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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is appealing a decision by a Texas judge that blocked Obamacare’s mandate that health insurance plans cover preventive care at no cost to patients, the White House said on Friday. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday blocked the federal government from enforcing requirements that …

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By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – The events underlying Donald Trump’s indictment in New York – hush money payments to a porn star who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with him – took place nearly seven years ago. But any potential trial is still at minimum more than a year away, legal …

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By Jonathan Allen NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – When Nashville police announced that the shooter who killed three children and three adults at a school this week was transgender, trans Tennesseans braced themselves for renewed vitriol in a state that has recently proposed a raft of anti-trans laws. Soon enough, some prominent Republicans, including J.D. Vance, …

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NEW YORK – The law firm representing a former Russian model who accused Apollo Global Management Inc co-founder Leon Black of raping her said it has been fired, and asked a judge to let it formally withdraw from the case. According to a Wednesday filing in a New York state court in Manhattan, Guzel Ganieva …

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By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -A jury in Utah ruled on Thursday that Oscar-winning actor Gwyneth Paltrow was not responsible for injuries sustained by a man during a ski slope collision at an upscale Park City resort in 2016. Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, suffered a concussion and four broken ribs in the incident. He said …

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(Reuters) – Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges. The charges from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg come as Trump seeks the Republican nomination to run …

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By David Shepardson and Rich McKay (Reuters) -Authorities have lifted an evacuation order and said no environmental safety issues were detected after a freight train carrying ethanol derailed near a small town in Minnesota early on Thursday. The BNSF Railway-operated train derailed at 1:02 a.m. CDT (0602 GMT) and caught fire, forcing some residents to …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican energy reform bill intended to bolster U.S. oil and gas production while scaling back climate initiatives, the first major legislation of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s majority. The House passed the Lower Energy Costs Act by a mostly partisan 225-204 …

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