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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A courtroom portrait led Donald Trump to deliver a blunt self-assessment on Thursday: “I gotta lose some weight.” The former president’s banter with a courtroom artist came as he made an appearance at his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. Outside the courtroom, the former president, 77, …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, is one of the few major pieces of legislation that the U.S. Congress passes every year, a practice started in 1961. The legislation governs everything from pay raises for service members and purchases of ships and aircraft to policies such as support …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden is willing to negotiate with opposition Republicans on U.S. border security in an effort to secure more aid for Ukraine, but not to being dictated to by an extreme wing of the party, a senior aide said on Thursday. “He is open to negotiate. What he is not open …

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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congress is preparing to extend the domestic surveillance authority that allows law enforcement to spy on Americans without a warrant by another four months, giving lawmakers more time to either reform or keep the disputed program. The extension of the surveillance provision – known as Section 702 of the Foreign …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump indicated on Thursday that he would appeal a U.S. judge’s ruling that the former president does not have immunity in the federal case accusing him of unlawful actions in seeking to overturn his loss in the 2020 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Dec. 1 rejected …

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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives took a procedural step on Thursday toward voting to authorize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, an escalation of a Republican probe the White House has dismissed as baseless. House Republicans accuse the Democratic president and his family of improperly profiting …

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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused in federal court on Wednesday of taking part in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in his Manhattan recording studio in 2003, marking the fourth lawsuit leveling sexual assault allegations against him in recent weeks. Combs, 54, founder of the landmark label …

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By James Oliphant and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four U.S. presidential contenders – the smallest field yet – debated in Alabama on Wednesday, all trying to survive to battle former President Donald Trump next year for the Republican nomination. Here are some takeaways from the fourth Republican presidential debate: HALEY IN THE BARREL Former United …

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By Gram Slattery TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (Reuters) – Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy “the most obnoxious blowhard in America.” Ramaswamy said former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is “the only person more fascist” than Democratic President Joe Biden. Later in the fourth Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, …

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