By Gram Slattery and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An evangelical minister told a U.S congressional panel on Thursday that he ran a campaign to covertly influence the U.S. Supreme Court that “pushed the boundaries of Christian ethics” and allowed him to learn about a landmark 2014 ruling in advance. The Reverend Robert Schenck appeared before …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress plan to unveil a bill to fund the government through the end of the current fiscal year in a bid to pressure Republicans ahead of a Dec. 16 funding deadline, a top Senate Democrat said on Thursday. Republicans, who will take the majority in …
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By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday unveiled a plan to boost its housing supply by 500,000 dwellings over the next decade by easing regulations for home builders and cutting construction time in half. The goal is to combat declining affordability of housing in the city, the …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had spoken on Thursday to the sister of Paul Whelan, the ex-U.S. Marine who is being detained in Russia, on the same day that a prisoner swap releasing U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner was announced. “I spoke to his sister, Elizabeth Whelan, a short while …
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By Rachael Levy (Reuters) – U.S. House Representatives Earl Francis Blumenauer and Adam Schiff want further U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scrutiny of Elon Musk’s Neuralink following a Reuters report that outlined mistakes in the brain chip company’s animal testing program, their offices said on Thursday. Reuters reported on Monday that the USDA’s inspector general …
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(This Dec. 7 story has been corrected to say documents were found at storage site, not home) By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A team that Donald Trump hired to search for White House documents found at least two classified records, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. A federal judge directed Trump’s …
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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced former Theranos Inc President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani to 12 years and 11 months in prison on charges of defrauding investors and patients of the blood testing startup led by Elizabeth Holmes, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office confirmed. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila …
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(Reuters) – The Pentagon awarded $9 billion worth of cloud computing contracts to Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon Web Services Inc, Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp <ORCL.N> on Wednesday. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) is the multi-cloud successor to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which was an IT modernization project to build a large, …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – The Biden administration argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that social media giants like Google could in some instances have responsibility for user content, adopting a stance that could potentially undermine a federal law shielding companies from liability. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice made their argument …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday renewed vows to secure a new ban on assault weapons in the United States as he turns up heat on lawmakers to pass legislation before his party loses control of Congress next month. Lawmakers have shown little inclination to outlaw assault weapons since a ban …
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