(This Aug. 11 story has been refiled to remove video) By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prosecutor David Weiss has spent years probing allegations involving President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Now as a U.S. special counsel, he will have a chance to dig deeper while facing intense scrutiny from the president’s opponents. U.S. Attorney …
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(This Aug. 11 story has been refiled to remove video) By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden may be headed for a criminal trial, U.S. Special Counsel David Weiss said shortly after promotion into that role on Friday, in a sign that courtroom drama could play an outsized role in …
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By Tim Reid DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flipped pork chops in front of the cameras at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, a plane appeared in the broiling blue sky. It was Donald Trump’s Boeing 757 private jet. It circled the fairgrounds, and thousands in the crowd looked up …
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By Tim Reid DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were holding competing events in the early nominating state of Iowa on Saturday, at a time when the former president overwhelmingly dominates opinion polls and the Florida governor is scrambling to reset his troubled campaign. DeSantis, who has had …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose (Reuters) -The appointment on Friday of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden ensures that the criminal probe of the president’s son will cast a long shadow over his father’s reelection campaign. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ new role as special counsel, announced on Friday, may force President Joe …
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By Alexandra Ulmer and Joseph Tanfani (Reuters) – As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis scrambles to shore up his struggling run for the Republican presidential nomination, he has spent far more than any rival on courting an influential Christian conservative leader and his following in the key early voting state of Iowa. Trailing far behind former …
(Reuters) – The union representing striking Hollywood writers said on Friday it had received a counterproposal from the studios that it would consider, an apparent sign of progress in the more than 100-day-old strike. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said it would respond next week “after deliberation” on the offer from the Alliance of …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A federal judge temporarily blocked an Idaho law requiring public school students to use the restroom corresponding to their assigned sex at birth, in a lawsuit brought by the family of a transgender middle school student. U.S. District Judge David Nye said his temporary restraining order Thursday did not weigh on …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – A 3-year-old girl from Venezuela being transported to Chicago from Texas by bus with other migrants died at a local Illinois hospital after showing signs of illness, the Texas Department of Emergency Management said on Friday. “Once the child presented with health concerns, the bus pulled over and security personnel …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The founders of a venture capital fund devoted to funding Black women-owned businesses on Thursday defended their efforts to support underrepresented entrepreneurs in the face of a lawsuit by a conservative activist accusing it of racial discrimination. The Fearless Fund’s leaders and its lawyers during a news conference in New York …
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