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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -With their client caught on tape beating one of his former girlfriends, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers at his sex trafficking trial never sought to deny that he was physically abusive. Instead, their trial strategy focused on convincing jurors that there was no direct link between what they called domestic …

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By Matt McKnight, Eric Cox and Steve Gorman BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) -The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in 2022 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors that spares the former criminal-justice doctoral student from the death penalty. Under the plea agreement, Bryan Kohberger, 30, will …

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By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three Democratic Consumer Product Safety Commission members by putting on hold a judicial order calling for their reinstatement. In the latest fight over presidential powers to reach the top U.S. judicial body …

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(Revises headline) By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -A man who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for conspiring to kill the FBI agents who investigated him, according to the U.S. Justice Department and court records. Edward Kelley was convicted in November of …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying Trump exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.  U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said in a 128-page opinion that Trump’s January 20 …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted recommendations made by a panel of vaccine experts in April, months before they were abruptly fired by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. The CDC adopted the panel’s recommendations for the use of vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus and meningococcal disease, a serious …

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By Puyaan Singh (Reuters) -Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its drug for a type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma that has recurred in patients who had received at least four other therapies earlier. Shares of the company rose 2% following the approval. The company said it …

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