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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump's New York criminal trial prepared to wrap up its third week of evidence Friday following bombshell testimony from the adult film star at the heart of the case. Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had sex with Trump in 2006, denied she threatened him if he did not buy her silence for $130,000, a payment that prosecutors say Trump then covered up. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for the payment on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, when the story could have proved politically fatal. The completion ...
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Washington (AFP) - A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld the contempt of Congress conviction of Steve Bannon, raising the prospect that Donald Trump's former White House strategist could go to jail soon. Bannon, 70, one of the masterminds behind Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022 but has remained free while appealing his conviction. A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bannon's appeal on Friday but gave him seven days to file an appeal with the full court. Bannon could also make a last-ditch request to th...
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Washington (AFP) - Experts have long warned about the threat posed by artificial intelligence going rogue -- but a new research paper suggests it's already happening. Current AI systems, designed to be honest, have developed a troubling skill for deception, from tricking human players in online games of world conquest to hiring humans to solve "prove-you're-not-a-robot" tests, a team of scientists argue in the journal Patterns on Friday. And while such examples might appear trivial, the underlying issues they expose could soon carry serious real-world consequences, said first author Peter Park...
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Cambridge (United States) (AFP) - Police carried out pre-dawn swoops Friday on students protesting the war in Gaza at two prestigious US universities, in the latest unrest on campuses across the country. And late Thursday, police broke up a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Calgary in western Canada using tear gas. The police action at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston in the northeast resulted in around 10 arrests, according to university president Sally Kornbluth, who said she had "no choice" but to dismantle the "high-risk flashpoint." At the University ...
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Tijuana (Mexico) (AFP) - The bodies of two Australian surfers murdered in Mexico were taken to the United States on Thursday to be delivered to their relatives for the long journey home. The funeral home transporting the remains of brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, who were aged 30 and 33 respectively, confirmed that they had been transferred from Tijuana to San Diego where their parents were waiting. The body of their 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad, who was also murdered, was in the care of another funeral company. The tourists had been camping in a remote beachside area in vi...
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By Maggy DONALDSON New York (AFP) - Stormy Daniels et l'avocate de Donald Trump se sont affrontées jeudi lors d'un contre-interrogatoire musclé, où les questions ont parfois tourné à l'étrange, allant jusqu'à provoquer l'irritation du juge. Lors d'échanges tendus, l'ancienne actrice pornographique Stormy Daniels a fait preuve d'une grande réactivité et ténacité, tout en sachant se montrer vulnérable, alors que la défense raillait sa carrière et s'en prenait à sa crédibilité. Dans cette salle d'audience aux lustres néons blancs, Stormy Daniels a répondu aux attaques, des heures durant, lors de ...
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Carol Stream (United States) (AFP) - Richard Rung recalls it vividly: German artillery firing on his landing craft, the sound of machine gun bullets striking the vessel, blood mixed with seawater on the deck, troops crying on the beach. It has been nearly eight decades since Rung landed in France on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- as a 19-year-old US Navy sailor, part of a massive amphibious invasion that broke through German coastal defenses in a key victory for Allied forces. He now lives in a suburb of Chicago with Dorothy, his wife of 75 years, but his memories of the violence and death he witnes...
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Washington (AFP) - It could be a loyal lieutenant, an ex-rival or perhaps a political newcomer, but one thing is certain: all eyes are on White House hopeful Donald Trump as he considers potential running mates. A shrewd vice-presidential pick could help the Republican tycoon broaden his support base, and a handful of names have emerged as most likely to appear at Trump's side as he limbers for a second showdown with Joe Biden in November. Here are the most commonly-cited runners and riders. Tim ScottIt is no secret that Trump likes what Scott's profile says about the staunchly conservative, ...
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Washington (AFP) - Can we believe the polls? Six months before the US presidential election, pollsters are scrambling to get an accurate read on the people voting for Donald Trump, a group that has systematically eluded them for eight years and counting. The Republican's victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 took the United States and the world by surprise. But it was above all the 2020 election, won by Joe Biden, that forced a reckoning for pollsters. That vote produced polling errors of "unusual magnitude" -- the highest in 40 years for the popular vote, and 20 years for state-level ...
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Washington (AFP) - She abandoned her White House ambitions two months ago, yet Nikki Haley is still taking a significant chunk of votes in presidential primary contests -- underlining a persistent refusal among a sizable bloc of Republicans to get behind Donald Trump. In his latest victory over Haley in Indiana on Tuesday, the polarizing tycoon romped home with 460,000 votes -- but he only notched 78 percent support, an underwhelming tally for a former president essentially seen as an incumbent. In Marion County alone, the highest populated part of the state that includes Indianapolis, Haley w...
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