By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives vowed on Tuesday to forge ahead with a vote to ban the popular TikTok social media app, despite the concerns of Donald Trump, who holds great influence over their slim House majority. House Speaker Mike Johnson is due to bring legislation to …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the short-video app used by about 170 million Americans or face a ban. The vote is expected around 10 a.m. under fast-track rules that require …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Relatives of an autistic boy fatally shot by police while holding a garden tool outside his home are calling for greater transparency by California authorities investigating the incident, the family’s lawyer said on Tuesday. Ryan Gainer, 15, who was Black and described by loved ones as a cross-country …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Musher Dallas Seavey became the first six-time champion of the grueling Iditarod sled-dog race on Tuesday in the 52nd annual running of the event in Alaska, event officials said. Seavey overcame not only the brutal Alaska elements, but just two days into the race was forced to shoot a moose …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden sat for hours of questioning with Special Counsel Robert Hur over two days in early October, related to his handling of classified documents. The transcripts, released by Congress Tuesday, give a rare candid view of Biden who has not granted many long interviews while in office and often …
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By Makini Brice and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. prosecutor said on Tuesday his investigation of President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents didn’t exonerate the president despite declining to charge him, after setting off a political firestorm by saying Biden had a “poor memory.” Former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Hur …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – The police chief of Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman in 2022 invaded a school and killed 19 children and two teachers, said on Tuesday that he was resigning. The resignation, effective April 6, of police chief Daniel Rodriguez, who was not in Uvalde the day of the shooting at Robb …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump will stop short of blaming his lawyers for the conduct at issue in his upcoming trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, the former president’s current defense lawyers said in a filing made public on Tuesday. He will not formally assert …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Ken Buck will leave Congress at the end of next week, he said on Tuesday, blaming a “breakdown of civility” in a chamber led by his party’s slim and fractious majority. The earlier-than-planned exit of the 65-year-old Colorado lawmaker will reduce Republicans’ majority in the House of Representatives to 218-213. …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday urged House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a vote on a $95 billion security assistance package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. “I want to encourage the speaker again to allow a vote,” McConnell told reporters at his weekly press briefing. “Let the …
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