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Strict restrictions on Americans with exposure to Ebola and hantavirus highlight officials’ previous rhetoric on public health measures The US is imposing strict restrictions on American travelers who have been exposed in dual Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks in ways that experts say could run counter to their legal rights and affect who will volunteer in … Read more

Charges filed against Raúl Castro for allegedly shooting down planes in 1996. Plus, US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. On Wednesday, the US issued a federal criminal indictment against Raúl Castro, Cuba’s former president, and five … Read more

FIRST ON FOX: The discovery of 10,000 “phantom employees” exploiting a federal work program has helped spur Republicans to tackle the financial incentives behind a foreign worker pipeline costing Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs per year. Under current federal law, hundreds of thousands of foreign students and employers participating in the Optional Practical Training … Read more

Two Democratic lawmakers are threatening to force repeated votes to expel a fellow Democrat from Congress if Texas voters send her to Washington this November.  Reps. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., say they will force repeated votes to remove Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo from the House over comments calling for the jailing of … Read more

Exclusive: Body-cam footage shared with the Guardian shows agents forced workers out of a van in what a judge has called ‘unlawful’ arrest Newly released body-camera footage shows US immigration officers stopping a van of farm workers in Oregon, smashing their windows and using facial recognition software to try to identify one of them. Videos … Read more

Republican senators have queried the timing and lack of detail in secret service bid to add money to the Department for Homeland security bill Sign up for the Breaking News US email A previously undetected outbreak of Ebola is coursing through parts of central Africa, and the US appears to be doing little to help … Read more

The United States Department of Justice has charged Raúl Castro, the former Cuban president and brother of Fidel Castro, in connection with the 1996 killing of four Miami-based exiles, when Cuba’s military shot down their planes. While family members of the victims, along with many in Miami, celebrated the news, it’s not clear if justice … Read more

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are expressing concerns over President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund designed to provide payments to his allies who claim they were targeted by previous administrations, potentially including Jan. 6 rioters. Standing in the way of the fund may be a tough ask for rank and file Republicans … Read more

US Preventive Services Task Force had already been largely sidelined before health secretary fired its two chairs The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, for millions of Americans. In letters dated 11 May, the health secretary, … Read more

Republicans amended the bill to say President Trump may pick an alternative site for the museum and specified it could include only “biological women.”