By Stephanie Kelly HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Polls opened for early voting on Thursday in North Carolina – a critical battleground in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election – just weeks after Hurricane Helene left some residents still without power, running water or phone service. North Carolina could be crucial in determining a winner in …
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By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris is shifting her campaign strategy to win over more men and Republicans, and sharpening her attacks on Donald Trump as Democratic anxieties rise over polls showing her rival making strong gains. The Democratic nominee is in a statistical dead heat in crucial states …
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By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) – A grand jury indicted a 14-year-old alleged shooter and his father who bought him the gun on Thursday in the September slaying of two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school, affirming initial charges brought by prosecutors and adding numerous other criminal counts. The Barrow County grand …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries surged to a record high in August, data from the Treasury Department showed on Thursday, rising for four straight months. Holdings of U.S. Treasuries by foreigners rose to $8.503 trillion in August, up from $8.338 trillion in the previous month. They were up 11.5% from holdings …
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By James Mackenzie and Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel confirmed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year, has been killed in Gaza, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling it a “victory for the entire free world”. There has been no official comment from Hamas but sources …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday it has approved conditional loan guarantee commitments totaling nearly $3 billion for two sustainable aviation fuel projects. The agency’s Loan Programs Office said the funding of up to $1.44 billion to Calumet’s unit would support the expansion of its facility in Montana. The facility will …
By Costas Pitas (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service has become bureaucratic and complacent and is in need of reform, an independent review into the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump concluded on Thursday, saying without change such an incident will happen again. On July 13, Trump, the Republican candidate in the Nov. 5 presidential election, …
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By Douglas Gillison, Chris Prentice and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this year as part of an alleged conspiracy to manipulate bitcoin prices, U.S. prosecutors said. In January, a hacker posted false news on the SEC’s @SECGov …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Texas on Thursday filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against a doctor for allegedly violating the state’s ban on providing gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers and hormones, to transgender minors. In a complaint filed in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …
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By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve faces no imminent market liquidity challenges that could stop the ongoing contraction of its balance sheet, according to a new tool launched Thursday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The new gauge, which the bank calls Reserve Demand Elasticity, seeks to measure how …
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