US Black women-owned venture capital fund mounts defense to conservative's race lawsuit
By Nate Raymond The founders of a venture capital fund devoted to funding Black women-owned businesses on Thursday
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'They are going off the Richter scale, both sides': Manchin flirts with becoming an independent
Sen. Joe Manchin, the moderate West Virginia Democrat who has yet to decide whether to run for reelection next year or mount a long-shot third party bid for the White House, said Thursday that he's "thinking seriously" about becoming an independent.
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Texas judge says no quick ruling expected over GOP efforts to toss 2022 election losses near Houston
Following closing arguments in the first of multiple legal challenges to local election results in Harris County, Texas, a visiting judge said the decision on whether to overturn the outcome based on alleged irregularities is weeks away
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Once a target of pro-Trump anger, the U.S. archivist is prepping her agency for a digital flood
The new National Archives leader's nomination was swept up into the partisan furor over the criminal documents-hoarding case against ex-President Donald Trump
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FEC moves toward potentially regulating AI deepfakes in campaign ads
The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election, a move advocates say would safeguard voters against a particularly insidious form of election disinformation
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US mortgage delinquency rates fall to all-time low
By Safiyah Riddle U.S. mortgage delinquency rates fell to a record low in the second quarter due to
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Trump appeals dismissal of defamation claim against E. Jean Carroll
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Thursday appealed a judge's dismissal of his claim that the writer
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US suicides hit an all-time high last year
About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever
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Tutoring firm settles US agency's first bias lawsuit involving AI software
By Daniel Wiessner A China-based tutoring company has agreed to settle a U.S. government agency's novel lawsuit claiming
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Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case
A federal appeals court has ruled that drug users shouldn’t automatically be banned from having guns, marking the latest sign of upheaval in the nation’s firearm legal landscape and raising questions about a law cited in the case against Hunter Biden
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US Supreme Court to scrutinize Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a challenge by
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Supreme Court blocks $6 billion Purdue Pharma opioid settlement and will hear case this fall
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Purdue Pharma from going forward with bankruptcy proceedings, which the Biden administration has called an "unprecedented" arrangement that would ultimately offer the Sackler family broad protection from opioid-related civil claims.
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