By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A prosecutor on Friday urged jurors to convict Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, and four associates, saying they “threw their bodies to the cause” on the day of the U.S. Capitol attack to try to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory over …
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(Reuters) – Donald Trump said he will make a statement at 2030 ET on Friday (0130GMT) after the U.S. Justice Department named a special counsel to oversee its investigations into the former president’s handling of sensitive documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. (Reporting by Katharine Jackson in Washington and Costas Pitas in …
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(Reuters) – The White House announced through the Department of Energy (DOE) on Friday that it is soliciting grant applications for $13 billion in new financing under the bipartisan infrastructure bill for the expansion and modernization of the U.S. electric grid. The $1.2 trillion infrastructure law, passed last year, provides $10.5 billion to harden power …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s pledges to slash emissions from farming and to end American hunger by 2030 may be harder to realize now that Republicans flipped the House of Representatives with a thin majority. Biden’s Democrats, who retain control of the Senate, will start negotiating in the coming months …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Anti-abortion groups on Friday filed a lawsuit asking a court to overturn U.S. regulators’ approval of the drug mifepristone for medication abortion, which could hobble access to medication abortion nationwide. The lawsuit, filed in Amarillo, Texas, federal court by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and …
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By Rory Carroll (Reuters) – A law designed to makes horse racing safer by creating and enforcing national rules governing the use of drugs and the treatment of animals is “facially unconstitutional,” a federal appeals court in Louisiana ruled on Friday. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) was created by Congress in 2020 to …
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By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration ruled on Thursday that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has immunity from a lawsuit over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, drawing immediate condemnation from the slain journalist’s former fiancee. Khashoggi was killed and dismembered in October 2018 by Saudi agents in the …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans said on Thursday that investigating President Joe Biden and his family’s business dealings will be their top oversight priority when they formally take power next year. Representative James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who is expected to chair the House …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris told a CEO summit during an APEC summit in Bangkok on Friday that her country has an “enduring economic commitment” to the Indo-Pacific region. The United States will continue to work to increase foreign direct investment and increase free flow of capital and trade with the region, …
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(The Nov. 17 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of the suspect’s first name to Payton, not Peyton, in the second paragraph) By Steve Gorman and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a racially motivated shooting spree at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket intends to …
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