By Tim Reid CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Friday that his supporters prosecuted for their actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol should be freed, citing a Supreme Court ruling in favor of a man who challenged an obstruction charge related to the riot – a charge Trump …
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By Rory Carroll (Reuters) – The New York Knicks’ lawsuit that accused rivals the Toronto Raptors of hiring a “mole” who gave the Raptors scouting reports and other confidential material should be resolved by the NBA, not the courts, a federal judge in New York ruled on Friday. In a lawsuit filed last August the …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A New Mexico judge on Friday denied a request by actor Alec Baldwin to dismiss a manslaughter charge he faces for the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the film set of the movie “Rust.” In her ruling, the judge rejected arguments by Baldwin’s lawyers in a hearing June …
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By Luc Cohen and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) -A U.S. medical professor has been charged with fraud for allegedly submitting false data to get millions of dollars in public funds for research into a drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Federal prosecutors said on Friday that Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, fabricated data included in grant applications to the …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – New Jersey authorities did not automatically renew liquor licenses at two of Donald Trump’s golf clubs after the former president’s New York felony convictions in May and have set a hearing for July 19 over the future of the licenses. A spokesperson for the New Jersey attorney general’s office said …
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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -Over 51 million TV viewers tuned in to watch Thursday’s U.S. presidential debate between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump, according to final Nielsen data. The number is about 30% lower than the 73 million people who watched the candidates’ first face-off in 2020, and among …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A former employee of Northeastern University was convicted on Friday of U.S. charges that he staged a hoax explosion in 2022 and fabricated a story about being injured after opening a package delivered to the school’s campus in Boston. A federal jury in Boston found Jason Duhaime, 47, guilty …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will not return its two astronauts from the International Space Station until after engineers spend “a couple weeks” testing to investigate the spacecraft’s thruster issues, a NASA official said on Friday. Starliner, which has been docked to the ISS since June 6 after ferrying its first crew …
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By Makailah Gause and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) -Dozens of climate activists were arrested after protesting at Citigroup’s headquarters in New York on Friday as part of what they called a “Summer of Heat” campaign. Climate groups have been targeting Wall Street banks in a campaign against their financing of fossil fuel projects. Police arrested 61 …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -Prosecutors rested their case on Friday in U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s corruption trial, paving the way for the once-powerful lawmaker to mount his defense. During six weeks in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors have sought to portray the senior New Jersey senator as a greedy politician who attempted to help foreign …
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