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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill to enhance tax breaks for businesses and low-income families in a strong show of bipartisan support for the largely revenue-neutral measure, despite their deep divisions over federal spending levels. The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee approved the measure in a 40-3 vote, just …

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By James Oliphant, Susan Heavey MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Nikki Haley made it clear to New Hampshire voters on Friday: She won’t serve as former President Donald Trump’s vice president if he wins the Republican nomination. Haley, who’s challenging Trump for the Republican presidential nod, has long said she won’t “play for second.” But in …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lawyer hired to help run the Georgia election interference criminal case against Donald Trump paid for airline tickets for the district attorney overseeing the prosecution, bank records attached to a legal filing showed on Friday, potentially bolstering claims the two had an inappropriate relationship. Records show special prosecutor …

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(Reuters) – A small commercial plane with seven people on board made an emergency landing on a Virginia highway on Friday after taking off from Dulles International Airport, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said. Nobody was injured, WUSA9 television reported, citing police and the airline. Southern Airways Express flight 246 was on its way to …

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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – New York Mayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed legislation that would ban the use of solitary confinement in city jails and a second bill that would force police officers to document more of their stops, but city council leaders vowed to override the vetoes. Adams, a Democrat and former New …

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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday gave Rudy Giuliani limited permission to challenge a $148 million defamation verdict won by two former Georgia election workers whom he had falsely accused of fraud after former Republican President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane said at a …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Friday renewed his request for a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case, after she admitted to destroying emailed death threats she received after first accusing the former U.S. president of rape. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Trump’s lawyer Alina …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court will help determine the advance of the conservative push called the “war on the administrative state” that aims to weaken federal agencies that regulate key aspects of American life and business. The court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, is weighing cases challenging …

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By Gram Slattery HOLLIS, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Nikki Haley and her allies are flooding New Hampshire with campaign workers and sharpening their attacks on frontrunner Donald Trump as they angle for an upset in next week’s Republican presidential primary. AFP Action, a political advocacy group backed by conservative billionaire Charles Koch, is sending up …

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