By Alexandra Ulmer, Dawn Chmielewski MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance for a running mate raised the hopes of Silicon Valley conservatives on Tuesday that they stand to gain having a fellow “tech bro” within reach of the White House for the first time. “WE HAVE A FORMER TECH VC IN THE WHITE …
By Mike Scarcella, Karen Sloan, Sara Merken (Reuters) -Usha Vance, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s newly-selected running mate J.D. Vance, is a corporate lawyer with ties to two sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices. She said in a statement late Monday that she is resigning from her law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olson, …
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By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Davide Barbuscia (Reuters) – Rising expectations that former President Donald Trump will regain the White House in November are supercharging the so-called Trump trade, on views that his policies will lift corporate profits even while spurring worries about the country’s long-term fiscal health. The two sides of the trade have …
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By Jasper Ward and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating the Secret Service’s planning of the weekend rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a man tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Security at the Republican presidential candidate’s rally in Pennsylvania …
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By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – Hannah Gutierrez, the armorer imprisoned for the 2021 “Rust” shooting, on Tuesday filed a motion for her conviction to be dismissed after charges against actor Alec Baldwin were dropped on prosecutors withholding evidence linked to the 2021 fatality. A lawyer for Gutierrez said the buried evidence of live …
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By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -President Joe Biden promised Black voters on Tuesday that he was “all in” to seek reelection on Nov. 5 and assailed Donald Trump’s record as president, in his first political speech since his Republican rival’s attempted assassination. Biden was greeted by chants of “four more years” …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least three U.S. House of Representatives Democrats were preparing to sign a letter protesting a plan to speed up the official party approval of President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, the lawmakers’ offices said on Tuesday. The three lawmakers are among a growing number of Democrats upset by plans to …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump will not try ousting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before the central banker’s term ends and would consider JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for treasury secretary if he won the Nov. 5 election, the former president told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday. JPMorgan declined to comment on …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled a Minnesota law requiring a person to be at least 21 years old before obtaining a permit to carry a handgun in public for self-defense is unconstitutional. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with gun rights groups in finding the …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on Tuesday on all 16 criminal counts he faced including bribery at his corruption trial in Manhattan federal court, completing the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat’s dramatic downfall. Senior Democrats including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow New Jersey Senator Cory Booker …
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