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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?”During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his threats to have Biden removed from…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol building is seen in Washington, U.S., April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo By Kanishka Singh and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat and Republican in the U.S. Congress on Sunday agreed on a $1.59 trillion spending deal, setting up a race for bitterly divided lawmakers to pass…

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Former President Donald Trump during a Friday campaign speech in Iowa railed against wind energy and instead advocated for oil production and the fossil fuel industry, a common talking point at many of his rallies.But it was a series of statements that Trump made during a series of remarks in Sioux Center that prompted President…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jared Bernstein joins White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo (Reuters) – The conflict in the Middle East and the disruption to shipping in the Red Sea…

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Alberto Musalem, an economist and former New York Federal Reserve staffer, has been tapped to become the new president of the St. Louis Fed, the regional bank said on Thursday. Musalem, 55, succeeds James Bullard, who led the St. Louis Fed from 2008 until his unexpected resignation last…

Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s.When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, who had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near the border. The U.S.-born child and her…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Holiday shoppers pack the seasonal Bryant Park Winter Village beneath a large Christmas tree in midtown Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., December 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo By Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – Higher consumer spending over the holiday season, real wage gains over the last nine months and a jump…

By Andrew GoudswardWASHINGTON (Reuters) -Maine on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year’s U.S. presidential primary election, becoming the second state to bar the former president for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, concluded that Trump, the front-runner…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House.The…