(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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By Christopher Bing and Katie Paul (Reuters) – A Chinese social media influence operation is impersonating U.S. voters, denigrating U.S. politicians and pushing divisive messages ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election in the United States, new research by intelligence company Graphika showed. The campaign is part of a known Chinese state-linked effort analysts have …
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By Jason Lange and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris has neutralized Donald Trump’s edge on the economy among Hispanic voters, and her 13 percentage point lead within that group reflects the fact they vastly prefer her approach to healthcare and climate change, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows. On those latter issues, Hispanics favor Democratic Vice …
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By Idrees Ali and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to provide the Secret Service with additional military support capabilities for presidential and vice presidential candidates for the upcoming election, the Pentagon and the Secret Service said separately on Thursday. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh did not provide details …
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(Reuters) – The members of Swedish pop group ABBA have asked U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using their music and videos at his campaign rallies, the band’s record label said on Thursday. ABBA hits including “The Winner Takes It All”, “Money, Money, Money” and “Dancing Queen” were played at a rally held …
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By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – U.S. miners and battery recyclers are rushing to close government loans worth billions of dollars before January out of concern that former President Donald Trump would, if reelected, block funding needed to boost American output of critical minerals for the energy transition. Tumbling prices this year for lithium, nickel and …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Amina Niasse WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 1 million people in the U.S. will save over $1,000 a year beginning in 2025, when an annual $2,000 cap on prescription drug out-of-pocket costs kicks in, the leading lobbying group for older Americans said on Wednesday. The cap, introduced as part of President Joe …
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