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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, should receive a full and expeditious vote in the U.S. Senate, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said on Wednesday. Biden has confidence in …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is looking at options to expand sanctions to impose on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and will have more to say about it in the coming days, White House spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said on Wednesday. Spea…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to break a deadlock over the nomination of privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to join the Federal Trade Commission, narrowly approving an effort to move forward with his confirmation. By a vote of 51-…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House expects an influx of people to the border if Title 42, which is a COVID-era order that has blocked over a million migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, is lifted, communications director Kate Bedingfield said on Wed…

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 on track to snap four-session winning streaks, as recent signs of progress for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia waned against a backdrop of a hawkis…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Wednesday launched a new website to provide a clearinghouse of information on COVID-19 as part of a continuing effort to prepare Americans to live with the coronavirus. The launch of COVID.gov comes a d…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday a decision will come soon on whether to lift Title 42, the COVID-19 health order that keeps most migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Writin…

By Ted Hesson and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. health officials are planning to end a sweeping, pandemic-related expulsion policy that has effectively closed down the U.S. asylum system at the border with Mexico by May 23, a U.S. officia…

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Maryland lawmakers have passed a bill to increase and protect abortion access in the state, a proactive move as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to overturn or weaken constitutional abortion rights this spring. The …

By Jan Wolfe ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – A former British national accused of engaging in “brutal hostage-taking” as an alleged member of an Islamic State cell nicknamed “the Beatles” appeared in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday for the start of his c…