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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another …

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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Wednesday promised to review the university’s code of conduct after she faced calls to resign for declining to say whether advocating genocide was a violation of the policy. Penn students and alumni stepped up calls for Magill to step down after she declined to …

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By Richard Cowan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic chair of the U.S. Senate committee that sets spending policy on Wednesday said Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson was blocking his chamber’s team from negotiating budget details in hopes of holding spending to last year’s levels. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray said in …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government issued security guidance for faith-based communities on Wednesday as the country faces a terrorism threat level so elevated it prompted the FBI director to say he sees “blinking lights everywhere.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recommendations are designed to protect against threats amid heightened antisemitism and …

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By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -Municipal bond financing for U.S. airport construction is not unusual. But Wednesday’s issuance of $2 billion in bonds for the new Terminal One at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was – because of the steps needed to get to this point. Last year, a consortium called New …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Oral arguments began on Wednesday in Colorado’s highest court in a lawsuit by a group of Colorado voters trying to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot next year over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The voters, backed by the watchdog …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday vowed to continue prosecuting people accused of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a day after Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested he wanted to shield people who took part in the attack. Garland did not directly criticize Johnson, but noted …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration had approved $4.8 billion in student debt cancellation for 80,300 people. “This brings the total debt cancellation my administration has approved to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans through various actions,” Biden said in a statement. (Reporting by Katharine Jackson; writing by …

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