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ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris honored U.S. military veterans on Monday in their first joint appearance since Harris lost Democrats’ presidential bid to Republican Donald Trump in last week’s election. Biden laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery alongside Harris in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tom Homan, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar,” said on Monday he would prioritize deporting immigrants in the United States illegally who pose threats to public safety and national security as well as employers who hire immigrants without legal status. Trump, who takes office in January, said in a social media post …

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By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Kremlin dismissed on Monday reports that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days as “pure fiction.” A source told Reuters on Sunday that Trump, who has criticised the scale of U.S. military and financial support for …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York judge is set to decide this week whether President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal conviction on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star should be overturned in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity. Justice Juan Merchan has said he will …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi denied U.S. charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump and called on Saturday for confidence-building between the two hostile countries. “Now … a new scenario is fabricated … as a killer does not exist in reality, scriptwriters are brought in to …

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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – During his campaign for re-election, Donald Trump vowed to purge the military of so-called “woke” generals. Now that he is president-elect, the question in the halls of the Pentagon is whether he would go much further. Trump is expected to have a far darker view of …

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By Moira Warburton and Leah Douglas (Reuters) -Businessman Elon Musk, an ally of President-elect Donald Trump, endorsed Republican Senator Rick Scott for U.S. Senate majority leader on Sunday as Trump pushed candidates for the influential post to help him make changes quickly after his party won control of the chamber. Republicans are expected to hold …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be asked to join his administration. “I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which …

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(Reuters) -Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades was artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died on Saturday in New York at the age of 81. Her death at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center came after a brief illness, said Christopher Zunner, managing director of public relations …

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