By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made a rare post-election joint appearance on Sunday to thank donors who raised more than $2 billion during the unsuccessful 2024 election cycle, and to urge Democrats to keep fighting for their values. KEY QUOTES “Our spirit is not defeated. …
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By Phil Stewart, Kanishka Singh and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A raft of drone sightings in New Jersey and other U.S. states has underscored gaps in U.S. airspace security that need to be closed, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday. President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration has …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will examine ways to impose higher costs on private actors and U.S. adversaries who wage cyber attacks on America, Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Representative Mike Waltz, said on Sunday. The comments come after U.S. allegations of a sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Incoming U.S. Senate Republican leader John Thune will face the test of his career when Donald Trump returns to power next month, as he aims to shepherd the new president’s priorities through Congress while protecting his chamber’s authority over Cabinet picks and spending. A 20-year Senate veteran, the 63-year-old …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he was picking Richard Grenell, his former intelligence chief, as presidential envoy for special missions, a post where he will likely drive policies toward some U.S. adversaries, including North Korea. “Ric will work in some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents’ personal and bank information, including Social Security numbers, were very likely hacked by an international cybercriminal group asking for a ransom, state officials said on Saturday. In what Rhode Island officials described as extortion, the hackers threatened to release the stolen information unless …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Officials from the White House, FBI and DHS on Saturday stressed that most of the recent reported drone sightings in New Jersey and nearby states involved manned aircraft, and there was no evidence of any national security threat. An FBI official told reporters during an impromptu briefing that the agency …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his social media platform CEO Devin Nunes to lead an intelligence advisory panel and said his former intelligence chief Richard Grenell would run “special missions” in places such as U.S. adversaries Venezuela and North Korea. “Ric will work in some of the hottest spots around the …
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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Daniel Penny, a former U.S. Marine who restrained a New York City subway rider with a chokehold and was this week acquitted of homicide in his death, will attend Saturday’s Army-Navy football game as Vice President-elect JD Vance’s guest. Vance said in an X post on Friday that Penny had …
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(Reuters) – Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi underwent a successful hip replacement surgery in Luxembourg and is “well on the mend,” her office said in a statement. Pelosi was injured on a trip to Luxembourg and was admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said on Friday. Pelosi, 84, was the …
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