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A federal judge is giving thousands of Florida voters until the end of Saturday to fix their ballots if they haven't been counted due to mismatched signatures.

US District Judge Mark Walker ruled early Thursday that current Florida law on mail-in ballots places a substantial burden on voters. The ruling comes as Florida wraps a recount in three statewide races.

Walker did not go along with a request from Democrats to count all ballots with mismatched signatures. Instead, he ordered that local election officials give voters until 5pm local time on Saturday to correct the problem so that their ballots can be counted.

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Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who rose to fame representing the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford and positioned himself as a crusading critic of President Trump and fierce advocate of women’s rights, was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of domestic violence, a spokesman for the city’s Police Department said.

The spokesman for the Los Angeles police, Josh Rubenstein, said Mr. Avenatti’s arrest had “stemmed from an incident on the Westside” of the city. Another department spokesman later specified that the episode had happened sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning in the tony neighborhood of Century City, noting that a police report was subsequently taken.

President Trump is throwing his support behind legislation that could shorten sentences for some drug offenders and help prisoners adjust to life after incarceration.

Details of the measure have not been officially released, but Trump said Wednesday the bill will provide incentives for prisoners to participate in training or rehabilitation programs with a goal of reducing recidivism.

The White House announced the removal of a top national security official on Wednesday, a day after First Lady Melania Trump issued an extraordinary call for her ouster.

“Mira Ricardel will continue to support the President as she departs the White House to transition to a new role within the Administration," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement about the White House's deputy national security adviser. Sanders did not say what that new role would be.

Having spent a fortune to help elect Democrats this fall, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared lifetime allegiance to the Democratic Party on Tuesday and outlined an aggressive timeline for deciding whether to run for president.

"I think January, February would be about as late as you can do it and as early as you can gather enough information," Bloomberg told The Associated Press in an interview.

The 76-year-old billionaire said his decision would have little to do with other Democratic presidential prospects. He conceded that "it's much too early to tell" whether he has a legitimate chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and, with it, the chance to take on another New York billionaire, President Donald Trump.

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Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced he is resigning from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in protest against a truce in Gaza.

Addressing reporters in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Lieberman said he deemed Tuesday's Egyptian-mediated ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza "a capitulation to terror".

"Despite the difference in opinion, I tried to stay a faithful member of the government for as long as possible … but it has failed," Lieberman said.

He said he also fiercely objected to Israel's allowing Qatar to deliver $15m in aid to Gaza last week.

TVNL Comment: Lieberman is a fiercely right wing activist, dedicated to the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, - as well as Israel proper.  Let's see who replaces him.

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CNN and Jim Acosta have filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several members of his staff, seeking a reinstatement of Acosta’s White House press pass that was revoked last week.

Acosta was denied entry to the White House after he refused to relinquish a microphone during a press conference with Trump that same day. The suit alleges that Acosta and CNN’s First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated with the ban.

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Authorities on Monday were trying to piece together how a suburban Chicago police officer ended up fatally shooting a black security guard who was detaining a suspected gunman who opened fire at the bar where he worked.

The 26-year-old armed guard, Jemel Roberson, was pinning down the suspect outside Manny’s Blue Room in Robbins, Illinois, early Sunday when an officer dispatched to the scene opened fire on him, according to witnesses and a federal lawsuit filed Monday by Roberson’s mother.