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MCLEAN, Virginia (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday said Republicans wanted to impeach him because they want to shut down the government. Earlier on Wednesday, the White House denounced Republican plans to launch an impeachment inquiry against Biden, calling the effort baseless. (Reporting by Jeff Mason in McLean, Virginia and Nandita Bose in Washington; …

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By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress will have to agree on a short-term funding measure soon if they are to avoid a government shutdown and meet their own goal of passing 12 separate appropriations bills, the No. 2 Senate Republican said on Wednesday. That will be particularly …

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal moratorium on commercial spaceflight safety regulations should be extended to support more innovation in the space sector, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled expiration of a years-old ban on Oct. 1. There are currently no regulations on the safety of privately built space …

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(Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have opened an impeachment inquiry into Democratic President Joe Biden after months of investigations of his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. They have not found any evidence of misconduct by Biden himself. The White House says Biden has done nothing wrong and Republicans have no …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to put the writer E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation case on hold, but sped up the former U.S. president’s appeal. Trump is appealing U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s June 29 refusal to dismiss Carroll’s lawsuit, and Aug. 7 …

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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vivek Ramaswamy joined a growing chorus of 2024 Republican presidential candidates vowing to radically reduce the size and function of the U.S. government if elected next year, calling on Wednesday for a “revolution” that will hold the federal bureaucracy “accountable.” Former President Donald Trump and his top rival, Florida …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat is bringing U.S. technology leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door forum on how Congress should set artificial intelligence safeguards. “For Congress to legislate on artificial intelligence …

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