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By Jarrett Renshaw and Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new privacy protections to prevent women’s health information from being used to investigate or sue people who obtain or facilitate abortions. The proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is aimed at protecting women living in states …

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By Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) – The Democratic National Committee will no longer be represented by longtime Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, spokespeople for his law firm and the DNC confirmed on Wednesday. The split ends a key client relationship for Elias, one of the best-known Democratic lawyers in the U.S., that dates back to 2009. Elias …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys testified to a jury on Wednesday that he had no plan to attack the U.S. Capitol before he entered it with hundreds of Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, attempting to overturn his election defeat. Zachary Rehl, one of …

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(Reuters) – The judge overseeing the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News said on Wednesday he was imposing a sanction on the network and very likely would investigate whether Fox’s legal team withheld evidence, the New York Times reported. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis issued the sanction after Dominion’s …

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By Lena Masri (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has called for the Biden administration to carry out an investigation after a Reuters report showed how Russian authorities are using facial recognition to curb dissent with the aid of U.S. technology.  Wyden, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said that “American technology shouldn’t be a …

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By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said the United States will investigate the recent purported leak of classified documents until the source is found. Reuters has reviewed more than 50 of the documents, labeled “Secret” and “Top Secret,” that first appeared on social media sites in March and supposedly …

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(Reuters) – Advocacy groups are suing the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), saying it is incorrectly ignoring renewable energy sources while using billions of dollars in congressional funding to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid. The Center for Biological Diversity and nine Puerto Rican community groups say FEMA is making Puerto Rico less resilient to …

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