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Investor Griffin gave $5 million to pro-Haley group in January -source

30 Jan 2024

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin gave $5 million to an outside group supporting Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley this month, a person familiar with the donation said on Tuesday. The support from Griffin, a Republican mega donor, may help Haley assuage concerns of running out of money …

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In South Carolina, Biden woos Black voters in a changing U.S. South

30 Jan 2024

(This Jan. 26 story has been corrected to show that South Carolina last backed a Democrat president in 1976, not 2008, in paragraph 17) By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – Democrats have no chance of winning South Carolina in November, but the state is pivotal to Joe Biden’s reelection anyway. …

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Exclusive-BDT & MSD Partners explores $5 billion sale of Alliance Laundry -sources

30 Jan 2024

By Anirban Sen (Reuters) -Merchant bank BDT & MSD Partners, the owner of Alliance Laundry Systems, is exploring a sale of the U.S. laundry equipment manufacturer that could value it at nearly $5 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. The 116-year-old commercial laundry provider is working with investment bank Morgan Stanley …

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Factbox-Biden administration slowly replenishes emergency oil stash

30 Jan 2024

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is slowly putting oil back into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, after selling a record amount from the emergency stockpile in 2022. The Department of Energy said on Tuesday it hopes to purchase about 3 million barrels of domestically-produced sour crude oil for …

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US court will not revisit ruling limiting voting rights lawsuits

30 Jan 2024

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Civil rights activists on Tuesday failed to convince a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that could sharply curtail lawsuits enforcing a landmark voting rights law’s protections against racial discrimination. The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request by the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and the Arkansas …

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Trump lawyer backs off idea that E. Jean Carroll judge had conflict

30 Jan 2024

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday backed off her suggestion that the judge who oversaw E. Jean Carroll’s two successful civil defamation trials against the former U.S. president might have had a conflict of interest. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in …

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Exclusive-Republican candidate Nikki Haley was targeted in second swatting attempt

30 Jan 2024

By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Two days after a man called in a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, she was targeted by a second “swatting” attempt on New Year’s Day, this time by someone who said Haley had shot her daughter, according to an incident report seen by …

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Suspects arrested in 6 California desert murders tied to marijuana trade

30 Jan 2024

By Steve Gorman and Daniel Trotta LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Five men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering six people last week in a remote patch of California’s Mojave Desert, a mass killing investigators believe stemmed from the illicit marijuana trade, local law enforcement officials said on Monday. The six victims, all men, were shot …

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Union Pacific train in California strikes and kills person

30 Jan 2024

(Reuters) – A locomotive operated by Union Pacific struck and killed a trespasser at a crossing in Los Angeles county, California, according to a report by Union Pacific filed with the state’s emergency services. “The passenger main line is closed for investigation,” the report further added. (Reporting by Daksh Grover in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra …

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Trump lawyer says judge’s possible conflict may taint $83 million Carroll verdict

30 Jan 2024

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for Donald Trump said on Monday a possible conflict of interest involving the judge who oversaw E. Jean Carroll’s recent defamation trial may justify overturning the writer’s $83.3 million award. In a letter filed in federal court in Manhattan, the lawyer Alina Habba cited a Jan. …

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