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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will speak out against anti-Semitism at a Holocaust memorial ceremony Tuesday, as tensions remain high over nationwide campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza. The speech at the US Capitol comes after Biden finally addressed the demonstrations last week, following days of silence that drew criticism from both Republicans and his fellow Democrats in an election year. It also comes as the president warns Israel against invading the crowded Gazan city of Rafah, while pushing for a ceasefire with Hamas -- which said Monday it had accepted a deal for a...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden took pointed digs at election rival Donald Trump Friday as he awarded the country's top civilian honor to Democratic allies including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and vice president Al Gore. Biden said the veteran Pelosi had "defended democracy" during the January 6, 2021 assault on the US capitol by a mob of Trump supporters enraged by the Republican's election loss a few weeks earlier. Gore meanwhile was "amazing" for accepting his own disputed election loss to George W. Bush in 2000 for the sake of the country, Biden said, drawing a clear contr...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden faces a tough reelection battle this November, but for one day at least The Force was with him. Legendary "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room on Friday after meeting the US president. Hamill, 72, who played the powerful Jedi knight Luke Skywalker in the film series and is a vocal Biden supporter, took the podium wearing a pair of the president's trademark aviator sunglasses. "I called him 'Mr President,' he said 'You can call me Joe.' And I said, 'Can I call you Joe-bi Wan Kenobi?' He liked that," quipped Hamill...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden broke his silence Thursday on the student protests against Israel's war with Hamas but the US president faces a difficult balancing act to avoid hurting his reelection chances against Donald Trump. "There's the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos," the 81-year-old Democrat said in a televised address from the White House. Biden took a tough, law-and-order tone after police broke up some of the protests that have rocked US college campuses, even as he insisted the United States would not "squash dissent." "Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shut...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden said Friday he is ready to face off against his White House challenger Donald Trump in a presidential debate, with the Republican, ensnarled in multiple criminal cases, proposing to hold the verbal duel at a New York courthouse without delay. Candidate debates have been important milestones in US presidential elections for decades, helping make or break voters' opinions of the contestants' personal style and demeanor as much as their policy chops. But Biden's team has for months been non-committal about his willingness to participate in the tradition, which is us...
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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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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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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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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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