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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a U.S. appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying a slew of errors marred her trial and prosecutors made her a scapegoat because the financier was dead. “The government prosecuted Ms. Maxwell as a proxy for …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he opposed a Republican bill that would give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps. The committee opened debate on Tuesday on the measure, which Republican committee chair Michael McCaul …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell asked a U.S. appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying she was immune from prosecution and citing a slew of errors that allegedly tainted her trial. In a Tuesday night filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House voted on Tuesday to block President Joe Biden’s administration from allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, issues in their investment decisions. The lawmakers voted 216-204 to adopt a joint resolution that would prevent the Labor Department from enforcing a rule …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said Tuesday it plans to buy 9,250 Ford E-Transit battery electric vehicles starting later this year and will also purchase an equal number of gasoline-powered models from Chrysler-parent Stellantis. USPS also said it was ordering more than 14,000 charging stations to be deployed at …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Todd Zubatkin, one of U.S. President Joe Biden’s top researchers and fact checkers since the early days of his 2020 campaign, is leaving the White House to become a senior adviser at the Environmental Protection Agency, the White House said on Tuesday. Zubatkin, who currently serves as deputy director for research at …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration needs permanent leadership and is at a “crossroads,” President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the agency plans to tell U.S. lawmakers in written remarks seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Nominee Phil Washington, currently CEO of Denver International Airport, will tell U.S. Senators at his confirmation …

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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled skepticism over the legality of President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt for about 40 million borrowers, with the fate of his policy that fulfilled a campaign promise hanging in the balance. The nine justices …

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