By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Friday, deepening a sell-off driven by tech stocks and mixed earnings, while investors assessed the impact of a global cyber outage that knocked down CrowdStrike’s shares. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike slumped 9.3% after an update to one of its products appeared…
By Tim Reid MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – For four nights at Donald Trump’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, a roster of speakers attempted to give one of the most divisive politicians in recent U.S. history a makeover, describing him as a loving and caring family man whose near-assassination at a rally on Saturday had changed him. Early…
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thirty congressional Democrats have publicly called on Democratic President Joe Biden to end his re-election bid after the 81-year-old incumbent’s halting debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump. They represent more than one in ten Democrats in Congress, where Biden’s party controls 213 seats in the House of Representatives and…
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At least three U.S. House of Representatives Democrats were preparing to sign a letter protesting a plan to speed up the official party approval of President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, the lawmakers’ offices said on Tuesday. These Democrats are protesting a move by the party to hold a “virtual…
(Deletes extraneous words ‘has been’ in paragraph 8) MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s new running mate, has embraced trade barriers, isolationism and social conservatism, issues that have proven popular with much of Trump’s mostly white, working-class base. Some of those same stances, however, risk turning off moderate voters and major…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans fear their country is spiraling out of control following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, with worries growing that the Nov. 5 election could spark more political violence, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday found. The two-day poll found Republican presidential candidate Trump opening a marginal lead…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States received intelligence from a human source in recent weeks about an Iranian plot to try to assassinate former President Donald Trump, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on the matter. CNN reported that there was no indication that the 20-year-old suspect in the shooting of Trump on Saturday was…
By Nathan Layne, Brendan McDermid and Jeff Mason BUTLER, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Donald Trump was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally on Saturday, sparking panic and streaking the Republican presidential candidate’s blood across his face, before he emerged and pumped his fist in the air appearing to mouth the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!”…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, publicly endorsed Donald Trump for the first time in the U.S. presidential race, calling the Republican former president “tough.” Musk tweeted the endorsement with a video of Trump pumping his fist after multiple shots rang out at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania,…
(Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman endorsed Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race on Saturday. “I just endorsed him,” Ackman posted on social media platform X after former President Trump was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally earlier Saturday. “But you know me. I write long posts on important…
