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By Will Dunham , 2023 (Reuters) -William Friedkin, who achieved cinematic immortality by directing the bleak, gritty 1971 drug-smuggling thriller “The French Connection” and the terrifying 1973 demon-possession blockbuster “The Exorcist,” died on Monday at the age of 87. He died at his home from heart failure and pneumonia, said a spokesperson for Creative Artists …

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By Safiyah Riddle (Reuters) – The share of U.S. consumers who believe it is a bad time to buy a home reached the highest level in at least 13 years in July, according to a survey released on Monday, as the supply of available properties remains scarce and home prices appear to have stopped cooling. …

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By Rich McKay and Josephine Walker ATLANTA (Reuters) – Law-enforcement officers surrounded the Fulton County courthouse on Monday in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, amid closed roads and traffic barriers put up to boost security ahead of a possible indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is wrapping up a probe …

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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer’s knee during a botched arrest. The sentence, meted out by Hennepin …

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By Josephine Walker WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. government watchdog is reviewing how long Democratic President Joe Biden’s pick for labor secretary, Julie Su, can serve as the department’s acting secretary without Senate confirmation, a spokesperson said on Monday, following an inquiry by a Republican lawmaker. The White House last month decided to keep Su on …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation counterclaim against the writer E. Jean Carroll, handing a fresh legal defeat to the former president as he seeks another White House term. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Carroll’s statements, made on CNN the day after she …

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