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By Jasper Ward and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A prosecutor on Wednesday dropped all criminal charges in Georgia against U.S. President Donald Trump for interference in the 2020 presidential election, ending a high-profile racketeering case that once seemed like a significant threat to the Republican. The decision by Peter Skandalakis, a state official who recently …

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(Corrects first paragraph to say prosecuting Kelly faces hurdles, not recalling him to active duty) By Tom Hals, Jack Queen and Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) -Threats by the Trump administration to recall Senator Mark Kelly to active Navy duty to prosecute him under military law for urging troops to disobey illegal orders would face …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court postponed on Wednesday a decision on whether to let Donald Trump remove the government’s top copyright official, leaving her in place for now in the latest battle over the Republican president’s targeting of federal officials. The justices declined to immediately resolve the Justice Department’s request to …

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By Steve Gorman DENVER (Reuters) -Robert Dear, the self-proclaimed “warrior for the babies” who was charged with killing three people and wounding nine others in a 2015 shooting spree at a Colorado abortion clinic, has died in a prison medical center. Dear, 67, who the courts had repeatedly deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, died …

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By Jana Winter and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic members of the U.S. Congress who in a video message told members of the military they can legally refuse to carry out unlawful orders, a Justice Department official told Reuters on Tuesday. The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall …

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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he does not want to extend Obamacare subsidies but might consider such a move after a report said the White House was preparing a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act insurance premium subsidies. Millions of enrollees in ACA …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Edward Markey on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump not to resume explosive nuclear weapons testing, saying that doing so could spur rival nuclear powers Russia and China to do the same. Trump late last month announced on social media that he was directing the Pentagon to immediately …

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(Refiles to add additional reporting credit) By Phil Stewart and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The officials arrived at the secret CIA archival facility in the Washington area one morning in early April. Their mission: to seize still-classified CIA files on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.  The …

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