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Harris aims to blunt Trump's economic attacks by proposing new tax breaks

Vice President Kamala Harris is promoting a broad set of economic proposals that would offer new tax breaks and lower the cost of living for Americans, aiming to address the financial concerns that are at the top of the mind for voters and that Republican Donald Trump is trying to lay at her doorstep. Harris will be in the battleground state of North Carolina on Friday to lay out her plans, including a proposal for a federal ban on price gouging on groceries. She also is proposing $25,000 in down payment help for certain first-time homebuyers and tax incentives for builders of starter homes, among other things. Harris is calling for tax breaks aimed at families, as well as middle- and lower-income people. She would expand the child tax credit to up to $3,600 - and $6,000 for children in their first year of life. Harris would expand the earned income tax credit to cover people in lower-income jobs without children, which the campaign estimates would cut their effective tax rate by ...

Trump attacks Harris on inflation, economics in remarks at his golf club

Former President Donald Trump has said that Americans are struggling with massive price hikes that he blamed on Vice President Kamala Harris, looking to saddle his new Democratic rival with the unpopular economic record of President Joe Biden. Trump on Thursday stuck close to his scripted economic message, reading from a binder in front of him in a news conference at his New Jersey golf club. A day earlier, he struggled to make a sustained case for his economic policies during a meandering speech that his campaign had billed as a major policy address. Kamala Harris is a radical California liberal who broke the economy, broke the border and broke the world, frankly, Trump told reporters. Trump was flanked by popular grocery store items, including instant coffee, sugary breakfast cereals and pastries, laid out on tables as he highlighted the cost of everything from food to car insurance to housing. The event came one day after the Labor Department announced year-over-year inflation h

Trump asks judge to delay sentencing in hush money case till Nov elections

Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election. In a letter made public Thursday, a lawyer for the former president and current Republican nominee suggested that sentencing Trump as scheduled on Sept 18 about seven weeks before Election Day would amount to election interference. Trump lawyer Todd Blanche wrote that a delay would also allow Trump time to weigh next steps after the trial judge, Juan M Merchan, is expected to rule Sept 16 on the defence's request to overturn the verdict and dismiss the case because of the US Supreme Court's July presidential immunity ruling. There is no basis for continuing to rush, Blanche wrote.

Trump's to hold rally in N Carolina; Harris campaign launches $90 mn ad buy

Donald Trump will hold a rally and speech in North Carolina that his campaign is billing as a significant economic address. Set in a Democratic city surrounded by staunchly Republican mountain counties, the event carries both national and local implications for the former president. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris' presidential campaign is launching a $90 million advertising effort over the next three weeks to introduce the Democrat to voters and sharpen the contrast with Trump. The media buy marks her campaign's largest-yet investment in messaging to voters with just 2 1/2 months until Election Day in November. Here's the Latest: Harris, Walz will have a joint bus tour ahead of the DNC Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov Tm Walz, are gearing up for the Democratic National Convention with a joint bus tour. Harris, Walz and their spouses, second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz, will start the tour in Pittsburgh on Sunday. That follows

Harris gets advantage over Trump on honesty, discipline: AP-NORC poll

Vice President Kamala Harris has a perceived advantage over former President Donald Trump on several leadership qualities such as honesty, a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds, although Americans are slightly more likely to trust Trump on the economy and immigration. Nearly half of Americans say that committed to democracy and disciplined are attributes that better describe Harris. About 3 in 10 say these qualities better describe Trump. About 4 in 10 say Harris is someone who cares about people like you while about 3 in 10 say that about Trump. About 4 in 10 say honest better describes Harris and 24% say that quality better describes Trump. Both parties are racing to define Harris as she prepares to accept the Democratic nomination at the party's convention next week. The poll suggests she carries some of the same baggage that weighed down President Joe Biden before he ended his reelection bid but has advantages over Trump when they're

Should Trump vs Harris US presidential race worry India? Jaishankar answers

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also highlighted that the world is going through an exceptionally challenging period, particularly due to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Israel

What is DDoS attack? Cyber threat hits X before Trump's interview with Musk

The DDoS attack on X (formerly Twitter) delayed the highly-anticipated Donald Trump interview with Elon Musk by 40 minutes

Trump calls Kamala Harris 'phony', Elon Musk offers to host her on X

In an interview with Tesla owner Elon Musk, former US president Donald Trump launched an attack on Harris, saying US will 'go out of business' if she gets elected

Trump-Musk interview: Mocking climate change to mass deportations. Details

In his interview with Tesla owner Elon Musk, former president Donald Trump unveiled a bold new proposal, announcing what he called the largest mass deportation effort in US history

Kamala Harris phoney, more incompetent than Biden, Trump tells Elon Musk

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is a third-rate phoney candidate and more incompetent than her boss President Joe Biden, her Republican rival in the November election, Donald Trump, has said. In a much-anticipated audio-only interview with billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk on Monday on his social media platform X which was delayed by more than 40 minutes due to technical difficulties, the 78-year-old former president said, She is a radical left lunatic," as he alleged that she wants to be more Trump than Trump. Launching a scathing attack on the 59-year-old US Vice President, Trump described Harris as a third-rate phoney candidate. He reiterated his allegation that Biden being replaced by Harris as a presidential candidate of the Democratic party was a coup. Musk agreed with the former president and said, "Her behaviour is far left. "She (Harris) had three and a half years, and by the way, they have another five months that they can do something. But they won't do ..

Trump's campaign says its emails were hacked, Iranian actors suspected

Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran's involvement, but the claim comes a day after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents' attempts to interfere in the US campaign in 2024. It cited an instance of an Iranian military intelligence unit in June sending a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung blamed the hack on foreign sources hostile to the United States. The National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday by The Associated Press. Politico first reported Saturday on the hack. The outlet reported that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. The source an AOL email ..

Dropped out of Presidential race to avoid becoming a distraction: Biden

US President Joe Biden on Sunday said that he decided to withdraw from the presidential election because he did not want to create "a real distraction" for the Democrats and let them fully concentrate on preventing former president Donald Trump from regaining the White House. In his first interview since ending his re-election campaign on July 21, Biden said that he had "no serious problem" with his health, but added that the highest priority had to be defeating former President Trump. "We must, we must, we must defeat Trump," Biden told CBS Sunday Morning in an interview. "The polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, would have been down to the wire. But what happened was, a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races," he said. "I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic. You'd be interviewing me about 'Why did Nancy Pelosi say' 'Why did so-and-so' And I thought it'd be a real ...

Kamala Harris leads Trump in three key states ahead of US elections: Polls

Kamala Harris has transformed the 2024 presidential elections as it shows a major shift from previous Times/Siena polls

Donald Trump heads to Montana rally after plane diverted, lands safely

Former President Donald Trump headed to Montana for a Friday night rally in hopes of ousting the state's Democratic senator, but his plane first had to divert to an airport on the other side of the Rocky Mountains because of a mechanical issue, according to airport staff. Trump's plane was en route to Bozeman, Montana, when it was diverted Friday afternoon to Billings, 142 miles to the east, according to Jenny Mockel, administrative assistant at Billings Logan International Airport. Mockel said the former president was continuing to Bozeman via private jet. Trump's campaign posted a video of him upon landing in which he said he was glad to be in Montana but did not mention anything about the landing. The former president came to Montana hoping to remedy some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed bid to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Tester has tried to convince voters he's aligned with Trump on many issues, mirroring

Harris, Tim Walz campaign in Arizona, seek to gain ground in Sun Belt

Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, attracted thousands of supporters to a campaign rally as the new Democratic ticket continued their tour of battleground states. As Beyonce's Freedom blasted throughout the arena, Harris walked onto the stage to cheers and roars from the crowd of more than 15,000 people. As exciting as this is, we cannot lose sight of a really important fact: we are definitely running as the underdog, Harris said. We are the underdog. We are out in great numbers, but we got a lot of work to do. The rally was held in a state represented by Democrat Mark Kelly in the US Senate, whom Harris passed over as a running mate. The former astronaut and gun control advocate had been a top contender for running mate. He's won two tough races in politically divided Arizona. In passing over Kelly, Harris may have also lost the chance to win over people like Gonzalo Leyva, a 49-year-old landscaper in Phoenix. Leyva plans to vote for ..

Iran accelerating cyber activity seemingly to influence US polls: Microsoft

Iran is ramping up online activity that appears intended to influence the upcoming US election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday. Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway American voters this fall, especially in swing states, the technology giant found. The findings in Microsoft's newest threat intelligence report show how Iran, which has been active in recent US campaign cycles, is evolving its tactics for another election that's likely to have global implications. The report goes a step beyond anything US intelligence officials have disclosed, giving specific examples of Iranian groups and the actions they have taken so far. Iran's United Nations mission denied it had plans to interfere or launch cyberattacks in the US presidential election. The report doesn't specify Iran's intentions besides sowin

Trump-Harris debate set for Sept 10, says report; Trump proposes two more

Republican nominee Donald Trump had previously dropped out of the ABC News debate after President Joe Biden announced that he would not seek reelection

US election: Kamala Harris 'disrespectful' of her ethnicity, says Trump

Trump also mentioned his past support for Harris, noting, I've known her for a long time

Group of about 1,200 tech workers signs letter backing Kamala Harris

The letter called Harris an 'archetypical innovator' and 'champion of technology'

Trump proposes three debates in September, Harris' campaign yet to confirm

Donald Trump said on Thursday he is proposing three presidential debates with three television networks, saying he agreed on certain dates in September while acknowledging that Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign had not yet accepted those terms. The former president suggested there were agreements with Fox News, ABC News and NBC News as he held a news conference at his Florida beachside compound. It was his first public appearance since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee and selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. I think it's very important to have debates, Trump said. I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight. The Harris campaign had no immediate comment. Trump had teased an announcement about the presidential debate earlier this week after pulling out of an ABC News debate scheduled for September 10 after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign. Trump had said he would prefer that Fox News sponsor t