By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A jury for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption trial could be seated as soon as Wednesday, to assess the Democrat’s role in what federal prosecutors called a years-long bribery scheme to benefit foreign governments and himself. In a second day of jury selection, U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein questioned …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Michael Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump, was poised on Monday to serve as a star prosecution witness in the former U.S. president’s criminal trial on charges of covering up hush money paid to a porn star. Cohen was expected to take the …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Seven U.S. states are likely to decide the outcome of the U.S. presidential election between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump in November: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These states – known as swing states because they swing between Democratic and Republican …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to former President Donald Trump, for defying a subpoena from the congressional panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The ruling brings Bannon a step closer to serving …
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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by U.S. President Joe Biden’s son to dismiss criminal gun charges, clearing the way for Hunter Biden’s June 3 trial, a first for the child of a sitting president. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, will be one of the delegates representing Florida at the Republican National Convention in July, a notable move given that he has kept largely out of the public eye so far during the campaign. A campaign official confirmed an earlier report from NBC that …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson wakes up on Thursday having survived an attempt to push him out, but he still faces an uncertain future as leader of a Republican caucus locked in civil war. Johnson was a little-known member of the House of Representatives until October, when …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Reuters/Ipsos conducts polls of national U.S. public opinion on a variety of political, business and social topics including a monthly reading on the approval of the president and other government entities, such as Congress and the Supreme Court. WHAT DO PUBLIC OPINION POLLS MEASURE? Public opinion polls capture respondents’ views at a particular …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stormy Daniels took the witness stand on Tuesday at Donald Trump’s criminal trial and described in lurid detail her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former U.S. president. Trump has pleaded not guilty to Manhattan prosecutors’ charges he falsified business records to cover up his former lawyer’s $130,000 payment …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday he would provide a framework for addressing the risks and potential benefits of artificial intelligence in the coming weeks, which will then be translated into piecemeal legislation. The Biden administration and lawmakers, concerned about how AI could impact elections or influence Americans, have been pressing …
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