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(Reuters) – Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff to ex-U.S. President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed as part of a probe by Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the matter. Smith’s office wants documents and testimony related to …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s state Senate on Wednesday rejected Governor Kathy Hochul’s choice to become the state’s highest-ranking judge, a defeat for the state’s top Democrat who failed to overcome opposition from her own party to the nomination. Hochul’s choice, Hector LaSalle, is the presiding justice of a midlevel state appeals court in …

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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz’s office on Wednesday said federal prosecutors had told his attorneys that he would not be criminally charged following an almost three-year-long sex-trafficking investigation. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment. The hardline Republican had been one of the subjects of a federal probe beginning in …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. senators on Wednesday raised concerns about a string of recent near miss airplane incidents with the acting Federal Aviation Administration head as well as about a FAA computer system outage that snarled thousands of flights last month. “These incidents are concerning. They impact Americans confidence in our aviation …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Tom Hals (Reuters) – Fani Willis, the district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County who is pursuing a criminal investigation of Donald Trump over his contacts with state officials concerning the 2020 U.S. election, has been described as a “pit bull in the courtroom.” That would be the kind of tenacity Willis, …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he would nominate trusted confidante and long-time economic adviser Jared Bernstein to head the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), part of a shakeup ahead of an expected 2024 campaign. Bernstein, 68, is one of three senior economists on the council and …

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By Jason Lange and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump leads a potentially wide field seeking the Republican nomination to run for president in 2024, with newly announced candidate Nikki Haley a distant fourth, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll. Trump received support from 43% of registered Republicans in the new …

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By Jason Lange, Gram Slattery and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Freedom Caucus lawmakers taking a hard line against raising the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling rely heavily on small donors to fund their campaigns, a Reuters analysis found, shielding them from business lobby pressure to avoid a default. Members of the House …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Portions of a Georgia special grand jury’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election should be publicly released, but any recommendations on criminal charges will remain sealed for now, a state judge ruled on Monday. The panel’s findings, which have remained sealed since the final report’s existence …

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