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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will attend the inauguration of the next U.S. president in January regardless of who wins next Tuesday’s election, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday, vowing a peaceful transfer of power. “This president believes in the peaceful transfer of power, and that’s what you’re going to see this …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated Virginia’s decision ahead of the Nov. 5 election to purge from its voter rolls about 1,600 people who state officials concluded were not American citizens, though President Joe Biden’s administration and voting rights groups said actual citizens were among those struck. The justices on …

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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon begin testing bulk raw milk across the country for bird flu, a significant expansion of the agency’s efforts to stifle the rapid spread of the virus, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters. The move comes after livestock and veterinary groups pushed the USDA …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail has frequently touted capping the price of insulin at $35 a month as a major accomplishment of the Biden administration, referring to a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act. Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and President Joe Biden describe the cap …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – A Florida man was arrested after allegedly brandishing a machete at an elderly woman during an altercation at an early voting site in Neptune Beach, the town’s police chief said. Caleb James Williams, 18, raised the machete over his head during an altercation with two women at the polling location, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s attempt to call out racist remarks by a speaker at a campaign rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump backfired when Trump and other Republicans accused him of calling their supporters “garbage.” Biden was responding on Tuesday to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of …

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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tired of her Kamala Harris signs disappearing from her Springfield, Missouri, front yard, Laura McCaskill taped a tracking device to one to see where it might end up. That led her to a blue Kia sedan in a nearby town, where a young man admitted he had stolen her …

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