By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York appeals judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s third last-ditch attempt this week to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, paving the way for the first-ever trial of a former U.S. president. During an earlier hearing, …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said on Wednesday that lawmakers could extend to one year a proposed deadline to force TikTok’s parent company, China’s ByteDance, to divest the short video app used by 170 million Americans. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 on March 13 …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever drinking water standard to protect people against toxic “forever chemicals” found in many household and everyday items, and offered $1 billion to states for public water system testing, the agency’s first major move to curb the cancer-causing chemicals. The …
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By Raphael Satter, Moira Warburton and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A modest overhaul of a controversial U.S. surveillance program foundered in the House of Representatives on Wednesday after Democratic and Republican critics, including Donald Trump, said it gave the government too much power to spy on its citizens. By a vote of 228-193, the Republican-controlled …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. electricity and gasoline prices increased sharply in March, with electricity up 0.9% and gasoline up 1.7%, leading the energy sector to far outpace broader inflation for the month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Wednesday. Energy prices, which include electricity, gasoline, fuel oil and other power and …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers received sentences ranging from 10 to 45 years in prison on Wednesday on state charges for their roles in the “Goon Squad” torture and sexual abuse of two Black men. The defendants were sentenced in Rankin County Court in Brandon, where they pleaded …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Musician Paul Simon will play for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, his wife, Yuko, and President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at a state dinner on Wednesday, the White House said. Simon, 82, whose long music career includes the hits “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” “Diamonds on the Soles …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday that he and his administration are trying to determine whether he has the authority to act on his own to shut down the U.S.’s southern border with Mexico to migrants, should it be deemed necessary. Biden told Univision in the interview that …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is considering stepping down from the Biden administration following the November election to mount a run for California governor in 2026, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on his deliberations. (Reporting by Eric Beech and Dan Whitcomb)
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge decided on Tuesday to allow the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents to shield the identities of possible witnesses in the case for now. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to reconsider a prior ruling that prosecutors argued would have …
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