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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congress is expected to vote March 8 on a spending bill to fund U.S. government operations through the end of September, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday. U.S. lawmakers last month https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-aims-prompt-passage-stop-gap-bill-avert-government-shutdown-2022-02-17 had approved a stopgap funding bill to fund federal agencies through March 11. Wide swaths of the U.S. government …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden convened a meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday morning to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine, a White House official said as Russia continued a large-scale invasion of its neighbor. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

By David Shepardson (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of 22 governors Thursday urged leaders in Congress to move quickly to finalize $52 billion in government funding to subsidize the production of semiconductor chips. A persistent industry-wide shortage of chips has disrupted production in the automotive and electronics industries, in particular, forcing some firms to scale …

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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday brought a formal end to former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The court’s decision to formally …

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By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – The leading photo on the website of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual get-together of American rightwing notables, is of a grinning Donald Trump. When the conference kicks off in Orlando, Florida, this week, the former president will be counting on an adoring crowd to cement his dominance …

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By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Oregon and California are calling for tougher legislation to protect election workers in response to a continuing wave of threats and harassment inspired by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 vote was rigged against him. In Oregon, legislators are considering a measure that would …

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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats are in jeopardy of losing their long-time firewall against new voting restrictions in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin should Republicans who support such curbs win competitive governors’ races in those states in November. Republican victories in the three states could have profound implications for the 2024 presidential election. Nicknamed …

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By Joseph Ax and Moira Warburton (Reuters) – Thousands of Texas voters’ mail-in ballots for midterm primary elections have been rejected for failing to comply with new Republican-backed identification requirements passed in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud, county officials said. Election officials in six of the state’s largest …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Trump-era U.S. Attorney engaged in “unbecoming” conduct when he publicly bashed a federal prosecutor for signing a letter that was critical of then-Attorney General Bill Barr’s order to pursue investigations into voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, a new report has found. Justice Department Inspector General …

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