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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents. The justices turned away NSO’s appeal of a lower …

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By Daina Beth Solomon and Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Venezuelan migrant Julio Marquez sells lollipops near the border in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, holding a cardboard sign scrawled with marker: “Help us with whatever comes from your heart.” He has the same message for U.S. President Joe Biden, …

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By Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since he took office in January 2021 on Sunday, ahead of a visit to Mexico and after announcing new measures to reduce border crossings. What is happening at the U.S.-Mexico border now and why are there record …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York judge on Friday said former U.S. President Donald Trump must face a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general accusing him of fraudulently overvaluing his namesake real estate company’s assets and his own net worth. Attorney General Letitia James had sued Trump, his adult children Donald Jr., …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Former U.S. Senator Richard Burr said on Friday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission informed him this week it has concluded investigation concerning him with no action. U.S. authorities investigated Burr, a North Carolina lawmaker who did not seek reelection last year, for his stock trades before the downturn caused …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 20 hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have voted against California Republican Kevin McCarthy in his bid to become the next Speaker of the House in successive rounds of voting this week. That has stopped the House from starting their work and exposed the sharp rifts …

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By James Oliphant (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s newly elected Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro has named a Republican who resisted former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud to oversee the battleground state’s elections. Al Schmidt, Shapiro’s pick, previously served as vice chair of Philadelphia’s Board of Elections and pushed back against Trump’s efforts to stop the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bob Casey, the senior U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, on Thursday announced he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo surgery later this year. The 62-year-old Democrat who has served in the Senate since 2007 made the announcement on Twitter, saying the diagnosis came last month and that he is expected …

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