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Bolsonaro-backed candidates pull ahead in Brazil mayor elections

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Candidates backed by Jair Bolsonaro are pulling ahead in municipal elections that are considered a barometer of political sentiment in Brazil, two years before a presidential vote in which Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will likely seek another term.

The conservative former president, who’s banned from seeking public office until 2030, helped ...Read more

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Post-debate polls say JD Vance was the clear winner, but Tim Walz still viewed favorably

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The consensus among surveyed voters asked who won the debate between the Republican and Democratic vice presidential candidates is that Ohio’s U.S. Senator JD Vance out performed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Though Walz continues to enjoy a higher level of likability than Vance, the younger politician made a better show of presenting himself to ...Read more

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House Speaker says Congress can wait for hurricane damage needs

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Hurricane Helene’s devastation doesn’t require immediate action by Congress to boost federal disaster relief funding because it’ll take time to assess the damage.

Johnson’s comments on "Fox News Sunday" add to a political messaging battle around the storm, which struck states from Florida to western ...Read more

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House Speaker says Congress can wait for hurricane damage needs

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Hurricane Helene’s devastation doesn’t require immediate action by Congress to boost federal disaster relief funding because it’ll take time to assess the damage.

Johnson didn’t explicitly address a request by President Joe Biden last week for lawmakers to speed up authorization of about $1.6 billion for ...Read more

Palestinians want to choose their own leaders – a year of war has distanced them further from this democratic goal

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Over the summer as Israel continued to bombard Gaza, representatives from 14 Palestinian factions, including the two main parties – Hamas and Fatah – met in China. Following the most inclusive talks in years, all the parties agreed to a future unity government and to hold national elections.

Such talk of “day after” governance...Read more

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Biden's antitrust cop got a big win. Will it be his last?

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Hetal Doshi sprinted down the marble hallway on the fourth floor of the Justice Department’s antitrust division in August.

“We won! We won! We won!” she shouted, bursting into a wood-paneled conference room where Jonathan Kanter, the assistant U.S. attorney general for antitrust, sat talking with a team of young lawyers. Doshi, Kanter’s...Read more

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Donald Trump returns to Butler after July shooting: 'We all took a bullet for America'

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BUTLER, Pa. — Returning to the site where an attempted assassin’s bullet grazed his ear, former President Donald Trump got to finish what he started in July.

“As I was saying,” Trump joked early in his speech to the crowd of thousands in Butler.

Trump’s Butler return comes just three weeks after the Secret Service thwarted a second ...Read more

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Trump rallies with Elon Musk at site of assassination attempt

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Republican nominee Donald Trump rallied supporters at the site of a July assassination attempt, returning to the Pennsylvania venue where a gunman’s bullet bloodied his ear and upended the presidential campaign.

“I return to Butler in the aftermath of tragedy and heartache to deliver a simple message to the people of Pennsylvania and to the...Read more

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Biden to announce more student loan relief ahead of trip

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is planning a pair of economic announcements — including new student loan debt relief — before departing for a trip to Germany and Angola as the White House seeks to harness momentum from recent positive economic data.

Biden is set to announce next week that he’s expanding student debt relief for public ...Read more

Sao Paulo mayor race tests Bolsonaro's grip on the Brazilian right

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An insurgent candidate is splitting the Brazilian right ahead of Sunday municipal elections, testing Jair Bolsonaro’s grip on the rabid movement he has sought to lead even after losing the presidency two years ago.

Pablo Marcal, a 37-year-old businessman, influencer and former life coach, has surged into contention in Sao Paulo’s mayoral ...Read more

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Trump to return to Butler assassination site to bolster campaign

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will return to the site of the July assassination attempt, grappling publicly with the aftermath of the attack that bloodied his ear and upended the campaign.

Campaign officials say the rally Saturday at the Butler Farm Show — which comes exactly one month before Election Day — will be a tribute ...Read more

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Trump's election bid is a wild card as Supreme Court term opens

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The U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term under the shadow of a presidential election that threatens to create fresh strains at a court already deeply enmeshed in the nation’s political divisions.

Three months after releasing a barrage of far-reaching rulings, the justices return to the bench Monday with a docket that looks relatively tamer, ...Read more

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Is Minnesota's most competitive House seat a swing district or is it trending blue?

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MINNEAPOLIS — DFL Rep. Angie Craig rode the 2018 blue wave to victory and has fended off close challenges for the last three terms by appealing to a broad swath of swing voters in the 2nd Congressional District.

All of her races have been close, but her tightest race so far was during the 2020 presidential election when she beat GOP Tyler ...Read more

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Missouri abortion access could hinge on what Amendment 3 means for medication restrictions

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If Missouri voters overturn the state’s abortion ban in November, how widely available abortion eventually becomes will depend in large part on whether courts block the state’s current restrictions on medications commonly used to end a pregnancy.

Before Missouri became the first state to ban abortion moments after the U...Read more

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New York, California loom large in 'dead heat' for US House

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WASHINGTON — New York and California, routinely overlooked in presidential elections, are shaping up as potentially pivotal battlegrounds in a nail-biter struggle for control of the U.S. House.

The outcome will determine whether the next president has a legislative-branch ally or antagonist in the fight ahead over Donald Trump’s expiring ...Read more

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Yo-Yo Ma, Jon Bon Jovi to raise cash for Harris in final stretch

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WASHINGTON — A slew of celebrities and politicians are set to raise cash for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign in the monthlong stretch before Election Day.

Notable names such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, musician Jon Bon Jovi, DJ and record producer D-Nice, chef and restaurateur Alice Waters, lawyer and political activist George Conway and ...Read more

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Biden makes formal plea to Congress for disaster loan funds

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WASHINGTON — In a late Friday night missive to congressional leaders, President Joe Biden wrote that the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program is expected to run out of funding before Congress reconvenes after the November elections.

The SBA needs $1.6 billion to keep up with thousands of new applications coming in each day ...Read more

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One month out, Democrats say they are expanding House field

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WASHINGTON — Democrats are expressing increasing optimism that regaining control of the House is within the party’s grasp.

“We have opportunities everywhere,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene, a Democrat from Washington state and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “We’re making sure we pick up seats in presidential ...Read more

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Trump calls federal response to Helene 'terrible' during Fayetteville town hall

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump, in his first trip to North Carolina since it was hit by Hurricane Helene, said the federal government’s response to the devastating storm had been “terrible.”

During a town hall with supporters in Fayetteville on Friday night, Trump also praised billionaire Elon Musk, a major supporter...Read more

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Ben Horowitz will donate to Harris campaign after Trump support

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Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and his wife plan to make a “significant” donation to the presidential campaign of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, just three months after supporting Harris’ rival, former President Donald Trump.

In a memo to staff at his business Andreessen Horowitz, viewed by Bloomberg News, Horowitz emphasized the ...Read more

 

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