By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said Wednesday it is tapping a Commerce Department official to run an office aimed at spurring the U.S. government’s purchase of more American products and services. Livia Shmavonian is taking the helm of the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) “Made in America” office …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Chris Gallagher WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group, Stewart Rhodes, and four others are the first people to go on trial in more than a decade over seditious conspiracy charges for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Rhodes and …
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate formally kicked off debate on Tuesday on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass $817 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon and including provisions to compete with China and Russia and boost Taiwan and Ukraine. The text of the latest version of the NDAA …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Archives, the federal agency responsible for preserving U.S. government records, on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessors had retained “millions” of White House documents. Trump faces a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into whether he illegally retained documents from the White House when he …
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By Chris Gallagher and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other defendants linked to the far-right group are on trial for charges of seditious conspiracy and other felonies arising from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters. Here is a look at the …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Deliveries can resume for Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 jet under a waiver allowing Chinese-origin alloy to go into an engine part, the Pentagon said on Saturday. In September the Pentagon stopped accepting new F-35 jets after it discovered a magnet in the stealthy fighter’s engine was made with unauthorized …
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By David Shepardson and Philip Blenkinsop WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to implement a European Union-United States data transfer framework announced in March that adopts new American intelligence gathering privacy safeguards. The deal seeks to end the limbo in which thousands of companies found themselves after Europe’s top …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Chris Gallagher WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Prosecutors in the trial of five Oath Keepers members on Friday showed a jury fresh evidence that the right-wing militia group’s founder Stewart Rhodes told his followers ahead of last year’s U.S. Capitol attack there would be a “bloody” war if then-President Donald Trump failed to …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Friday said the Biden administration has not “sworn off” efforts to liberalize trade and open markets, but such policies can no longer weaken supply chains and harm U.S. workers and the environment. Tai, speaking at a Roosevelt Institute conference on industrial policy, said …
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By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose (Reuters) -The United States has no new intelligence on Russia’s nuclear threats, the White House said Friday, after President Joe Biden referenced a nuclear “Armageddon” on Thursday. The U.S. also does not have indications that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons, and sees no reason to change …
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