By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole, before he hands power to President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20. Biden’s move will frustrate Trump’s plan to expand executions. Unlike executive orders, …
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By Jasper Ward and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex that were violations of a series of House rules and included obstruction of Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ethics Committee said in a report released on Monday. The …
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By Costas Pitas (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election. Here is a timeline of events between now and Inauguration Day: Dec. 25: The electoral votes must be received by this date by the president of the Senate – a role …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A construction executive accused of making illegal contributions to indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign plans to plead guilty, court records showed on Monday, as the Democrat braces for an April trial during his re-election campaign. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said in a court filing that businessman …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for four COVID-19 antibody-based drugs, including those from Eli Lilly and Regeneron. The shelf life of the drugs had expired and they had not been authorized for administration to patients for more than a year due to the circulation of non-susceptible variants, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rebounded in November after being depressed by hurricanes in the prior month, but rising mortgage rates could hamper sales next year. New home sales jumped 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 664,000 units last month, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Monday. The …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Days before he retires as chairman of the influential U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Ben Cardin acknowledged worries about human rights being less of a U.S. priority during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. “I don’t want to prejudge, but I am very concerned that protecting human rights may …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Police arrested a man they said set a woman on fire while she appeared to be asleep on a New York City subway train on Sunday morning, killing her. The woman, who has not been identified, sat motionlessly aboard a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901. Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Katie Miller, who served in Trump’s first administration and is the wife of his incoming deputy chief of staff, as one of the first members of an advisory board to be led by billionaire allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that aims to drastically slash government …
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