Tag: plans
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Election anxiety is scrambling Americans’ travel plans
Emily Reeve and her husband usually spend Thanksgiving in Hawaii, Florida or Disneyland, but not this year. “I have a toddler now and I’m worried about being in a potentially volatile situation should we be traveling post-election,” said Reeve, 32. The couple doesn’t have family near their home in Portland, Oregon, so they like to…
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Kamala Harris has no current plans to campaign with Biden before Election Day
WASHINGTON — With just two weeks left in the 2024 campaign, there currently are no plans for Vice President Kamala Harris to appear on the trail with President Joe Biden before Election Day, according to three Harris campaign officials and three White House officials. Instead, Biden plans to try to help Harris this week by…
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Harris team and White House discussed plans for her to distance from Biden
WASHINGTON — The White House and Vice President Harris’ team have been in frequent contact about how she planned to distance herself from President Joe Biden, while maintaining her overall loyalty to him, according to three people familiar with the dynamic. That’s why Biden’s comments Tuesday night about how she would “cut her own path”…
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Amazon goes nuclear, plans to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors
Amazon Web Services is investing over $500 million in nuclear power, announcing three projects from Virginia to Washington State. AWS, Amazon’s subsidiary in cloud computing, has a massive and increasing need for clean energy as it expands its services into generative AI. It’s also a part of Amazon’s path to net-zero carbon emissions. AWS announced it…
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Hurricane Helene upends Trump and Harris’ plans for North Carolina
The unprecedented destruction Hurricane Helene has wreaked on western North Carolina could take months, if not years, to rebuild. Entire communities are destroyed, and scores of residents are displaced. With the presidential election in less than 26 days, both parties are scrambling to contend with the unpredictable political fallout. For Vice President Kamala Harris, who…
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United plans flights to Greenland, Mongolia and northern Spain in search for next ‘it’ destination
United Airlines is plotting a 2025 international expansion that spans Senegal to Mongolia and Greenland to Palau, a bid to win over travelers who have already had their fill of the well-trodden streets of Paris, Rome and Tokyo. Starting May 21, United will fly three times a week between its Newark, New Jersey, hub to Palermo,…
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Trump plans rallies in solidly Democratic states in an unorthodox strategy for the election’s final weeks
Get ready for Donald Trump’s blue state extravaganza. With less than three weeks until Election Day, Trump is scheduled to hold rallies in staunchly Democratic states he has virtually no chance of winning. It’s an unorthodox strategy campaign advisers say is designed to focus on areas where Democratic policies have failed, but it will also…
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Fewer than 1 in 5 large companies’ health plans cover weight loss drugs, survey finds
Less than a fifth of large companies in the United States include coverage for the popular but pricey weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound in their health insurance plans, according to a survey published Wednesday in Health Affairs. Among the large firms that do cover them, a third say the coverage has a “significant impact”…
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Israel has not briefed U.S. military officials on its plans for retaliation against Iran, U.S. officials say
Israeli leaders still have not briefed the United States on specific details of their military response to last week’s ballistic missile attack by Iran, even after American military officials have discussed possibly supporting Israeli retaliation with intelligence or airstrikes of their own, according to two U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Israeli Defense…
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China state planner lays out further actions to boost economy but no new plans for major stimulus
Zheng Shanjie, chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, on Tuesday pledged a raft of actions to bolster the country’s economy during a highly-anticipated press conference. But he stopped short of announcing any new major stimulus plans, underwhelming investors and weakening the rally in the mainland Chinese markets. China will speed up special purpose…