 3.4 million people is reeling from Hurricane Maria, which struck
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[ad_1] ROMA – Annuncio del ministro degli Esteri, Angelino Alfano, che oggi sarà in visita a Tripoli. “Incontrerò i vertici delle istituzioni e avrò un’intensa giornata di appuntamenti e incontri che spero possano rafforzare il senso di una funzione ampiamente riconosciuta anche nel corso dell’Assemblea generale dell’Onu”, ha spiegato il titolare della Farnesina intervenendo a
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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican senators John McCain and Mike Lee introduced a bill on Thursday to permanently waive shipping restrictions on Puerto Rico, saying a temporary waiver from the Trump administration is “insufficient” to help the island rebuild from Hurricane Maria. President Donald Trump’s administration earlier on Thursday waived the restriction known as the
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[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – The lead Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament poked fun at British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday, quipping that she gave her Brexit speech in Florence because she was familiar with the city’s 15th century politics of betrayal. In a speech to students at the London School of Economics, Guy
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