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Russia’s Prigozhin admits links to what U.S. says was election-meddling troll farm

(Reuters) – Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, said on Tuesday that he founded and financed and the Internet Research Agency, a company Washington says is a “troll farm” which meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, spent years operating on behalf of the …

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Why Republican hardliners can afford to push the U.S. to the brink of default

By Jason Lange, Gram Slattery and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers taking the hardest line against raising the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling rely heavily on small donors to fund their campaigns, a Reuters analysis found, shielding them from business lobby pressure to avoid a default. Members of the House Freedom Caucus, …

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Exclusive: After multi-billion U.S. fund collapse, Germany’s Allianz eschews risk for safe bonds

By Tom Sims and John O’Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) – For years, Allianz, one of the world’s biggest investors, piled billions into property, wind farms and even London’s sewage system, but now it is moving to shun such “alternative” investments for plain vanilla bonds, people with knowledge of the matter said. The German company’s new approach …

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Michigan State University police say shots fired, 1 reported dead

(Reuters) – Shots were fired at Michigan State University in East Lansing on Monday, with “multiple reported injuries,” university police said on Twitter, urging people on campus and nearby to “shelter in place,” as video from local media showed officers swarming the scene. The Detroit News reported one confirmed fatality on campus, citing Michigan State …

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Biden to name Fed’s Lael Brainard as top economic adviser – source

(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to name Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard to the White House’s top economic policy position as early as Tuesday, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Brainard would replace White House National Economic Council (NEC) Director Brian Deese, who has announced his resignation. In addition …

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Court to reconsider Connecticut rule allowing transgender athletes in girls’ sports

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday agreed to reconsider a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut policy allowing transgender students to compete in girls’ high school sports. All judges of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will now hear arguments in the case, which had been heard by a …

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