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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack that he believed Donald Trump should have conceded the November 2020 presidential election, according to videotaped testimony played at a panel hearing on Tuesday. Cipollone also testified that Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, …

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By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will renew but not expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the country, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Monday, a move that leaves tens of thousands of recently arrived Venezuelans without access to the humanitarian program. The Biden administration …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Monday the United States is “awash in weapons of war” and that he is determined to ban assault weapons that are frequently used in mass shootings. “I’m determined to ban these weapons again,” Biden told an event at the White House. “I’m not going to stop until …

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By Sharon Bernstein and Rose Horowitch (Reuters) – With its excellent academic and music programs, Oberlin College in Ohio seemed like a perfect fit for Nina Huang, a California high school student who plays flute and piano and hopes to eventually study medicine or law. But Huang, 16, said she crossed the college off her …

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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia this week is a diplomatic challenge that comes with a thorny logistics question: Should the U.S. president be photographed meeting, or even shaking hands with, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman? U.S. presidential visits, even with the closest of allies, are often highly choreographed affairs …

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By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday largely upheld a congressional subpoena seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump’s accounting firm Mazars, but said some of the lawmakers’ requests went too far. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously ruled https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zgvomxwgdvd/DCCMazars.pdf that the Democratic-controlled House Oversight …

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women in the United States should be wary of apps that track their menstrual periods after the rollback of federal abortion rights, a White House official said Friday. “I think people should be really careful about that,” Jen Klein, the director of the White House’s Gender Policy Council told …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Friday urged women to vote this November, saying the fastest way to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court’s rollback of abortion rights is to have large Democratic majorities in Congress to pass a law codifying such rights. “This is the fastest route available,” he told reporters at the White …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has scheduled an all-senators classified briefing on the global innovation and technology race and a proposed bill to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, his office said on Thursday. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell threatened last week to try to block the bill that would provide $52 …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden looks forward to further close cooperation with the British government, he said on Thursday without mentioning Prime Minister Boris Johnson who resigned in the face of scandal. “The United Kingdom and the United States are the closest of friends and Allies, and the special relationship between our people remains …

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