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Protesters demand action on guns at Tennessee statehouse

31 Mar 2023

By Jonathan Allen and Brad Brooks NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Protesters flooded Tennessee’s statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of them 9-year-old children. More than a thousand people joined the protest organized by local mothers, packing the building’s rotunda and forcing …

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Senior Republicans, 2024 hopefuls, rally behind Trump after criminal indictment

31 Mar 2023

By Tim Reid (Reuters) -Senior Republicans in Congress and the party’s 2024 White House hopefuls rallied behind former President Donald Trump after he was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments to a porn star, calling the charges a weaponization of the justice system by Democrats. Republicans’ ferocious response to the indictment …

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Exclusive-Biden would veto Republican bill blocking Washington, D.C., police reform -official

30 Mar 2023

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will veto a Republican-backed bill to overturn police reforms in Washington, D.C., if it passes in Congress, a White House official said on Thursday. “Congress should respect D.C.’s right to pass to pass measures that improve public safety and public trust,” said the official, who …

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Manchin threatens to sue US Treasury over EV tax credit rules

30 Mar 2023

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin said on Wednesday he may go to court after the U.S. Treasury releases guidance later this week on battery sourcing guidance for electric vehicle tax credits. “If it goes off the rails” and violates the intent of the climate legislation approved in August, “I …

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US House speaker says Republicans could act on their own on debt ceiling

30 Mar 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Thursday that he and other Republican lawmakers could act on their own to address the $31.4 trillion U.S. government debt ceiling, if Democratic President Joe Biden keeps rejecting negotiations on spending. Biden, a Democrat, has insisted that he will not negotiate with Republicans who control the …

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US Senate backs repeal of ‘zombie’ Iraq war authorizations, 20 years after invasion

30 Mar 2023

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate easily passed legislation on Wednesday to repeal two decades-old authorizations for past wars in Iraq, as Congress pushes to reassert its role in deciding whether to send troops into combat 20 years after the last invasion. The Democratic-led Senate voted 66-30 in favor of legislation to repeal …

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Former Maryland mayor indicted by grand jury on child pornography charges

29 Mar 2023

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Maryland grand jury has indicted a former mayor of College Park on 80 counts of possession of child pornography and intent to distribute, prosecutors in Prince George’s County said on Wednesday. A representative of the former mayor, Patrick Wojahn, could not immediately be reached. His lawyer told the …

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Fed official tells Congress many to blame for Silicon Valley Bank failure

29 Mar 2023

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -The scope of blame for Silicon Valley Bank’s failure stretches across bank executives, Federal Reserve supervisors and other regulators, the banking system’s top cop on Wednesday told U.S. lawmakers demanding answers for the lender’s swift collapse. “I think that any time you have a bank failure like this, bank management clearly …

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Early 2024 salvos foreshadow unpredictable Trump vs DeSantis fight

29 Mar 2023

By Tim Reid, Alexandra Ulmer and James Oliphant (Reuters) – The battle for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has for months been seen as a two-man race: a fight between Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a rising national star long viewed as the only candidate capable of defeating the former Republican president. Yet …

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Fed’s Powell discussed FDIC limits with House Republicans -lawmaker

29 Mar 2023

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Republican lawmakers that Congress should re-evaluate limits on the size of federally insured bank deposits, U.S. Representative Kevin Hern said on Wednesday. “We talked about that but he said it was the role for Congress to really evaluate. Thought it was a great …

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