By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two senior Republican U.S. senators have asked President Joe Biden to provide a complete list of options developed by the Pentagon and State Department to help support the Philippines in recent standoffs with Beijing over a contested shoal in the South China Sea. Central to tensions …
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he supports TikTok even as a potential ban looms if Chinese-parent company ByteDance fails to divest the short video app’s U.S. assets. “I’m for TikTok because you need competition. If you don’t have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram,” Trump told Bloomberg BusinessWeek …
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By Tim Reid, Helen Coster and Nathan Layne MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -Donald Trump will safeguard gun rights by appointing federal judges who oppose new firearm limits if he is elected in November, despite narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, a senior adviser to his presidential campaign said on Tuesday. “We’ll see a continuation of supporting and defending …
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(Deletes extraneous words ‘has been’ in paragraph 8) MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s new running mate, has embraced trade barriers, isolationism and social conservatism, issues that have proven popular with much of Trump’s mostly white, working-class base. Some of those same stances, however, risk turning off moderate voters and major …
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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested to Robert F. Kennedy Jr that the independent presidential candidate could do something to support the Trump campaign, according to a video of a phone call on Sunday posted on social media and confirmed by Kennedy. “I would love you to do something …
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By Helen Coster (Reuters) -This week’s Republican National Convention, overshadowed by an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, will feature televised speeches from business leaders, celebrities, officials and everyday Americans culminating with the former president’s formal acceptance of his nomination for president. The four-day event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, begins on Monday. Nightly themes include crime, the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Meta said on Friday it was rolling back some restrictions that had applied to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. The social media company indefinitely suspended Trump’s accounts following his praise of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The company then reinstated his accounts in early …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Democratic Representative Mike Levin, who has publicly called on Joe Biden to end his re-election bid, confronted the president directly during a virtual meeting on Friday and told him it was time for someone else to lead, Politico reported, citing two sources. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Eric Beech)
(Reuters) – The U.S. election and geopolitical uncertainty are among the factors clients are focused on as they weigh their business decisions for the next few quarters, banking executives said on Friday. U.S. President Joe Biden is facing calls to abandon his re-election bid after a feeble presidential debate performance against his rival, Republican Donald …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York jury on Friday began deliberating in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, who stands accused of selling his power in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes including gold bars and cash. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan argued the New Jersey Democrat …
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