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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday threatened to hold former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for failing to surrender his luxury apartment and other belongings to two Georgia election workers he defamed and owes $148 million. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan had on Oct. …

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By Tim Reid, Bianca Flowers, Helen Coster, Timothy Aeppel and Stephanie Kelly ATLANTA (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election victory has sent shockwaves through Black American communities, which voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris despite a campaign by her Republican rival to court Black men.     While Trump made gains among Black Americans in …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Republicans retained their majority on Ohio’s top court and are leading in a race to unseat a sitting Democratic justice on North Carolina’s following an election cycle in which Democrats had hoped the issue of abortion access would help liberal candidates secure seats on state supreme courts nationwide. Democratic-backed candidates …

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By Bo Erickson (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin, a third-term lawmaker with extensive national security experience, won election to the U.S. Senate in Michigan, Edison Research projected on Wednesday, a boost for Democrats trying to hold their majority in the chamber. Slotkin beat Republican former Representative Mike Rogers in the race to succeed retiring …

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(Reuters) – Plea deals agreed with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks and two accomplices held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were valid, according to a judge’s ruling reported by the New York Times on Wednesday regarding agreements that had been revoked by the Pentagon. On July 31, …

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By Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw, Gabriella Borter and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Anger and soul-searching took hold of the Democratic Party on Wednesday, after Vice President Kamala Harris suffered an election loss that left some party officials and voters dumbfounded. Harris was the self-styled underdog against her Republican rival, Donald Trump, having joined the …

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