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By David Thomas (Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani should be stripped of his law license for his work on a failed lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump’s 2020 U.S. election loss in Pennsylvania, a Washington, D.C. disciplinary board recommended on Friday. Giuliani, formerly Trump’s personal lawyer and before that a top Manhattan federal prosecutor and mayor …

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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Retiring U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a frequent thorn in the side of the Democratic Party, on Friday left the Democrats, decrying “partisan extremism” as he followed in the footsteps of fellow former party maverick Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Like Sinema, Manchin registered as an independent. The 76-year-old West Virginia lawmaker’s move …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday rejected a request by two Democratic senators for a meeting to urge him to take steps to ensure that fellow Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from pending cases related to the 2020 election. Alito has been under scrutiny following reports that flags …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump is considering tapping billionaire Elon Musk as a policy adviser if the Republican presidential candidate reclaims the White House in November’s election, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the talks. The two have discussed ways for Musk, who runs the social media platform X as …

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(Reuters) – Returning Donald Trump to the presidency would be the more “bearish” choice for bond markets, famed bond investor Bill Gross said in an interview with The Financial Times. Gross, once the most influential voice in the market, predicted to the paper that a second Trump presidency would push deficits higher than re-electing President …

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By Tim Reid, Julia Harte and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was traveling to a campaign rally aboard Donald Trump’s private jet in early April when he decided to broach the delicate issue of early voting. As the Boeing 757 flew from Florida to Green Bay, Wisconsin, Johnson pressed the …

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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of a $1.5 trillion farm spending bill late Thursday night with few Democratic votes, prolonging a standoff between the parties over key nutrition, agriculture, and climate policies. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Congress failed in 2023 to pass a new farm …

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