WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced Ethan Nordean, a leader of the far-right Proud Boys, to 18 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, after a jury convicted him of seditious conspiracy and other crimes. (Reporting by Makini Brice in Washington; writing by Kanishka Singh)
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Friday said it had sued the U.S. government in an attempt to halt the Medicare drug-price negotiation program, which includes its top-selling heart-failure medicine Entresto. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, is the first since the Biden administration on Tuesday released its list …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Humana on Friday sued the U.S. government to block a Biden administration policy allowing Medicare to claw back billions of dollars from insurers for overcharges. The lawsuit in federal court said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “did not even try” to justify its more aggressive approach toward determining whether …
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By Julio-Cesar Chavez, Marco Bello and Brendan O’Brien HORSESHOE BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -Tropical Storm Idalia drenched the Carolinas with heavy rain before departing the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, while officials in Florida, where the tempest made landfall as a major hurricane a day earlier, stepped up recovery and damage-appraisal efforts. Nearly 36 hours after …
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(Reuters) – The mayor of Uvalde has called for the resignation of the local prosecutor, questioning her impartiality in the probe of law enforcement’s response to a deadly 2022 school shooting in the southwest Texas town. Mayor Don McLaughlin, in a statement on Tuesday, said District Attorney Christina Mitchell’s chief investigator was among the law …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Thursday that JPMorgan Chase told U.S. authorities it processed more than $1 billion for Jeffrey Epstein over 16 years. JPMorgan reported the transactions as suspicious to the U.S. Treasury Department following Epstein’s suicide in 2019, Mimi Liu, a lawyer …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former far-right Proud Boys leaders Joseph Biggs to 17 years in prison and his co-defendant Zachary Rehl to 15 years, after a jury convicted them of seditious conspiracy for storming the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a Georgia criminal indictment accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and asked to be tried separately from some of his 18 co-defendants. Fulton County indicted Trump in August on 13 felony counts, including racketeering, for pressuring …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged a Russian-German man with smuggling large quantities of microelectronics technology with military applications to Russia, for eventual use in that country’s war in Ukraine. Arthur Petrov, a 33-year-old dual Russian-German citizen, was arrested on Aug. 26 in Cyprus at the U.S. government’s request, according …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Residents of Florida were largely spared a devastating blow from Hurricane Idalia this week, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also appeared to avoid the political peril that could have hurt his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis and his allies credit his landslide reelection victory last year in …
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