Nation and World Politics
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Harris bets her policies can attract Latino voters while Trump touts his time as president to them
Oct 22, 2024 2:28 pm - Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump see economic policy as their best chance to win Latino voters. But their approaches are very different.
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Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout
Oct 22, 2024 11:11 am - China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs.
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Yellen says isolationism ‘made America and the world worse off’ in speech to global finance leaders
Oct 22, 2024 8:44 am - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election.
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US extends 25% semiconductor tax credit to chip and solar wafers
Oct 22, 2024 8:36 am - The Biden administration finalized rules for a 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing projects, expanding eligibility for what is likely to be the largest incenti...
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How Project 2025’s rightward vision became a flashpoint in this year’s election
Oct 22, 2024 7:38 am - For the past year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election, its far-right proposals deployed by Democrats as shorthand for what Donald Trump would potentially do with a second term at the White House.
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Israeli strike destroys building near Beirut as Blinken presses for Gaza cease-fire
Oct 22, 2024 7:33 am - The Israeli military leveled a building in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday that it said housed Hezbollah “facilities,” sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred yards from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged the Israeli prime minister's house.
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McDonald’s agreed to Trump event but says it isn't endorsing a presidential candidate
Oct 21, 2024 4:26 pm - McDonald’s Corp. agreed to host former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania store over the weekend but said it isn’t endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential race.
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Liz Cheney helps Harris seek moderate votes as they paint Trump as a dangerous choice
Oct 21, 2024 2:52 pm - Kamala Harris teamed up with Liz Cheney on Monday to make a bipartisan appeal to Republican voters uneasy about Donald Trump, describing the former president as a malignant force that needs to be removed from American politics.
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Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide
Oct 21, 2024 8:53 am - Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. But the uncertainty of how much she's going to m...
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Trump blasts FEMA as he surveys storm damage in North Carolina
Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am - Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation, but he said he was not concerned that the aftermath of Hurricane Helene would affect election results in the battleground state.