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By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Newly appointed California Senator Laphonza Butler, a Democrat, said on Thursday she will not seek a new U.S. Senate term next year. Butler, a former labor organizer and political fundraiser who was tapped earlier this month to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Oct. 1, said instead …

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(Reuters) – Outspoken U.S. Republican Jim Jordan will not hold a third ballot to be speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and will instead back empowering interim speaker Patrick McHenry, the Washington Post and Punchbowl said on Thursday. Jordan declined to comment ahead of a meeting of Republicans. (Reporting by David Ljunggren, editing by …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump could gain a strategic edge in a criminal case against him when one of his lawyers-turned-co-defendants goes on trial next week on charges he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Trial is set to kick off on Monday in Fulton County, Georgia, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden postponed a trip to a wind tower plant in Colorado on Monday to stay at the White House for national security meetings, the White House said, as Biden considers making a trip to Israel amid its conflict with Hamas. U.S. and Israelis officials are discussing the possibility of …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s arraignment on new charges that he conspired to act as a foreign agent for Egypt has been rescheduled for Oct. 23, a federal judge in New York said on Monday. Menendez had been scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday but his lawyer on Saturday requested a new date …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday maintained a block on restrictions imposed by lower courts on the ability of President Joe Biden’s administration to encourage social media companies to remove content deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID-19. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito temporarily put on hold a preliminary injunction constraining how …

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(Reuters) – Steve Scalise, who had secured the Republican Party’s nomination to be the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives but was short of the 217 votes needed to be elected on the House floor, has dropped out of the race, he said on Thursday. “I just shared with my colleagues that I …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments calling Hezbollah “smart” and criticizing Israel’s defense minister were “dangerous and unhinged,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said on Thursday. “Statements like this are dangerous and unhinged. It’s completely lost on us why any American would ever praise an Iran-backed terrorist organization as ‘smart,’” Bates said. …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday nominated Steve Scalise to serve as speaker following last week’s ouster of Kevin McCarthy, according to two lawmakers. Scalise, who is the chamber’s No. 2 Republican, must still win approval from the full House before he can claim the speaker’s gavel. Republicans …

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