WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden named former federal prosecutor and Chicago lawyer Ed Siskel as his top White House lawyer on Tuesday, saying the former White House deputy counsel would start his new post next month. Siskel served in the White House Counsel’s office for nearly four years when Biden was vice president …
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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will not participate in the Republican Party’s first primary debate on Wednesday, which the Republican National Committee said would feature eight other top candidates who qualified for the event ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The RNC announced the participants on Monday but did not mention Trump. …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A feud over spending cuts between hardline and centrist Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives raises the risk that the federal government will suffer its fourth shutdown in a decade this fall. Members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus are pushing to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level …
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(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in the state of Iowa, where the party’s presidential nominating contest begins in January, according to an opinion poll released on Monday. The Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom survey of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers shows Trump has the backing of 42%, …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In mid-March, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the Ukraine war as a “territorial dispute” that was not of vital strategic interest to the United States, in a written reply to a questionnaire from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. His comment dismayed allies and drew fierce rebukes from many Republicans …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis should defend former President Donald Trump at the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday and go on the attack against campaign rival Vivek Ramaswamy, the main outside spending group supporting his candidacy wrote in a series of memos. The memos, commissioned by pro-DeSantis group Never …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign will use next week’s Republican debate in the battleground state of Wisconsin to engage thousands of social media volunteers and launch their first advertising campaign aimed at Black and Latino voters, according to a Democratic official. Republican presidential contenders are gathering in Milwaukee …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican U.S. lawmaker heading a congressional probe into Hunter Biden’s business dealings asked the National Archives on Thursday for emails between President Joe Biden and his 53-year-old son. House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer called on the official depository of U.S. records to produce unredacted emails …
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(Reuters) – The indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump and 18 others in Georgia includes charges against three alleged co-conspirators related to the harassment of election workers. The involvement of the trio – Trevian Kutti, Harrison Floyd and Stephen Cliffgard Lee – in efforts to keep Trump in power was first revealed by Reuters …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Donald Trump is likely to claim that his right to free speech and genuine concerns about voter fraud protect him from charges that he pressured Georgia officials to change the results of the 2020 election in his favor. But legal experts say the case appears to be a straightforward fraud prosecution …
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