By Bo Erickson and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress returns from the campaign trail on Monday to face a month-end government funding deadline, but election-year politics will still be at the forefront as Republicans seek to use the process to advance a voting bill backed by Donald Trump. Republican House of Representatives …
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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – More than 300 U.S. farm and commodity groups urged Congress in a letter on Monday to pass a long-delayed farm spending bill before the end of the year, as farmers face a projected decline in income. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The farm bill, an omnibus package passed every five years, funds …
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(Reuters) – Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump face off in a presidential debate on Tuesday ahead of a Nov. 5 election, upholding a tradition marked by some memorable moments of modern U.S. political history: – 1960: The first televised debate pitted Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy against Republican Vice …
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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 Katie Paul NEW YORK -Two days after U.S. authorities accused two employees of Russian state media network RT of coordinating an online network aimed at influencing the 2024 presidential election, more than 400 posts by Tenet Media, the online content company at the heart of the case, were still accessible on TikTok, unlabeled and …
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(Reuters) – Democrat Kamala Harris’ campaign for U.S. president raised more than $300 million in the month of August, more than twice as much as her Republican opponent Donald Trump raised during the same period, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing two unnamed sources. Trump’s campaign said on Wednesday that his campaign and party raised …
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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 Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from implementing its latest student debt forgiveness plan, just days after seven Republican-led states filed a lawsuit seeking to halt it. U.S. District Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, Georgia, said the states had established a likelihood of proving the …
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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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