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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) — Newly appointed California Senator Laphonza Butler, a Democrat, said on Thursday she will not seek a new U.S. Senate term next year. Butler, a former labor organizer and political fundraiser who was tapped earlier this month to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein o…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday to demand the release of hostages taken by Hamas, as President Joe Biden faces mounting pressure to leverage every diplomatic tool to secure the freedom of American captives. Billboards showed t…

(Reuters) — Donald Trump does not have immunity from criminal charges for trying to reverse his 2020 U.S. presidential election loss, federal prosecutors said Thursday, opposing his bid to dismiss the case. “No constitutional provision or historical practice supports conferring absolute immun…

(Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will ask Congress for $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel, a source familiar with his plan told Reuters. The request will also include $10 billion for humanitarian aid, $14 billion for border security and $7 billion for the Indo-Pacific region, th…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden launched an urgent mission on Thursday to get Americans behind billions more dollars in spending for Israel and Ukraine, using a rare Oval Office speech to say U.S. backing is critical for the two major allies immersed in wars. “American leadership i…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Lorie Logan said on Thursday that recent data and higher bond market borrowing costs give the central bank space to deliberate on its next monetary policy move. “We have some time” before having to make the call whether to ra…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Hardline conservative Jim Jordan pressed ahead with his floundering bid for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, after his fellow Republicans abandoned a backup plan to allow the leaderless chamber to resume business. The House will hold a third speaker v…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Ten Senate Democrats will ask President Joe Biden’s administration not to include strict rules guiding use of clean hydrogen tax credits that the Treasury Department is due to release by the end of the year, according to a draft of a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.…

HARLINGEN, Texas (Reuters) — The first U.S. deportation flight to Venezuela under a new Biden administration initiative landed in Caracas on Wednesday, as part of a tougher approach to border enforcement as the U.S. struggles with record illegal crossings. At an airport in Harlingen, Texas, on Wedn…

TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) — Egypt agreed to reopen its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow aid to reach Palestinians, the U.S. said, as the humanitarian crisis worsened in the narrow enclave and anti-Israel protests flared across the Middle East. The region remained volatile in the aftermath…