By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts’ top court on Friday ruled that a would-be bride must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her former fiancé in a decision that ended 65 years of courts in the New England state trying to sort through who is to blame when a relationship …
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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the former independent presidential candidate, is reviewing candidate resumes for the top jobs at the U.S. government’s health agencies in Donald Trump’s incoming administration, a former Kennedy aide and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Kennedy, of the famed political family, …
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(Reuters) – Police arrested a man suspected of stabbing five people on the streets of downtown Seattle on Friday and believe he may be the same person responsible for five other stabbings in the same Chinatown area since early on Thursday morning, police said. Deputy Chief Eric Barden told reporters at the scene the unidentified …
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By Steve Holland, Alexandra Ulmer and Lawrence Delevingne WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Prominent investor Scott Bessent met with Donald Trump on Friday as he and fellow investor John Paulson emerge as leading candidates for the key role of U.S. Treasury Secretary, according to two people close to the president-elect. Bessent and Paulson …
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday set aside pending deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case after federal prosecutors said they were grappling with the “unprecedented circumstance” of his impending return to the White House. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington approved a request from Special Counsel …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said if President Joe Biden had ended his reelection bid sooner, the Democratic Party could have held a competitive nominating process to choose his replacement. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said in an interview …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – A vital part of Democrat Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign was tapping into the groundswell of women’s anger and political activism unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the federal right to an abortion. The issue failed to drive the turnout the vice president needed, as other topics proved …
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(Reuters) -Donald Trump has begun the process of choosing a cabinet and selecting other high-ranking administration officials following his U.S. presidential election victory. Here are some of the contenders for several posts overseeing regulation and enforcement. Commerce Department LINDA MCMAHON McMahon is seen as a top contender for Commerce secretary. She served as head of …
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(Reuters) – Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have arrested a suspect in a series of apparently random vehicle shootings over three days this week and charged him with one count of assault and 11 counts of firing into an occupied vehicle or home. Andrew Thomas Graney, 23, appeared before a judge in Wake County court …
(Reuters) -Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has not been asked by President-elect Donald Trump to return to the agency overseeing trade policy in his new administration, contrary to a Financial Times report, two sources familiar with the matter said. The FT earlier reported that Lighthizer had been asked to lead Trump’s trade policy from …
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