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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A group of 12 bipartisan senators said on Friday they are making a new legislative effort to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-annual changing of clocks. In March 2022, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that would have made daylight saving time permanent …

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Friday revived corruption charges against former New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin, who prosecutors accused of funneling a $50,000 state grant to a now-deceased developer in exchange for campaign contributions. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of …

MOSCOW (Reuters) — The U.S. embassy in Russia warned that “extremists” had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they had foiled a planned shooting at a synagogue by a cell from the Afghan arm of Islamic State. The embassy, which has repeated…

HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) — Donald Trump cemented his grip on the Republican National Committee on Friday after his daughter-in-law and another ally assumed top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills. RNC members meeting in Houston …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Friday appeared open to debating Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after Trump challenged the Democrat to debates “anytime, anywhere, anyplace.” “It depends on his behavior,” Biden said. The comment, made to reporter…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it had resolved an issue with its website and related domains that caused them to temporarily go down on Thursday. A DHS official said there was “no indication of malicious action” in the outage, which occurred during …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his case for re-election in a fiery State of the Union speech that accused Donald Trump of threatening democracy, kowtowing to Russia and torpedoing a bill to tackle U.S. immigration woes. In a 68-minute address to Congress, Biden, a D…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. military aid to Ukraine, blocked by Republican leaders in Congress, is needed to provide a bridge until European nations can ramp up their own defense production, a senior Ukrainian official said on Thursday. Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for E…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has agreed to provide a congressional committee with documents it sought about the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to the panel chairman who had threatened to hold Blinken in contempt. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on T…