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U.S. Senate confirms Becerra as top federal health official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will join President Joe Biden's Cabinet after the U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed him to be secretary of Health and Human Services. ...
Mar 18, 2021
U.S. congressional hearing takes on anti-Asian violence two days after Georgia shootings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers, professors and actor Daniel Dae Kim on Thursday joined a U.S. congressional hearing on anti-Asian discrimination and violence, two days after the fatal shootings of s...
Mar 18, 2021
Biden dispatches U.S. senator to Ethiopia over humanitarian crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is sending Senator Chris Coons to Ethiopia to meet with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and convey the president's "grave concerns" over the humanitarian cris...
Mar 18, 2021
U.S. transport chief to testify on Biden infrastructure push
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will testify March 25 before a key U.S. House panel on the Biden administration's infrastructure push. House Transportation and Infr...
Mar 18, 2021
Eyeing 2022 elections, Republicans jockey for Trump’s blessing
By Nathan Layne, Steve Holland, James Oliphant and Deborah Bloom KELSO, Wa (Reuters) - Speaking before a crowd of mostly maskless, white and older voters in this rural Washington county south of Seatt...
Mar 18, 2021
U.S. House poised to pass immigrant protections for ‘Dreamers,’ farm workers
By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Young "Dreamer" immigrants living illegally in the United States would be placed on a path to citizenship under a bill to be voted upon in th...
Mar 18, 2021
U.S. House passes bill awarding Congressional Gold Medals to law enforcement
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill awarding Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who responded to the deadly Jan. 6 assault on ...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S. Senate Democrats introduce sweeping election reform bill facing steep odds
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday introduced a sweeping election reform bill, a top priority for the party that cleared the House of Representatives earlier thi...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S. House passes bill that aims to advance Equal Rights Amendment
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to remove a decades-old deadline for adopting the Equal Rights Amendment, in hopes of fin...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S Senate confirms Tai as U.S. Trade Representative in bipartisan vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed veteran trade lawyer Katherine Tai as the first woman of color to serve as U.S. Trade Representative in an overwhelming bipartisan vote. A...
Mar 17, 2021
