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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Pro-Trump operatives are flooding local officials with public-records requests to seek evidence for the former president’s false stolen-election claims and to gather intelligence on voting machines and voters, adding to the chaos rocking the U.S. election system. The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in Arizona, an election battleground state, has fielded …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed Kansas voters rejection on Tuesday of a state constitutional amendment that would have declared there is no right to abortion. Biden said that the win to abortion rights advocates in a deeply conservative state showed that “the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to …

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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The fight over abortion rights and former President Donald Trump’s influence loomed large as voters in several states went to the polls on Tuesday. Here are some takeaways from the latest 2022 midterm election primaries: ABORTION BATTLE LINES DRAWN IN MICHIGAN In the Michigan governor’s race, there will be no …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden continued to test positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and will maintain his isolation procedures, but he is feeling well and does not have a fever, his physician said in a memo released by the White House. “The President continues to feel well, though he is experiencing a bit of …

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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Top Democrats including Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer have joined an effort to place China’s fast-growing chip manufacturer, Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YMTC), on a U.S. trade blacklist. In a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo dated July 28, Schumer and a half-dozen other senators from both parties described …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump said prosecutors were wrong to imply that his firm sought investment from United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth funds as a “quid pro quo” for lobbying for the Gulf country. Thomas Barrack, who chaired Trump’s 2017 inaugural fund and was a …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Peter Meijer, a Michigan Republican targeted by Donald Trump for voting to impeach the former president in 2021, accused Democrats on Monday of subsidizing the “entire campaign” of his Trump-endorsed challenger in Tuesday’s primary election. Meijer, who has been censured by two county Republican parties for opposing …

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