By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices confronted the nation’s homelessness crisis on Monday as they wrestled with the legality of local laws used against people who camp on public streets and parks in a case involving a southwest Oregon city’s anti-vagrancy policy. The justices heard arguments in an …
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By Manas Mishra and Zeba Siddiqui (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The intrusion at its Change Healthcare unit, which processes about 50% of U.S. …
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TRIANGLE, Virginia/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Monday met with U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and two other prominent liberal lawmakers opposed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza bombing campaign. The meeting came as Biden’s support for Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has divided Democrats, fraying Biden’s coalition of voters ahead …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Donald Trump will be judged in his historic New York criminal trial by 12 jurors selected last week after a painstaking search for people who could be fair and impartial to the Republican former U.S. president in Manhattan, the Democratic stronghold where he made his name as a real estate tycoon …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is weighing ways to provide temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are married to American citizens, three sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, a move that could energize some Democrats ahead of the November elections. Democratic lawmakers and …
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By Andrea Shalal and Nichola Groom TRIANGLE, Va. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Monday celebrated Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low-income households. The announcement kicks off a week of activities aimed at touting his administration’s record on climate change. Biden revealed the …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that President Joe Biden was “pushing” for a ban on TikTok and would be the one responsible if a ban were imposed, urging voters to take notice. The U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation on a 360-58 vote on Saturday …
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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Opening statements kicked off on Monday in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump and the first prosecution witness, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, took the stand. Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to cover up a hush money …
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide the legality of a federal regulation aimed at reining in homemade “ghost guns” as President Joe Biden’s administration combats the increasing use of these largely untraceable weapons in crimes nationwide. The justices took up the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s …
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