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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden posed a threat to public safety and cannot rely on his constitutional right to a firearm to avoid prosecution for federal gun charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing on Tuesday. Hunter Biden’s legal team has misinterpreted U.S. …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Long Island architect was charged by a New York prosecutor on Tuesday with the murder of a fourth woman, six months after he was named as the prime suspect upon his arrest in the killings of three other women whose bodies were left near a beach. Rex Heuermann, 59, was …

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By James Oliphant (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump trounced his Republican rivals on Monday in the first nominating contest of the 2024 election, leaving his top rivals with more questions than answers about the path forward for their candidacies. Here are takeaways from the Iowa caucus: MIND MADE UP According to surveys conducted of Iowa …

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By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Most Republicans at Iowa’s caucus said they felt Donald Trump would be fit for the White House even if he were convicted of a crime, an entrance poll showed on Monday, underscoring the strong hold the former president has on the Republican Party. About two-thirds of caucus-goers …

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(Reuters) – Much of the United States remained gripped by an Arctic blast on Monday, cutting power to tens of thousands of customers in northern states and Texas and potentially dampening turnout in Iowa, where voters will cast the first ballots for a Republican candidate in November’s presidential race. The dangerously frigid weather is expected …

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By Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – – Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI published a blog post Monday seeking to address fears that its technology will meddle with elections, as more than a third of the globe prepares to head to the polls this year. The use of AI to interfere with election integrity has been …

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By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Joseph Tacopina, an attorney on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team, on Monday said he will no longer represent him in a criminal case in Manhattan related to alleged hush money payments or a separate appeal of a civil case. Tacopina withdrew from representing Trump in two of the …

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By Katharine Jackson and Ismail Shakil WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital on Monday, two weeks after being hospitalized due to complications from prostate cancer treatment, the Pentagon said. Austin, 70, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Dec. 22 to treat prostate cancer. …

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