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October 24, 2024
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How much foreign influence is there in the U.S. election?

The Trump campaign filed a formal legal complaint this week with the Federal Election Commission over what the campaign calls “blatant foreign interference in the 2024 Presidential Election in the form of apparent illegal foreign national contributions made by the Labour Party of the United Kingdom, and accepted by Harris for President.”  That claim remains […]

World
October 21, 2024
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Harris, Trump in dead heat across swing states in Washington Post poll

United States Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump remain in a tight contest across seven battleground states with just over two weeks until the November 5 US presidential election, a Washington Post/Schar School opinion poll showed on Monday. Democratic former prosecutor Harris led among likely voters in Georgia 51 per cent to […]

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October 19, 2024
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Pro-Trump group funded by Musk struggles with outreach targets, inflation of door-knocking figures

The political action committee funded by billionaire Elon Musk to help re-elect former U.S. President Donald Trump is struggling in some swing states to meet door-knocking goals and is investigating claims that some canvassers lied about the number of voters they have contacted, according to people involved in the group’s efforts. The difficulties, in pivotal […]

Health
October 19, 2024
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Drug costs, abortion, Obamacare: How Trump and Harris could change U.S. health care

President Donald Trump talks to the press outside the White House, July 19, 2019, left, and Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, at the vice president’s residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, Oct. 7, 2024. Getty […]

Health
October 19, 2024
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Harris asks if Trump is "fit to do the job," highlighting health questions

Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris has increasingly questioned former President Donald Trump’s ability to handle the demands of another four years in the White House as she seeks to contrast her age with Trump’s.  “I’m seeing that his team at least is saying he’s suffering from exhaustion,” Harris, who turns 60 on Sunday, told […]

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October 18, 2024
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Trump again refuses to release current health records, as Harris questions his fitness

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, addresses the media as he arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on October 18, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.  Win Mcnamee | Getty Images Donald Trump on Friday dismissed more questions about whether he would release his current medical records, doubling down on refusing to provide a […]

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October 18, 2024
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Judge rules evidence in Trump 2020 election case to be unsealed Friday

Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to delay until after the election the unsealing of court records and exhibits in the 2020 election interference case and said the court would release evidence submitted by the government on Friday.  In her five-page order, Chutkan said there was a presumption that there […]

Health
October 17, 2024
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Harris backs slashing medical debt. Trump's "concepts" worry advocates.

Patient and consumer advocates are looking to Kamala Harris to accelerate federal efforts to help people struggling with medical debt if she prevails in next month’s presidential election. And they see the vice president and Democratic nominee as the best hope for preserving Americans’ access to health insurance. Comprehensive coverage that limits patients’ out-of-pocket costs […]

Business
October 17, 2024
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Bitcoin approaches $70,000 with speculators eyeing record highs

Bitcoin last traded at $70,000 in July, and reached an all-time high of almost $74,000 in March. Bitcoin bulls are setting their sights again on the record highs reached in March with optimism building around riskier assets and the looming US elections. “After six months of price consolidation this year, the stage is set for […]