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DeSantis seeks wins on guns, abortion before facing Trump in 2024

10 Feb 2023

By James Oliphant TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) -When a newly elected Florida legislator endorsed a bill allowing residents to carry a concealed firearm without a permit, he was both demonstrating his fealty to Ron DeSantis and helping to burnish the governor’s conservative credentials for a possible White House run in 2024. State Senator Jay Collins’ support …

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Former VP Pence, ex-Trump official subpoenaed in special counsel probes – reports

10 Feb 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien have been subpoenaed by the special counsel leading probes into classified documents found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and efforts to overturn the 2020 election result, according to media reports on Thursday. Pence was issued a subpoena by …

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Ukrainian family of cinematographer sue Baldwin over ‘Rust’ shooting

10 Feb 2023

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -The Ukrainian parents and sister of Halyna Hutchins filed a civil lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and others over the cinematographer’s 2021 death in New Mexico during the filming of the Western “Rust,” the family’s lawyer said on Thursday. The announcement comes after a Santa Fe prosecutor on Jan. 31 criminally …

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U.S. judge rejects family members’ bid to reopen Boeing 737 MAX plea deal

10 Feb 2023

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Texas late on Thursday denied a legal bid by families of the victims of two Boeing 737 MAX crashes to reopen or reject a January 2021 deferred prosecution agreement. Boeing won immunity from criminal prosecution as part its $2.5 billion Justice Department deferred prosecution agreement over a 737 MAX …

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Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh no stranger to controversy

10 Feb 2023

(Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. reporter Seymour Hersh said this week that U.S. Navy divers, in a CIA operation ordered by President Joe Biden, planted explosives that destroyed three Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last September. The White House dismissed Hersh’s report, which relied on a single source to support its claim about …

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Suspect arrested after attack on Minnesota congresswoman

10 Feb 2023

By Kanishka Singh and Dan Whitcomb WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A homeless man was arrested on Thursday after an attack on U.S. Representative Angie Craig, who was left bruised after fighting off her assailant in an elevator of her apartment building, police said. The suspect, identified by District of Columbia Metropolitan Police as 26-year-old Kendrick Hamlin, was …

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Factbox-Abortion battles in U.S. state capitols to watch in 2023

10 Feb 2023

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -Battles over abortion are heating up in state capitol buildings across the United States as lawmakers wrestle with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Here is a snapshot of state legislation seeking to ban or protect abortion access …

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U.S. Senator Fetterman hospitalized but did not have a new stroke -spokesman

10 Feb 2023

(Reuters) -U.S. Senator John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke last year, was taken to a hospital late on Wednesday after feeling lightheaded but tests show he did not have a new stroke, his office said in a statement on Thursday. The 53-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat asked his staff to take him to a hospital in Washington …

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