(Reuters) – Block Inc-owned Cash App’s founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to a Facebook post shared by his father. “I just lost my best friend, my son Bob Lee when he lost his life on the street in San Francisco early Tuesday morning,” said Rick Lee in …
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(Refiling to fix typographical error in 6th paragraph) By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Sentencing Commission approved new guidelines on Wednesday that will expand federal inmates’ ability to qualify for compassionate release from prison. The new policy, approved in a vote of 4-3, was part of a broader package of amendments, …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – A man has been charged in Arizona with the alleged assault and carjacking of Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo weaver whose 2021 disappearance became a symbol of the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States. The charges were unsealed on Tuesday in Arizona federal court against …
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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) – Fox Corp executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch can be called to testify at this month’s defamation trial over a $1.6 billion lawsuit claiming the media company lied about voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a judge said on Wednesday. Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old chair of Fox …
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(This story has been refiled to remove extraneous words in paragraph 3) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal a judge’s ruling that requires him to testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with former President Donald Trump leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Dan Whitcomb CHICAGO (Reuters) -Brandon Johnson was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, defeating Paul Vallas in a runoff between two Democrats to take over a city grappling with crime, an issue that dominated the race. Johnson, a 47-year-old Cook County Commissioner, becomes the 57th mayor of …
By Nathan Layne and Rich McKay PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -A subdued former President Donald Trump lashed out on Tuesday at New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him and declared himself the victim of election interference without offering evidence. “I never thought anything like this could happen in America,” Trump told …
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(Reuters) – Washington state’s government said on Tuesday it had purchased a three-year supply of abortion pill mifepristone as a Texas judge mulls a nationwide ban on the medication’s sale. The state’s Democratic governor directed its Department of Corrections, which has a pharmacy license, to purchase the medication last month, a government statement said. The …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Fox News said Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo and other top on-air personalities will be available to testify as it defends itself against a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it lied about voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In a letter filed on Tuesday in Delaware …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – The events underlying the criminal case against Donald Trump – hush money payments to suppress stories about extramarital affairs – took place nearly seven years ago. But any potential trial could be more than a year away. That raises the possibility that the former U.S. president could face a jury …
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