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Factbox: CBO estimate leaves U.S. budget shortfall for infrastructure bill backers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congressional Budget Office on Thursday issued its long-awaited judgment that a $1 trillion infrastructure bill being debated in the U.S. Senate will be far from fully ...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. senators to reintroduce bill targeting Cambodian officials on rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators said on Thursday they plan to reintroduce legislation that would provide for sanctions to freeze assets of senior Cambodian officials who undermine democra...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. House members amp up push to close Guantanamo Bay prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. House of Representatives Democrats, including the leaders of the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees, called on President Joe Biden on Thu...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. senators target ransomware by targeting countries that allow it
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior U.S. senators planned legislation on Thursday that would fight ransomware attacks on U.S. infrastructure by sanctioning countries the harbor cyber criminals, as well ...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. Justice Department launches probe into Arizona policing practices
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into policing practices in Phoenix, Arizona, Attorney General Merrick Garland told a news conference on Thursday. The pr...
Aug 05, 2021
New York impeachment probe into Cuomo nears completion, lawmaker says
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York State Assembly impeachment investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo is nearing completion and the chamber's judiciary committee has asked his lawyers to submit eviden...
Aug 05, 2021
Democrats should raise U.S. debt ceiling on their own -McConnell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats should vote to raise the debt ceiling on their own, U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday, as the federal government moves closer to exhaustin...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. prosecutors offering plea deals to allegedly violent Jan. 6 defendants
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are offering plea deals to a group of six people accused of forming a "shield wall" of stolen police equipment as they battled officers in the...
Aug 05, 2021
U.S. Justice Department reaches voting agreement with New Jersey
By Doina Chiacu and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it has settled a voting rights lawsuit with New Jersey and state officials. A department lawsuit said t...
Aug 05, 2021
AFL-CIO President Trumka, prominent U.S. labor leader, dies
By David Shepardson and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of the largest U.S. labor organization and a key figure in Democratic politics, has died at age 72, re...
Aug 05, 2021
