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NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors oppose any effort to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, but they expressed openness Tuesday to delaying sentencing until after his second term.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said in a court filing that Trump’s forthcoming...
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Republican House Speaker says Capitol bathrooms restricted by ‘biological sex’
By Moira Warburton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday that all single-sex bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol building would be reserved for “individuals of that biological sex,” weeks after the election of the first transgender member...
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Donald Trump’s lawyers urge judge to ignore prosecutors and dismiss hush money conviction
NEW YORK (AP) — As prosecutors push to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s historic hush money conviction, his lawyers urged a judge Wednesday to ignore them and scrap the case before he takes office in January.
Echoing their stance since Trump’s win, his lawyers...
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- Tennessee to count provisional ballots by people convicted of felonies who had rights in limbo
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- Joe Biden turns 82 years old, a first for a sitting US president
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- Musk, Ramaswamy will lean on Supreme Court rulings to cut US agencies
- Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur extends tenure as longest-serving woman in US House with election win
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- Trump picks former acting AG Matthew Whitaker as nominee for NATO ambassador
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- California voters reject measure that would have raised minimum wage to nation-high $18 per hour
- San Francisco Mayor London Breed loses reelection to Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie
- Florida’s new state lawmakers may test DeSantis’ influence in final years of his term
- Trump says he is not reconsidering Gaetz nomination for attorney general
- Trump taps former WWE CEO Linda McMahon as education secretary
- Trump interviewing candidates for FBI chief, Vance says in later-deleted social media post
- Wisconsin Democrats reelect Neubauer as Assembly minority leader
- Trump sets records with pace of appointments, but that doesn’t mean the transition is going smoothly
- Republican lawmakers are set to elect a new North Carolina House speaker, Destin Hall
- A battle over mail ballots in Pennsylvania is latest example of messy disputes over election rules
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- Trump picks TV’s Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid
- Clinton, Yellen to back US community lending fund as Trump seeks spending cuts
- Prominent Wall Street boss Lutnick has been one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders
- Republican bill to restrict first transgender member of Congress draws criticism
- Unknown person accessed documents on Matt Gaetz misconduct allegations
- Wisconsin regulators file complaint against former justice who led 2020 election probe
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- Trump picks Wall St CEO Lutnick to run Commerce, oversee USTR, tariffs
- Hakeem Jeffries wins reelection as House Democratic leader despite party’s losses
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