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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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Milwaukee (AFP) - As criminal charges against Donald Trump mount, his rival for the White House President Joe Biden is determined to avoid commenting on the Republican's legal troubles. A day after Trump was indicted for the fourth time, for alleged racketeering and election interference in Georgia, Biden delivered a public speech in another key swing state, Wisconsin, focused on wind power and job creation. In a factory busy with new orders for wind turbines, the Democrat boasted of new jobs and investments linked, in his view, to the major energy and infrastructure policies he has enacted d...
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Washington (AFP) - If he had it to do over, he would probably choose another name: A year on, Joe Biden is struggling to sell Americans on the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act. The hugely ambitious project is aimed at speeding America's transition to clean energy, rebuilding its industrial might and increasing social justice. On August 16, 2022, when the US president signed the $750 billion plan into law, the country was in the midst of a dramatic surge in prices that was battering the Democratic leader's popularity. So "the Inflation Reduction Act" seemed a logical name, even though t...
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New York (AFP) - When Barrett Hill, a farmer in the US state of Illinois, needs a loan for land or new equipment, a simple phone call is all that it takes. "My banker makes my life way easier," Hill told AFP, adding that he grew up with his contact at Peoples State Bank of Newton, which has eight branches in the Midwestern state. Shaken by the banking crisis and jitters among some clients, US regional and community banks are determined to remain key players in financing small businesses and individuals. "We are relationship focused," says Brad Bolton, chief executive of Community Spirit Bank, ...
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New York (AFP) - Consulted by policymakers and able to nudge his peers into action, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon played a key role in a bank rescue effort this week -- a situation sparking reminders of 2008. Following the swift collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, there have been fears that regional lender First Republic Bank could be the next domino to fall -- despite moves by agencies like the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to assure SVB and Signature's depositors. While First Republic is not yet out of the woods, it was given a lifeline on Thursday as 11 major US b...
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Washington (AFP) - With voters and opponents raising concerns over Joe Biden's advanced age as he ramps up a still-unofficial 2024 campaign, the 80-year-old president frequently parries such jabs with uneasy humor. "All the years I was a senator -- which were 270..." he joked about his decades-long political career during a speech earlier this month, making a crack at his own expense. In the face of what is his main handicap in the eyes of voters, the US president, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, has mostly leaned on bravado. "Look at me!" he says each time he's posed a question ...
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Washington (AFP) - Two years after the violent assault on the US Capitol, President Joe Biden said Friday that America has "no place" for political violence as he honored police who fought off the mob of Donald Trump supporters. The somber White House ceremony took place as a group of congressional Republicans -- including some who still back Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent -- held the US House of Representatives in a state of limbo, repeatedly blocking the election of a speaker. "Despite our differences in opinion, we must say clearly with a united voice... there's n...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden on Monday promised he will not remain silent in the face of growing anti-Semitism in the United States, as the president hosted a White House reception celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. "I recognize your fear, your hurt, your worry that this vile and venom is becoming too normal," Biden said as he stood next to a menorah, a traditional Jewish candelabra, lit by guests to mark the second of the festival's eight nights. "Silence is complicity," said the president. "We must not remain silent... I will not be silent. America will not be silent." Amo...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden faces the prospect of a crippling strike by railroad unions that could stall transport of fuel, corn and drinking water, dramatically complicate holiday season train travel, and dent the US president's political standing. If an agreement is not reached by December 9 at the latest, the world's largest economy could see nearly 7,000 freight trains grind to a halt, at a cost of more than $2 billion a day, according to the American Association of Railroads. Biden himself has got "involved directly" in the negotiations aimed at averting a work stoppage, White House spok...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden welcomed guests to the White House Saturday for the wedding of his granddaughter Naomi -- an unprecedented ceremony that was closed to the press. The 28-year-old Washington-based lawyer married Peter Neal, 25, a law graduate, on the mansion's South Lawn in an 11:00 am ceremony witnessed by about 250 guests, according to the White House. The grounds were suitingly decorated with white flowers, as invitees in rows looked on, according to photos taken from far away by AFP. Naomi Biden is the daughter of the president's son Hunter. "It has been a joy to watch...
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