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U.S. Senator Manchin promises to block mining royalty plan
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin has promised to block a proposed royalty for minerals extracted on federal land from advancing in the U.S. Senate's version of the hotly debated...
Oct 14, 2021
Key Democrat rejects vote on big Biden package before infrastructure-source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a key moderate, told fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives this week that she will not vote for a multitrillion-dollar package that is a ...
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. elected back to U.N. Human Rights Council after Trump era
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday elected the United States to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, more than three years after the Trump administr...
Oct 14, 2021
Congressional Republican opposition to Biden to harden as election nears
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the 2022 congressional elections less than 13 months away, President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies could face a bigger challenge retaining control of ...
Oct 14, 2021
Biden to tout jump in U.S. vaccination rates after mandates – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will highlight a "strong uptick" in U.S. vaccinations in a speech on Thursday, a White House official said, marking the impact of vaccine mandates for federa...
Oct 14, 2021
White House ‘draft material’ on U.S. Supreme Court reforms due later Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commission formed by President Joe Biden to study potential U.S. Supreme Court changes such as expanding the number of justices or imposing term limits on them is set to rel...
Oct 14, 2021
Judge expected to sentence real estate heir Robert Durst to life for California murder
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday is expected to give a mandatory life prison sentence to multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, who was convicted last month of murd...
Oct 14, 2021
Biden to meet with pope, push for global minimum tax at G20 in Rome -official
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis on Oct. 29 before attending a two-day summit of G20 leaders in Rome where he hopes to reach agreement on a Global M...
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. FDA advisers weigh case for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots
(Reuters) -Israel health officials on Thursday said that booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine improved severe disease protection in people aged 40 and older, in presentations made to ...
Oct 14, 2021
Schumer says U.S. Senate to vote on election reform next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday that the Senate will hold a procedural vote as early as next Wednesday on election reform legislation aimed at reversi...
Oct 14, 2021
