By Jack Queen NEW YORK, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Monday to charges that he conspired to rig bets on his performance in NBA games, in a case stemming from a broader gambling investigation involving pro basketball players and the Mafia. Rozier pleaded …
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Dec 8 (Reuters) – Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year contract extension with television network ABC and will continue to host his show through May 2027, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Kimmel returned to ABC’s late-night television lineup in September after a nearly week-long suspension over remarks on …
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By Daniel Wiessner Dec 8 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday withdrew for now sweeping changes it recently announced to a $3 billion grant program providing services for homeless people, in response to lawsuits by states, cities and nonprofit groups. The administration, in a filing in Rhode Island federal court, said the U.S. …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Alina Habba, a former lawyer to President Donald Trump whom he later installed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, said on Monday that she was stepping down from the role after a federal appeals court found her appointment was unlawful and disqualified her from supervising cases. …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers may withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget if he does not provide unedited videos of military strikes on boats in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the latest effort to obtain more information about President Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela. The …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Twelve former FBI agents sued senior FBI and Justice Department leaders on Monday, saying they were unlawfully fired for taking a knee in an effort to quell racial justice protests in 2020 spurred by the police killing of George Floyd. In the lawsuit, the former agents said …
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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local officials to remove 17 books that these officials deemed objectionable from public libraries. The …
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By Helen Coster NEW YORK, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday attacked the new owners of CBS over a “60 Minutes” interview with his former ally Marjorie Taylor Greene, on the same day that CBS owners Paramount Skydance launched a hostile bid for media giant Warner Bros. Discovery. The CBS news …
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(This December 6 story has been repeated with no changes to the text.) By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has given itself more opportunities in the coming months to overturn its own past rulings, a signal that its conservative justices are rethinking how much allegiance they owe to legal …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Saturday temporarily barred prosecutors from using evidence seized from a key figure in the dismissed criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, as the Department of Justice weighs new charges, court documents showed. Daniel Richman, a law professor and …
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