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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Democratic candidate Shomari Figures wins a congressional race in Alabama in the Nov. 5 U.S. election, the conservative-leaning Southern state would be poised for the first time to have two Black members of the House of Representatives. And a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision last year authored by …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses that could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner. In the past three weeks, Trump’s allies have been dealt at least 10 court losses in …

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By David Lawder and Karin Strohecker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Low growth, high debt and escalating wars topped the official agenda at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings, but finance leaders spent much of their energy worrying about the potential impacts of a return of Donald Trump to power in November’s U.S. presidential …

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(Reuters) – Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed increasing the money available for film and television production incentives in California to $750 million annually from $330 million, his office said on Sunday. Newsom’s office said the tax credit expansion was to lure some lost filmmaking production back into Hollywood’s home state, which has recently been affected …

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By James Oliphant GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) -With his third straight U.S. presidential campaign coming down to the wire, Donald Trump mused at a rally about hydrogen-powered cars exploding, lamented how difficult it is to get spray paint off limestone and marveled at how billionaire backer Elon Musk’s rocket had returned to Earth in one …

Analysis-Will Trump’s unbridled rhetoric cost him the US election? Read More »

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Stephanie Kelly and Georgina McCartney HOUSTON (Reuters) -Superstar singer Beyonce took the stage at a rally for Kamala Harris in Houston on Friday night, not to sing but to offer her first public political appearance this election cycle at a crucial moment for the Democratic presidential candidate.  Beyonce, a Houston native, walked …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose nuanced bass playing made him an architect of the band’s otherworldly sound, died on Friday at age 84, his Instagram account said. Tributes poured in from the music world and New York’s Empire State Building said it would illuminate the …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Gabriella Borter and Georgina McCartney HOUSTON (Reuters) -Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took a detour from barnstorming the battleground states that will decide November’s election with Friday stops in Texas, a conservative state that was the first to implement a near-total abortion ban. Texas hasn’t backed a Democratic president since 1976, and …

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By Donna Bryson ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) – It’s almost at the edge of living memory: President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, urging Americans to “close the springs of racial poison.”   The legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin at places serving the public …

Sixty years after the unwinding of Jim Crow, a historic US election Read More »