All news on the topic: House of Representatives

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TikTok CEO says US ban means 300,000 jobs at risk with creators losing billions
Shou Zi Chew took to TikTok in a desperate plea to the American people urging that the app ‘will be banned’, lamenting the loss of ‘300,000 American jobs’ if the Senate passes the bill
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TikTok faces ban in US after House passes bill which could stop app sales
A bill just passed the US House of Representatives that could see popular social media site TikTok banned in the country if it fails to separate from its parent company, which is Chinese
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Chinese shares rally on hopes a US rate cut might attract foreign investment
Chinese shares have rallied on hopes that a rate cut by the Federal Reserve might relieve pressure on the Chinese yuan
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Elon Musk says 'no way in hell' Putin will lose Ukraine war as he demands US
Elon Musk has called for the US not to send Ukraine a $95 (£75,6) billion aid bill - as there is "no way in hell" that Vladimir Putin loses the war
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US Speaker says House will vote on Israel bill next week, pressuring Dems
Johnson criticized the impending Senate legislation that would lump Israel aid in with border security and asylum laws and funding for Ukraine in a letter to colleagues today
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Unusual reason the United States tried to change the name of French fries
With the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003 came another change in America - a move to rename one of the country's favourite sides all because of France's position on the US-led invasion
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Congressman carjacked by three armed attackers while he parked near US Capitol
Police are investigating after U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked Monday night by three armed attackers, just a mile from the U.S. Capitol in Washington
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Lauren Boebert thinks F-35 fighter jet went missing because of 'woke ideology'
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert said she believes this missing F-35 fighter jet in South Carolina disappeared because 'military leaders are more focused on woke ideology'
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Voters demand PM prioritise US trade deal - as he ditches promise to strike one
Polling seen by The Mirror shows the public want the UK to strike a trade deal with the US more than any other country as the PM prepares to meet Joe Biden
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Biden signs bill to raise debt ceiling just days before doom deadline
President Joe Biden has signed legislation that lifts the nation's debt ceiling, after a bipartisan deal with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The deal avoids an unprecedented default on the federal government's debt
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Biden's US debt ceiling deal passes as world economy breathes sigh of relief
Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling agreement was agreed by the House today after key negotiations went down to the wire. A number of representatives on both sides of the house said no to the deal
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US state clears 12 people accused of being witches - 370 years ago
Senators voted to exonerate 12 men and women convicted of witchcraft over 370 years ago, with 11 of them executed, largely thanks to forts by descendants and history enthusiasts
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Kids as young as six wield guns at bonkers conference amid deadliest year ever
The National Rifle Association's (NRA) Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis is going ahead against the backdrop of what is set to be the USA's deadliest ever year for gun deaths
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Monica Lewinsky says she was 'patient zero' in Clinton scandal 25 years on
Twenty-five years on Bill Clinton’s brazen denial of the revelations surrounding an 18-month affair when he was aged 48 and unpaid intern Monica Lewinsky was 22, where are its protagonists?
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Donald Trump jumps ahead of his rival in latest 2024 US presidency race poll
Polls conducted since the beginning of the year for the US Presidential 2024 bid show that former president Donald Trump has overturned what had looked like a healthy poll lead for DeSantis
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US politics in crisis as 11th vote is lost to elect Republican House Speaker
The political stalemate has dragged on as the Republicans fail to unite around Kevin McCarthy as a number of far-right lawmakers demand changes to policy and even to weaken the Speaker's power
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Blow for Donald Trump as party loyalists snubs him amid Republican civil war
House Republicans, who narrowly won the November 2022 Midterms, failed to elect a Leader as rebels defied Donald Trump. The last time a vote like this failed was 100 years ago