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"I just shared with my colleagues that I was withdrawing my name as a candidate that our speaker designee," he told reporters. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives spent hours in closed-door talks on Thursday but failed to resolve divisions that have prevented them from installing Scalise as speaker of the chamber, which has been leaderless for nine days. Scalise, the No.2 House Republican, had secured his party's nomination to replace ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Steve Scalise, who had secured the Republican Party's nomination to be the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives but was short of the 217 votes needed to be elected on the House floor,... -October 12, 2023 at 08:04 pm EDT - MarketScreener

United States President Joe Biden on Friday said he was making a priority of urgently addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, adding he was committed to returning the Americans who had been taken... -October 13, 2023 at 03:34 pm EDT - MarketScreener

(Reuters) - U.S. congressman George Santos was hit with additional criminal charges on Tuesday for inflating his campaign's fundraising numbers in a bid to qualify for financial and logistical support from a Republican Party committee, prosecutors ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a phone call on Tuesday, discussed U.S. military support for Israel following attacks by Hamas gunmen and agreed to speak again in the next few days, the White House said.