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For the first time in history, a presidential candidate has launched a national Snapchat filter in an all-too-transparent attempt to woo the millennial vote. From a marketing perspective, it makes sense right? Over 80% of Snapchat users are under the age of 34 after all.
Japan 's National Diet kicked off a 66-day extraordinary session on Monday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 's economic policies, as well as whether to swiftly ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and to change the pacifist Constitution, under the spotlight. Japanese Prime Minister Abe, taking TPP as a pillar of his economic strategy, has been calling for the pact's swift ratification since it was signed by Japan and 11 other countries in February.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, giving each candidate the chance to tout their readiness to lead the nation and their knowledge of foreign policy on the eve of their first presidential debate, a little more than six weeks before Election Day. Meanwhile, the candidates deployed their top supporters to the Sunday news shows to take early jabs at their opponents and to lower expectations for tonight's 90-minute debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, N.Y., which is expected to draw 75 million viewers.
LONDON, Sept 26 European stocks fell on Monday, weighed down by a pullback in the shares of major banking and energy companies. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 1.4 percent.
Canadian diplomats are fanning out across the United States to talk up the benefits of trade with state and local leaders and counter what senior officials see as a worrying mood of protectionism swirling through the U.S. election campaign. Amid voter anger about the supposed harm done by international trade deals, both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have talked about altering the three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement.
If you think this election is simply a choice between two candidates with a scandal-filled history, John Oliver has a message for you... and it comes in the form of raisins. In his return to HBO's "Last Week Tonight" on Sunday, Oliver took an in-depth look at the scandals surrounding both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and found they're not even close to equal.
The campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton acknowledged the huge stakes of Monday's televised presidential debate, saying the event could shape the opinions of a large number of Americans who have yet to settle on their choice in what has been a bruising presidential election. After more than year of campaigning and attacking each other from afar, the two candidates will meet face to face for the first time, on a stage in Hempstead, N.Y. And as hard as it is to imagine, there remain enough undecided and loosely committed voters left that this nationally televised forum could produce one more pivot point in the campaign.
Safe-haven German bond yields fell to their lowest level in more than two weeks on Monday as focus turned from central banks to the looming televised debate between the U.S. presidential candidates. Polls indicate a tightening race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump in a vote shaping up as a major risk event for financial markets.
The dollar slipped Monday as traders shift focus from central bank policy to the US presidential election, while the Philippine peso tumbled to a seven-year low on worries over President Rodrigo Duterte's policies. Last week's currency trading was dominated by sharper monetary policy signals from the Bank of Japan and US Federal Reserve.
It's sure to be entertaining, and you will be able to hear it live and commercial-free on NEWSTALK 1010, the only Toronto radio station to air the first U.S. presidential debate. After months of tangling from afar, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are preparing to confront each other face-to-face in the first presidential debate, laying out for voters their vastly different visions for the nation's future.
UPDATE: Gennifer Flowers, who had a relationship with former President Bill Clinton, may not be invited to the presidential debate after all. "We have not invited her formally, and we do not expect her to be there as a guest of the Trump campaign," Conway said on CNN's "State of the Union."
TOKYO, Sept 26 Japan's Nikkei share average dropped on Monday morning, with sentiment soured by a strong yen and weakness on Wall Street, while investors turned their focus to the U.S. presidential debate. Traders said that most investors would be on the sidelines awaiting Monday evening's U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
His weakness among suburban voters, especially women, leaves him trailing by about 7 points in Pennsylvania , and it is tough to construct a plausible scenario giving him the 270 electoral votes needed to win without the Keystone State. Similarly, his strength with blue collar men is likely not be enough to overcome his weakness among more-educated, middle class women in several other battleground states-even if not by such a wide margin.
According to Clinton, "To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables . Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.
With time growing short and the abolition of capital punishment guaranteed if Hillary Clinton is elected to place justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, death penalty supporters are wasting their energy and resources. Despite the fact that substantial majorities of the American people have consistently favored capital punishment, it is on the verge of complete abolition .
There is a great deal at stake at the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. One of those things - not nearly so significant as who will be the most powerful person in the world, certainly, but unquestionably there - is the reputation of a news network.
Asian shares were mostly lower Monday as market attention turned from action from central banks to the U.S. presidential race, with a closely watched debate upcoming. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 edged down 0.8 per cent in morning trading to 16,623.05.
Five people died in the shooting at a Macy's store in a mall north of Seattle. Authorities do not plan to make their identities public until Tuesday, but details about three of the victims have been reported by... Five people died in the shooting at a Macy's store in a mall north of Seattle.