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WikiLeaks, a key player in 2016 U.S. election, suffers outage
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secret-spilling website WikiLeaks, a pivotal player in the email leaks that buffeted the 2016 U.S. presidential election, suffered an outage on Monday. Visitor...
Aug 31, 2020
Russia must respect sovereignty of Belarus, says White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia must respect the sovereignty of Belarus and the right of its people to elect their own leaders, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Monday. McEnany also ...
Aug 31, 2020
U.S. appeals court denies House bid to enforce subpoena to ex-White House lawyer McGahn
By Jan Wolfe NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Democratic-led House of Representatives panel seeking to enforce a subpoena issued to for...
Aug 31, 2020
House panel to subpoena DeJoy seeking Postal Service documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said Monday she plans to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy seeking documents he has been withholding from Congre...
Aug 31, 2020
U.S. agrees to pay South Carolina $600 million and dispose of plutonium
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department said on Monday it has reached a settlement with South Carolina on removing weapons-grade plutonium by 2037 from a Cold War-era site...
Aug 31, 2020
U.S. court denies ex-Trump adviser Flynn’s bid to halt criminal case
By Jan Wolfe NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a bid by Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, to immediately end the criminal case against ...
Aug 31, 2020
Bannon co-defendant expected to plead not guilty to border wall fraud
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brian Kolfage, the U.S. Air Force veteran charged alongside former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon with defrauding donors in a scheme to build the president's...
Aug 31, 2020
In Pittsburgh, Biden to blame Trump for sowing chaos amid crises
By Jarrett Renshaw WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will accuse President Donald Trump in a speech delivered from battleground state Pennsylvania on Monday of sow...
Aug 31, 2020
Forty percent of Americans back Trump executive order on TikTok: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Raphael Satter and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forty percent of Americans back President Donald Trump's threat to ban videosharing app TikTok if it is not sold to a U.S. buyer, acco...
Aug 31, 2020
Portland mayor urges restraint, renunciation of violence after fatal shooting
By Steve Gorman and Maria Caspani (Reuters) - Officials in Portland, Oregon, said on Sunday they were braced for an escalation of protest-related violence that has convulsed the city for three months,...
Aug 30, 2020
