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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden hopes to capitalize on Donald Trump being stuck in court as he hits the US presidential election campaign trail — and can't resist poking fun at his rival's predicament. While Trump was in his historic hush money trial this week, Biden embarked on a three-day swing through his birthplace, the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania. He visited his childhood home and campaigned with the Kennedys, while Trump complained about being in a "freezing" New York courtroom unable to campaign. "Under my predecessor -- who's busy right now -- Pennsylvania lost 275,000 jobs...
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New York (AFP) - A panel of 12 jurors was sworn in on Thursday to sit in judgment of Donald Trump at the unprecedented criminal trial of a former US president. "We have our jury," said Judge Juan Merchan after a day of intensive questioning of dozens of potential jurors by prosecutors and Trump's defense attorneys. Merchan said he hoped to complete the selection of six alternate jurors on Friday and hold opening arguments in the blockbuster case on Monday. Trump, 77, who is seeking to recapture the White House in November, is accused of falsifying business records on the eve of his 2016 electi...
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Philadelphia (AFP) - The legendary Kennedy clan endorsed US President Joe Biden during a campaign trip to Philadelphia Thursday -- underscoring the election threat posed by family black sheep and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "I don't want to become emotional, but what an incredible honor to have the support of the Kennedy family," Biden, 81, said after 15 members of politically storied family backed the Democrat against Donald Trump. The Kennedy endorsement is also crucial amid fears that a strong showing by conspiracy theorist and vaccine-skeptic "RFK Jr" could tilt the electio...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden raised eyebrows when he hinted that cannibals on the island of New Guinea may have eaten his uncle's body after he was shot down during World War II. And the White House and official records indicated Thursday that -- as with many a family legend -- the facts may indeed be a bit different. Biden paid tribute to his uncle, 2nd Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan, after visiting a war memorial during a campaign trip to the president's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania on Wednesday. The 81-year-old president, who was aged one when his uncle died in 1944, reached out to to...
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Washington (AFP) - Receiving dignitaries at his Florida estate and courting leaders shunned elsewhere as autocratic, Donald Trump is increasingly leading a shadow diplomacy diametrically opposed to US President Joe Biden. The Republican mogul, in the unusual role of a former president running again for the top job, has turned to trusted faces both at home and abroad and sought to scuttle some of Biden's top foreign policy priorities. Trump's supporters have for months held up billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, which the president has vowed to defend, and Trump has insisted that B...
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New York (AFP) - Dealing with occasionally rowdy guests as a hotel manager and keeping an orderly workplace as a dishwasher while in college appear to have uniquely prepared the judge handling Donald Trump's trial. In the first two days, Judge Juan Merchan has kept proceedings moving at a clip, overseeing the selection of a third of the jury and alternates despite suggestions that screening could take weeks, while putting former president Trump in his place when he appeared to step out of line. Merchan has said he wants opening arguments to start as soon as Monday, prompting the Republican pre...
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Panama City (AFP) - The frontrunner in Panama's presidential election vowed Tuesday to block US-bound migrants from crossing the lawless jungle straddling his country's border with Colombia and to begin deportations. Last year, more than half a million people braved the so-called Darien Gap, where they faced perilous river crossings and violent criminal gangs that extort, kidnap and abuse them. "We're going to close the Darien and we're going to repatriate all these people," Jose Raul Mulino told reporters during a visit to a working class suburb of the capital, without saying exactly how he w...
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Scranton (United States) (AFP) - Joe Biden made a campaign trip to his beloved birthplace Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he unleashed a blistering condemnation of Donald Trump as the tycoon languished in court. The 81-year-old US president even visited his childhood home in the former mining town as he contrasted his blue-collar roots with the election rival he branded a self-obsessed billionaire. In a speech calling for the wealthy to pay more taxes, Biden said he "learned a lot here in Scranton." "I learned that money doesn't determine your worth." "People like Donald Trump learned...
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New York (AFP) - One said he'd read Donald Trump's books. But another took a look at the glowering defendant in the Manhattan courtroom and excused herself, saying, "I couldn't." Eight million people live in New York but just 12 are being picked to judge the most controversial man in the country -- and it's not a job everyone wants. Trump grew up in New York, made his name there, and for decades has been part of the city's brash landscape. And of course he's also been president and is running again. It's hard in the Big Apple not to have an opinion on the Republican -- or on the multiple crimi...
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Scranton (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will draw a stark contrast with Donald Trump on Tuesday when he visits his birthplace in Scranton, Pennsylvania -- while his election rival is stuck in a New York courtroom. The 81-year-old has long traded on his blue-collar image as "Scranton Joe" to reach out to middle- and working-class voters, but his rally in a key battleground state in November's election is even more symbolic. Biden will be relishing the split screen as he tours America's industrial heartland while his Republican real estate tycoon rival is kept off the campaign tr...
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