By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump, who opted out of a Republican primary debate on Fox News on Wednesday, attracted millions of viewers who watched – or at least scrolled by – a rival interview on social media platform X. The 46-minute conversation with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson drew more …
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(Reuters) – A trial for the last three men to face charges in a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer began on Wednesday in state court, where they are accused of terrorism and firearms crimes. Eric Molitor and brothers William and Michael Null each face one count of providing material support for terrorist …
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(Reuters) – The red-hot U.S. job market was not quite as blistering as originally reported in the year through March, after the Labor Department on Wednesday lowered its estimate of total payroll employment that month by 306,000 and of private employment by even more. The reduction, the first of two annual “benchmark” revisions conducted by …
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DENVER (Reuters) – A man accused of killing 10 people in a 2021 supermarket shooting in Colorado has been determined competent to stand trial, the prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. A judge had ordered Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa in December 2021 to undergo treatment at the state’s mental hospital after ruling he was incompetent to stand …
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(Reuters) – Attorney Sidney Powell, one of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, surrendered to Fulton County authorities on Wednesday, according to records posted on county sheriff’s website. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil; writing by Susan Heavey)
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – South Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a new state law banning abortion after fetal heart activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, months after it blocked a similar ban. In a 4-1 ruling, the South Carolina Supreme Court found that the state constitution’s protection against “unreasonable invasions …
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By Tom Hals and Helen Coster WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Newsmax Media’s bid to narrow the allegedly defamatory statements that the right-wing U.S. television network must defend in a lawsuit by voting machine company Smartmatic USA involving the 2020 presidential election. Smartmatic, whose U.S. headquarters is in Boca Raton, Florida, …
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(Reuters) -Hollywood studios and streaming services on Tuesday released the terms of a revised proposal to striking writers, but the union urged members to continue picketing as the new offer failed to address all their concerns. The Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) had walked off the job on May 2 after negotiations reached an impasse, …
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(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Harold on Tuesday lashed the southern tip of Texas with damaging winds and heavy downpours, leaving thousands without power as forecasters warned of possible flash flooding and minor damage throughout the day. Some 1.3 million people in the Deep South Texas and Rio Grande Valley area were under a tropical storm …
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By Jonathan Allen and Brad Brooks LAHAINA, Hawaii (Reuters) – Officials in Hawaii on Tuesday implored residents to submit DNA samples to help in the identification of human remains found in the ashes of a fast-moving wildfire on the island of Maui that killed at least 115 people earlier this month. At the same time, …
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