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Former US president, Donald Trump's legal team has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling disqualifying him from that state's GOP primary ballot. In the 43-page filing, Trump's lawyers contend that "in our system of 'government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people,' Colorado’s ruling is not and cannot be correct."  "This Court should grant certiorari to consider this question of paramount importance, summarily reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling, and return the right to vote for their candidate of choice to the voters," the appeal states.   The Colorado Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Dec. 19 marked the first time a challenge to Trump’s candidacy under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was successful.   In the split 4-3 decision, a majority of Colorado's seven justices said the former president was ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot in 2024 be...

  The U.S. military has confirmed a drone strike in Baghdad killed an Iraqi militia leader blamed for attacks against American forces in the country, according to a senior U.S. official.     It comes as growing regional tensions from the conflict in Gaza threaten to spread across borders, igniting a regional war in the Middle East.     The Popular Mobilisation Force (PMF) said its deputy head of operations in Baghdad Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi was killed in the strike.     The group is linked to Iraq's armed forces, but the government in Baghdad has only limited control over its activities.      The American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the strike targeted a leader of Harakat al Nujaba, a Shia militia that forms part of the PMF, without naming the individual.     Iraq's foreign ministry condemned the attack.      'Iraq reserves its right to take a firm stance and take all m...