By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A slow-rolling staff shakeup is under way at the White House as President Joe Biden girds for battle in the November midterm elections, where he hopes to help his Democrats hang on to control of the U.S. Congress. Cedric Richmond, a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will issue the first pardons of his term on Tuesday, part of a series of steps aimed at shoring up his record on crime and racial justice in an election year. Biden will pardon three people and commute, or reduce, the sentences of 75 more, …
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(Corrects spelling of Yovanovitch’s name in paragraph 4) By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden named veteran diplomat Bridget Brink as the new U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, the White House said on Monday, moving to fill a crucial position that was vacant for nearly three years and at a time when Washington …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump is weighing how much to spend and how many Republican candidates to fund in this year’s elections as he faces pressure to use his war chest to help Republicans gain control of Congress, two sources familiar with the matter said. Trump’s Save America …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said Monday it is seeking expanded powers from Congress to detect and disable threatening drones, including asking for new authority to protect airports and for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government departments. Congress in 2018 expanded the authority of the Justice Department and Homeland Security …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday urged Latinos in the United States not to vote in November’s midterm elections for politicians who have “mistreated” them, in response to a comment by former U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump boasted at a rally in Ohio at the weekend that while in …
(Reuters) – One of President Joe Biden’s key nominees to the Federal Reserve, Lael Brainard, is set to move a step closer to confirmation on Monday, with the possibility she and three other Fed nominees could be confirmed later this week. The U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a cloture vote this afternoon at 5:30 …
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By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday told a lawyer for voters seeking to disqualify her from running for re-election that she did not know how to answer a question about whether she advocates violence against people with whom she disagrees. Greene testified in a Georgia state court in Atlanta …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, came under fire from some of his fellow party members, after an audio recording showed him saying that then-President Donald Trump should resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. The comments, which McCarthy had denied hours …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who echoed the Republican former president’s false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, was registered to vote in three states at the same time, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina, Virginia and South …
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