(Reuters) – – In York, Pennsylvania, a man accosted a group of people rallying for Vice President Kamala Harris’ White House campaign, punching a 74-year-old man in the head and calling another man a “n— supporter” as he fled. In northern Michigan, an assailant enraged by his hatred of Donald Trump used an all-terrain vehicle …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man was charged with threatening to kill an employee of a state political party who had been recruiting people to monitor polls for the Nov. 5 U.S. election, according to court documents made public on Monday. John Courtney Pollard, 62, of Philadelphia, is accused of sending threatening …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with seven new sexual abuse lawsuits, as his lawyers asked the judge overseeing the music mogul’s criminal sex trafficking case for a gag order against Combs’ accusers and their lawyers. The civil lawsuits were made public on Sunday and Monday by four men …
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By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh ROYAL OAK, Michigan (Reuters) -Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Monday the U.S. must raise its federal minimum wage, and she labeled the current mininum wage of $7.25 an hour as “poverty wages.” WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Harris tried to draw a contrast with Republican presidential …
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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -The CDC is deploying a team to Washington state to assess the health of farm workers who culled poultry suffering from bird flu after four workers are presumed to have been infected by the virus, U.S. and state health officials said on Monday. The infections would make Washington the sixth …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would provide women with private insurance access to over-the-counter birth control pills and other contraceptives at no cost, the White House said on Monday. The rule, which expands a federal mandate requiring health insurers to cover preventative care services at no …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer will make history in December as the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing Tennessee’s Republican-backed law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. The ACLU’s Chase Strangio, 41, represents a group of transgender people who pursued a lawsuit …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -The five Black and Hispanic teenagers who were wrongfully convicted for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park sued Donald Trump for defamation on Monday over statements he made at last month’s U.S. presidential debate. Known widely as the Central Park Five, the defendants spent between …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Michael Cohen to revive a lawsuit accusing his former boss Donald Trump and various former federal officials of returning him to prison in 2020 in retaliation for penning a book critical of Trump, who was president at …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former union leader Dan Osborn’s independent run for U.S. Senate in deeply Republican Nebraska has shown unexpected strength and if he pulls off an upset victory could make the Navy veteran a Washington wild card next year. A series of recent polls has shown Osborn within striking distance of …
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