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By Jeff Mason, Arlene Eiras and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris warned tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington at her biggest rally that her Republican opponent Donald Trump was seeking unchecked power as their tightening race for the presidency entered its final week. Harris spoke on Tuesday evening to an outdoor …

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By Gram Slattery, Helen Coster and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican and Democratic leaders alike and Puerto Rican celebrities bashed comments made at a major Donald Trump event in New York by a comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Speaking before the Republican presidential candidate at a rally at Madison Square …

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(Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris have a couple of things in common on the issue of U.S. energy policy: both say they want to expand production and keep prices down for consumers. The core difference is that Harris says she wants to do so in a way that favors clean energy …

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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to force election battleground state Pennsylvania to strengthen its procedures for verifying ballots submitted by military and overseas voters. Six Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives seeking reelection on Nov. 5 had sued Pennsylvania’s top election officials on Sept. …

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By Laura Gottesdiener (Reuters) -Prominent U.S. Democratic senators on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to crack down on a popular duty-free customs program after Reuters reporting revealed how drug traffickers use the streamlined entry system to sneak Chinese-made fentanyl chemicals into the country virtually unchecked. In a letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court denied on Tuesday a bid by former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has endorsed Republican Donald Trump, to be removed from the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan for the Nov. 5 election. Kennedy has said he wants voters who would have backed him to …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was concerned about what he called Georgia’s democratic backsliding and urged a probe into the country’s recent elections that he said were marred by misuse of resources, coercion and voter intimidation. CONTEXT According to official results, the governing Georgian Dream party won …

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By Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson APPLETON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – On a fall Sunday in the U.S. election battleground state of Wisconsin, Masomo Rugama and fellow Congolese community members danced and sang to worship songs in their native Kinyamulenge. The women donned colorful dresses, the men mostly suits. Small children in their Sunday best ran …

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