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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans to vote next week on President Joe Biden’s nominee for a key fifth seat on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Democrats have been stymied since 2021 from gaining a majority on the five-member telecommunications regulator. Anna Gomez, a Democratic telecommunications attorney, currently serves …

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By Tyler Clifford and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s ruling restricting some agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing. The notice of appeal filed on Wednesday signals the government’s plan to ask the U.S. …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Survivors of a 2019 massacre at a Texas Walmart that killed 23 people and wounded 22 others addressed the white nationalist shooter directly at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, including one young victim who reportedly told him, “I want you dead.” The sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama in …

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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Thousands of Los Angeles-area hotel staffers returned to work on Wednesday from a three-day strike without a contract, but union leaders threatened further walkouts to come as they push for improved wages, benefits and working conditions. Chief among their demands are pay hikes that would allow the union’s …

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By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – The man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to neighboring Indiana to obtain an abortion last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Gerson Fuentes, who was the live-in boyfriend of the child’s mother, confessed …

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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s main fundraising committee raised more than $35 million during the April-June period, a campaign official said, nearly twice what the group gathered in the prior three months. The acceleration in fundraising could be a sign that Trump’s 2024 campaign coffers are benefiting from the …

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