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Vice President Kamala Harris faces pushback from two independent U.S. senators after saying that she supports ending the filibuster, hoping the measure would help restore women’s federal abortion safeguards. Harris outlined her position while speaking with Wisconsin Public Radio in…

After battering Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Hurricane Ernesto on Thursday churned in the western Atlantic toward Bermuda, threatening to intensify into a major hurricane before reaching the British territory. Ernesto, now a Category 1 hurricane, was located 550…