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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat in the state’s 2020 presidential election told a judge on Tuesday that decisions on whether to bring criminal charges are “imminent.” Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, spoke at a hearing on whether to publicly release the final report …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is creating new offices as part of the agency’s revamp to prioritize public health response, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The CDC had said in August it would undergo a series of changes after months of criticism over its handling of the COVID-19 …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump has ended his appeal of a court ruling that let New York state’s attorney general investigate his real estate business and eventually file a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against the former U.S. president. A stipulation of voluntary dismissal signed by Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba and …

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By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Two students were killed on Monday and an adult was seriously wounded in a “targeted” shooting at a nonprofit educational center for at-risk youth in Des Moines, Iowa, local police said. The students died at a hospital, while a staff member of Starts Right Here, a learning facility for young …

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By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – New Mexico’s top prosecutor on Monday asked the state’s highest court to overturn abortion bans imposed by conservative local governments in the Democratic-run state where the procedure remains legal after Roe v. Wade was struck down. The move comes after the New Mexico cities of Hobbs, Clovis and …

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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – A 72-year-old man fatally shot 11 people celebrating the Lunar New Year at a ballroom near Los Angeles on Saturday night, according to the county sheriff. Here is what is known so far about the weapons involved and the regulations that govern them: WHAT GUNS WERE USED? The shooter, identified …

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(Reuters) – Ticketmaster learned “valuable lessons” from the Taylor Swift concert tickets sale last year that was disrupted by record bot traffic, the parent company will tell a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday. “In hindsight there are several things we could have done better – including staggering the sales over a longer period of time …

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