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Tuesday's 5-4 decision reversed lower court decisions that the so-called Title 42 policy, applied about 2.5 million times since March 2020, had to end December 21, reports Xinhua news agency.

In the Senate, the Democrats have wrested one seat from the republicans. Even if both parties split the ticket, Democrats stand a good chance of winning the run off in Georgia where sitting senator pastor Raphael Warnock is much ahead of the footballer anti-abortion activist Herschel Walker hounded by abortion scandals of his ex-girlfriends. Or even before if they get California.

Donald Trump has held on to his grip on the Republican party after leaving office deploying, among other tools, his endorsement of candidates from state to federal offices. He has endorsed 25 of 35 Republicans in the fray for the Senate, according to various counts, and upwards of 215 for the House.

The Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corp., two entities under the Trump Organisation, offered $1.76 million of perks to Allen H. Weisselberg, former Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organisation, without paying taxes, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous other state and local elections, will be contested. The results will determine the 118th US Congress. In the Senate, the Democrats and Republicans split 50:50 with Vice President Kamala Harris holding the edge for the Democrats with her tie breaking vote.

James had sued Trump and his three grown up children of perpetuating a fraud over a decade by overstating the net worth of their assets and securing loans and evading taxes. Trump's net-worth statements start with disclaimers that essentially warn lenders: "Check my math." The statements were unsealed last week as part of James' fraud lawsuit against Trump.

The 78-year-old Dearie, a former Chief Federal Judge in New York and the then President Ronald Reagan appointee, was described by his peer group lawyers and colleagues as an exemplary jurist who is well suited to the job of special master, having previously served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), which oversees sensitive national security cases.

In an interview on Thursday, ex-President Trump repeated an argument he has been making for weeks - insisting he had declassified the information before leaving office under his sweeping presidential powers to lift classification of government information. John Fredericks, a conservative radio host, asked Trump how the stashes of top secret documents had ended up at his Florida resort before being retrieved by the FBI in an August 8 search of his property.

The discovery of those classified documents � including 67 marked as "CONFIDENTIAL," 92 as "SECRET" and 25 as "TOP SECRET" � formed the body of evidence that the Justice Department cited in the FBI's search warrant that was approved by a judge on August 5 � three days before the FBI raid on Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

While questions focussing on the investigation remain unanswered -- specifically whether Trump himself was the target of the probe -- legal pundits across the political spectrum were quick to highlight similarities, and differences, between the search of the former president's home and the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, media reports say.