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VP Harris’ ancestral India village tracks her rising prospects in US vote

By Praveen Paramasivam (Reuters) – In a small south Indian village more than 8,000 miles (12,900 km) from Washington, residents are closely watching to see if U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris might replace Joe Biden in the upcoming election against Donald Trump. In 2021, the leafy village of Thulasendrapuram, where Harris’s maternal grandfather was born […]

House Speaker Johnson among US politicians with ancestral ties to slavery

By Tom Lasseter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was one of the first moments in the Washington spotlight for junior congressman Mike Johnson. In 2019, the Republican from Louisiana was the ranking member of a U.S. House subcommittee discussing the controversial subject of slavery reparations. Johnson told the panel he opposed taking money “from current taxpayers […]