By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -Former Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, will conduct vetting of potential running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the U.S. presidency, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Harris is running for the Democratic presidential nomination after President …
By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign aims to wrap up her presidential nomination by Wednesday night by securing a majority of the nearly 4,000 Democratic convention delegates needed to win, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Her campaign officials and allies have been making …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi, a former House speaker and influential voice in the Democratic Party, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday as the Democratic 2024 presidential nominee. “My enthusiastic support for Kamala Harris for president is official, personal and political,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Politically make no mistake: Kamala Harris …
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By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden may not have gotten much credit politically for the thousands of grants and public investments his administration showered across the country, with airport or road projects in places like South Carolina and Wyoming unlikely to dent former President Donald Trump’s locked-in status in those deeply …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Monday announced 25 projects pitched by 30 different state, local and tribal governments that applied for $4.3 billion in grants created by the president’s signature climate law. The grants, which will be distributed to winners by early autumn, will support deployment of clean energy technology …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign said on Monday it had raised $81 million in the first 24 hours after announcing she would seek the Democratic presidential nomination. In a statement, it said the amount “reflects money raised across the campaign, Democratic National Committee, and joint fundraising committees.” (Reporting by Kanishka Singh …
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(Reuters) -Following are reactions from foreign leaders and officials to U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his campaign to seek reelection in November: UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY: “Ukraine is grateful to President Biden for his unwavering support for Ukraine’s fight for freedom, which, along with strong bipartisan support in the United States, has …
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(Reuters) – Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit against Fox News for publishing nude photos and videos of him in a fictionalized “mock trial” show focused on his foreign dealings, according to a court filing by his lawyers on Sunday. The filing did not give a reason for the voluntary dismissal of the suit. ABC …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force’s ambitious next-generation fighter jet program, envisioned as a revolutionary leap in technology, could become less ambitious as budget pressure, competing priorities and changing goals compel a rethink, defense officials and industry executives said. Initially conceived as a “family of systems” centered around a sixth-generation fighter …
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By James Oliphant, Helen Coster, Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to show swing voters that his likely new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, has her fingerprints all over two issues he is counting on for victory in November: immigration and the cost of living. Sources within the Trump campaign said …
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