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By Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A lawyer for Donald Trump urged an appeals court to throw out a $5 million verdict finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, saying testimony from two other female accusers was improperly admitted at trial. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former American Airlines aircraft mechanic was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison after being convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine hidden beneath the cockpit of a flight to New York from Jamaica. Paul Belloisi, 56, of Smithtown, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dora …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – California and Hawaii can enforce bans on carrying guns in some public locations including bars and parks, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, partly reversing lower court orders blocking the bans. A unanimous panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that both states can …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A former mafia hitman who was already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years in custody on Friday for the killing of notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in his prison cell in 2018. Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh in Clarksburg, …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Party raised $361 million in August, leaving her with a clear cash advantage over Republican rival Donald Trump with two months to go before Election Day, the campaign said on Friday. It said the August haul left Harris with $404 million in …

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By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia state officials on Thursday arrested the father of the 14-year-old suspected in a school shooting that killed four people and wounded nine others on Wednesday, saying the father knowingly allowed his son to have the murder weapon. Colin Gray, 54, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, …

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By Kanishka Singh and Liya Cui (Reuters) – The four people killed in the Georgia school mass shooting on Wednesday included two boys aged 14, remembered as funny, kind and positive, along with two teachers, both of whom taught mathematics and one who was also a football coach. Mason Schermerhorn, 14, had started high school …

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