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And Russia grants Edward Snowden citizenship.

A veteran abortion-rights attorney nominated to the First Circuit vowed to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Dobbs decision "faithfully" and pledged that she would separate her past advocacy from rulings on the bench during a Senate hearing Wednesday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced President Joe Biden's nominees for the Fifth Circuit and D.C. Circuit on Thursday, adding to the number of judges available for votes in the full Senate as Democrats race to confirm as many nominees as possible before the midterm elections.

The Senate voted to confirm U.S. District Judge Sarah A.L. Merriam to the Second Circuit on Thursday, elevating her to the appellate court less than a year after senators approved her nomination to the District of Connecticut.

A former top security executive at Twitter who filed a whistleblower complaint over the company's data practices told senators on Tuesday that the social media giant has substandard data privacy and security measures that left users' data and national security vulnerable to malicious actions.