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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents were without electricity on Tuesday after powerful storms toppled trees and downed thousands of power lines in the state a day earlier, including one that electrocuted a 14-year-old girl. More than 340,000 customers remained without power, utility companies said at around 5 pm ET …

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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Texas on Tuesday reported the first death in a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox, according to state health department officials. The case is still under investigation to see what role monkeypox played in the death. Although painful, monkeypox is rarely fatal. Scott Pauley, a spokesman for …

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By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Political appointees at the U.S. Justice Department will be barred from attending campaign events or fundraisers, according to new guidance issued by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday ahead of November’s midterm elections. Federal employees are subject to the Hatch Act, a law limiting some …

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By Steve Holland and Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican former President Donald Trump has added former Florida Solicitor General Chris Kise to his legal team in the case involving classified documents he stored at his Mar-a-Lago club, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Marsha Lewis, a bartender in Mississippi’s state capital city, said she went to fill up her bathtub on Monday when she heard a local water treatment plant had shut down but was “horrified” to see what looked to her like raw sewage flowing from the faucet. By Tuesday morning, after …

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By Peter Eisler and Nathan Layne (Reuters) – A sheriff in Barry County, Michigan, already under state investigation for alleged involvement in an illegal breach of a vote-counting machine, sought warrants in July to seize other machines in an effort to prove former President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, documents …

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he was sickened by “attacks on the FBI” after the agency’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home earlier this month. “It’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI,” Biden said in an address on Tuesday. Biden added that he was …

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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A UN committee on Tuesday condemned the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, saying it was hitting racial and ethnic minorities hardest and asked Washington to take mitigation measures. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said it was “deeply concerned” that …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Roomster was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and six states, which accused the roommate matching service of using fake listings and reviews to take more than $27 million from people often struggling to find affordable places to live. According to a complaint filed in …

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