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(Adds dropped word in third paragraph) By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -Mark Meadows, who served as former Republican President Donald Trump’s chief of staff and has echoed his false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, is being investigated in North Carolina over his voter registration, state authorities said on Thursday. North Carolina’s State …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Legislation to revoke Russia’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations status following its attack on Ukraine will move through the U.S. Senate promptly, following imminent passage by the House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday. “When the House passes this bill I expect it will have broad bipartisan support here …

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By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Park Police officer said he was demoted and then fired by the agency because he is Black. A Bureau of Land Management employee accused managers at the agency of hostile treatment because she is Black. A pharmacist at a Washington hospital claimed he was …

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By Jason Lange and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the days after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, dozens of companies said they would suspend political donations to Republican lawmakers who had backed then-President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. More than one year later, Republicans in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called on the White House on Tuesday to replace Sarah Bloom Raskin with a different nominee to become the Federal Reserve’s top bank regulator. “President Biden’s selection wildly – wildly – missed the mark. It’s past time the White House admit their mistake and send us somebody …

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By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Democratic Commissioner Allison Lee plans to leave the agency after her term ends in June, but will remain in office until a successor is named, she said in a Tuesday statement. “My term as Commissioner expires in June of this year, and I have …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas legal regulators have asked a judge to discipline attorney Sidney Powell for filing lawsuits they say were frivolous in support of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud. The disciplinary action is a major development in what has become a nationwide effort to punish pro-Trump lawyers …

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