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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday to formalize its impeachment inquiry of Democratic President Joe Biden, a Republican leadership aide said on Monday. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because official plans for fl…

(Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Monday upheld Texas’ ban on state employees’, including public university employees, using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on state-owned devices or networks. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed suit in July arguing that Tex…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat asked the Supreme Court on Monday to launch a fast-track review of the former president’s claim he cannot be tried on those charges. The Supreme Court sai…

(Reuters) — The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed a pregnant woman to get an emergency abortion under the medical exception for the state’s near-total abortion ban, granting a petition by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. The u…

(Reuters) — A U.S. district court on Monday denied Elon Musk’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Twitter investors that accuses him of driving down the social media platform’s stock price in the months before he bought it in October 2022. The court for the Northern District of Calif…

(Reuters) — The value of U.S. oil and gas mergers and acquisitions in the Permian basin this year has reached a record of more than $100 billion after several multi-billion dollar deals, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a news release on Tuesday. Those include the blockbuster deals such as Exxon …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s backing for Israel in its war with Hamas is alienating at least a third of Democrats, a CBS News/YouGov poll showed, as criticism of his administration’s stance grows. The share of Democrats who said Biden has shown too much support rose to 38% from 28% …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — City Hall has taken steps to help migrants leave New York City by offering them free fare to anywhere in the country or world and made life tougher by limiting shelter stays. Wait times to get a bed can stretch as long as a week. Some migrants have had enough. Their city of d…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The City Council says the city can stave off some of Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed cuts in municipal services — in which libraries, sanitation and public safety services are on the chopping block — with $1.2 billion in additional revenue it projects in this year’s city budget, a…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Top state judges urged Capitol budget writers last week to back a plan to tie their pay to that of their federal colleagues, giving them a big salary boost well above what other state employees have received in recent years. The judges say the salaries of members of the Supre…