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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Tennessee’s attorney general said on Thursday that his office was investigating a company’s effort to auction off Graceland, singer Elvis Presley’s famed mansion in Memphis. Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a statement that his office was investigating if any fraud was carried out by Naussany Investments & Private Lending, …

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By Jasper Ward (Reuters) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Thursday called a special session of his state’s legislature to get President Joe Biden on its ballot for the Nov. 5 presidential election. The session, which will be held on May 28, aims to pass legislation ensuring both Biden and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump …

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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court made it harder on Thursday to prove racial discrimination in electoral maps in a major ruling backing South Carolina Republicans who moved out 30,000 Black residents when they redrew a congressional district. The 6-3 decision, with the conservative justices in the majority and …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Baltimore’s former top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, was sentenced on Thursday to one year of home confinement but no prison time for lying to improperly access her city employee retirement account, as well as for making a false statement on a mortgage application, according to local news reports. Mosby, 44, was the …

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By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Power use in Texas was on track to break the record for the month of May on Friday for a second time this week and could top that again over the Memorial Day weekend as homes and businesses crank up air conditioners to escape a heat wave. The Electric Reliability Council …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell more than expected in April amid a resurgence in mortgage rates and higher prices, further evidence that the housing market was losing momentum in the second quarter. New home sales dropped 4.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 634,000 units last month, the Commerce …

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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) told a U.S. House panel on Thursday that the school should have been ready to immediately remove an encampment of pro-Palestinian activists that became the site of a violent clash with counter-protesters last month. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was …

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