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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday took a procedural step to allow the Democratic-majority chamber to pass a stopgap government funding bill before a Nov. 17 deadline to avert a partial government shutdown. THE TAKE Disputes within the fractious House of Re…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Steve Bannon, who was a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, faced a skeptical federal appeals court on Thursday as he sought to reverse his criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from a congressional panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S…

(Reuters) — The twin summer Hollywood strikes from writers and actors are over, but the effects will linger into next year – and some companies are decidedly worse off than others. While actors were celebrating news of a tentative $1 billion agreement between the SAG-AFTRA union and studios a…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — As Donald Trump sought to buy a Florida golf course in 2011, his daughter Ivanka expressed concern that he was not wealthy enough to close the deal, according to evidence presented Wednesday in a civil fraud trial that threatens the former U.S. president’s business empire…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Speaker Mike Johnson told key Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday that he will decide within the next two days on a path to avert a potential government shutdown, according to lawmakers. The Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senat…

(Reuters) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the latest senior federal official to visit Ukraine, announced in Kyiv on Wednesday a new American infrastructure adviser for the country. Robert Mariner, who has performed engineering work for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, will serve as tran…

(Reuters) — New York Times rode on a recovery in the advertising market and rising subscriptions for its higher-priced bundles to surpass quarterly revenue estimates on Wednesday, sending shares of the publisher more than 7% higher. The Times has in recent years leaned on its combined offerings of …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers want the Biden administration to hike tariffs on Chinese-made vehicles and investigate ways to prevent Chinese companies from exporting to the United States from Mexico. Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican who chairs a select commi…

(Reuters) — Carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. liquefied natural gas facilities have jumped to 18 million tons per year, up 81% since 2019, adding a volume of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere equivalent to that produced by several big coal plants, according to United States government data. They co…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick to run the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, filling the director spot at the country’s top medical research agency after a vacancy of almost two years. Bertagnolli, …