By Arshad Mohammed and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton excoriated former President Donald Trump as an utterly self-interested man who would punish personal enemies and appease adversaries Russia and China in a new edition of his memoir released on Tuesday. Bolton, who served in Trump’s White House in 2018 …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Congress are blocking emergency funding for Ukraine as lawmakers try to negotiate a deal to tighten security along the U.S.-Mexico border. WHY ARE REPUBLICANS FOCUSING ON BORDER SECURITY? Record numbers of migrants have been caught illegally crossing the border since Democratic President Joe Biden took office …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the border deal being negotiated in the Senate is “dead on arrival” in its current form, CNN reported on Friday, citing a letter to Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives. Lawmakers said on Thursday that bipartisan U.S. Senate talks on a border security deal that …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Committee on Ethics said on Thursday that it was no longer pursuing an inquiry into Democratic Representative Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm while trying to use a locked exit in September as lawmakers prepared to vote on a measure to avert a government shutdown. The decision came …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus this week. The nationwide poll of 1,250 U.S. adults showed Trump leading Biden 40% to 34% with the rest unsure …
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By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipartisan U.S. Senate talks on a border security deal that some have set as a condition for further Ukraine aid have hit a critical point, lawmakers said on Thursday, though the chamber’s top Democrat said the negotiators would continue to push forward. A small group of senators …
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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) – Political comedian Jon Stewart is returning to “The Daily Show” as executive producer and will host every Monday starting Feb. 12, through the 2024 election cycle, Paramount announced on Wednesday. The show will feature a rotating lineup of hosts for the other three nights it airs each week, …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is getting the opponent he thinks he was made to beat in 2024. Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the first two Republican presidential contests in Iowa and New Hampshire make almost certain what Biden’s re-election campaign has predicted for months. …
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(Reuters) – Contenders for the Republican presidential nomination were facing off in the second contest of their nominating process on Tuesday in New Hampshire, while Democrats compete there on the same day in a battle expected to be significantly less competitive. The Republican battle is down to two candidates – former President Donald Trump and …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump may be set to testify in the writer E. Jean Carroll’s latest civil defamation trial in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, following a two-day postponement triggered by COVID-19 concerns. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan canceled testimony on Monday after one juror who felt ill …
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