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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -Two of U.S. President Joe Biden’s top advisers, Mike Donilon and Jen O’Malley Dillon, will leave the White House for his reelection campaign early next month, as Democrats ramp up their battle plans and former President Donald Trump’s Republican nomination seems imminent. Donilon, senior adviser at the White House, is expected …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -A 2023 judicial decision that would curb access to the abortion pill threatens to disrupt the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and harm the American healthcare system, President Joe Biden’s administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, urging the justices to reverse the ruling. The Justice Department …

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By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday masks weakness with independents and moderate voters that could be a warning sign for his likely general election matchup against Democrat Joe Biden, exit poll data and analysts suggest. The former president’s status as the runaway …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s trial in the defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll will resume on Thursday, and will not be held on Wednesday as initially scheduled, Manhattan federal court records showed on Tuesday. The trial’s second postponement this week delays a potential face-to-face encounter between Carroll and the former …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Charles Osgood, a broadcaster known for his folksy demeanor and gentle wit who served as the longtime host of the CBS News “Sunday Morning” show and the radio program “The Osgood File,” has died at age 91, the network said on Tuesday. Osgood died at his New Jersey home due …

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By Nathan Layne, James Oliphant and Gram Slattery ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) – At a campaign speech in an American Legion hall in New Hampshire last week, Nikki Haley animatedly warned the U.S. must prepare for a war with China. Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, rattled off the …

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By Arathy Somasekhar and Georgina McCartney HOUSTON (Reuters) – Energy Transfer does not expect the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL) after a long-pending environmental review of a section that runs under a lake and is opposed by nearby Native American tribes, Executive Chair Kelcy Warren said …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will speak to United Auto Workers members on Wednesday at a legislative conference in Washington, the union said Tuesday, as he looks to win support from autoworkers before the 2024 presidential election. UAW President Shawn Fain declined to comment Monday on reports the union may …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday issued a subpoena that orders President Joe Biden’s health secretary to provide records related to the handling of unaccompanied migrant children with suspected criminal ties. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan sent the subpoena to Xavier Becerra, secretary …

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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -Jury selection began in Pontiac, Michigan, on Tuesday in a rare trial of a parent who prosecutors have charged with being complicit in a mass shooting carried out by her son in 2021. Lawyers began questioning prospective jurors in the manslaughter trial of Jennifer Crumbley, whose then-15-year-old son Ethan murdered four …

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