By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress should pass legislation by the year-end setting AI safety standards, as an immediate first step toward broad guardrails for an industry whose rapid development has alarmed tech CEOs and the public alike, U.S. Senator Mark Warner told
By Helen Coster NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) – High gas prices and the rising cost of living had already made affordability a defining issue in this year’s midterm elections. Then President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Canada. Now, Republican candidates in northern border states most aff
Russia’s parliamentary election features the Kremlin’s main party, United Russia, and nine others that all support President Vladimir Putin’s policies. The only party that dared to oppose the war in Ukraine has been barred from the ballot. The absence of genuine opposition all but assures the Kremli
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is closing up the House early, sending lawmakers home Wednesday to campaign for the midterm elections after what he claims is the most productive Congress in decades. But not without a scathing rebuke from GOP Rep. Thomas Massie for all the unfinished business.
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to explain whether the Kennedy Center’s plan to close the performing arts venue for up to two years for repairs violates a court order limiting its ability to shut down. Washing
By Isla Binnie NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to find billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress and refer the case to the Justice Department, after he declined to comply with subpoenas as part of a probe into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Big money groups aligned with President Donald Trump are pouring huge sums of cash into midterm races in the final sprint toward Election Day. The groups have now reserved more than $130 million in advertising, according to AdImpact, which tracks ad buys and media spending. T
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris plans to campaign with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan next week in the party’s latest push to unify voters in a key battleground state that will help determine control of the Senate. Harris and El-Sayed have spoken multi
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators asked President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday to declassify and release all information about a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy, including two classified “side letters” reached with Riya
By Jacob Bogage WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Postal Service has told confidants that he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign, according to four people familiar with his thinking, as the agency comes under scrutiny over financial losses and President Donald Tru
Sept 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Wednesday he would not support the sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel over concerns the munitions would not be used in accordance with international law. Presid
By Daniel Wiessner Sept 16 (Reuters) – The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion could have saved her life and the state’s near-total ban on the procedure is
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate health committee’s Republican chairman on Wednesday blamed the approach toward vaccines taken by President Donald Trump’s administration for recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania and pressed the president’s pick for surgeon general
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two congressional Republicans in battleground Iowa districts, including one who recently campaigned alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, changed their position on an Iran war powers resolution, joining with Democrats and a few other dissident members of their party in an
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation on Wednesday to bar government officials from pressuring private companies to censor speech, citing threats from the Trump administration against late-night talk shows as evidence of efforts t
By Hannah Lang and Michelle Price WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate’s vote against advancing a major crypto bill amid persistent opposition from Democrats and a handful of Republicans marks one of the most significant setbacks for the industry, showing the limits of its muscle in Washi
WASHINGTON — (SRN NEWS) California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing renewed criticism over his attempt to blame President Donald Trump for the state’s worsening housing affordability crisis. Newsom recently shared a graph intended to argue that housing costs surged during Trump’s presidency. But crit
(Adds missing word “by” in paragraph 10) By Jarrett Renshaw CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Sept 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will campaign in North Carolina on Wednesday for Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley, his first major campaign stop since the Republican Party’s midterm conv
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) – South Africa on Wednesday criticised new U.S. visa restrictions, saying the measures were driven by fringe groups that falsely claim to represent the country’s white minority. The restrictions, announced by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday, renewed ten
By Brad Brooks COLUMBIA FALLS, Montana, Sept 16 (Reuters) – More than 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped American politics with its Citizens United campaign finance ruling, Montana voters will decide this November whether to make their state the first in the nation to bar corporations fr
By Andrew Hay Sept 16 (Reuters) – The family of conservative U.S. political activist Charlie Kirk plans to sue a Utah university over his fatal shooting there, alleging inadequate security contributed to his death, according to a notice of claim sent by the family’s lawyers. A September 9 letter fro
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is due to vote on Wednesday on a sweeping sanctions bill intended to increase economic pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, nearly 1-1/2 years after the late Senator Lindsey Graham first introduced it.
President Donald Trump will travel to North Carolina on Wednesday to campaign with Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley as the former national party chairman tries to shore up his campaign against Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper. The trip marks Trump’s first campaign rally since his unusual m
By Nate Raymond Sept 16 (Reuters) – With Republican control of the U.S. Senate in doubt, President Donald Trump’s White House is pushing to confirm a raft of new federal judges before the year’s end. Trump announced he was nominating 13 new judges during a nine-day span in August while the Republica
WASHINGTON — (SRN NEWS) The Kennedy Center faces a major shutdown and an uncertain future after its Trump-aligned board voted Tuesday to close most of the performing arts complex, citing urgent safety and renovation needs. The vote came just hours after a federal judge blocked the institution from r
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee voted Tuesday to recommend that billionaire Leon Black be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena for testimony in the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans and Democrats joined unanimously in the bipartisan vote afte
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken his wins, and more notably his losses, at the U.S. Supreme Court quite personally. It is a court he shaped with three nominees during his first term and he has frequently expressed admiration when the court rules his way, only to turn sharply critic
By Richard Cowan and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress launched an investigation this week into reports that a Russian oligarch paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the wedding celebrations of President Donald Trump’s son earlier this year. The Democ
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday that any probes that former federal prosecutor Joseph DiGenova had been handling would continue. DiGenova, who oversaw a wide-ranging probe into past investigations of President Donald Trump, resigned last week. “I ve
By David Hood-Nuño WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A Republican nominee for a Texas office drew bipartisan criticism after posting a photo from a University of Texas football game that critics called racist, portraying the Austin campus as dominated by foreign students contrary to enrollment data. B
