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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – Ten Republican-led states will file a lawsuit challenging new U.S. rules that U.S.-listed companies must report climate-related risks, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said on Wednesday, hours after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the rules.    Morrisey said at a press conference the states including Georgia, Alabama and …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will call on Congress to expand the number of drugs subject to annual Medicare price negotiations in his State of the Union address on Thursday, the White House said. The negotiation program, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, empowers Medicare to use its vast …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – In a Santa Fe, New Mexico, courthouse jurors last week watched video of actor Alec Baldwin rushing from a shack and blazing away with his Colt .45 “Peacemaker” revolver until he runs out of rounds. “One more, one more, one more, right away, let’s reload,” Baldwin tells Hannah Gutierrez, the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee asked President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden to testify in an open hearing on March 20, as it continues its impeachment probe of his father, the panel said in a Wednesday statement. The House Oversight Committee has focused on Hunter Biden’s work for businesses based …

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By Alexandra Ulmer LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Donald Trump had no shortage of votes in the Super Tuesday presidential primary. He swept to victory in an abundance of states. But as his legal fees and payouts balloon, Trump must pursue another constituency as he prepares for a general election matchup with President Joe Biden: Major …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union said a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would force Chinese-based ByteDance to divest short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban is unconstitutional. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to vote on the bipartisan proposal on Thursday that its sponsors say …

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By Helen Coster (Reuters) -Republican frontrunner Donald Trump dominated the nominating contests taking place coast-to-coast on Super Tuesday, the biggest day of primaries in the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle. Fifteen states held Republican contests, including the two most populous, California and Texas. More than a third of delegates – 865 of 2,429 – were …

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By Nandita Bose ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) -President Joe Biden won almost all the Democratic nominating contests on “Super Tuesday” but a sizeable protest vote in Minnesota and six other states against his support for Israel again raised uncomfortable questions for his reelection campaign. With almost 90% of the expected votes counted in Minnesota, 19% …

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