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By Nathan Layne WARREN, Michigan (Reuters) -Officials in the U.S. battleground state of Michigan said they worry that the Democratic-leaning city of Warren could lag behind the rest of the state in reporting the results of Tuesday’s presidential election, raising early doubts about the state’s vote count. Warren, unlike Detroit and most other cities in …

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(Reuters) -A Kentucky former police officer was convicted on Friday of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose 2020 shooting death by officers sparked a wave of racial justice protests, ABC News reported. The jury hours earlier acquitted former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison on a charge of violating the civil …

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(Reuters) – The governor of Washington state on Friday said he was activating some members of the National Guard to be on stand-by after information and concerns regarding potential violence related to the 2024 election. The state, where Democrat Kamala Harris is easily expected to defeat Republican Donald Trump according to polling, was one of …

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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A judge in the U.S. state of Georgia issued an order on Friday extending the deadline for the return and counting of absentee ballots after a county failed to promptly send out some 3,000 mail-in ballots for Tuesday’s election that were requested by the deadline, the county said. Under Georgia …

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By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the U.S. election days away, Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to secure the support of male volunteers in some labor unions whose phone calls and house visits are needed to get Democratic supporters out to vote, senior labor officials said. Most unions have long …

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By Joseph Tanfani and Andrew Goudsward PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Republican Donald Trump’s false claims about voter fraud in the critical battleground of Pennsylvania have raised concerns he could again try to overturn election results if he fares poorly against Democrat Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election. Opinion polls, both nationally and in the seven closely …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Friday a Republican bid to block the counting of provisional ballots cast by voters in the election battleground state of Pennsylvania who make mistakes on their mail-in ballots in a decision that could affect thousands of votes in Tuesday’s presidential election. The justices denied an …

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By Andy Sullivan and Susan Heavey (Reuters) -Arizona’s top prosecutor, a Democrat, said on Friday that her office was investigating whether Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump violated state law for suggesting a prominent critic should face gunfire in combat. Trump has drawn outrage for comments he made about former lawmaker Liz Cheney at a campaign event …

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(Reuters) – The top U.S. consumer financial watchdog agency on Friday said it had reached a settlement in a long-running lawsuit with a Chicago mortgage lender over alleged racial discrimination. Under the terms of the proposed agreement, Townstone Financial would pay a $105,000 fine into the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s victims relief fund. In …

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By Tom Hals SELLS, Arizona (Reuters) -When Jennifer Juan went to cast her ballot in Arizona’s state primary in July, she spent an hour rifling through documents to convince poll workers she should be allowed to vote. It’s a common problem for many Native American voters like Juan. A registered voter on the Tohono O’odham …

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