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US election officials say voting should be smooth and urge people not to be misled by conspiracy theories

American voters headed to the polls Tuesday to choose the country’s next leaders in a mass democratic experiment in which tens of millions of votes will be cast without incident.

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‘Greed, greed, greed’: Sanders demands Ozempic maker lower prices

While grilling Novo Nordisk’s chief executive over the price of its blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders alleged that 40,000 people a year in the US could die if the company doesn’t make the medicines more affordable.

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Harris leans into populism with proposal for middle-class and lower-income tax cuts

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday is expected to propose a new plan to cut taxes for middle-class and lower-income Americans, leaning into populism with her economic policy rollout. The plan would offer tax relief for more than 100 million Americans, according to Harris-Walz campaign officials.

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Harris to announce 4-year plan to lower housing costs

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to announce Friday what her campaign is describing as a four-year plan to lower housing costs, including $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homeowners and actions aimed at spurring the construction of new housing, including tax incentives for building starter homes.

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‘I’m down to eating ramen’: Social Security benefits aren’t keeping up with inflation

Until last year, Janet Albrecht could afford to eat roast beef sandwiches or tuna salad for lunch. But the widowed 78-year-old now has to skimp on her meals because her Social Security benefits haven’t kept up with the rising costs for food, housing and health care in recent years.

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5 of Harris’ more progressive proposals from her 2020 White House bid

As Kamala Harris prepares to run for president against Donald Trump, she will have to lay out for voters her own ideas on how to steer the economy and address Americans’ pressing concerns about the steep rise in prices in recent years.

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Biden administration proposes banning medical debt from credit reports

In its latest effort to minimize the impact of medical debt on consumers, the Biden administration proposed Tuesday banning such debt from credit reports.

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Millions more salaried workers will be eligible for overtime pay under final Biden administration rule

Millions of salaried workers will soon qualify for overtime pay under a final rule released by the US Department of Labor on Tuesday.

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Alabama's Embryo Ruling: Impact on Employer Fertility Coverage

Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children could have an even greater impact on would-be parents in the state — and elsewhere if other states follow suit — than it would have just a few years ago.

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Federal government begins formal process of preparing partial shutdown – again

Congress is quickly approaching a pair of government funding deadlines, with less than a week to go before a potential partial shutdown and lawmakers at an impasse with no clear plan in place to avoid it.

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