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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia pushed other OPEC+ nations into an output cut last week, the White House claimed on Thursday, part of an escalating war of words between the two countries. “More than one” OPEC member disagreed with Saudi Arabia’s push to cut production and felt coerced into the vote, National Security Council spokesman John …

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HOUSTON (Reuters) – The chances of a hurricane striking the United States in late October are declining, forecasters at Colorado State University said in a closely watched report on Thursday. “The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has been slightly below normal,” the forecasters said in the final update of the season. For the rest of the …

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By Danielle Broadway (Reuters) – Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty on Thursday to a single count of harassment under an agreement with prosecutors sparing him any jail time while disposing of a criminal case that stemmed from allegations by several women of sexual misconduct. The second-degree harassment citation, classified as a non-criminal violation in …

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(Reuters) -U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, 82, was taken to a Washington area hospital “as a precaution” on Thursday after not feeling well at his home in Virginia, his office said. The Democrat from Vermont was expected to undergo tests and “remain overnight for observation,” his office said in a written statement released shortly after 8 …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York state Attorney General Letitia James said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s family company created a new entity, “Trump Organization II LLC,” in a possible attempt to offload assets before her civil fraud case against the former U.S. president and his family company goes to trial. Trump Organization …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing new report that found that prosecutors and sheriffs in Orange County, California, had improperly used a jailhouse informant program in ways that routinely violated the constitutional rights of criminal defendants. The 63-page report caps a nearly six-year civil rights investigation, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack could issue a subpoena for former President Donald Trump within a matter of days, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democratic committee member, said on Thursday in an interview with CNN. (Reporting by Katherine Jakcson and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Caitlin Webber)