By Jeff Mason DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden assailed Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz in his home state on Thursday as part of a fundraising tour that has raised millions for Biden’s re-election campaign. Biden, at a fundraiser at the Dallas home of lawyer Russell Budd, urged donors to support U.S. Representative Colin …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lawyer for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday his legal team saw no indication of resolution to U.S. charges against him, following the publication of a Wall Street Journal report on exploration of a guilty plea. The Journal reported that the U.S. Justice Department is considering whether …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government is warning state governors that foreign hackers are carrying out disruptive cyberattacks against water and sewage systems throughout the country. In a letter released Tuesday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan warned that “disabling cyberattacks are striking water and wastewater systems …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday seemed divided over whether to continue blocking a Republican-backed Texas law that would empower state authorities to arrest and prosecute migrants and asylum seekers suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried is no “super-villain” and should not spend a “medieval” 40 to 50 years in prison as prosecutors propose, lawyers for the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX said in advance of his sentencing next week. In a court filing late on Tuesday, the 32-year-old former billionaire’s lawyers …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell on Wednesday said she is considering holding a public hearing on a TikTok crackdown bill after lawmakers got a closed-door briefing from U.S. national intelligence and Justice Department officials. “It’s important to get it right,” Cantwell told reporters, and declining to offer a precise …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A fractured U.S. Congress struggled behind the scenes on Wednesday to produce a massive spending bill to fund defense, homeland security and other programs that lawmakers must pass before the weekend to avert a partial government shutdown. Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and other House Republican leaders said …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said during a trip to Kyiv on Wednesday that a major U.S. aid package that has been blocked by Republicans for months would “get to Ukraine” and vowed that Washington’s support would continue. Vital U.S. aid for Ukraine has been stuck in …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday declined to sanction Michael Cohen, the former fixer for Donald Trump, for mistakenly giving his lawyer fake case citations generated by artificial intelligence, calling the episode “embarrassing.” U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan also refused to end court-supervised release for Cohen, who pleaded …
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By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – U.S. efforts to build a domestic supply chain for solar energy components is stalled and will require urgent government action to support the factories needed to compete with China, according to a report published on Wednesday. The analysis by Guidehouse Insights, commissioned by the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America Coalition, …
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