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Leading progressive lawmaker says need to see text on Biden spending plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Progressive U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal said she needed to see what was in the spending bill before House progressives could back it and that her understanding was the p...
Oct 28, 2021
Biden to urge Democrats to back new $1.75 trillion spending framework
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will urge Democrats in Congress to back a new $1.75 trillion framework for economic and climate change spending, and is confident he will win their back...
Oct 28, 2021
Paid family leave appears to be out of Biden spending plan – Hoyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paid family leave appears to be out of the agreement on President Joe Biden's spending plan, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Thursday. "Well, it appears to be but ... ...
Oct 28, 2021
Exclusive: EU suspends funding to WHO programmes in Congo after sex scandal
By Stephanie Nebehay and Francesco Guarascio GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Commission has suspended funding to the World Health Organization's programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to c...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. buys 50 million Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses for kids
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Thursday they expect to deliver 50 million more doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. government by April-end, as the country prepares for vaccinat...
Oct 28, 2021
Biden to give update on Democrats’ spending plans before Europe trip – source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to deliver an update on negotiations about his domestic spending plans and speak with Democrats before heading to Europe later on Thursday f...
Oct 28, 2021
Biden to announce Democratic agreement on social spending plan -WaPo
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Thursday that Democrats have agreed on a revised framework for his social spending plan that he expects will gain the support of all Democrats...
Oct 28, 2021
U.S. Congress puts Big Oil in the hot seat in climate deception probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Thursday will open a year's worth of investigations into whether Big Oil deceived Americans about its role in climate change, with Democratic lawmakers plan...
Oct 28, 2021
New York judge’s gun permit denials trigger big U.S. Supreme Court case
By Andrew Chung TROY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Justice Richard McNally Jr., a New York state trial court judge, knows he has a reputation among gun enthusiasts in the upstate county of Rensselaer where he pre...
Oct 28, 2021
Exclusive-Tens of millions of J&J COVID-19 shots sit at Baltimore factory -sources
By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - An estimated 30 million to 50 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine made early this year sits idle in Emergent BioSolutions Inc's plant in Baltimore await...
Oct 28, 2021
