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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facing uphill re-election battles in 2024, vulnerable Senate Democrats are pushing legislation that promotes “Buy America” policies, attempting to bolster their party on a brand of economic populism they hope will keep them in the majority. The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday advanced a bill from Democratic Senator Tammy …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell plans to remain in his leadership post through the 2024 elections, a spokesperson said on Friday, two days after the minority leader froze up for about 21 seconds while speaking to reporters. “He plans to serve his full term in the job they (Republican senators) overwhelmingly …

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By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Two U.S. lawmakers who head a committee focused on China on Friday urged the Biden administration to tighten export restrictions on artificial intelligence chips in the wake of industry lobbying to leave the rules unchanged. Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican and chair of the House of Representatives select …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate passed a sweeping bill setting policy for the Department of Defense on Thursday, setting up a showdown with legislation passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives with “culture war” amendments eliminating abortion rights and diversity protections. The Democratic-controlled Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The decision by U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday to drop a campaign finance charge against Sam Bankman-Fried may keep his trial focused on what the government considers his main crime: stealing billions of dollars from cryptocurrency customers at his now-bankrupt FTX exchange. Bankman-Fried, 31, is fighting to stay out …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) – The White House said on Thursday there was no possibility President Joe Biden would pardon his son Hunter, who is facing charges of failing to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018. Asked whether Biden might issue such a pardon, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65 and make other aviation reforms has stalled due to disagreements on whether to revise pilot training rules. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 351-69 to pass the bill that would reauthorize U.S. FAA …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – BoU.S. Senator Bob Menendez said on Wednesday he still had concerns about the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, and had not changed his hold on the sale of the aircraft. There is “nothing new,” Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Reuters at …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The sole person convicted at trial of defrauding donors to an online campaign to build Donald Trump’s signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced on Tuesday to 5-1/4 years in prison. Timothy Shea’s sentence was the longest imposed over the “We Build the Wall” campaign, which federal …

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