By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election team on Monday said former President Donald Trump had embraced the language of Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler by using the word “vermin” to refer to his political enemies. Trump told a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday he would “root out the communists, …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley’s campaign is booking $10 million in advertising, her camp said on Monday, as she tries to scoop up supporters of U.S. Senator Tim Scott, a fellow South Carolinian who dropped out on Sunday. The ads will be placed on TV, radio and the internet starting …
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By James Oliphant and Joseph Ax MIAMI (Reuters) -For the third time, Donald Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination took to the debate stage on Wednesday night in his absence, seeking a way to dislodge the former president from his commanding lead in opinion polls. While contenders such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has blocked Idaho from enforcing a recently passed law making it a crime to help a minor cross state lines for an abortion without her parents’ consent. U.S. Magistrate Judge Debora Grasham in Boise, Idaho, said the law against so-called abortion trafficking, signed by Republican Governor Brad …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville prevented the approval of hundreds of military nominations on Thursday, continuing his blockade of promotions in protest over the Defense Department’s abortion policy. Democratic Senator Tim Kaine read the names of 364 military officers who have been nominated for promotion, asking that they be …
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By Jack Queen and Luc Cohen (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday asked a New York judge to decide a civil fraud case against the former U.S. president in his favor, a long-shot bid coming midway through a trial that threatens to hobble his real estate empire. The request to effectively end the case came …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday denounced U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib’s use of a pro-Palestinian rallying cry “from the river to the sea”, which is viewed by many Jews as antisemitic and calling for Israel’s eradication. “As it relates to that term, we’ve been very clear we strongly disagree,” White House press secretary …
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis’ biggest donor, is switching his support to Donald Trump, but he will not give the former president any money until he is sure he is not headed to prison. “I’m pro-Trump. Right now I’m determined to remain on the sidelines for …
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(Reuters) – Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned as teenagers in the notorious Central Park jogger rape case in 1989, won a seat on the New York City council in Tuesday’s elections, according to unofficial results from the city’s elections board. Salaam was chosen as the Democratic candidate in June’s …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -U.S. voters on Tuesday cast ballots to choose governors in Kentucky and Mississippi, decide legislative control in Virginia and New Jersey, and determine whether the Ohio state constitution should protect abortion rights. Republicans and Democrats were watching results in key races for clues about the 2024 elections. KENTUCKY GOVERNOR Democratic Governor …
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