WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a man at the visitors center who smelled like fuel and was carrying a torch and a flare gun, police said in a statement. The Capitol Visitor Center was closed while they investigated, U.S. Capitol Police said. Tuesday, Nov. 5 is Election Day in the United …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. presidential race unlike any before it is coming down to the wire. Tuesday’s contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, two candidates with radically different visions for the country, is neck and neck in the seven battleground states that will decide the Nov. 5 …
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By Sarah N. Lynch, Brendan O’Boyle, Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has been cleared to send lawyers to polling sites in Missouri and Texas on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws after those Republican-led states had sued to block it from doing so. Both states are among the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. services sector activity unexpectedly accelerated in October to a more-than two-year high, and employment strengthened, more evidence that the economy is in solid shape as the nation heads to the polls to pick the next president. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Tuesday that its nonmanufacturing purchasing managers (PMI) …
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By Tom Hals (Reuters) – In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral votes to the 50 states and the District of Columbia largely based on their population. Here are some of the rules …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A Georgia poll worker was arrested on Monday on U.S. charges that he sent a letter threatening to bomb election workers that he wrote to appear as if it came from a voter in the presidential election battleground state. Federal prosecutors said Nicholas Wimbish, 25, had been serving as a …
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned on Monday that, if elected, he would punish Mexico and China with tariffs unless both governments moved to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States. At a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump said he would move quickly to crack down on drug trafficking along …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Popular podcaster Joe Rogan, who recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for nearly three hours, said on Monday he has endorsed the former president in the race to the White House. Trump faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 U.S. election in what polls show to …
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By Jack Queen PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -A Pennsylvania state judge on Monday allowed Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaway to swing state voters to proceed, after a surprising day of testimony in which the billionaire’s aide acknowledged his political group selected the contest’s winners. With one day to go before the tightly contested U.S. presidential election between …
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By Gram Slattery, Tim Reid, James Oliphant and Gabriella Borter BELLEVUE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Danielle Trenney, a 39-year-old project manager from western Pennsylvania, is so anxious about the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday that she decided to put up a Christmas tree early this year to take her family’s mind off things. Trenney said she …
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