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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – As Vice President Kamala Harris focuses on price gouging in her presidential campaign, state laws and laws proposed by her colleagues in the Senate show potential paths for a crackdown on high prices. The Democratic candidate planned to lay out her anti-price gouging and other economic proposals in a speech …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has picked his former chief of staff George Helmy to serve the remainder of Bob Menendez’s term in the U.S. Senate following his resignation after being convicted of corruption, the governor’s office said on Friday. The move will maintain the Democratic party’s 51-49 majority in the …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign said on Friday two major donors would lead a transition team formed to help vet personnel and draft policy should the former president win in November. Wrestling magnate Linda McMahon and Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick will serve as co-chairs, the campaign …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris plans to call for the construction of 3 million new housing units and outline new tax incentives for builders that construct properties for first-time home buyers, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Thursday. Those details are expected to be a part of Harris’s …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Democratic rival Tim Walz will debate on Oct. 1 on CBS, after Vance said in a post on X that he had agreed to the date. Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, also said he had accepted CNN’s invitation to debate Walz, …

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By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Billionaire Mark Cuban, Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci and congressman Adam Schiff were among a group of cryptocurrency advocates who called on Kamala Harris to reset the Democratic party’s policy on digital assets ahead of the November election. On Wednesday night, the new group Crypto4Harris convened its first virtual gathering …

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