NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday urged a New York judge to declare a mistrial in a civil fraud case over his family real estate company’s business practices, but the former U.S. president faces long odds of getting a new trial. Lawyers for Trump and his family company argued in court filings that …
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By Peter Henderson, Anna Tong and Trevor Hunnicutt SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Just blocks from where U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet other Asia-Pacific leaders this week in San Francisco is a neighborhood where it is commonplace to see people using and selling drugs. While the leaders are unlikely …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday attacked former President Donald Trump for using the word “vermin” to refer to his political enemies, saying it echoed the language of Nazi Germany. At a recent rally in New Hampshire, Trump repeated his false claim that fraud cost …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Six people were killed and 18 others were injured on Tuesday in a fiery chain-reaction crash involving a charter bus, a tractor-trailer truck and three other vehicles on a highway in central Ohio, state police said. The bus, carrying students and adult chaperones from the Tuscarawas Valley school district in eastern …
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By David Morgan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a temporary spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, with broad support from lawmakers in both parties. The legislation, which would extend government funding through mid-January, now heads to the Senate, where Democratic and Republican leaders have …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington on Tuesday for a “March for Israel” to show solidarity with Israel in its war with Hamas and condemn rising antisemitism. Streets were closed around much of downtown amid heightened security, as people gathered in bright sunshine on the National Mall, …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York University (NYU) was sued on Tuesday by three Jewish students who accused the school of creating a hostile environment in which Jewish students are subjected to pervasive antisemitic hatred, discrimination, harassment and intimidation. Bella Ingber, Sabrina Maslavi and Saul Tawil said NYU has refused to enforce anti-discrimination …
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By Anna Tong and Peter Henderson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – On a sunny Sunday before world leaders were scheduled to gather for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, the United Nations Plaza, one of the epicenters of San Francisco’s drugs and homelessness crisis, wore a festive air. Until recently a bustling marketplace for stolen goods …
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A 24-year-old man initially ruled incompetent to stand trial on charges that he fatally shot 10 people inside a Colorado grocery store in 2021, but later deemed mentally fit, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder charges on Tuesday. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa entered his plea in …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, a move that underlines the grip the former president holds on much of the party’s establishment. “I’m all in for President Trump,” Johnson said on CNBC. Johnson implied …
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