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By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris accused each other of deepening the discord of a deeply polarized nation as the U.S. presidential campaign entered its final week on Wednesday. The Republican former president donned an orange reflective safety vest and …

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By Ananya Mariam Rajesh (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that slivered onions served on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers and other menu items were the likely source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened 90 people. The outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder was first reported on Oct. 22, …

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DETROIT (Reuters) – With the U.S. election just days away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence. In Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, three of former President Donald Trump’s favorite targets for false claims of voter fraud, officials have fortified their operations against a repeat of …

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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A judge ordered all parties, including Elon Musk, to attend a court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday in a lawsuit seeking to stop a political action committee controlled by the billionaire from awarding $1 million to registered U.S. voters in battleground states ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. election. The Philadelphia …

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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (Reuters) – Two election officials in a small Michigan town have been stripped of their duties overseeing Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election after they vowed to go ahead with a plan to handcount already tabulated ballots in an alleged violation of state law. Tom Schierkolk and David LaMere, the clerk and deputy clerk in …

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By Jasper Ward (Reuters) – An Arizona man who was arrested for shooting at the Democratic National Committee’s office in suburban Phoenix on three separate occasions was indicted on a terrorism charge, state officials said on Wednesday. Prosecutors charged Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, with shooting at the DNC office in Tempe, Arizona, shortly after midnight, …

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(This Oct. 29 story has been corrected to clarify that the comments are from the CISA spokesperson in paragraph 6) By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Partial passwords to some parts of the state’s voting systems that were accidentally posted online pose no threat to Nov. 5 general election, the Colorado Department of State said …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former cryptocurrency executive Nishad Singh, who once shared a $35 million Bahamas penthouse with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was spared prison time by a judge on Wednesday for his role in the theft by his imprisoned former boss of about $8 billion in customer funds from the now-bankrupt exchange. …

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