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(Reuters) – Two Democratic and two Republican U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced legislation to ban the use of artificial intelligence that creates content that falsely depicts candidates in political advertisements to influence federal elections.  Authorities around the world are grappling with how to regulate and legislate on issues related to artificial intelligence as services such …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating edged up this month to 42%, its highest level since March, bolstered by support from members of his Democratic Party even as House Republicans launch a formal impeachment inquiry, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. The three-day poll, which ended on Sunday, showed a marginal increase in Biden’s …

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(Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Republicans will open an impeachment inquiry into Democratic President Joe Biden after months of investigations of his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday. The inquiry is being cheered on by Donald Trump, who was twice impeached by the House – a historic first …

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By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick is planning to jump into the U.S. Senate race against three-time Democratic incumbent Bob Casey later this month, two sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. Soon after he lost last year’s Senate Republican primary against celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, who had the …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump is barred from returning to the White House, say some opponents who argue his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack amounts to supporting an “insurrection” as defined by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Here’s a look at the legal theory and its …

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(Reuters) -Mark Meadows, a former aide to Donald Trump who was charged in Georgia with trying to overturn the former U.S. president’s 2020 election loss, has appealed a judge’s ruling denying his bid to move the case to federal court, a court filing showed on Monday. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones on Friday denied a …

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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, on Friday announced she would run for re-election to her San Francisco congressional seat. KEY QUOTE “Now more than ever our city needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery. Our country needs America to show …

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By Jack Queen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump may seek to move the Georgia criminal case in which he is accused of conspiring to overturn his 2020 U.S. election loss from state to federal court – a potentially more favorable venue for the former president, his lawyer said in a court filing on Thursday. Several of …

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By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Georgia prosecutor in U.S. President Donald Trump’s case has accused a Republican congressman of interfering in a state criminal matter, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Thursday. Fani Willis, the district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County, made the allegation in a letter to Representative Jim Jordan, a staunch Trump …

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