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Pelosi: 'Hopeful' COVID-19 aid bill can still pass before election

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  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks during an instructions to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsAdd caption WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was cheerful enactment for extra COVID-19 help could be finished before the Nov. 3 presidential political decision regardless of how the Republican-drove Senate decided on a thinned down rendition later on Thursday. Pelosi, who controls the Democratic-drove House of Representatives that passed a bigger bill in May, told correspondents at a news gathering that novel Covid pandemic-related help would not be in a different measure to subsidize central government offices.  Recently, Congress quickly passed four bills giving about $3 trillion to react to the COVID-19 emergency. The Democratic-controlled House passed a fifth bill in May that would give another $3 trillion in help, yet gridlock has since won.  President Donald Trump's treatment of the C

Trump predicts victory in election battleground Michigan as thousands defy coronavirus safety rules

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FREELAND, Mich. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump anticipated at a meeting in Michigan on Thursday that he would win the political race battleground state as a great many cheering, generally maskless supporters opposed state rules pointed toward containing the novel Covid. "This isn't the horde of an individual who comes in runner up," Trump told men, ladies and youngsters - many wearing red "Make America Great Again" T-shirts and caps - as he remained before the presidential airplane Air Force One at an air terminal close to Midland, Michigan.  Trump crusade authorities state that in the approach the Nov. 3 political race they are wanting to spend "enormous sums" of time in Michigan, a modern express that alongside Wisconsin and Pennsylvania impelled Trump to triumph in 2016.  Just applicant Joe Biden drives Republican Trump among all feasible citizens broadly by 12 rate focuses, agreeing a Reuters/Ipsos survey. However, Biden's lead is slim

Offers battle to shake off bearish disposition as U.S. tech goliaths fall again

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 TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian offers battled to stem a bearish state of mind on Friday after U.S. huge tech firm offers fell again for the time being on developing questions about U.S. boost and stresses over their extended valuations. Document PHOTO: A man utilizing his cell phone is outlined against a stock citation board outside a business firm in Tokyo February 21, 2006. REUTERS/Toru Hanai MSCI's broadest list of Asia-Pacific offers outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS plunged 0.2%, floating simply over a one-month trough contacted recently. Japan's Nikkei .N225 rose 0.3%.  Souring the mind-set, the U.S. Senate on Thursday killed a Republican bill that would have given around $300 billion in new Covid help, as Democrats looking for unmistakably additionally subsidizing kept it from progressing.  "The requirement for more financial help appears glaringly evident, yet the odds of up and coming help have reduced altogether," composed Rodrigo Catril, senior FX tactician at National