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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. senators from both parties voiced doubts on Tuesday about House Republicans’ plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting Internal Revenue Service funding, without providing aid to Ukraine, and Democratic President Joe Biden threatened to veto the bill were it to pass. In the first major …

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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with a pair of cases from California and Michigan involving public officials blocking critics on social media, with the justices struggling to define when such conduct runs into constitutional limits on the government’s ability to restrict speech. Lower courts reached …

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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -Five months before a U.S. Army reservist shot dead 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, his family contacted the local sheriff’s office to say they were concerned about his deteriorating mental health and that he had access to at least 10 guns. A second report came …

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(This Oct. 30 story has been refiled to fix a typo in paragraph 6) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The five surviving co-stars of the hit 1990s television sitcom “Friends” paid tribute on Monday to their fallen cast mate, Matthew Perry, in a joint message lamenting his death two days earlier as an …

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