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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jamie Raskin, a Democratic U.S. lawmaker who rose to prominence as he oversaw former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in the House of Representatives, has been diagnosed with cancer, he said on Wednesday. “After several days of tests, I have been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, which …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence the mastermind of the largest U.S. college admissions fraud scheme ever uncovered to six years in prison after he helped them secure the convictions of dozens of wealthy parents including Hollywood celebrities. Prosecutors made the recommendation a week before William …

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(Reuters) – An inquiry will be opened into the power outages caused by extreme weather during historic winter storm Elliott, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and other North American regulatory authorities said on Wednesday. Elliott was the name given to the system that brought frigid cold and blowing winds last week, knocking out …

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(Reuters) -Lockheed Martin Corp’s Sikorsky unit on Wednesday sought a review of the U.S. Army’s decision to award a contract for its next-generation helicopter to Textron Inc’s Bell unit. The company, which filed its protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), said it had partner Boeing Co’s support. Earlier this month, the Army ended …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A New York prosecutor’s office on Wednesday said it was investigating the conduct of George Santos, a Republican who fabricated much of his resume and life story ahead of his November election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Anne Donnelly, the district attorney for Nassau County, said the allegations …

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By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is planning to use pandemic-era restrictions to expel many Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught at the southwest border back to Mexico, while simultaneously allowing some to enter the United States by air on humanitarian grounds, according to three U.S. officials familiar on …

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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The Canadian man accused of breaking into the San Francisco home of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and striking her 82-year-old husband, Paul, in the head with a hammer pleaded not guilty to state criminal charges on Wednesday. David Wayne DePape, 42, was charged with attempted murder, first-degree …

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