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Senate Democrats probing Homeland Security response to summer anti-racism protests
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide more details on how its int...
Mar 17, 2021
What is the U.S. Senate filibuster and why is everyone talking about it?
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pressure is growing among President Joe Biden's Democrats to end the filibuster, a long-standing Senate custom that requires a supermajority to advance most le...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S. House Republicans expected to vote on ending earmarks ban, sources say
By David Morgan and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to vote on Wednesday on whether to reverse their self-imposed ban on earmarks -...
Mar 17, 2021
Biden says Major, his German Shepherd, is out of the dog house
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden says his rescue dog, a German Shepherd named Major, is being trained after an incident last week but has not been banished from the White House, adding the p...
Mar 17, 2021
Battling for batteries: Two Korean companies court Washington
By David Shepardson and Ben Klayman WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - When U.S. President Joe Biden flies to Georgia Friday, he will land in the middle of an increasingly politicized battle between two S...
Mar 17, 2021
U.S. far-right leaflets and posters surged last year, Anti-Defamation League says
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. far-right and white supremacist groups sharply stepped up their distribution of racist or anti-Semitic fliers, posters banners and other forms of physical...
Mar 17, 2021
Hopes and fears raised in rural West Virginia by push for $15 minimum wage
By Jason Lange and Makini Brice (Reuters) - At the Custard Stand restaurant in Webster Springs, West Virginia, Angie Cowger worries Democrats' goal of raising the hourly minimum wage to $15 would be t...
Mar 17, 2021
As Republicans attack Biden on immigration, poll shows support from their voters
By Chris Kahn and David Morgan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican voters in the United States are increasingly hostile toward illegal immigrants, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows, an unease that the Republica...
Mar 17, 2021
Russia calls U.S. allegations over Putin-directed election meddling ‘baseless’
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday described U.S. intelligence allegations that President Vladimir Putin had likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald T...
Mar 17, 2021
Analysis: Biden team’s China focus puts South Korea on the spot ahead of talks
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - For the first time in years there are liberal presidents in South Korea and the United States, but the change in U.S. administrations hasn't made it an...
Mar 17, 2021
