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(Reuters) —  Florida sued the Biden administration on Wednesday, accusing it of threatening to withhold more than $800 million of funding for transportation infrastructure because of a new state law that some public sector unions have viewed as anti-labor. Signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Kevin McCarthy began his wild ride as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a chaotic January week and ended it nine months later in a historic fall, when he became the first speaker to be removed from the top post. Two decisions by the California Republican contrib…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Kaiser Permanente and union negotiators for 75,000 striking medical workers suspended a marathon round of contract talks without a settlement on Wednesday, the two sides said, hours after the largest such walkout ever in the U.S. healthcare sector commenced. Kaiser said in a …

Congresswoman Amata discusses U.S. Coast Guard issues. Congresswoman Amata participates in an oversight hearing on the U.S. Coast Guard. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Office of the American Samoa Congressional Delegate) — U.S. Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata took part in a Thursday oversight hearing examining t…

(Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it has authorized an updated version of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in individuals aged 12 years and older, and the company’s shares climbed more than 11%. The Maryland-based company, whose COVID vaccine …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The failure of Congress to reauthorize the main U.S. program aimed at reducing the spread of AIDS sends a message that Washington is “backing down” from its leadership on the issue, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday. A deadline to renew l…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday she was very optimistic about the outlook for the U.S. economy, adding that inflation was coming down in the short term and the labor market was “extremely strong.” “I am very optimistic about the U.S. eco…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The State Department on Tuesday said the United States respects the right to freedom of speech and assembly of individuals when asked about American factions of the movement for a Sikh separatist state that has long frustrated India. The Indian government has complained about…

WILMINGTON, Delaware(Reuters) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he lied about his drug use while buying a handgun, in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a sitting U.S. president’s child. Hunter Biden, 53, was charged last month wi…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial on Tuesday imposed a gag order – promising sanctions for any violations – on the former U.S. president and others in the case after Trump took to social media to lash out at the judge’s top law clerk.…