By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin did not rule out a run for president in 2024, saying on Thursday that he was “humbled” by the question of whether he would seek the Republican nomination. “I am humbled by your question to think that you would ask it of me when 40 …
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(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has lost an appeal to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying in the special counsel probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, CNN reported on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Trump lawyers filed the appeal after a ruling related to the Justice …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force has suspended two commanders from the National Guard unit where accused classified intelligence leaker Jack Teixeira served, a USAF spokesman said on Wednesday. Teixeira, 21, was arrested by the FBI on April 13 at his home in Massachusetts and charged with violating the Espionage Act. Prosecutors …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – Former Fox News star Tucker Carlson surfaced publicly on Wednesday for the first time since abruptly leaving the network this week, releasing a videotaped statement in which he criticized the state of public discourse on U.S. television. Carlson in the videotaped statement did not directly address his departure from Fox, …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A decorated U.S. Air Force veteran who was an associate of Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced on Wednesday to 4-1/4 years in prison after admitting helping defraud donors to a campaign to build the wall along the U.S.-Mexican border pursued by the former president. Brian Kolfage, …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday filed a complaint challenging a new Tennessee law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming medical treatment such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery to transgender minors. The Justice Department said the law violated the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, which promises equal protection. …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A writer explained in graphic detail on Wednesday how Donald Trump allegedly raped her nearly 30 years ago, at a civil trial to determine whether the former U.S. president assaulted her and then lied about it. “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden suggested on Wednesday that he could defeat Donald Trump again in a 2024 rematch, and warned the former Republican president was a threat to the country. One day after launching his re-election bid, Biden marked the occasion not on the campaign trail but …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday urged a U.S. appeals court to overrule a conservative Texas-based judge’s order that would essentially ban the abortion pill mifepristone by suspending the drug’s federal regulatory approval in a legal challenge by abortion opponents. The U.S. Justice Department, in a filing to the New Orleans-based …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If U.S. President Joe Biden were to be presented with Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s spending and debt bill, he would veto it, the White House said on Tuesday. McCarthy floated a plan last week that would pair $4.5 trillion in spending cuts with a $1.5 trillion increase in the …
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