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Biden nominates longtime USDA adviser to agricultural trade post

9 Jun 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden intends to nominate Doug McKalip, a veteran agricultural and trade policy expert, to be the U.S. Trade Representative’s next chief agricultural trade negotiator, the White House said on Wednesday. McKalip, a longtime U.S. Department of Agriculture official, has served as the senior adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Tom …

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ACLU sues to stop Texas from treating transgender care as child abuse

9 Jun 2022

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A group representing 600 Texas families and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday to stop state officials from treating transgender healthcare for minors as a form of child abuse. In February, the Texas governor ordered the Department of Family and Protective Services …

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San Francisco voters oust district attorney in test of crime concerns

8 Jun 2022

By James Oliphant (Reuters) -San Francisco voters on Tuesday recalled the California city’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a progressive Democrat who instituted criminal justice reform, in a nationally watched test of frustrations over rising crime and gun violence. Downstate in Los Angeles, voters also sounded off on public safety concerns, with a plurality supporting Rick …

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Trump ally Kristi Noem wins in South Dakota, Montana midterm primary a tight race

8 Jun 2022

By Jason Lange and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, easily won the Republican nomination to seek reelection in November, while a former member of Trump’s cabinet was locked in a tight race in his Montana primary for the U.S. House of Representatives on …

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Comics feature U.S. Supreme Court’s newest women appointees

8 Jun 2022

By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the latest to join the pantheon of TidalWave Comics’ “Female Force” series, followed by the latest appointee to the bench, Ketanji Brown Jackson. The story of Barrett, 50, begins with her 2020 U.S. Senate confirmation hearing before flashing back to …

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U.S. House panel probes Trump’s accounting of foreign gifts

7 Jun 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into what it called former President Donald Trump’s failure to account for gifts received from foreign government officials. Under federal law, U.S. departments and agencies are required to inform the State Department of gifts over $415 its …

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Uvalde shooting, abortion ruling heighten U.S. extremist threats, DHS says

7 Jun 2022

By Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Texas school shooting, a looming Supreme Court decision on abortion and grievances about security at the U.S.-Mexico border could mobilize American extremists to violence, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Tuesday. Violent threats directed at democratic institutions, politicians and political party offices will likely increase ahead …

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Exclusive: Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies

7 Jun 2022

By Nathan Layne and Peter Eisler LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) – State police in Michigan have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment and election-related records in at least three towns and one county in the past six weeks, police records show, widening the largest known investigation into unauthorized attempts by allies of former President Donald Trump …

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Texas progressive Cisneros seeks recount in razor-thin congressional race

7 Jun 2022

(Reuters) – Progressive Jessica Cisneros on Monday requested a recount in her race against U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, a moderate Texas Democrat who opposes abortion rights, after trailing him by fewer than 300 votes in last month’s primary runoff election. Cisneros, 29, had forced a runoff with Cuellar in the March primary in a district …

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