By Lisa Richwine SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) -A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident. Judy Huth had testified …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump is likely no longer in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena in a New York civil probe into the former U.S. president’s business practices, the office of state Attorney General Letitia James said on Tuesday. In a letter filed with a New …
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By Kanishka Singh and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers last month will be demolished, the city’s mayor said on Tuesday. The mayor’s announcement came several hours after a senior Texas official said the law enforcement response to the shooting at Robb …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate took an initial step towards passing the country’s first major gun legislation in decades on Tuesday night, voting in favor of a procedural measure that would allow the chamber to consider and vote on the bill this week. (This story corrects to capitalize U.S. in headline) (Reporting by Moira …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three officials from ex-President Donald Trump’s Justice Department will testify on Thursday at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the panel said in a statement. Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Senate in Alabama, Katie Britt, won the Republican nomination on Tuesday, defeating Mo Brooks, the firebrand congressman whom Trump had originally backed before changing his mind, Edison Research projected. Britt, a former chief of staff for the man she is running to succeed, retiring …
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By Richard Cowan and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The fourth day of the hearings in the U.S. Congress on the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump’s supporters featured testimony by election officials from the states of Arizona and Georgia. Here are five takeaways from the fourth of the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said on Tuesday that the Uvalde County district attorney has asked the city to not release records related to the district attorney’s probe into the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers last month. “The Uvalde District Attorney has requested the City not release any records …
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By Randi Love (Reuters) – A Minnesota judge on Tuesday once again rescheduled the trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s murder to Oct. 24 because of battling requests from the prosecution and the defense. Earlier this month Hennepin County district court judge Peter Cahill postponed the state trial for Tou …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who opposes abortion, has signed legislation that would impose harsher criminal penalties on abortion providers if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. The new measure hardens Louisiana’s so-called trigger law, which would ban abortion in the state entirely …
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