By Nathan Layne BANGOR, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Bronwen Brown, a registered Republican in a bellwether Pennsylvania county, was ready to vote for Donald Trump again in November despite long-held reservations about his character. His conviction by a New York jury has given her pause. “He’s been found guilty on all 34 counts. Do I want …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A request by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to raise prices of first-class mail stamps to 73 cents from 68 cents effective July 14 has been approved, regulators said Friday. The plan, announced in April and approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, will raise overall mailing services product prices by 7.8%. USPS …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud for artificially inflating the stock price of Getty Images Holdings, including through a bogus $4 billion takeover bid for the visual media company, authorities said on Friday. The U.S. Department of Justice said Scott Murray, 60, of Mashpee, owned about …
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(Reuters) – More than 231,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and California were still without power on Friday after a series of storms battered the region over the past week, according to meteorologists and data from PowerOutage.us. That is down from over 268,000 customer outages in the region on Thursday …
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(Reuters) -Several people were struck by gunfire that killed as many as three, including a police officer and a suspect, in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on Thursday, city authorities said. Three others including another police officer and a firefighter were also injured at the scene, authorities added. Local media earlier said that as many …
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(Reuters) -Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old from Tampa, Florida, won the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee in a spell-off on Thursday, correctly spelling 29 words in 90 seconds including some of the most obscure, complex and downright tricky words in the English language. With two finalists standing as time ran out, the annual competition went to …
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By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Major Republican donors rallied behind Donald Trump on Thursday, pledging millions of dollars to support the first convicted felon running for U.S. president on a tumultuous day for his election campaign. A New York jury found Trump guilty on Thursday of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a …
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By Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. After two days …
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(Reuters) – Donald Trump, the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, will remain a free man while he awaits sentencing and could avoid a prison term entirely for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star. Here is a look at what’s next for the …
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Now that the jury in Donald Trump’s criminal trial has made the historic decision to convict him, the judge overseeing the case will soon face a monumental choice: whether to sentence the 2024 Republican presidential candidate to time behind bars. After the 12-member jury on Thursday handed down its …
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