By Danielle Broadway (Reuters) -Following two years of criticism for its lack of diverse membership, the Golden Globes on Monday announced that it’s added new members, becoming one of the most ethnically diverse among major award shows. There are now 300 journalists in total that serve as voting members. The expanded voting body includes voters …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s trial on corruption charges will begin in May, a federal judge in New York said on Monday. The Democratic senator for New Jersey has pleaded not guilty and resisted calls for his resignation following his indictment last month on charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen. U.S. …
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By Kia Johnson READING, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – A mummified man known as Stoneman Willie will receive a proper burial after being on display at a funeral home in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years. The unidentified man was an alcoholic who died of kidney failure in a local jail on Nov. 19, 1895. He was accidentally …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried will likely defend himself at his fraud trial, due to begin on Tuesday, by arguing he did not think the use by his FTX cryptocurrency exchange of customer funds was improper and by challenging the credibility of those who say otherwise. The arguments, which defense lawyers …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Monday marks the first day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term as it prepares to tackle major cases involving gun rights, the power of federal agencies, social media regulation and Republican-drawn electoral districts, and considers taking up a dispute over the availability of the abortion pill. The first …
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(Reuters) -Jailed former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying former U.S. President Donald Trump to not run for re-election in 2020, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book published on Sunday. In the excerpt published in the Washington Post, Michael Lewis, the author of “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon”, said …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans celebrated the 99th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter this weekend, with the White House putting up a wooden cake display on its north lawn and the Carter library in Georgia hosting a party for the public. Carter, a Democrat who served as U.S. president from January 1977 …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A Texas investment firm agreed on Friday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently obtaining payments from a fund meant to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. The U.S. Department of Justice said Fulcrum Capital Partners violated the federal False …
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(Reuters) – Donald Trump said he will appear in a New York court on Monday at the beginning of a civil fraud trial in which the former president will face what he said was a “sham” accusation that he fraudulently inflated the value of properties and other assets. “I’m going to Court tomorrow morning to …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump and his family business are set to face trial in New York on Monday to determine how much they owe in penalties after a judge found they inflated the former U.S. president’s assets by billions of dollars to secure more favorable loan and insurance terms. Here is a …
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