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By Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) -Lendlease Group and Alphabet’s Google are mutually ending development services deals for four master-planned districts worth $15 billion in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Australian company said on Friday, as developers continue to exit California’s real estate market. Lendlease bagged the contract from Google in 2019 to develop the residential …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats’ insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House’s promise of a veto. The measure …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate approved three high-level military promotions on Thursday, sidestepping one Republican senator’s months-long blockade of hundreds of promotions. The Senate approved Admiral Lisa Franchetti as Chief of Naval Operations and General David Allvin to be Chief of Staff of the Air Force by a 95-1 vote. Lieutenant General …

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By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -During a break in Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony on Thursday in a fraud trial that could handcuff his family’s real-estate business, he had a request for the courtroom sketch artist: “Make me look sexy.” The oldest son of the former president had spent the past several hours on the …

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By Daniel Trotta and Julia Harte (Reuters) -Fired Memphis police officer Desmond Mills pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols and has agreed to plead guilty to related Tennessee state charges, prosecutors said. Mills was one of five officers to have previously pleaded not guilty to federal …

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(Reuters) – Civil rights leaders on Thursday called for a federal investigation into the case of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old Black man from Mississippi who was reportedly struck and killed by police and buried without his family’s knowledge. Renowned civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Wade’s family, and Rev. Al Sharpton are asking …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday initiated civil rights investigations into two local South Carolina jails, including one facility where a man died after being tased and pepper sprayed in his cell, a top department official said. The probe will examine whether there are systemic civil rights violations at …

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By David Thomas (Reuters) – A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday publicly reprimanded Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita for statements he made about a doctor in the state who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. The court found that Rokita violated professional conduct rules for lawyers when he described Dr. …

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By Andrea Shalal and Jarrett Renshaw MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a “pause” in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a heckler pushing for a ceasefire confronted him at a campaign fundraiser. Biden was speaking to about 200 people when the heckler …

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