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Trump suggests tariffs against nations including China over illegal immigration

By Tim Reid, Kanishka Singh and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he may impose tariffs on countries, including China, that do not curb the flow of undocumented immigrants from their territory to the United States, if he wins the U.S. election in November. Trump made the remarks at …

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US appeals court rules some books be restored to Texas library shelves

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A federal appeals court panel on Thursday ordered that eight of 17 books that had been removed from a Texas library’s shelves over conservatives’ complaints that they were inappropriate must be returned. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling that partially upheld …

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At Menendez trial, ex-prosecutor recounts ‘gross’ meeting with New Jersey senator

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The former New Jersey attorney general Gurbir Grewal testified at U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s corruption trial on Thursday that the lawmaker sought to intervene in a local criminal case, including a meeting that Grewal’s deputy described as “gross.”  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have said Menendez sought to have Grewal, …

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Piper Sandler agrees to buy smaller rival Aviditi Advisors

(Reuters) – Investment banking firm Piper Sandler said on Thursday, it had agreed to buy smaller rival Aviditi Advisors, helping it expand in the lucrative market for private equity deals. The firm will be housed within Piper Sandler’s investment banking platform, Piper said, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal, which is expected to …

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Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law says she found, threw away, his gun

By Jack Queen and Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law testified on Thursday that she found his gun and threw it away out of fear of his spiraling addiction, potentially bolstering prosecutors’ case that President Joe Biden’s son broke a law barring illegal drug users from owning firearms. Jurors in the first criminal …

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New York sues over $1 billion crypto frauds targeting immigrants

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Attorney General Letitia James sued two cryptocurrency companies and their promoters, saying they defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims out of more than $1 billion by preying on the religious faith of people from Haitian and other immigrant communities. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in …

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Staff at drugmaker under U.S. scrutiny worked with Chinese military scientists

By Kirsty Needham and Andrew Silver SYDNEY/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Employees of drugmaker WuXi AppTec, under U.S. scrutiny for its links to the Chinese military, co-invented altitude sickness treatments with People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists, according to public patent records and science papers reviewed by Reuters. The news agency identified 10 patent filings that list six …

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US Appeals Court to hear net neutrality legal challenges

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a series of industry legal challenges seeking to block the Biden administration’s reinstatement of landmark net neutrality rules set to take effect on July 22, according to an order Thursday. The Federal Communications Commission voted in April along party lines to …

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Uranium fuel planned for high-tech US reactors a weapons risk, scientists say

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A special uranium fuel planned for next-generation U.S. nuclear reactors poses security risks because it could be used without further enrichment as fissile material in nuclear weapons, scientists said in an article published on Thursday.   The fuel, called high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, is enriched to levels of up to …

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