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(Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the U.S. presidential election, with the two candidates vying to attract support after staking positions on issues including abortion, the economy and foreign policy. Following are preliminary results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Results will be updated as additional poll responses …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior U.S. cyber official on Tuesday said her agency had not seen any major incidents reflecting foreign interference in Tuesday’s presidential election despite a steady stream of disinformation aimed at disrupting the vote throughout Election Day. As of early evening, there was little evidence of significant disruption to election infrastructure, Cait Conley, …

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(Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the U.S. presidential election, after the two candidates vied for support after staking positions on issues including abortion, the economy and foreign policy. Following are preliminary results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Results will be updated as additional poll responses are …

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(Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the U.S. presidential election, after the two candidates vied for support having staked positions on issues including abortion, the economy and foreign policy. Following are preliminary results from an exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Results will be updated as additional poll responses are …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans head to the polls on Tuesday in a mood of discontent and division, with opinion polls showing nearly two-thirds of voters believe the country has been heading in the wrong direction under President Joe Biden. While the United States economy is the envy of the industrialized world, emerging from COVID shutdowns …

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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied a bid by Republicans to block seven counties in the battleground state of Georgia from accepting some absentee ballots, and chided the party’s lawyers for what he termed discrimination against political opponents. The Republican National Committee on Sunday sued the seven counties in Savannah …

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(Reuters) -Oil and gas producers began shutting in U.S. Gulf of Mexico output and pulling workers off platforms on Tuesday ahead of a late hurricane season storm threatening offshore fields. The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned of steady to rapid intensification over the next 24 to 36 hours, with Tropical Storm Rafael forecast to became …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Early vote returns in U.S. battleground states may not be a good indicator of whether Democratic candidate Kamala Harris or Republican rival Donald Trump will win, experts say, thanks to vote counting rules and quirks in several key states.   In the 2020 election, some states showed a “red mirage,” in which Trump …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Tuesday fake bomb threats have been made to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. “None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,” it said in a statement. It did not identify the states. (Reporting by …

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