By Lisa Richwine, Dawn Chmielewski and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Hollywood “Dembargo” on political donations has ended, as key fundraisers and celebrities from rapper Cardi B, Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis and TV producer Shonda Rhimes endorsed Kamala Harris as the next Democratic nominee for U.S. president. Relief and excitement spread across…
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris swiftly consolidated Democratic support for her presidential bid on Monday, securing commitments from hundreds of convention delegates, announcing a massive fundraising haul and earning endorsements from top party figures after President Joe Biden abruptly left the race. Former Speaker Nancy…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has told at least two of the eight firms that have applied to launch the first U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to the price of ether that their products can begin trading on Tuesday. The new products from BlackRock VanEck and six others will begin trading Tuesday…
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…
(Reuters) -A global tech outage that appeared to be related to issues at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft on Friday affected operations in sectors including airports, airlines, media and banks. Below is a list of disruptions that have been reported: AIRLINES, AIRPORTS Airports and airlines around the globe have warned of delays and cancellations or…
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…
