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Cypress (United States) (AFP) - Texas, an independent country 200 years ago, now boasts a pocket of people who want that status back, advocating a separation they call Texit. Its advocates say the dramatic move -- loosely inspired by Britain's Brexit from the European Union -- would help resolve a roiling immigration border crisis and a fight with Washington over who controls the border with Mexico. That fight, pitting President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Republican Governor Greg Abbott, has laid bare a rupture in America. "We know here in Texas, the only way that Texas will ever be able to se...
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Houston (AFP) - A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly making racially charged death threats against the Black federal judge presiding over former US president Donald Trump's conspiracy case for trying to overturn the 2020 election, court documents showed. On August 5, Abigail Jo Shry left a phone message at the Washington offices of US Judge Tanya Chutkan that included threats on her life, according to a complaint filed by an agent of the Department of Homeland Security. The 43-year-old woman from Alvin, Texas called Chutkan a "stupid black slave" and said "You are in our sigh...
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Waco (United States) (AFP) - "Every president has had their mistress, you know?" said 72-year-old Louis, as he waited Saturday to enter Donald Trump's first big rally of his 2024 campaign, in Texas. "So why not him?" Louis and his grandson are among the thousands of supporters, along with the usual vendors hawking "Make America Great Again" caps and "Trump 2024" flags, who have gathered at an airport in the city of Waco -- the site of a siege 30 years ago that ended with more than 80 dead. In addition to several other state and federal probes, Trump is facing mounting legal pressure in his for...
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Havana (AFP) - Now age 29, Elian Gonzalez has grown up from the child whose 1999 family crisis became the unwitting symbol for the breakdown of Washington-Havana relations to this week becoming a candidate for a seat in Cuba's parliament. State newspaper Granma on Monday released the list of the 470 candidates running for a spot in the upcoming session of the National Assembly of People's Power, which included Gonzalez, who is currently an executive at a public company. Gonzalez first gained international notoriety when on Thanksgiving Day 1999 fishermen rescued the five-year-old from a flimsy...
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Doral (United States) (AFP) - He used to preside over Latin America's largest country and its 214 million people. Now Brazil's former far-right leader lives in a small Florida town and eats alone in a fast-food restaurant. Bolsonaro, 67, has found an unusual refuge in the United States, where he arrived in late December, several days before his supporters stormed government buildings in Brasilia in an attempt to overturn the election victory of his rival, leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. At home, Bolsonaro is being investigated over his alleged involvement in the unrest, which he denies. Fro...
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Palm Beach (United States) (AFP) - There was no escalator like last time, no offensive nicknames like always, and none of the awkward dancing that sometimes features, but supporters got exactly what they wanted in Florida on Tuesday: the announcement that Donald Trump was running for the White House again. The setting was a little more sedate than the windswept Make America Great Again rallies in farmers' fields or in cavernous aircraft hangers on the outskirts of a midwestern city. But it was Trump all the way, with American flags, family members, advisors, and members of his private club pac...
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Washington (AFP) - While Latino voters lean Democratic in the run-up to US midterm elections, soaring inflation makes their support less predictable and may compel a shift toward Republican candidates, analysts say. Inflation now at eight percent troubles Latinos, as it does all Americans, according to polls released before the November 8 vote, in which President Joe Biden's Democratic Party faces heavy possible losses. Other issues -- the right to abortion, gun control and a crisis over undocumented migrants -- are secondary, polls show. More than half of Latinos intend to vote Democratic in ...
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New York (AFP) - After a treacherous trip from his native Venezuela, Gustavo Mendez has survived two months in New York, finding work and a host family to live with on his path to a new future. But he's among the lucky ones to have a roof and a job in a city struggling to accomodate a recent influx of asylum seekers -- 17,000 people since April -- many of whom are being sent to makeshift tent camps. Tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants have been intercepted at the southern border over the past year, and in recent months several Republican-led border states started transferring asylum seeke...
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South Lake Tahoe (United States) (AFP) - California is burning. Wildfires are tearing through the US state at an alarming rate and heating up the vote on recalling the embattled governor. Democrat Gavin Newsom's detractors blame him for all of California's ills: from the housing crisis to the march of Covid-19. And the record-breaking fire season -- shaping up to be the worst ever -- is another stick with which to beat him. "This is about the failure of government to do the most basic things, like manage our forests," Republican candidate Kevin Kiley said. With hundreds of homes already lost ...
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Washington (AFP) - Immigrants in the US await Joe Biden's presidency with a mix of hope and wariness -- he spells relief after four years of tough restrictions under Donald Trump, but he served as vice president under Barack Obama, whom many referred to as "the deporter in chief." On the surface, Biden is making the right noises. Gabriela Hernandez, a 22-year-old who came to the US from El Salvador at age five with her mother, says she is "not too big of a fan" of the next president -- but she is "pretty optimistic that this administration is going to try to work with us." For a start, Biden ...
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