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Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6 billion Dominion defamation case

14 Dec 2022

By Jack Queen and Helen Coster (Reuters) – Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath on Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Election technology company Dominion Voting Systems is seeking $1.6 billion in damages from Fox News …

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Following Griner’s release, U.S. lawmakers want a “National Hostage” day

13 Dec 2022

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Days after the release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner from imprisonment in Russia, Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers will introduce legislation on Tuesday to establish March 9 as an annual day to remember Americans detained abroad. The bill, according to text seen by Reuters, seeks to make March …

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U.S. lawmaker Greene’s Jan. 6 remarks a ‘slap in the face’ to police – White House

13 Dec 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Monday condemned the rhetoric of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said recently that if she had been in charge of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol it would have succeeded and the attackers would have been armed. “It is antithetical to our values as …

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U.S. Supreme Court to consider prohibition on encouraging illegal immigration

10 Dec 2022

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by President Joe Biden’s administration to revive a federal law that makes it a criminal offense to encourage illegal immigration after it was struck down by a lower court as a violation of free speech rights. The justices took …

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U.S. Justice Dept asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt in documents probe -report

9 Dec 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to hold Donald Trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a subpoena to return all classified documents in the former president’s possession, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl …

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Supreme Court leans toward limiting judicial scrutiny of U.S. elections

8 Dec 2022

By Andrew Chung and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday appeared to ready to limit judicial power to overrule voting policies crafted by state politicians but might not go as far as Republican North Carolina lawmakers want in a case the liberal justices painted as a threat to American …

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U.S. House Jan. 6 panel plans to release report week of Dec. 19, NBC News says

8 Dec 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol plans to release its final report the week of Dec. 19, with two sources saying it will be on Dec. 21, an NBC News reporter said on Twitter. (Reporting by Eric Beech; editing by Dan Whitcomb)

‘A better chapter’: 18-year-old man elected mayor of Arkansas town

8 Dec 2022

(Reuters) – Jaylen Smith, who counts his high school graduation earlier this year among his top accomplishments, can now add one more: election as mayor of small-town Earle, Arkansas, at the age of 18. Smith beat out Nemi Matthews, superintendent of sanitation and streets in Earle, by a margin of 235 to 183 votes on …

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U.S. lawmakers decline to add Boeing 737 MAX exemption in defense bill

7 Dec 2022

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers late on Tuesday declined to add an extension to an annual defense bill of a looming deadline that would impose a new safety standard for modern cockpit alerts for two new versions of Boeing’s best-selling 737 MAX aircraft. The U.S. planemaker has been lobbying for months to convince …

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