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Newark (United States) (AFP) - Five years after his death, Philip Roth's concern for the state of American democracy lives on, evidenced during a sprawling celebration and debate of the writer's legacy on what would have been his 90th birthday. Dozens of actors, authors and academics descended on Newark, the multicultural industrial city neighboring New York where Roth was born and raised, for a three-day Roth-fest bringing stagings and readings of his work to hundreds of spectators. Born March 19, 1933 to a middle-class Jewish family, Roth died on May 22, 2018, leaving behind a storied, much-...
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Washington (AFP) - As part of Tuesday's midterm elections in the United States, voters cast ballots in around 100 referendums, some of which have life-changing implications. This is what American voters decided: Healthcare - It was no surprise that abortion rights, a major political issue in the run-up to the vote, featured on the ballot in several states. And the referendums handed a series of victories to abortion rights activists. Voters in California, Vermont, and Michigan agreed to amend their state constitutions to include abortion rights. More unexpectedly, voters in conservative and re...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump was hoping to surf a Republican "red wave" to a fresh White House bid, but with only limited gains in Tuesday's midterm elections -- and an outstanding result for his chief intraparty rival -- the former US president seems to be left out to sea. Though Republicans look likely to wrest control from the Democratic Party in at least one chamber of Congress, projections show they will not gain the large number of seats typical when the sitting president's approval ratings are so low, and inflation so high. In the House, early results suggested Republicans were on tr...
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Philadelphia (AFP) - Therapist Jacqueline Smythe fears her rights as a woman will be on the line if Republicans win back control of the US Congress during Tuesday's midterm election. Three days before the vote, Smythe, 30, was gathered with thousands of other supporters of the Democratic Party of President Joe Biden at a rally in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. She voiced fears that her personal independence will be stripped back in the case of a Republican victory. "We don't have Roe v Wade anymore," she told AFP, referring to the 1973 case enshrining the right...
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