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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass came under sharp criticism for her response to a series of raging wildfires on Thursday, while President-elect Donald Trump sought to blame California Governor Gavin Newsom for the deadly disaster. The criticism, fanned by Trump and his allies across social media, has triggered a political clash …

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By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to block the U.S. Justice Department from releasing a special counsel’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit appeared to clear the way …

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By Jeff Mason, Katharine Jackson and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jimmy Carter, the late U.S. president who served only one term in office and was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics. …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down a Biden administration rule barring discrimination by schools and colleges against transgender students, saying it clashes with the federal law banning sex bias in education. U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves in Lexington agreed with six Republican-led states that while the law, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate energy committee will hold nomination hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for energy roles on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, the panel’s chairman Senator Mike Lee said on Thursday. The committee will hold a hearing to consider Doug Burgum, Trump’s nominee to be secretary of the interior, on Tuesday, Jan. …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Family, friends and former political colleagues of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, including current President Joe Biden, spoke on Thursday at his state funeral in Washington.  Carter was remembered for his public service, his integrity and for rising above partisan politics.  U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN Carter’s life was “the story of a …

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By Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greeted and shook hands on Thursday with his estranged former vice president Mike Pence, as current and former administrations gathered at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in Washington. Republicans Trump and Pence have had a strained relationship since the end of Trump’s first term, …

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