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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Democratic President Barack Obama called New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani Saturday and offered to be a “sounding board” if the 34-year-old frontrunner wins the election. He also praised Mamdani’s campaign. The call, first reported by the New York Times, was confirmed by Mamdani’s spokesperson. “Zohran Mamdani appreciated …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump reaffirmed on Friday that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing, but he did not answer directly when asked whether that would include underground nuclear tests that were common during the Cold War. “You’ll find out very soon, but we’re going to do some testing,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force …

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By Anirban Sen, Suzanne McGee and Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street and the finance industry have broad misgivings about the prospect of frontrunner Zohran Mamdani becoming New York City’s mayor, but many are hopeful he moderates his positions as they prepare to try and work alongside him. Mamdani’s policies range from hiking taxes …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration held a Republicans-only briefing about U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels near Venezuela, in what one senior Democrat on Thursday called a dangerous trend of increasing partisanship in national security. “This is not how the system is supposed to work,” Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, ranking …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate health committee’s planned hearing for President Donald Trump’s surgeon general pick Casey Means on Thursday was postponed after the nominee went into labor, according to the panel. The 37-year-old wellness influencer had been set to appear virtually before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee because …

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By Jana Winter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI investigations have been slowed or stalled by the second-longest U.S. government shutdown in history, leaving the bureau without funds to pay informants or make undercover drug or gun buys, gaps that an FBI spokesperson said are putting national security at risk. The FBI does not provide detailed public information …

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By Renee Hickman and David Thomas CHICAGO (Reuters) -Six people, including a Democratic congressional candidate, were indicted Wednesday on charges of impeding a federal officer in connection with a September protest at an immigration detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.  The suburban Chicago facility has been a flashpoint since U.S. President Donald Trump launched a stepped-up …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon’s oversight committees in the U.S. Congress issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday slamming the Trump’s administration’s decision to reduce the number of troops in Romania. The United States plans to cut the number of troops on Europe’s eastern flank, including soldiers who were …

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