By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. appeals court judges on Monday signaled skepticism toward Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a gag order imposed on the former president in a federal criminal case in which he is accused of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. As Trump lawyer D. John Sauer argued that the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows filed notice on Tuesday seeking to move a case brought against him by the district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County to federal court, according to a court document. Meadows, who served in the Trump administration, was among those charged with former U.S. President Donald …
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By Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) -Facing a likely choice between Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race, many Americans are desperate for younger, less divisive options. A large and potentially consequential market for third-party candidates – one not seen since the 1990s – is a stark reminder that in …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump wasted little time attacking a New York judge’s top clerk on Thursday after an appeals court paused a gag order barring the former U.S president from speaking publicly about court staff amid his civil fraud trial. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, took to his …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress closed its doors for nearly two weeks on Thursday without passing emergency aid for Israel and Ukraine, as lawmakers argued over unrelated immigration policy and faced pockets of resistance from Republicans on continued aide for Kyiv’s war against Russia. The Senate adjourned well after midnight after …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of hardline Republicans has put new U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on notice that he can no longer count on their support for legislation, signaling a possible early end to his “honeymoon” period. Three weeks after the Louisiana lawmaker won the gavel of the House of Representatives, …
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By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -Lawyers representing a group of Colorado voters delivered closing arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot next year over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. The voters are seeking to use the …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – New Hampshire on Wednesday officially set the date of its presidential primary for Jan. 23, defying a plan pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to have the state give up its first-in-the-nation primary. New Hampshire will remain first on the primary calendar, but faces punishment from …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The 2024 U.S. presidential election promises to be like no other in modern times. Leading the field of Republican presidential candidates is former President Donald Trump, who faces a battery of federal and state criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. …
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By Moira Warburton and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to pause the effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, halting a Republican campaign that alleges he has been derelict in his duty of managing the U.S.-Mexico border. The articles of impeachment, introduced by Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor …
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