By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to face off in the fourth debate of their party’s 2024 nominating contest this Wednesday. Here are some facts about the debate: WHERE IS IT? It will take place at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa at 7 p.m. local time (0100 GMT). It …
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By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WESTON, Massachusetts/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he may have skipped mounting a 2024 re-election bid if he were not facing Donald Trump because the Republican poses a unique threat to the United States. “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” Biden said at …
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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump who co-chaired the congressional probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said she is weighing a third-party bid for the White House in 2024. In media interviews, Cheney said she was considering running …
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By Danielle Broadway and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Members of the SAG-AFTRA actors union approved a three-year contract with major studios on Tuesday, formally ending six months of Hollywood labor disputes that halted film and television production. SAG-AFTRA said 78% of those who voted supported the deal with Netflix Inc, Walt Disney Co and …
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By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. on Tuesday began imposing visa bans on people involved in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Washington officials said, after several appeals for Israel to do more prevent violence by Jewish settlers. A new State Department visa restriction policy targets “individuals believed to have …
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By Tim Reid (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will not become a dictator if he becomes U.S. president again except “on day one”, after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that America was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election. Republican presidential candidate Trump had to …
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By Sarah Morland and Kylie Madry (Reuters) – Joseph Vincent, a former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), on Tuesday became the fourth person to plead guilty in a U.S. court for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president that left a destabilizing power vacuum. A Haitian-American national, Vincent is among …
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By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw BOSTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden kicked off a December fundraising blitz on Tuesday that will show off the Democratic Party’s star power while raising millions of dollars, according to invitations reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the planning. The sprint includes at least nine fundraisers before the …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy canceled plans to appeal directly to U.S. lawmakers for new aid on Tuesday, as a partisan battle over immigration policy threatened to derail President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars for Kyiv’s fight against Russia. Republicans and Biden’s fellow Democrats in the Senate and House …
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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A group of Catholic nuns on Tuesday sued the board of Smith & Wesson to try to force the gunmaker to abandon the manufacture, marketing and sales of assault-style rifles that have been used in U.S. mass shootings. The nuns, in a lawsuit filed in state court in …
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