Dominion’s $1.6 billion suit against Fox set to start Monday

By Helen Coster (Reuters) -Opening statements are due on Monday in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over the network’s airing of false claims that the company’s machines were used to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis, presiding over the case in Wilmington, conducted jury…

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Biden and UK’s Sunak did not discuss intel leaks, White House says

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden did not discuss the leak of intelligence documents with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when the two men met in Northern Ireland this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday. “It did not come up, the leaked documents, in that conversation,” she told reporters in…

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FBI says it has made arrest in Massachusetts, amid a report leaker identified

(Changes reporting credit) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Thursday it has “made an arrest and is continuing to conduct authorized law enforcement activity at a residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts,” amid a media report a suspect in the leak of classified has been identified. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement…

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U.S. arrests Jack Teixeira in connection with classified defense information leak

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States arrested Air National Guard employee Jack Teixeira on Thursday in connection with transmission of classified defense information, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said. “FBI agents took Teixeira into custody earlier this afternoon without incident,” Garland said at a brief statement at the Justice Department. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch…

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U.S. Senate panel to hold hearing on Biden’s Labor nominee Su next week

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Labor committee will hold an April 20 confirmation hearing on U.S. Labor Secretary nominee Julie Su, panel chairman Senator Bernie Sanders said in a statement. President Joe Biden had nominated Su for the Cabinet post in February but her nomination has raised some pushback from industry circles. (Reporting by…

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U.S. Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking intel to be arrested Thursday – source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking highly classified U.S. documents will be arrested on Thursday in Massachusetts, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not elaborate. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on developments in the…

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China sanctions senior US lawmaker for visiting Taiwan

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday sanctioned U.S. Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, for visiting Taiwan, saying he had sent a “serious wrong signal to Taiwan independence separatist forces.” China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and strongly objects to all high-level engagements between…

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