By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden contrasted his economic plan with Republicans’ on Thursday in a last-ditch effort days before U.S. midterm elections to convince voters that Democrats are best equipped to battle inflation and create jobs. “The previous president made a string of broken promises in places like …
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – When the U.S. Supreme Court next week considers ending policies used by many colleges and universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students, a conservative activist will be on hand to watch this fateful moment in his long quest to erase racial preferences intended to boost diversity in …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Democratic U.S. senators said they are “encouraged” by a reported criminal probe by the Justice Department into Tesla Inc over claims its electric vehicles can drive themselves. Reuters first reported the investigation on Wednesday, citing sources. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Ed Markey in a joint statement said they had “long sounded …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Less than two weeks before the U.S. midterm elections, with Democrats on verge of losing their razor-thin majority in Congress, the party is asking former President Barack Obama to perform some late-game heroics – or at least help limit their losses. Obama, who left office in 2017 after serving …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tom Barrack, a onetime fundraiser for Donald Trump, acknowledged under cross-examination on Thursday that he hoped his ties to the then-president would encourage a United Arab Emirates official to invest with his company, but said he did not agree to exchange political access for a business relationship. Federal prosecutors …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s namesake company urged a New York judge to reject a demand by the state’s attorney general to appoint a monitor to oversee its financial practices, after she accused it of “staggering” fraud. The Trump Organization’s filing on Wednesday night came in connection with Attorney General Letitia …
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – TikTok Inc won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of causing the death of a 10-year-old girl by promoting a deadly “blackout challenge” that encouraged people to choke themselves on its video-based social media platform. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday that the company was immune from …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday compared Republican plans on taxes and spending if they take control of Congress in November to the economic plan rolled out by Britain’s former Prime Minister Liz Truss, warning of similar results. “You read about what happened in England recently, and the last Prime Minister, she …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, faced fresh allegations on Wednesday from a second woman who said he pressured her to have an abortion and paid for the procedure after a six-year relationship with him. Walker, who hopes to unseat Democratic …
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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – U.S. doctors are warning that a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is coinciding with an increase in COVID transmission and an earlier-than-normal flu season, raising the specter of a “tripledemic” of respiratory illness this winter. In particular, RSV infections among young children are reportedly filling some U.S. …
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