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DES MOINES/SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) — Nikki Haley gave Iowa voters some tough talk on Friday over their scrambled eggs and sausage. It was Haley’s first campaign stop of 2024 in Iowa with only 10 days to go before the Republican Party’s first-in-the nation presidential nominating contest th…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. House of Representatives Republican leader Steve Scalise is having a stem cell transplant as part of his treatment for multiple myeloma, a common form of blood cancer, his office said in a statement on Friday. The Louisiana lawmaker will work remotely from home until he …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A former U.S. Capitol Police officer who fought a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters as they attacked the nation’s legislature on Jan. 6, 2021, announced his bid for Congress on Friday, citing an ongoing threat to American democracy. “Everybody has a role to p…

LINTHICUM, Md. (Reuters) — Continued strong U.S. job growth and a low unemployment rate shows the Federal Reserve is not yet at the point where its efforts to control inflation risk a direct tradeoff with the central bank’s other goal of maintaining maximum employment, Richmond Fed President …

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Donald Trump should be permanently barred from New York’s real estate industry for “outrageous” fraud, the state’s attorney general said in a court filing on Friday ahead of closing arguments in a civil case against the former U.S. president. Attorney Ge…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The No. 2 officials at the U.S. Treasury and Energy departments will testify next Thursday before the Senate Energy Committee on electric vehicle tax incentives, the committee said. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo and Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk will appear at …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Jan. 1 following complications from a “recent elective medical procedure,” the Pentagon press secretary said on Friday. “He is recovering well and is expectin…

(Reuters) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that COVID subvariant JN.1 accounts for about 62% of cases in the U.S. as of Jan. 5, according to the agency’s projections. The agency said JN.1, which is an offspring of BA.2.86, is now the most widely circulated…

(Reuters) — Investment management firms, stock exchanges and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday discussed final wording changes on filings for spot bitcoin ETFs, a step that could lead to U.S. approval of the funds for the first time next week, sources familiar with the matter sa…

VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) — Joe Biden on Friday accused Republican Donald Trump, his likely 2024 election opponent, of instigating the Jan. 6 attacks and plotting revenge on those seeking to punish him, as the president put the future of U.S. democracy at the center of his bid for re-ele…