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Trump ally Jordan urges court to allow deposition of ex-prosecutor

21 Apr 2023

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress, on Friday urged an appeals court to let his House Judiciary Committee depose a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal probe of the former U.S. president. The district attorney, Democrat Alvin Bragg, had earlier …

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Ed Sheeran faces U.S. copyright trial over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’

21 Apr 2023

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in Manhattan federal court for a trial over claims that British pop superstar Ed Sheeran owes a share of profits from his hit “Thinking Out Loud” for copying Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” Heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend sued Sheeran, his …

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US Homeland security chief creating artificial intelligence task force

21 Apr 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that the agency would create a task force to figure out how to use artificial intelligence to do everything from protecting critical infrastructure to screening cargo to ferret out products made with slave labor. While artificial intelligence isn’t new, the sudden popularity of OpenAI’s …

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DeSantis to travel abroad as he gears up for expected presidential run

21 Apr 2023

By Gram Slattery and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is set to begin a trip abroad on Saturday taking him through Japan, South Korea, Israel and the United Kingdom. While the trip is officially billed as a trade mission, the tour …

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Biden considering launching re-election bid on Tuesday -sources

21 Apr 2023

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden may announce his re-election campaign by video as soon as Tuesday, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday, setting the stage for a possible rematch with his Republican predecessor Donald Trump. A Tuesday announcement by Biden, 80, would come four years to the day …

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Charges against Alec Baldwin to be dropped in ‘Rust’ shooting

21 Apr 2023

By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) -New Mexico prosecutors on Thursday said they would drop involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie “Rust” in 2021. The decision came after new evidence surfaced on the gun Baldwin was using that fired …

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Tornadoes rip through central Oklahoma, killing at least 3

21 Apr 2023

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Teams of emergency crews on Thursday picked through flattened homes left in the wake of a powerful tornado that killed at least three people in central Oklahoma a day earlier. Two of the fatalities were reported in McClain County, while the third occurred in a nearby county, Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Gibbons …

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Republican-led ban on transgender student athletes passes US House, moves to Senate

21 Apr 2023

By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican bill intended to ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s and girls’ school sports, delivering at least a short-term victory to social conservatives. The House passed the measure by 219-203 but it has little chance of passing the …

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Trump ally Lindell ordered to pay $5 million to man who disproved voter fraud claims

21 Apr 2023

By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mike Lindell, a prominent ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been ordered to pay $5 million to a man who debunked Lindell’s false claims of election fraud, the plaintiff’s law firm said on Thursday. An arbitration panel ordered Lindell, the founder of pillow manufacturer My Pillow and …

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