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Supreme Court shuts down Virginia Democrats' emergency bid to revive favorable congressional map

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency application from Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones to restore a congressional voting map that could have flipped four House seats from Republican to Democrat. The justices issued no comment and noted…
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Rep. Luna vows to block Trump-backed housing bill over Senate leader Thune's inaction

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Tuesday she will vote against the procedural rule needed to advance a bipartisan Senate-passed housing bill, even though President Trump publicly urged Congress to send it to his desk just one day earlier. Luna's…
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Kentucky Democrat quits primary after security camera catches him taking voter's mail

A Democratic candidate for the Kentucky state legislature ended his campaign this week after home security footage showed him removing a rival's campaign literature from a voter's mailbox, an act the Louisville Democratic Party's own vice chair called "voter suppression…
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Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga dies at 91 in Dutch custody without facing justice

Félicien Kabuga, the 91-year-old accused financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while still in the custody of a United Nations court, the U.N. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals confirmed. He never answered…
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Weinstein sex assault trial ends in mistrial as jury deadlocks for a second time

A New York judge declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein's rape case after jurors told the court they were hopelessly split on whether the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted actress Jessica Mann, the second time a jury has failed to…
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Trump unveils plan for National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park

President Donald Trump announced plans Friday morning to build a National Garden of American Heroes along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the latest in a series of ambitious projects aimed at restoring grandeur to the nation's capital ahead of…
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Claudine Longet, French singer who fatally shot Olympic skier boyfriend, dead at 84

Claudine Longet, the French-born singer and actress whose glamorous entertainment career was eclipsed by the 1976 fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich, has died. She was 84. Her nephew, Bryan Longet, announced the death in a…
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U.S. prepares to seek indictment of Raúl Castro over 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown

The United States is moving to indict 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro for his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes that killed four people, CBS News reported, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The…
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Newsom's former chief of staff claims she was just 'helping a friend' in $225K campaign fraud scheme

Dana Williamson, the former chief of staff to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges tied to a scheme that siphoned $225,000 from Xavier Becerra's dormant campaign account, and her attorney wants a judge to believe she…
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House GOP barely holds the line on Iran war powers as Democrats fall one vote short

A Democratic resolution to force an end to U.S. military operations against Iran died on a 212-212 tie vote in the House on Thursday, kept alive only by the defection of one Democrat who called the measure's own deadline a…
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