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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese hackers who tapped into Verizon’s system targeted phones used by people affiliated with the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a person familiar with the situation said on Friday. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, were also targeted, according to …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There is a new temporary statue attracting attention near the U.S. Capitol: a brass-colored desk with poop on top of it.  The feces atop, slightly larger than a soccer ball, looks like the popular iPhone poop emoji without the eyes and sits on top of the approximately six-foot (two-meter) wide …

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By Nate Raymond and Jack Queen (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday said it was illegal for states to count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, siding with Republicans in a case challenging Mississippi’s five-day grace period.  The ruling by a conservative three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt HOUSTON (Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris is hoping the “BeyHive” will help propel her to victory in the 2024 presidential election. The celebrity singer Beyonce headlines a Houston rally for Vice President Harris on Friday, an event Harris’ campaign hopes will help excite voters and propel them to the polls as she faces …

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By Gabriella Borter and Kanishka Singh LAVEEN VILLAGE, Arizona (Reuters) – President Joe Biden formally apologized on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than 150 years, and was heckled at the event over his support for Israel’s war in Gaza. “This to me is one of …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to strip his name from the ballot in Michigan, once again pressing the nation’s highest judicial body to intervene in his fights to stay on the ballot in some states while dropping off others. Lawyers for the former independent …

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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia’s removal of people it said had not proved their citizenship from its voter rolls, saying it ran afoul of a federal prohibition on purging large numbers of voters in the final 90 days before an election. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden apologized on Thursday for the U.S. government’s role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than 150 years, marking an acknowledgement of devastation the community endured for generations. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to be a cabinet …

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