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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lynne Tracy as President Joe Biden’s nominee to be ambassador to Russia, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was to give a rare wartime address to a joint meeting of Congress. Tracy, a career diplomat and current ambassador to Armenia, will be the first …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A $1.66 trillion bill to fund the U.S. government secured enough support to advance in the Senate’s first procedural vote on the matter on Tuesday. Voting was continuing. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Scott Malone)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress is poised to pass legislation that would tighten the way presidential elections are certified, aiming to prevent a repeat of the chaos that followed Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat. Here are details on the Electoral Count Reform Act, which lawmakers included in a year-end government funding bill: AIMS TO …

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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s Cyber Command hunted down foreign adversaries overseas ahead of this year’s mid-term elections, taking down their infrastructure before they could strike, the head of U.S. Cyber Command said. U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone said the cyber effort to secure the vote began before the Nov. 8 …

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(Reuters) – Chief U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Monday at the request of Republican officials in 19 states temporarily blocked the Biden administration from later this week ending a pandemic-era policy of rapidly expelling migrants caught at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Republican officials led by the attorneys general in Arizona and Louisiana on …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiations in the U.S. Senate to narrow sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine have stalled, two sources said on Monday, in what could prove a blow for criminal justice reform advocates. Earlier in December, Reuters reported Senate negotiators reached a tentative deal to narrow the sentencing disparity between …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiators in the U.S. Senate have reached a tentative deal to narrow sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine and plan to tuck the measure into a bill funding the government, according to four people briefed on the matter. Mandatory minimum sentences for crack-related offenses are currently 18 times …

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By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani violated at least one attorney ethics rule in his work on a failed lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results on behalf of then-U.S. President Donald Trump and should be disciplined, a District of Columbia attorney ethics committee said Thursday. The committee of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility will …

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