By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York appeals court on Thursday refused to delay Donald Trump’s scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud trial, after the former U.S. president accused the trial judge of wrongly refusing to throw out most of the case. In a brief order, a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division, …
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By Jeff Mason, Steve Holland TEMPE, Arizona (Reuters) -President Joe Biden launched a wide-ranging attack on Republican Donald Trump on Thursday, warning that his predecessor is a threat to American democracy and drawing a sharp distinction between himself and his likely 2024 election opponent. To make his most extensive critique of Trump this year, Biden, …
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By Moira Warburton and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. Senate forged ahead on Thursday with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a fourth partial government shutdown in a decade, while the House began voting on partisan Republican spending bills with no chance of becoming law. The divergent paths of the …
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By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data showed, as migration to the United States intensified despite efforts to curb the flow. More than half of those migrants were …
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By Brian Snyder EAGLE PASS, Texas (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk waded into the U.S. immigration debate on Thursday, paying a visit to the Texas border with Mexico to meet with local politicians and law enforcement and obtain what he called an “unfiltered” view of the situation. Musk’s visit came as thousands of migrants have …
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(Reuters) -Hollywood studios and negotiators for Hollywood actors on strike will hold talks on Oct. 2, both side said in a joint statement on Wednesday, in the first such meeting in months. The SAG-AFTRA actors union, Hollywood’s largest with 160,000 members, walked off the job in July asking for higher pay and for curbs on …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday notified the court that he will not be seeking to move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, a filing showed. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh; Editing by Eric Beech)
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -U.N. human rights experts have called for major reforms of the U.S. criminal justice system to combat systemic racism, citing testimonies that jailed Black women had been shackled during childbirth while male inmates were forced to work in “plantation-style” conditions. In a report published on Thursday, three U.N.-appointed experts said …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If the U.S. government shuts down as expected on Oct. 1, it will halt the payments of salaries across the Department of Defense, furlough hundreds of thousands civilian employees, and slow the pace of war planning and the military modernization, the Pentagon said Thursday. “If there is a shutdown …
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By David Shepardson and Joseph White (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers made a new counter-proposal to Chrysler-parent Stellantis on Thursday, just one day before the union is set to strike additional Detroit Three automotive facilities without serious progress in ongoing labor negotiations. A union official confirmed the new proposal as talks remain active with …
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