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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A U.S. grand jury has indicted a jailed Pennsylvania man for threatening to kill the chair of the congressional committee investigating the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Robert Vargo, 25, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, also threatened to kill the committee chair’s family and President Joe …

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By Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) -A California federal judge on Wednesday said then-U.S. President Donald Trump had signed a sworn statement asserting that voter fraud numbers included in a 2020 election lawsuit were accurate, despite being told the numbers were not correct. U.S. District Judge David Carter made the disclosure in ordering lawyer John Eastman to …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Seven directors on the boards of five companies have resigned because of the U.S. Justice Department’s concerns over the directors holding similar board positions at rival companies, the department said on Wednesday. Three directors resigned from the board of IT management software company SolarWinds Corp, one because the person was on the boards …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate committee this week quietly advanced a bill that seeks to rein in OPEC+ after the oil producer group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia this month agreed to cut output. The legislation could be debated by lawmakers after the Nov. 8 midterm elections. The so-called No Oil Producing and …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – An expert committee on Wednesday recommended that COVID-19 shots become part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine program for children, which provides many types of free inoculations to millions of kids each year. While all COVID-19 vaccines are currently provided free in the United States by …

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By David Shepardson SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Wednesday said he will hold a hearing on electric vehicle batteries and sourcing issues if his party takes control after the November midterm elections. Graham, who would be Budget Committee chair under GOP control, said the hearing would look at the impact …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The U.S. government is likely to increase the number of Venezuelans to which it grants humanitarian access under a recent migrant accord, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday. Under a bilateral plan announced last Wednesday, Washington said it would grant up to 24,000 Venezuelans humanitarian access to the United …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – A New Mexico judge has outlawed a militia group blamed for sparking violence at a 2020 anti-statue demonstration in the southwestern U.S. state where a protester was shot. The ruling came in response to what law experts called the country’s first civil lawsuit by a district attorney seeking to protect …

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