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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to keep its target of accepting 125,000 refugees next year, according to an internal report to U.S. lawmakers reviewed by Reuters, signaling a refugee ramp-up will continue if Kamala Harris wins the White House. The Biden administration is on pace to bring in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 90 company executives, including the chief executives of Yelp and Chobani as well as the former CEOs of PepsiCo, Ford Motor Co and Yahoo!, endorsed U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency in a letter released on Friday. Separately, more than 100 current and retired law enforcement officials also backed …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday accused Donald Trump’s lawyers of trying to stop potentially damaging evidence of his effort to overturn his 2020 election loss from becoming public before the Nov. 5 election, while acknowledging the case would not go to trial before then. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan also …

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By Gram Slattery and Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out his economic vision for the country on Thursday during a speech at the New York Economic Club. Here are the new proposals Trump outlined: SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND Trump said if he is elected he would create a sovereign …

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By Christopher Bing and Katie Paul (Reuters) – A Chinese social media influence operation is impersonating U.S. voters, denigrating U.S. politicians and pushing divisive messages ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election in the United States, new research by intelligence company Graphika showed. The campaign is part of a known Chinese state-linked effort analysts have …

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By Jason Lange and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris has neutralized Donald Trump’s edge on the economy among Hispanic voters, and her 13 percentage point lead within that group reflects the fact they vastly prefer her approach to healthcare and climate change, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows. On those latter issues, Hispanics favor Democratic Vice …

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