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President Biden on Tuesday delivered his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly as president — and what could be one of his last speeches on the world stage — capping a decades-long political career that has focused heavily on foreign policy. He noted the “remarkable sweep of history” he had seen in his
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Trump, Harris highlight economic policies – CBS News Watch CBS News Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both highlighting their economic proposals in campaign stops this week. Robert Costa has the details on both candidates’ plans. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news,
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Biden pushes for cease-fire deal at U.N. General Assembly – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden on Tuesday delivered his final address to the United Nations General Assembly. He pushed for Israel and Hamas to accept a cease-fire deal while also urging peace in several other conflicts actoss the globe. Weijia Jiang reports. View
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Washington — The man arrested after he was allegedly spotted by Secret Service with a high-powered rifle at a golf course a few hundred yards away from former President Donald Trump is being charged with attempted assassination of a political figure. A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Ryan Wesley Routh Tuesday on a charge
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The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Marcellus Williams shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to delay the execution. The state Department of Corrections said he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. CT. Williams, who had maintained his innocence in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in a St. Louis suburb, was put to death
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Former President Donald Trump will return to the site of the first assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the first week of October, according to two sources familiar with the Trump campaign’s planning. The rally, currently scheduled for Oct. 5, will take place at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds, where gunman Thomas Crooks
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Washington — A Nebraska state senator said he would not support the Republican Party’s last-minute push to change the allocation of Electoral College votes in the state to winner-take-all, a move that would almost certainly have benefited former President Donald Trump. State Sen. Mike McDonnell, a Democrat-turned Republican from Omaha, said Monday that he would
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A CBS News voting record analysis found that California Republicans in Congress voted against most (92%) environmental bills in the last session, even though surveys show that most of the people they represent think lawmakers should do more to prevent climate change. The oil and gas industry donated nearly three times more to Republicans than congressional Democrats in
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Editor’s note: This story contains highly offensive language. Washington — North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson‘s campaign for governor is bleeding staff, and ad buys for him are not being renewed, after a CNN investigation found he posted a slew of incendiary, explicit and racist comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago. The report,
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Washington — Federal prosecutors said Monday that they will seek to charge the suspect discovered by the Secret Service with a high-powered rifle in the bushes near former President Donald Trump with attempted assassination of a political figure. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, already faces two federal firearms charges stemming from the Sept. 15 incident outside
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