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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. House Republican said on Thursday that his party needs to begin talks with Democrats on funding the government past a Sept. 30 deadline, as Speaker Mike Johnson plotted his next move after pulling a controversial stopgap funding bill. Representative Tom Cole, the Republican chair of the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Georgia judge on Thursday dismissed two criminal counts in the U.S. state’s 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one other count against allies of the former president. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee found that state prosecutors did not have the authority to bring those charges, which related …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to interfere with a lower court decision to keep Donald Trump’s already-decided criminal case over hush money paid to a porn star in state court, dealing another blow to the former U.S. president’s bid to move the case to federal court.  …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A North Dakota state court judge on Thursday overturned the state’s near-total abortion ban, clearing the way for abortion to become legal in the Midwestern state for the first time in more than a year. Judge Bruce Romanick in Bismarck found that the state constitution protects women’s right to an abortion …

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By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden was set to announce a suite of grants and initiatives to help combat domestic abuse and support survivors of gender-based violence on Thursday, marking the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act. Among the Biden-Harris administration’s initiatives will be a resource center run by …

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The first private spacewalk is set for Thursday by a group of astronauts who will leave a SpaceX capsule after a delay of a few hours, testing a new line of spacesuits in the company’s riskiest mission yet. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees …

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