By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A judge on Monday found Rudy Giuliani to be in civil contempt of court in a case brought by two Georgia election workers that the former New York City Mayor falsely accused of trying to help steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden. U.S. District Judge …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York City drivers on Monday had to pay $9 to enter Manhattan under the first such congestion fee in the U.S., which seeks to raise billions for mass transit and reduce traffic jams. The fee went into effect on Sunday after New Jersey failed on Friday to convince …
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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration slashed the prisoner population at Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba by nearly half on Monday, sending 11 detainees to Oman. The U.S. military said only 15 detainees remained there after the transfer, following a major push towards closing the facility by Biden’s administration in …
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By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -A U.S. patient who had been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, the Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday, marking the country’s first reported human death from the virus. The patient, who has not been identified, was hospitalized with the virus on Dec. 18 after exposure to …
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By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve’s top regulatory cop, said he will step down on Feb. 28, in a surprise move that will avert a potentially messy legal fight with President-elect Donald Trump who is now free to replace him with an official of his choosing. Barr said he was stepping …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. cyber watchdog agency CISA said on Monday there was “no indication” the recently reported breach at the U.S. Treasury Department had affected any other federal agency. Late last month the U.S. Treasury reported that an unspecified number of computers had been compromised by Chinese hackers following a …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday lost a bid to put off his sentencing on Friday for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. Citing both presidential immunity and the demands of Trump’s impending Jan. 20 inauguration, his lawyers on Monday morning said …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA has released documents showing it monitored Latino activists who had supported late civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and who opposed police brutality and the Vietnam War. The files were reported first by Axios on Monday, posted on the CIA’s website and ranged from 1968 to …
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By Nathan Layne and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four years after supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to thwart certification of the 2020 election result, a mastermind of the effort, Enrique Tarrio, on Monday asked Trump for a full pardon for his actions. Tarrio, a former leader …
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By David Morgan and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -Republicans in the U.S. Congress were at odds over how to proceed with President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda on Monday, with some warning of potential failure, even as Trump himself called for quick action to pass his tax-cut, border security and energy priorities. With narrow majorities in the House …
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