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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Monday voted overwhelmingly to advance an $895 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon toward passage as soon as Tuesday, which would send it to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law. The tally was 83 to 12 in favor of advancing …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Democratic-led states that have vowed to challenge President-elect Donald Trump’s initiatives will face a tough legal landscape after his first-term appointments reshaped the judiciary, not only giving the U.S. Supreme Court a conservative supermajority but also diluting liberal judges’ influence on a key appeals court that often stymied his agenda. …

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By Brad Brooks and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A 15-year-old girl opened fire in a Wisconsin school classroom on Monday, fatally shooting a fellow student and a teacher and wounding six other people before killing herself with the handgun, police said. The shooting took place in a mixed-grade study hall shortly before 11 a.m. (1700 GMT) …

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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Monday lost a bid to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling recognizing immunity from prosecution for a president’s official acts. Justice Juan Merchan’s denial of Trump’s motion …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military should tell the American public about the nature of the drone sightings that have plagued the East Coast over the last several weeks. “The government knows what is happening,” Trump said. “For some reason, they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d …

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By Joseph Ax PRINCETON, New Jersey (Reuters) – For weeks, residents of New Jersey and other U.S. states have reported seeing thousands of unidentified lighted drones flying overhead, a phenomenon that has sparked conspiracy theories and prompted lawmakers to demand the Biden administration explain what was behind the mysterious sightings. U.S. officials have said that …

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