By Stephanie Kelly HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Polls opened for early voting on Thursday in North Carolina – a critical battleground in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election – just weeks after Hurricane Helene left some residents still without power, running water or phone service. North Carolina could be crucial in determining a winner in …
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By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris is shifting her campaign strategy to win over more men and Republicans, and sharpening her attacks on Donald Trump as Democratic anxieties rise over polls showing her rival making strong gains. The Democratic nominee is in a statistical dead heat in crucial states …
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By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) – A grand jury indicted a 14-year-old alleged shooter and his father who bought him the gun on Thursday in the September slaying of two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school, affirming initial charges brought by prosecutors and adding numerous other criminal counts. The Barrow County grand …
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By Costas Pitas (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service has become bureaucratic and complacent and is in need of reform, an independent review into the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump concluded on Thursday, saying without change such an incident will happen again. On July 13, Trump, the Republican candidate in the Nov. 5 presidential election, …
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By Douglas Gillison, Chris Prentice and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this year as part of an alleged conspiracy to manipulate bitcoin prices, U.S. prosecutors said. In January, a hacker posted false news on the SEC’s @SECGov …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Texas on Thursday filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against a doctor for allegedly violating the state’s ban on providing gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers and hormones, to transgender minors. In a complaint filed in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …
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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – Cows in California are dying at much higher rates from bird flu than in other affected states, industry and veterinary experts said, and some carcasses have been left rotting in the sun as rendering plants struggle to process all the dead animals. Carcasses left in the open and picked over …
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By Bill Trott (Reuters) – Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing brightened Hollywood musicals throughout the 1950s, including trying unsuccessfully to “wash that man right outa my hair” as nurse Nellie Forbush in “South Pacific,” has died at the age of 93. Gaynor died peacefully of natural causes, her management team said on Thursday. “For …
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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen (Reuters) -A judge on Wednesday overturned controversial changes to Georgia election rules made by a Republican-controlled state board, the latest defeat for allies of Donald Trump seeking to change how the state’s votes are counted in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election. Judge Thomas Cox struck down a half-dozen …
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(Reuters) – Former NBC anchor Brian Williams will host a special one-night show delivering election results and analysis to Amazon.com customers on Nov. 5, the company said on Thursday as it looks to capitalize on one of the most anticipated events of the year. The show will be produced by Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner …
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