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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Indicted U.S. Representative George Santos on Thursday was defiant ahead of an expected vote to expel him from Congress and lashed out at other lawmakers in what could be his final days on Capitol Hill. “I will not stand by quietly. The people of Third District of New Y…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he will visit Angola in a trip that could mark renewed engagement with Africa at a time of international turmoil. “I have been there and I will be back,” Biden said when asked about visiting the country during an Oval Offi…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — As Senate Foreign Relations Chair, Joe Biden offered effusive praise of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger when the veteran diplomat spoke to Congress in 2007. Kissinger’s name is “synonymous with effective diplomacy, effective American diplomacy, and, I th…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on U.S. soil, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday, in announcing charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Nik…

(Reuters) — An Illinois firearms retailer and a national gun rights group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time to block a Democratic-backed state ban on assault-style rifles and large capacity magazines enacted after a deadly mass shooting in Chicago’s Highland Park sub…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. budget wrangling could further delay funding approval for new agreements with Pacific island nations meant to counter Chinese influence, creating an opportunity for Beijing in the strategically vital region, congressional and other sources say. After years of painstaking…

(Reuters) — An Alabama city council on Tuesday discussed an ordinance to require police to provide a valid “legal reason” for denying a request for releasing body-camera footage, a measure that comes amid an outcry over a Black man’s death at the hands of police. For months, criti…

(Reuters) — U.S. babies born in 2022 gained roughly a year in life expectancy compared with babies born a year earlier, federal data showed on Wednesday, marking progress after two consecutive years of declines largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy at birth for 2022 newborns was 77.…

(Reuters) — A mystery respiratory illness has stricken dogs in at least 14 states, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association, which is asking vets to report cases while laboratories race to isolate the pathogen. Researchers are still attempting to determine if the disease, which can …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United Auto Workers union said on Wednesday it is launching a first-of-its-kind push to publicly organize the entire nonunion auto sector in the U.S. after winning new contracts with the Detroit Three automakers. The Detroit-based UAW said workers at 13 nonunion automaker…