By David Shepardson (Reuters) -U.S. railroad Union Pacific interfered in a federal safety audit after employees were coached how to respond, prompting the federal rail agency to end the review, the agency and the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee said on Friday. Senator Maria Cantwell said she was opening a probe into Union Pacific’s …
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(This July 23 story has been corrected to remove imprecise language around margin of error in paragraph 16) By Jason Lange (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. …
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More than 160,000 people joined a Zoom call on Thursday night to build support for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris among white women, a voter demographic that has supported Republican nominee Donald Trump in the past two elections. Organized by Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun-safety group with about 10 million …
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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday ruled that pro-Trump news site the Gateway Pundit should be dismissed from bankruptcy, exposing the site to lawsuits from election workers and others who faced harassment after the site made false claims that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mindy …
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By Nicholas P. Brown MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (Reuters) – In his bestselling 2016 memoir, Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance questioned whether rural, white Americans, like those in his native Middletown, Ohio, had the drive to reverse their economic decline. But as Vance was writing, his hometown was in the thick of the grassroots revitalization he …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is performing better than President Joe Biden in battleground states likely to decide the Nov. 5 election, narrowing the gap with Republican Donald Trump, according to an Emerson College/The Hill poll released on Thursday. The poll showed former President Trump leading in four of the critical states: Arizona …
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(Reuters) – A Donald Trump presidency could be net bearish for oil prices due to a combination of factors including tariffs and oil-friendly policies, and pushing the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+) to release more oil into the market, Citi said in a research note on Thursday. “Trump could roll back …
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By Stephanie Kelly, Suzanne McGee and Hannah Lang NASHVILLE (Reuters) -Republican nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump once blasted cryptocurrency, calling it a “scam.” Now, he is headlining one of the industry’s biggest conferences. Trump, who made the comment in 2021, will speak on Saturday, the last day of the three-day Bitcoin 2024 convention …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who is set to be the Democratic candidate in November’s presidential election, has been a key player on national security issues, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday, adding she provides meaningful and helpful input. President Joe Biden dropped his bid for reelection on Sunday amid worries …
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By Jason Lange and Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign had a massive bank account when he dropped out of the race, but Republican candidate Donald Trump has mounted a legal challenge to Kamala Harris’ use of the funds for her White House run. Biden, an 81-year-old Democrat who was in a …
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