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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ryan Zinke, a former secretary of the U.S. Interior Department under then-President Donald Trump, who stepped down in 2018 amid ethics probes, won a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Montana, Edison Research projected on Thursday. Zinke, a Republican who served in the House from 2015 to 2017 before joining the Trump …

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By David Morgan, Gram Slattery and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump emerged from Tuesday’s midterm elections with a tarnished reputation as a Republican kingmaker, after poor performances by some of his high-profile endorsements left the party struggling to gain control of the U.S. Senate. Losses among candidates endorsed by the former president also …

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A senior U.S. cybersecurity official said on Tuesday the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) had not seen any evidence of foreign influence in the ongoing congressional election. The CISA official, who briefed journalists on condition of anonymity halfway into the first day of voting, said the agency had also not …

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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – American officials are not seeing any credible threats aimed at the country’s voting machines or poll books during the U.S. midterm elections, a senior federal cybersecurity official told reporters on Tuesday. “We see no specific or credible threat to disrupt election infrastructure,” the official told reporters during a scheduled briefing just …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the U.S. far-right Oath Keepers group, told a jury on Monday he never ordered members to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and he thought it was “stupid” that some of them decided to enter the building. Rhodes, a Yale Law-educated …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a dispute involving an Air Force veteran’s bid to reinstate certain disability benefits denied by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, prompting a sharp dissent by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch. In declining to take up Thomas Buffington’s appeal of a …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of 16 Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged President Joe Biden to back a global memorandum that aims to shift to zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The lawmakers want the United States at the COP27 climate summit to sign the non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that sets …

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