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By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A monster U.S. winter storm pounded the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest on Thursday, killing a firefighter, knocking out power to more than 900,000 people and canceling or delaying thousands of flights. A broad swath of the northern United States from Washington state to New England remained under winter weather …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered former President Donald Trump to be questioned in a pair of lawsuits against the Justice Department and FBI by two former agency officials who allege they were the targets of an improper political pressure campaign by his White House. U.S. District Judge Amy …

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(Editors: note language in 12th paragraph) By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado judge on Thursday ordered the suspect accused of fatally shooting five people and injuring dozens of others at an LGBTQ nightclub last year to stand trial on 323 counts stemming from the massacre, including murder and hate-crime charges. Prosecutors presented sufficient …

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By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada is launching a joint federal and provincial investigation into short-video app TikTok over concerns about the Chinese-owned platform’s collection, use and disclosure of personal information, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said on Thursday. The federal privacy regulator, as well as provincial counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta, will …

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(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon expects U.S. interest rates could hit 6%, he said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday. The Federal Reserve quickly caught up to out-of-control inflation and would probably pause interest rates at a little over 5%, but they may need to go higher, Dimon told …

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By David Thomas (Reuters) – A Texas judge has thrown out disciplinary charges that state regulators filed last year against pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, finding “numerous defects” in the evidence presented. The State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline sued Powell last March, claiming she “had no reasonable basis” for filing lawsuits challenging U.S. …

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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, the disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with murdering his wife and son, admitted to lying to investigators about his whereabouts on the night of the killings but denied any guilt in dramatic testimony on Thursday. Four weeks into the high-profile trial, Murdaugh took the stand to testify that …

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By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he will discuss re-negotiating a border pact that makes it difficult to turn back asylum seekers entering through unofficial crossings when U.S. President Joe Biden visits Ottawa in March. Canada wants to rewrite the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), which allows …

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