WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on whether to move forward with legislation to create a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency, a pivotal election-year test for the $2.3 trillion market as many Democrats say it doesn’t go far enough to rein…
President Donald Trump denounced the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterm elections, saying justices who opposed him are “not the people I interviewed.” His last-minute push to empower the U.S. Postal Service to refuse…
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump lashed out on Tuesday at his own Supreme Court appointees a day after the top U.S. judicial body declined to allow a U.S. Postal Service rule restricting the use of mail-in ballots in the November midterm elections…
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday defended the bureau’s loosening of hiring standards regarding an applicant’s past experience with prostitution and bestiality, insisting that the changes were meant to enable victims of those acts to be considered for employment without fear of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nonprofit run by Black federal lawmakers launched a multimillion-dollar effort Tuesday to engage lower-propensity voters in key districts in the midterm elections, following years of dissatisfaction over traditional efforts to reach such voters. The Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s “SO VOTE” campaign…
By Andrew Goudsward RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday appeared wary of the Justice Department’s bid to revive criminal cases against two of President Donald Trump’s longtime adversaries, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.…
By Jason Lange and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Americans’ trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including measles has fallen in recent years, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a troubling sign for the country as it experiences its worst measles outbreaks in…
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday again blocked the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington from inscribing President Donald Trump’s name on its facade, dealing the Republican president a fresh setback in…
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers on Tuesday he changed the bureau’s hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with…
