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Citing ‘greatest adversary’ coronavirus, some U.S. Democrats want defense cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calling the novel coronavirus the "greatest adversary" facing the United States, progressive U.S. House of Representatives Democrats called on Tuesday for a reduction in militar...
May 19, 2020
U.S. Senate panel backs Trump nominee Ratcliffe to be top U.S. spy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Tuesday to back President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican Representative John Ratcliffe to be director ...
May 19, 2020
Crowded field vies to replace Oregon’s only Republican congressman
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only Republican member of the U.S. Congress from Oregon is retiring, setting off a mad scramble to replace him that may be largely resolved in a Tuesday pr...
May 19, 2020
Crucial Latino voters seek more attention from Biden
By Saundra Amrhein and Simon Lewis TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Like many Puerto Ricans, Wilson Rivera holds President Donald Trump responsible for what he sees as the U.S. government's inadequate response...
May 19, 2020
Powell, Mnuchin to face Senate grilling on U.S. coronavirus response
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's handling of its massive economic response to the coronavirus pandemic will come under scrutiny on Tuesday as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuc...
May 19, 2020
Democrat Biden says he would kill Keystone XL pipeline
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden's campaign said on Monday that if elected president, the presumptive Democratic nominee would rescind the permit for Keystone XL pipeline, which effe...
May 18, 2020
Wisconsin lawsuit seeks absentee ballot forms, other poll changes amid coronavirus concerns
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Advocacy groups sued Wisconsin election officials on Monday, seeking to force the state to send every voter an absentee ballot request form, hire more poll workers and launch ...
May 18, 2020
U.S. Senator Rubio chosen as acting Intelligence Committee chairman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio will serve as acting chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday, after Senator Richard Burr announced...
May 18, 2020
Pompeo says intent to fire State Dept. IG was not retaliation: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his recommendation to President Donald Trump that the inspector general of the State Department be fired was not an act of retaliation a...
May 18, 2020
As Biden crafts U.S. coronavirus response proposals, Warren has his ear
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Joseph Ax and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden has been speaking regularly with former rival Elizabeth Warren on pu...
May 18, 2020
