By Tim Reid SAN LUIS, Arizona (Reuters) – When Michele Pena ran as a Republican candidate for the Arizona state legislature in a heavily Hispanic and Democratic-leaning district on the Mexican border, few believed she could win. Pena, the daughter of a Mexican immigrant, was a school volunteer and single mother with no political experience. …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Friday ordered National Guard troops to the border with Mexico, saying the U.S. federal government’s recent decision to close a legal port of entry in her state “has led to an unmitigated humanitarian crisis.” It was a notable rebuke of President Joe Biden by a …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump, a jury decided on Friday. The jury in federal court in Washington found that Giuliani owes the workers, …
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By James Oliphant and Brian Snyder CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis offered a stinging rebuke of rival Donald Trump on Friday, arguing that Trump would attempt to “de-legitimize the results” if he loses in an early nominating state such as Iowa or New Hampshire next month. “If Trump loses, he will …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A binder holding top-secret intelligence that contributed to a U.S. assessment that Russia tried to help throw the 2016 U.S. election to Donald Trump has been missing since the last days of his presidency, a source familiar with the issue said. The Russia intelligence was included with other documents …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A state judge on Friday ordered TikTok to comply with a request from the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office for records in a multistate investigation into whether the app puts young people at risk. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said the attorneys general investigating since 2022 have discovered TikTok had …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Friday appealed a gag order restricting the former U.S. president from publicly talking about court staff in his New York civil fraud trial to the state’s highest court. The judge overseeing the case, Justice Arthur Engoron, issued the gag order on Oct. 3 after Trump shared on social …
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By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – U.S. drug regulators in September found quality control lapses at Moderna’s main factory including with equipment used to manufacture drug substance for its COVID-19 vaccine, according to the report obtained by Reuters via a Freedom of Information Act request. The Sept. 11-21 inspection by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution on Friday seeking a report from President Joe Biden’s administration and debate on Israel’s bombing of Gaza, citing the heavy toll on non-combatants. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, sought to force debate under a provision in U.S. foreign assistance law …
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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The number of U.S. farm acres owned by foreign entities grew more than 8% in 2022, though the 43.4 million acres of foreign-owned forest and farm land is just 3.4% of the country’s agricultural land, said a government report on Friday. The issue of who owns American farmland, and whether …
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