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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, escalating Republicans' battle with Democrats ahead of the 2024 election in a move Biden himself slammed as a "baseless" stunt. Republicans, seizing on Biden's son Hunter's controversial international dealings, have yet to provide evidence of corruption by the president, and the Democratic-led Senate would be unlikely to convict him even if the inquiry did lead to an actual impeachment trial. Regardless, the procedure guarantees Republicans a new, high-profile platfo...
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Washington (AFP) - Long a target of US Republicans, President Joe Biden's embattled son Hunter held a rare press conference Wednesday to push back against allegations his father was involved in his often-scrutinized international business dealings. "My father was not financially involved in my business," Hunter Biden, 53, said outside the US Capitol as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on whether to open a formal impeachment inquiry against his 81-year-old father. "Not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of (Ukrainian gas giant) Burisma, not in my partnership to Chinese p...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - "Friends" stars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow paid their own personal tributes to the late Matthew Perry on Wednesday, mourning their beloved but troubled co-star after his shock death last month. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the hit TV sitcom from 1994-2004, died at the age of 54, having struggled for decades with addiction and related serious health issues. "Oh boy this one has cut deep," said Aniston, who played Rachel on the show about six close-knit friends navigating adult life in New York. "He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6...
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New York (AFP) - US Senator Robert Menendez entered a not guilty plea in a New York court Monday to a new charge alleging that the Democratic lawmaker conspired to act as an agent of the Egyptian government when he chaired the Senate foreign relations committee. Menendez, who faces corruption-related charges along with his wife and three other people, had already been indicted on charges of taking bribes and influence peddling for the benefit of Egypt, and had already pleaded not guilty at the end of September. In a newer charge, federal prosecutors accused Menendez of conspiracy to act as an ...
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New York (AFP) - A civil trial over allegations that Donald Trump and his sons fraudulently overvalued the net worth of company assets by billions of dollars is scheduled to last three months, a New York judge said Friday. Judge Arthur Engoron had already determined the non-jury trial would begin October 2 in Manhattan. Preliminary headings were set for the end of September. In an order made public on Friday, the judge specified that the trial would run until December 22. New York State Attorney General Letitia James on Friday again sent the state Supreme Court hundreds of pages of documen...
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Clermont-Ferrand (France) (AFP) - French police said they were holding a man on Friday for threatening a school principal who turned away his daughter for wearing a traditional Muslim abaya robe. President Emmanuel Macron's government announced last month it was banning the abaya -- a garment worn by Muslim women that covers the body from the neck to the feet -- in schools, as it broke the rules on secularism in education. The man, arrested Thursday, was being prosecuted for "issuing threats designed to intimidate a person charged with an official mission", the local prosecutor Dominique Puech...
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Atlanta (AFP) - If Wednesday's US Republican debate was judged on applause alone, Vivek Ramaswamy won hands down, with Nikki Haley emerging as a pleasant "surprise" -- at least at one Atlanta bar, where a group of young voters was trying to pick a candidate to back. Gathered at a bar in the city's trendy Buckhead district, more than a hundred people, including young Republicans, watched eight of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination with interest. Former president Donald Trump was notable for his absence at the debate but was due in Atlanta on Thursday to present himself t...
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New York (AFP) - Federal investigators found that "numerous and serious failures" by staff at a New York jail allowed American financier Jeffrey Epstein to commit suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex crimes, the US Department of Justice said Tuesday. The investigation, led by DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz, focused on the conduct of employees at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the federal detention facility where Epstein was discovered dead on August 10, 2019 with a sheet around his neck. A summary of the report said staff had "engaged in significant misconduct and dereli...
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Miami (AFP) - Donald Trump scowled, hunched his shoulders and barely opened his mouth in a Miami federal court Tuesday, as he faced criminal charges in a scene that might have seemed unimaginable a few months ago. Crossing and uncrossing his arms, and dressed as usual in a dark suit and red tie, the former president listened in silence to the judge and prosecutor, at one point whispering into the ear of his lawyer, Todd Blanche. A world away from his gilded golf clubs and the Oval Office he occupied for four years, Trump -- through his lawyer -- pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges related...
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New York (AFP) - "I can't get a fair trial in New York!" fumed Donald Trump when he learned he was being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, as though he knew his hometown -- where the former US president built his fortune -- would always be hostile to its controversial son. When Trump was elected to the White House in 2016, his surprise win was received poorly in Manhattan, with protesters chanting "New York hates Trump!" At the time, The New York Times and the BBC reported on Trump's love for the metropolis that did not love him back, saying the real estate magnate "hates being hated" by the...
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