Exclusive-Harris’ election effort raises around $500 million in a month, sources say

    By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ election effort has raised around $500 million since she became the Democratic presidential candidate, sources told Reuters, an unprecedented money haul that reflects donor enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election. Four sources familiar with the fundraising effort told Reuters that…

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    Panama Papers law firm co-founder Ramon Fonseca dies in hospital, lawyer says

    PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Ramon Fonseca, who co-founded the now defunct law firm linked to the Panama Papers scandal, died overnight in hospital, his lawyer told Reuters on Thursday morning. “He had been hospitalized since the start of April,” Fonseca’s lawyer Guillermina McDonald said in a phone call, without saying for what Fonseca was being treated….

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      Factbox-Thirty Democrats in US Congress have called on Biden to drop out

      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…

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      US mulls new actions against China firms supplying Russia defense sector

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is considering taking additional steps against Chinese companies that have been supplying Russia’s defense industrial sector, the State Department said on Thursday. “We are considering further actions,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a briefing to reporters a day after Washington targeted China-based firms that have been selling semi-conductors…

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