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(Reuters) – Prosecutors in the U.S. criminal tax case against Hunter Biden accused him of accepting payments from a Romanian businessman who sought to “influence U.S. government agencies” in connection with a criminal probe in Romania. The U.S. Department of Justice made the allegation in a Wednesday filing in Los Angeles federal court, where U.S. …

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By Evan Garcia GEORGETOWN, Texas (Reuters) – As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.     This summer, the robotic printer from ICON is finishing the last …

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By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh DETROIT (Reuters) – United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Wednesday criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ties to billionaire Elon Musk while campaigning for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk endorsed Trump for November’s election after the former president survived an assassination attempt in July. Later that month, …

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By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – The interest rate for the most popular U.S. home loan plunged last week to its lowest level in 15 months, after the Federal Reserve signaled it could start cutting its policy rate in September and a downshift in the job market bolstered financial market bets the reductions in borrowing costs …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. military veteran who took credit for a failed 2020 raid to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro should be detained on weapons smuggling charges, reflecting his history of online searches for how to be a “successful fugitive,” federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Jordan Goudreau was arrested in …

After Maduro ouster failed, US veteran took steps to flee, prosecutors say Read More »

By Liya Cui and Joseph Ax (Reuters) – It is a foundational democratic tenet taught in every basic U.S. history course: the Constitution bars the government from endorsing an official religion or favoring one over others. But moves by two Republican-governed states – Louisiana’s requirement that public schools display the biblical Ten Commandments and Oklahoma’s …

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