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(Repeats story issued on April 4 with no changes to text.) By Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 500 law firms have signed a court brief denouncing Donald Trump’s targeting of Perkins Coie and other firms, expressing alarm over the Republican president’s intensifying crackdown on the legal profession. Law firms signed …

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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Hundreds of Hollywood crew members, producers and actors on Sunday urged California legislators to increase tax incentives and enact other measures to encourage more film and TV production in and around Los Angeles. Advocates gathered at a local sound stage to make their case to reverse the flight of …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on Sunday that two people died and over 500 roads were closed in the state due to deadly storms and floods, which have also killed over a dozen people in the past week in other states of the U.S. South and Midwest. “Kentucky, there …

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By Jonathan Landay, Nathan Layne and Tim Reid (Reuters) -Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. on Saturday, part of some 1,200 demonstrations that were expected to form the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since they launched a rapid-fire effort to …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden may not agree on much, but there is one issue on which they have been united: The need to blunt a powerful weapon that federal judges have been deploying at a quickly rising clip.  Top lawyers for each president separately …

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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens, at a time when many in Africa fear that country could return to civil war. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has taken …

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By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate “vote-a-rama” marathon session headed into the early hours of Saturday, with the aim of eventually handing Republican President Donald Trump sweeping legislation to cut taxes and reduce spending over staunch Democratic opposition. Republicans and Democrats considered well over a dozen amendments aimed …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Former U.S. Representative George Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a brief and scandal-plagued tenure, should be sentenced to more than seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Friday. Santos pleaded guilty in August to two of the 23 criminal counts he faced …

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