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Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will not seek re-election
(Reuters) - Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who was seen as a possible running mate for Joe Biden in last year's U.S. presidential election, said on Thursday she will not seek a second term in off...
May 07, 2021
Texas lawmakers open House floor debate on Republican-backed voting limits
By Joseph Ax and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives opened floor debate on Thursday on a Republican-backed bill barring election officials from sending voters unsolicited mail...
May 06, 2021
Immigration in focus at high level U.S.-Mexico talks on Friday
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico and the United States will discuss ways of mitigating undocumented immigration in talks later this week, Mexico's president said on Thursday, as the two sides seek to ta...
May 06, 2021
Biden officials make recommendations for protecting 30% of U.S. land, water
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biden administration officials on Thursday took their first step toward carrying out the president's campaign pledge to conserve 30% of U.S. land and water ...
May 06, 2021
Bipartisan U.S. senators pen support for funding of F-35 jet
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty U.S. senators from both parties wrote a letter to the heads of the Appropriations and Armed Services committees supporting Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 jet, ...
May 06, 2021
Florida limits absentee voting with new Republican-backed law
By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a law curtailing access to absentee ballots and adding new hurdles to the process of submitting them, the latest R...
May 06, 2021
Three U.S. lawmakers seek to use part of COVID stimulus money for opioid crisis – Axios
(Reuters) - A bipartisan trio of U.S. lawmakers is asking Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for latitude to use some of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package for addressing th...
May 05, 2021
U.S. Republicans step up push to oust key Trump critic Liz Cheney
By David Morgan and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A renewed Republican drive to oust U.S. Representative Liz Cheney as a party leader for criticizing former President Donald Trump's false claims...
May 05, 2021
Facebook won’t say if its algorithms boosted Trump’s violent rhetoric
By Helen Coster and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's oversight board said on Wednesday that the company did not answer questions about whether its algorithms amplified inflammatory posts by then...
May 05, 2021
Biden’s Labor Department rescinds Trump-era rule affecting gig workers
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's Labor Department on Wednesday rescinded a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier for businesses to classify workers as independent c...
May 05, 2021
