By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s push for a new trial in the civil case in which a Manhattan jury last month found the former U.S. president had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll is “magical thinking,” Carroll’s lawyers said on Thursday. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential …
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By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday the central bank would move interest rates at a “careful pace” from here as policymakers edge towards a stopping point for their historic round of monetary policy tightening. “We’re at least close to where we think our …
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(Reuters) – At least three people were killed and a dozen buildings damaged in a tornado that hit the northern Texas town of Matador on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. The damage prompted a search for people who might have been injured or trapped by debris, the report added, citing authorities. The National Weather …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department on Wednesday announced a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign government officials and agents who assist fugitives in evading the U.S. justice system. The Fallon Smart policy is named after a 15-year-old who was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Oregon in 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken …
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(Reuters) -An Air National Guardsman accused of leaking U.S. military secrets pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to six federal counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to national defense, a court filing showed. Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, appeared in a federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, for an arraignment after his arrest in …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican effort on Wednesday to censure Representative Adam Schiff, a rare move intended to punish the Democrat for his leading role in investigating the conduct of Donald Trump when he was president. The measure’s sponsor, far-right Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna, argued …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will make an initial appearance in federal court in Delaware on July 26 to face misdemeanor tax and gun-related charges, a court filing showed on Wednesday. The Justice Department said on Tuesday that Hunter Biden, 53, has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Joe Biden’s veto of legislation that would have stopped the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing new limits on soot and smog emissions from heavy-duty trucks. A Senate attempt to override Biden’s veto got just 50 votes, far short of the 67 affirmative votes that needed. …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least two hardline Republicans plan to try to force the U.S. House to vote on whether to impeach Democratic President Joe Biden and members of his administration, over the objections of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who fears that such moves risk undermining congressional investigations. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The pilot of a light private plane that caused a security scare on June 4 when it flew over restricted airspace near Washington before crashing, killing all aboard, did not respond to air traffic control minutes into the flight, investigators said on Wednesday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) …
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