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By Daniel Cole MALIBU, California (Reuters) -Aided by favorable winds and weather, firefighters on Wednesday progressed in containing a wildfire in the beach community of Malibu, California, where 6,300 people evacuated their homes as schools and businesses shut their doors. Nearly 2,000 firefighters were battling the Franklin Fire, which scorched more than 4,000 acres (1,620 …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Two real estate agents known for promoting flashy properties in New York and Miami have been arrested on sex-trafficking charges, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, accusing them of raping dozens of women. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office accused brothers Oren Alexander, 38, and Tal Alexander, 37, the co-founders of …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, said Lake will …

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By Helen Coster, Steve Holland and Laura Matthews (Reuters) -Donald Trump will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday on the same day he is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”, according to two people familiar with the selection and plans. A spokesperson for Time declined …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI Director Chris Wray will step down from his post early next year, he said on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump signaled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel. His resignation makes him the second straight FBI director driven out by …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense policy bill on Wednesday, governing a record $895 billion in annual military spending, despite inclusion of a controversial policy targeting gender-affirming care for transgender children. The tally was 281-140 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, sending it for …

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By Joey Roulette ORLANDO (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said on Wednesday his planned private astronaut missions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX may be paused as he prepares to enter government service. “The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a question mark at the …

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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A Nevada man who vaulted over a judge’s bench in a Las Vegas courtroom to attack her in January has been sentenced to decades in prison, according to court records. Deobra Redden, 31, was sentenced on Tuesday to between 26 and 65 years in prison over the attack on Judge …

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