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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday called a special election for Feb. 13 to fill the U.S. House of Representatives seat previously held by ousted Republican George Santos. The lawmaker’s ouster whittled away Republicans’ narrow margin in the House to 221-21…

BOSTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks. Speaking at a political fundraiser in Boston, Biden said accounts of “unimag…

(Reuters) — An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to disable a jet’s engines during an October flight was indicted by a grand jury, a district attorney said on Tuesday. The Multnomah County, Oregon grand jury charged Joseph Emerson with one count of endangering an aircraft and 8…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy canceled plans to appeal directly to U.S. lawmakers for new aid on Tuesday, as a partisan battle over immigration policy threatened to derail President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars for Kyiv’s fight against Rus…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. on Tuesday began imposing visa bans on people involved in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Washington officials said, after several appeals for Israel to do more prevent violence by Jewish settlers. A new State Department visa restriction policy targets &#…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump who co-chaired the congressional probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said she is weighing a third-party bid for the White House in 2024. In media interviews, Chene…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, who has blocked hundreds of military promotions for months to protest the Pentagon’s payment of abortion-related travel costs, said on Tuesday he would lift his hold on some of them. Shortly afterward, the Senate’s Democra…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Transportation Department is awarding $3 billion for a $12 billion Las Vegas to Southern California high-speed rail project and $3.07 billion to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles. The Las Vegas to Los Angeles project aims to finish before the 2028 Los Angeles Olym…

WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) — U.S. and Japanese dive teams found the remains of five more crew members from a V-22 Osprey aircraft that crashed off western Japan last week, the Pentagon said on Monday. Eight crew were aboard the tilt-rotor aircraft when it crashed during a routine training mission o…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Swiss private bank Banque Pictet has admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide more than $5.6 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, federal prosecutors said on Monday. According to prosec…