By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Tropical storm Debby formed late Saturday and was expected to surge up into a hurricane before it slams into Florida’s northern Gulf Coast shoreline on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm turned into a tropical storm after days of spinning as a broad, sloppy system in the Atlantic, finally …
By Gram Slattery, Timothy Gardner and Surbhi Misra ATLANTA (Reuters) -Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed to debate Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News on Sept. 4, but the Harris campaign countered that Trump was trying to back out of a debate that had already been set to run on ABC. The rules …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -More than 6,000 firefighters in California’s Central Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the U.S. on Saturday, which burned its way into the history books as the state’s fourth-largest conflagration on record. There was barely a taste of rain on Saturday from thunderstorms that brought wind and rainfall of …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Missouri prosecutors charged a rural Illinois man on Saturday with making a ‘terroristic threat’ on social media, saying he planned to shoot two Kansas City Chiefs football players as they attended a country music concert. The man, Aaron Brown, 23, of Winchester, Illinois, was arrested on Friday night at a …
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By Stephanie Kelly WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is staffing up in battleground states over the next two weeks including in the ‘Sun Belt’ that increasingly looked out of reach for President Joe Biden, citing momentum for her White House bid as grassroots engagement and fundraising soar. “Our grassroots engagement is …
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By Steve Keating PARIS (Reuters) -Already rated one of swimming’s all-time greats coming into the Paris Olympics, Katie Ledecky made it official on Saturday by storming to victory in her signature event, the 800 metres freestyle to end her work in the French capital in grand style. French torpedo Leon Marchand may be the prince …
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By Rory Carroll PARIS (Reuters) -Simone Biles’ appetite to collect gold medals showed no sign of waning as she soared above her rivals in the vault final on Saturday to scoop a third top prize at the Paris Olympics, while Ireland and the Philippines enjoyed a historic day in gymnastics. Three years after it looked …
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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has added three new senior advisers, including top strategists who guided Democratic former President Barack Obama’s two winning U.S. presidential bids, a source with direct knowledge said on Friday. David Plouffe, who was manager of Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 and a senior aide during …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mike Donilon, a longtime adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, will return to the White House for the final six months of Biden’s presidency, a White House official said on Friday. Donilon had left the White House earlier this year to join Biden’s reelection campaign before the president dropped out of the …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – The Harris campaign announced on Friday that it raised $310 million in July, fueled by small-dollar donations that flowed into the war chest after President Joe Biden bowed out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. The July figure – more than double the $138.7 million raised by …
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