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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Georgia’s top court declined on Tuesday to hear an expedited appeal by Republicans of a decision blocking a new rule that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots, a change that voting rights groups warned could have caused chaos. The decision also means that county-level officials in the state, one …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators on Monday urged President Joe Biden to order a review of the security of the global network of undersea communications cables that handle nearly all the world’s internet traffic. Nearly all international internet traffic travels on undersea cables and the locations of the cables …

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By Bianca Flowers and Disha Raychaudhuri ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Francisca Shaw said she knew something was deeply wrong as she was rushed into an emergency cesarean for the delivery of her third child, a daughter, at Seattle’s University of Washington Medical Center in 2015.  “I remember I told my doctor when I was getting cut: …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mike Jeffries, the former longtime chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch, has been criminally charged with sex trafficking and prostitution involving dozens of men. The 16-count indictment was unveiled on Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn a decade after Jeffries left the retailer he built over 22 years …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the use of a criminal trespassing charge against nearly all of the 1,500 defendants accused of taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, rejecting an attempt to further restrict the charges available to prosecutors. In a 2-1 ruling, …

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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans on Tuesday vowed to appeal court rulings rejecting their efforts to block some Americans living abroad from voting in North Carolina and Michigan, part of an aggressive legal campaign by the party ahead of the Nov. 5 election. The Republican National Committee had filed lawsuits in the two …

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By Steve Holland and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will participate in an interview on Friday with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, who has a devoted following in the tens of millions of listeners. Two campaign officials said Trump would travel to Rogan’s studio in Austin, Texas, for the session. While they …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States issued fresh charges over the attempted Tehran plot to kidnap and assassinate an Iranian-American journalist in New York, indicting an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) official among others in the case, according to a court document on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors have previously charged other suspects in the case, including one …

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By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Rock legend Bruce Springsteen will hold a concert and rally with former President Barack Obama in Atlanta and Philadelphia in the coming days as part of a series of get-out-the-vote events for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign in battleground states, a senior campaign official said on Tuesday. With early voting …

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