Yellen visits Midwest to showcase improving consumer sentiment, take aim at Trump tax cuts
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Biden, going 'full steam ahead' against Trump, at last wins swing state union's support
Joe Biden, the self-proclaimed «most pro-union» American president, on Wednesday secured the United Auto Workers Union's endorsement as he ramps up his reelection bid, after the group had withheld backing him for months.
Biden revisits decaying Wisconsin bridge to announce $5B for infrastructure in election year pitch
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge — pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it.
Trump could be called to testify in E. Jean Carroll sex defamation trial
Former President Donald Trump is expected to testify Thursday in writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation case against him. Trump was initially set to take the witness stand Monday in Manhattan federal court, but the trial was postponed after a juror called in sick. Presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan gave Trump's attorney Alina Habba the chance to continue the case that day with eight jurors instead of nine, but Habba declined, telling Kaplan she was also feeling ill. The resumption of the case, which was delayed for three days, also marked the return of Trump's courtroom-centric presidential campaign strategy. Trump
Nikki Haley looks ahead to South Carolina as Trump warns her potential donors: Highlights
Here are the highlights from the 2024 campaign trailNBC News projected former President Donald Trump the winner of New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley yesterday, a victory driven by dominant support from self-identified GOP voters.Trump is the first nonincumbent GOP candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. He is calling for Haley to end her race so the Republican Party can coalesce behind him.Haley, who performed well among self-identified moderates, has vowed that the race is not over, and she will travel to New York City on Monday and Tuesday to court Wall Street donors at multiple fundraisers, according to two campaign sources.President Joe Biden received the endorsement of the United Auto Workers union. The union's endorsement could be key in the battleground state of Michigan, which narrowly went for Biden in 2020 after backing Trump by a razor-thin margin in 2016.
64K women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states with abortion bans, study estimates
More than 64,000 women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states that implemented abortion bans after Roe v. Wade was overruled, according to a new research estimate published online on Wednesday.
Poilievre calls on Trudeau to reimpose visa requirements on Mexico as asylum claims soar
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bring back a visa requirement for Mexican nationals as asylum claims from that country continue to multiply.
Judge refused to let Binance founder Zhao travel to UAE despite his offer to use equity as security
A federal judge last month rejected a request by Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao to travel to his home in the United Arab Emirates for the "hospitalization and surgery" of a person in his life even though he offered to post his Binance equity as security for his return to the U.S., a new court filing reveals. The equity was worth $4.5 billion, based on Binance's last round of fundraising two years ago, Zhao's lawyers noted in their Dec. 22 letter to Judge Richard Jones, according to a filing Wednesday. Zhao pleaded guilty in November in Seattle federal court to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program at the company, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. Binance agreed to pay $4.3 billion in penalties in the case. Zhao, who stepped down as CEO because of his plea, is due to be sentenced on Fe