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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump tried to distance himself on Friday from a conservative group’s sweeping plans for the next Republican presidency, days after its leader claimed a second American Revolution was underway that would “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” The Republican presidential candidate renounced any connection …

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By Moira Warburton and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Representative Brad Schneider’s office was targeted by what he called on Friday “a vile act of hate,” after pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside his office in the U.S. Capitol building and tore down posters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Schneider, a staunch supporter of Israel, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eighty-six percent of Democrats said they would vote for U.S. President Joe Biden in a match up against former President Donald Trump in November, a Wall Street Journal poll found. That figure was down from the 93% of Democrats who said they would vote for him in February, according to the poll, …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Kansas’ highest court on Friday permanently barred the state from enforcing a law banning the most common second-trimester abortion procedure, saying the ban violated the right to abortion under the state constitution that the court had recognized in 2019. The 5-1 ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court, with one of …

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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cost of an Air Force program to replace aging nuclear missiles has ballooned to about $160 billion from $95.8 billion, three people familiar with the matter said, threatening to slash funding for other key modernization plans. The project, now named the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, is …

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By Liya Cui NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sharks attacked three people on beaches in Texas and Florida on Thursday as the Independence Day weekend got underway, according to officials, adding to a growing list of such incidents in the U.S. this summer. A 21-year-old Ohio man was bitten on his foot while standing in knee-deep …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Mark Warner on Tuesday was contacting some fellow Democratic senators to invite them to a possible meeting on Monday to discuss President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, a source familiar told Reuters. The source did not elaborate or say whether Warner was trying to organize a group of senators to pressure …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Mark Warner is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race after last week’s debate performance, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing two unidentified people with knowledge of the effort. Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, earlier this …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a U.S. judge on Friday to partially pause the criminal case accusing the former president of mishandling classified documents, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity for official acts. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said the Supreme Court’s ruling that he …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for voters to be able to return absentee ballots through drop boxes, with the court’s new liberal majority overturning a decision from just two years ago that had outlawed the practice. The court on a 4-3 vote sided with the progressive …

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