WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms have now “almost completely resolved” and he now feels well enough to resume his physical exercise regimen, his physician said in a memo on Tuesday. Biden will continue to isolate, the physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, said. (Reporting by Katharine Jackson and Ismail Shakil)
(Reuters) – U.S. first lady Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa is departing the White House, CNN reported on Tuesday citing a White House official. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru’ Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of Republicans in Congress on Monday proposed legislation to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65, in a bid to address an airline industry staff shortage. The proposal, which would require pilots over age 65 to pass a rigorous medical screening every six months, …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. Congressman Stephen Buyer has been charged with insider trading over purchases of shares in telecommunications company Sprint before it merged with T-Mobile US Inc, prosecutors said on Monday. Buyer, a Republican who represented Indiana in Congress between 1993 and 2011, was working as a consultant to T-Mobile …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will meet virtually with chief executive officers and labor leaders on Monday as part of his administration’s latest push for legislation to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. The White House, which announced the meeting in an update to Biden’s public schedule, did not identify meeting participants but said U.S. …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Louisiana abortion clinics can remain in operation after a judge on Thursday barred the state from enforcing abortion bans under laws that were designed to take effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure nationwide. Judge Donald Johnson in Baton Rouge issued a preliminary injunction barring …
By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden plans to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, by the end of the month at a moment of simmering tensions between the countries over Taiwan and trade. “I think I’ll be talking to President Xi within the next 10 …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced two bills on Wednesday to reform election laws, seeking to block a repeat of then-President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden. The legislation, among other things, would make clear that the vice president has …
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(Reuters) – Indiana Republican lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill that would ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest or medical emergency, a measure likely to win passage that would dramatically cut abortion access in the Midwestern state. The legislature is expected to take up the bill in a special session starting next week. …
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By Raphael Satter (Reuters) -American spymasters would be able to yank business away from U.S. companies that purchase or market foreign espionage software, under a bill https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/iaa_ans_xml.pdf the House Intelligence Committee advanced on Wednesday. The bill must be approved by the full House and reconciled with its Senate counterpart before it becomes law. It follows …
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