By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife Jill on Monday released tax returns showing that their income rose 7% to $619,976 in 2023 and that the couple paid 23.7% of their income in federal taxes. Biden released the data on the day U.S. taxes for the prior year are due, …
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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The judge in Donald Trump’s trial dismissed dozens of potential New York City jurors on Monday who said they could not fairly decide whether the 2024 Republican presidential candidate illegally covered up a hush money payment to a porn star. On the first day of the …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The state of California sued the city of Huntington Beach over its voter identification law on Monday, saying the measure violates state law and that state election integrity is already protected by robust voter ID requirements. Voters in Huntington Beach on March 5 approved an amendment to the city charter …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let a Republican-backed law in Idaho that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender minors broadly take effect after a federal judge blocked it as unconstitutional. The court granted Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s request to narrow a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District …
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(Reuters) – The man who drove an 18-wheel truck with a loaded flatbed into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) building last week, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others, faces multiple charges and a $2 million bond, jail records showed on Monday. Clenard Parker, 42, is charged with evading arrest, …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Minutes before 9 a.m., both Catherine Nestor, a New York City social worker late for a jury duty summons, and Donald Trump, the first former U.S. president to be put on trial, were heading for Manhattan’s criminal courthouse. Trump was in the back of a large black Chevrolet …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran did not provide warnings to the United States last week about its timeframe for launching an attack on Israel or its potential targets, the White House said on Monday. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that the United States did exchange messages …
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(This April 14 story has been refiled to add Special Counsel Jack Smith’s first name and title in paragraph 11) By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The actions of Donald Trump and his supporters following his 2020 election loss top the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda in the next two weeks in cases involving his bid …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Donald Trump once again attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday, potentially testing the limits of a gag order that bars him from making public statements about witnesses concerning their testimony in his upcoming criminal trial in New York. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the former president …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States would not participate in any Israeli counter-offensive against Iran, U.S. officials said on Sunday. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday night in response to a suspected Israeli attack on Iran’s Syria …
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