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Biden casts early ballot for Harris as Election Day nears
NEW CASTLE, Delaware (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday cast his ballot in the U.S. presidential election, voting early in his home state of Delaware for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris...
Oct 28, 2024
Republican senator presses FAA to speed up rocket launch license reviews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Jerry Moran has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to speed up its license review process for private rocket launches, writing in a letter seen by Reuters th...
Oct 28, 2024
US politicians, celebrities blast Trump-allied comedian for calling Puerto Rico 'garbage'
By Gram Slattery and Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Political leaders from both sides of the aisle and Puerto Rican celebrities bashed comments at a major Donald Trump event in New York by a come...
Oct 28, 2024
Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk PAC to stop $1 million lottery for voters, CNBC reports
(Reuters) - The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a political action committee controlled by billionaire Elon Musk from awarding $1 million to registered voters i...
Oct 28, 2024
US lawmakers urge review of China threat from photonics technology
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Monday urged the Department of Commerce to examine national security threats from China's development of silicon photonics technol...
Oct 28, 2024
Mexican border crackdown takes heat out of Trump’s migrant jibes
By Diego Or, Laura Gottesdiener, Ted Hesson and Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - At a remote military checkpoint in the Mexican desert some 25 miles (40 km) south of the border cit...
Oct 28, 2024
Robinhood rolls out US presidential election derivatives trading as race heats up
By Manya Saini (Reuters) - Robinhood announced the launch of U.S. presidential election event contracts on Monday, enabling customers to trade based on their prediction for the tightly contested race ...
Oct 28, 2024
Democratic Senator tries to swim upstream in increasingly Republican Ohio
By Richard Cowan WARREN, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown has navigated Ohio's increasingly Republican political currents for the past two decades by appealing to the state's blu...
Oct 28, 2024
After Supreme Court ruling, a Black Alabama Democrat aspires to US House seat
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Democratic candidate Shomari Figures wins a congressional race in Alabama in the Nov. 5 U.S. election, the conservative-leaning Southern state would be poised ...
Oct 28, 2024
Harris campaigns in Michigan, Trump in Georgia in final stretch of White House race
By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris travels to Michigan on Monday to focus on the economy, while former President Donald Trump heads to Georgia...
Oct 28, 2024
