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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Donald Trump ally and MyPillow.com chief executive Mike Lindell on Wednesday persuaded a U.S. appeals court to throw out a judge’s order requiring him to pay $5 million to a software developer who said he debunked Lindell’s 2020 election fraud claims. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday it was forming a strike force to assess recent claims made by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about “alleged weaponization of the U.S. intelligence community.” WHY IT’S IMPORTANT U.S. President Donald Trump has leaped on comments from Gabbard on Friday in …

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By Matt McKnight and Steve Gorman BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) -The former criminal-justice doctoral student convicted in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday but declined to give a statement in court that might have shed light on a motive for the killings. Bryan Kohberger, …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Luc Cohen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies, won two key victories in U.S. courts on Wednesday but will remain behind bars on human smuggling charges for now.  In dual rebukes to the Trump administration …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday recommended ending 13 years of court-ordered federal oversight of Seattle’s police department, saying it substantially complied with reforms to address civil rights violations and excessive use of force. The Justice Department said in a statement to the U.S. District Court in Seattle that it …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department office tasked with protecting peoples’ civil rights has lost 368 employees since President Donald Trump took office, in a mass exodus that has coincided with a dramatic policy shift away from its historical mission of protecting marginalized populations. The staffing decrease at the Civil Rights …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday. Forty-eight Democratic members of the House of Representatives, led …

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