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By Luc Cohen and Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, in what a judge called a “horrific scheme” that inflicted “incalculable” harm on victims. The British socialite, 60, was convicted in …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – R. Kelly deserves no more than 10 years in prison despite his conviction for scheming over decades to recruit women and girls for sex, reflecting how history as an abused child may have led to his adult “hypersexuality,” the R&B singer’s lawyer said. Kelly’s bid for leniency was …

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MADRID (Reuters) – President Joe Biden supports a deal that will allow Finland and Sweden to join NATO and played a behind-the-scene role in the Nordic countries’ negotiations with Turkey, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. Turkey dropped its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO in time for the alliance’s annual summit in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An angry Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the Secret Service limousine when the then-president was told he would not be joining supporters moving on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former aide testified on Tuesday. Speaking to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday expanded its U.S. ‘stop-list’, including in it the wife and daughter of President Joe Biden as well as other prominent figures. The step was taken “as a response to the ever-expanding U.S. sanctions against Russian political and public figures,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement. (Reporting by Reuters; …

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By Kaylee Greenlee Beal, Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) -The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border. A San Antonio Fire Department official said they …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -New Mexico’s governor signed an order on Monday she said was aimed at protecting abortion providers as the state prepared for an influx of patients and clinics from states set to ban the procedure. The move follows similar actions by the governors of Massachusetts and Minnesota, where abortion also remains legal, …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI seized the phone of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s election attorney, John Eastman, last week, the lawyer said in a court filing on Monday. Eastman disclosed the search and seizure in a lawsuit he filed in federal court in New Mexico. In the lawsuit, Eastman asked a federal …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the Mexican consul was en route to the site where 42 people were found dead in a truck carrying migrants near San Antonio, Texas, Monday. Ebrard said in a tweet that the victims’ nationalities were still unknown. The Mexican General Consulate in San Antonio said …

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