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By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump should be permanently barred from New York’s real estate industry for “outrageous” fraud, the state’s attorney general said in a court filing on Friday ahead of closing arguments in a civil case against the former U.S. president. Attorney General Letitia James and lawyers for Trump and the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump, his likely rival in the 2024 presidential contest, of sacrificing U.S. democracy for power in a Pennsylvania speech marking the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Trump’s presidential campaign is “all about him, not America,” Biden said. He said …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Republican leader Steve Scalise is having a stem cell transplant as part of his treatment for multiple myeloma, a common form of blood cancer, his office said in a statement on Friday. The Louisiana lawmaker will work remotely from home until he returns to Washington in February, the statement …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former U.S. Capitol Police officer who fought a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters as they attacked the nation’s legislature on Jan. 6, 2021, announced his bid for Congress on Friday, citing an ongoing threat to American democracy. “Everybody has a role to play defending this democracy and I’m stepping into mine right …

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(Reuters) – A state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion access in Florida has received enough signatures of support to appear on ballots in the November election, but a challenge by the state’s attorney general could still block it. The measure would ban laws that “prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday asked a judge to hold U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt of court, accusing his office of violating an order pausing activity in its prosecution of the former president for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump’s legal team said Smith and …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday proposed offering pregnant women 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments, which she said would make New York the first state in the U.S. to offer such benefits. The proposal was part of a six-point plan to improve maternal and …

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