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(Reuters) — U.S. Representative Dean Phillips on Thursday told Reuters that he is loaning his campaign about $2 million to fund his long-shot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and said he was attending fundraisers in major cities. Seizing on the 80-year…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on Thursday of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange in one of the biggest financial frauds on record, a verdict that cemented the 31-year-old former billionaire’s fall from grace. A 12-member ju…

(Reuters) — A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday publicly reprimanded Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita for statements he made about a doctor in the state who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. The court found that Rokita violated professional conduct rules f…

WASHINGTON (Reuters ) — The U.S. Senate approved three high-level military promotions on Thursday, sidestepping one Republican senator’s months-long blockade of hundreds of promotions. The Senate approved Admiral Lisa Franchetti as Chief of Naval Operations and General David Allvin to be Chie…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. both testified on Thursday that they had no involvement with documents that a judge has ruled were fraudulently manipulated to inflate the value of their father Donald Trump’s business. In back-to-back appearances in a New York courtroom, T…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Hunter Biden on Thursday said his history of substance abuse has become fodder for a disinformation campaign against President Joe Biden ahead of his father’s re-election bid. Hunter Biden made the statement in an op-ed article for USA Today, rare public remarks on a po…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel on Friday to Lewiston, Maine, where 18 people were shot and killed at a bar and bowling alley last week, the White House said on Wednesday. Robert R. Card, 40, a U.S. Army reservist, sprayed the bowling alley and …

NEW YORK (Reuters) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyer told jurors on Wednesday that prosecutors in his fraud trial sought to portray him as a “villain” and a “monster” because they could not prove he stole billions of dollars from the cryptocurrency excha…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed three bills laying out funding plans for agriculture, military and veterans affairs and transportation for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2024. THE TAKE Congress has until Nov. 17 to agree on funding to avert a partial government shutdown…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Negotiators for Hollywood actors and major studios have not resolved concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and other issues in talks aimed at ending an 111-day strike, the SAG-AFTRA union said late Wednesday. The union said it had presented a revised proposal on the us…