By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Grieving relatives of the 17 students and teachers killed in a 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, confronted the killer, Nikolas Cruz, with tearful, angry words as his sentencing hearing began on Tuesday. At the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday, Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer is due to …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -The criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization was put on hold on Tuesday after the company’s controller, Jeffrey McConney, who had been testifying as a prosecution witness, tested positive for COVID-19. McConney had been coughing during his testimony earlier in the day and on Monday, when the trial began in …
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By Julia Harte (Reuters) -U.S. states have enacted more than 30 new voting restrictions since 2020, from voter ID requirements to limits on mail-in voting, fueling tensions between Republicans and Democrats ahead of November’s general election. Republicans, who have largely embraced former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 election, say the …
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By Paresh Dave and Steve Gorman SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -The man accused of bludgeoning U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer after breaking into the couple’s home threatened to take her hostage and break her kneecaps if she lied under his questioning, according to a federal criminal complaint filed on Monday. David Wayne …
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(Reuters) – Federal law-enforcement officials have filed a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco against David DePape, the 42-year-old man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Here are the main elements of the complaint, which is based on accounts by police officers and interviews …
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A former two-time candidate for governor of Idaho was convicted on Monday of the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who vanished from her home in 1984 after singing at a Christmas recital. Steven Pankey, 71, was found guilty in Weld County District Court for the first-degree …
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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcomed trick-or-treaters to the White House to celebrate Halloween on Monday, their first time hosting such a celebration since taking office. The Bidens, who were joined by their family members such as daughter Naomi, briefly met the kids, handed out candy, …
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By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) -Americans lined up at newstands and gas stations around the country on Monday to buy Powerball lottery tickets, dreaming of defying astronomically long odds to win a jackpot that has mushroomed to more than $1 billion. At a Shell gas station in Atlanta, where a dozen or so people waited …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday said a lawsuit accusing Geico Corp of overcharging more than 2 million California policyholders on car insurance early in the COVID-19 pandemic may proceed as a class action. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California, rejected Geico’s contention that a group lawsuit …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former heavyweight boxer from Montenegro was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday with trafficking in 22 tons of cocaine worth over $1 billion, most of which was part of one of the largest cocaine seizures in American history. Goran Gogic, 43, was arrested on Sunday …
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