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(Reuters) – The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on Thursday asked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to testify before the panel over the failure to timely disclose his recent hospitalization, even to President Joe Biden. Austin had been in a hospital receiving treatment for prostrate cancer since the beginning of the …

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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -E. Jean Carroll, the writer seeking millions of dollars from Donald Trump for defamation, on Thursday forcefully rejected suggestions that her reputation has been enhanced in the years since she publicly accused the former U.S. president of rape. Under questioning from Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba at …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden fixed his gaze on one of the prizes of the 2024 election three days after Donald Trump’s Iowa Republican primary triumph, taking his economic pitch to closely contested North Carolina on Thursday. Biden sought to tie $82 million in new broadband internet development money …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A judge in the Georgia election interference case against former U.S. President Donald Trump has set a hearing next month over accusations that the Fulton County district attorney and a top deputy had an improper relationship and mishandled public money, according to a court filing. In a Thursday order, Judge Scott …

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By Alexandra Ulmer, Helen Coster and James Oliphant CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Donald Trump and his allies are going all out to deal Republican rival Nikki Haley a back-breaking blow in next week’s New Hampshire primary, courting her donors, bashing her in TV ads and using racial-themed dog whistles that mock her heritage. The …

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(Reuters) – Florida’s public university system will decide next Wednesday whether to ban diversity spending and remove sociology classes as a way to fulfill social-science course requirements, a week after the state education board approved the measures for public colleges. The new rules, which easily passed in a Florida Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate bill to avert a partial government shutdown beginning this weekend secured enough votes on Thursday to pass in the Democratic-majority chamber. Voting continued. (Reporting by Makini Brice and Richard Cowan)

By James Oliphant and Gram Slattery ATKINSON, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s schedule on Wednesday summed up the unprecedented nature of this year’s election: spend the day in court fighting a defamation case and the evening rallying supporters in his bid to become the next U.S. president. That is how the former president, the …

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