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By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs urged a U.S. judge to sentence the hip-hop mogul to little more time behind bars, after he was convicted of prostitution-related offences but acquitted on more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges. In a court filing late on Monday night, Combs’ …

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NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) -Even presidents are subject to the annoyances of New York City traffic, as French President Emmanuel Macron learned late on Monday, when a New York City police officer stopped him crossing the street because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s motorcade. But unlike most of those inconvenienced, Macron then rang Trump personally from …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With the U.S. government eight days from its 15th partial shutdown since 1981, Washington is in familiar territory with an important difference: President Donald Trump’s administration has not widely shared its plans for what functions will cease and what will continue if Congress fails to act. The Office of Management …

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By Jennifer Rigby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has met once with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since he took office, and the two “agreed to disagree” about vaccines, Gates told Reuters in an interview on Monday.  Kennedy has long promoted doubts about vaccine safety and efficacy, and as …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to restore frozen federal grants to the University of California, Los Angeles, a court filing showed. In August, UCLA said the Trump administration froze funding of $584 million after the federal government reprimanded the school for its handling of pro-Palestinian …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday that President Donald Trump fully stands by border czar Tom Homan, after Reuters and other media reported Homan accepted a $50,000 payment from an undercover FBI agent last year in a bribery sting operation. Speaking to reporters at a press briefing, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt rejected …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jana Winter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling the antifa movement a “terrorist organization,” the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Kirk, a prominent conservative activist with close ties to Trump, was assassinated on September 10 while …

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By Nathan Layne, Nandita Bose and Joseph Ax GLENDALE, Arizona (Reuters) -President Donald Trump hailed slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a “martyr for American freedom” on Sunday and vowed at his memorial service to carry on his work, while again accusing what he called the “radical left” for Kirk’s murder.  “The violence comes largely …

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