By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear President Joe Biden’s bid to reinstate his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt after it was blocked by a lower court in a challenge by six states that have accused his administration of exceeding its authority. An injunction issued …
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By Ned Parker (Reuters) – A conservative, rural Arizona county that had defied a state deadline to certify its Nov. 8 midterm election results relented on Thursday after a judge said state law required the approval. Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley ruled at a hearing on Thursday that the Cochise County board of supervisors did …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Congress committee that has been given access to Donald Trump’s tax returns on Thursday said he supported legislation requiring future presidents to make such information public. “I think it would be fair to say that it would be a good idea for presidents down …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jurors heard starkly different views on Thursday on whether to convict former President Donald Trump’s real estate company of tax fraud, with the prosecution describing a culture of wrongdoing at the Trump Organization and the defense blaming the greed of the government’s star witness. In closing arguments at …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate backed a measure to block a potentially devastating railroad strike after President Joe Biden had warned that the economic impacts could have been felt in the coming days. At least 73 senators voted to impose a tentative contract deal reached in September on 115,000 workers after four of 12 …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors secured a victory when two key figures in last year’s U.S. Capitol attack were convicted of seditious conspiracy. But the acquittal of three co-defendants on this rarely used criminal charge shows that challenges remain for the Justice Department, according to legal experts. A jury in Washington found …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A co-owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for deceiving regulators to avoid federal oversight before the tragedy. Gregory Conigliaro was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston …
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By Daniel Wiessner and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – An employee at the Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, where a supervisor shot six co-workers dead last week may struggle to prevail in a $50-million lawsuit she filed accusing the retailer of failing to protect its workers, legal experts say. A system meant to help workers get compensated …
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By Dave Sherwood and David Shepardson HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cuba´s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio on Thursday accused long-time rival the United States of doublespeak after the Biden administration proposed to scrap a plan to install a new undersea telecommunications cable to Cuba. The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden said after widespread …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -New York City Mayor Eric Adams rolled out a plan on Tuesday to allow more mentally ill homeless people to be hospitalized against their will in order to tackle “a crisis we see all around us.” Adams, speaking from City Hall, said the city had a “moral obligation” to help New …
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