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Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years for fraud conviction

By Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) -Trevor Milton, the convicted founder of electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker Nikola, was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday after a jury last year found him guilty of lying to investors about the company’s technology. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Milton misled investors by stating that Nikola …

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Hunter Biden to make his initial court appearance on tax charges on Jan. 11

(Reuters) – Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, will make his initial court appearance on tax charges on January 11 in Los Angeles, court documents showed on Monday. Hunter Biden will be arraigned during the court appearance on three felony and six misdemeanor tax offenses handed down in an indictment filed earlier this …

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Lawmakers want Biden to reject export licenses for Chinese drone maker DJI

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of 15 Republican lawmakers Monday asked the Pentagon to block export licenses for U.S. components for Chinese-drone manufacturer DJI, citing national security concerns. The Commerce Department in December 2020 added DJI, the world’s largest drone maker, to the government’s export control list, accusing it of complicity in reports …

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Trump aide’s 2020 election case to remain in Georgia court -US appeals court

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected an effort by Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his Georgia 2020 election interference case to federal court, upholding a prior court ruling. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that Meadows was …

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Trump would install loyalists to reshape U.S. foreign policy. Diplomats gird for “doomsday”

(Changes headline) By Gram Slattery, Simon Lewis, Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump in a second term would likely install loyalists in key positions in the Pentagon, State Department and CIA whose primary allegiance would be to him, allowing him more freedom than in his first presidency to enact isolationist policies and whims, …

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Planned Parenthood drops challenge to Kentucky abortion ban

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Lawyers at Planned Parenthood and other groups said Monday that they had dropped a class action lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban, after the named plaintiff lost standing to bring the case because she was no longer pregnant. Lawyers at Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said …

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Trump bemoans record stock market as just making ‘rich people richer’

By Tim Reid (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who predicted three years ago that if Democratic President Joe Biden won the White House in 2020 markets would crash, said on Sunday that stock markets hitting record highs were just making “rich people richer.” Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, often took credit for a rising …

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Trump repeats ‘poisoning the blood’ anti-immigrant remark

By Nathan Layne DURHAM, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric. Trump made the comments during a campaign event in New Hampshire where he railed against …

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