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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden is trying to shore up his support among vital Black voters with a series of events starting Thursday, including a visit to the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. The veteran Democrat relied on African American voters to help him beat Donald Trump in 2020, but some polls show those same voters are increasingly deserting him ahead of November's rematch with the Republican. On Thursday, the 81-year-old Biden marked the 70th anniversary of a famous US Supreme Court ruling that overturned racial segregation in schools by meeting ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed Wednesday to hold election debates in June and September, with the rivals trading barbs about their first on-stage meetings in nearly four years. The sudden agreement, ending months of uncertainty over whether the debates would happen at all, came after Biden, 81, challenged his scandal-tinged Republican rival to "make my day." Trump, 77, quickly responded that he was "ready to rumble" -- and within hours CNN announced it would host the first debate in Atlanta on June 27 and ABC said it would stage the second on September 10. Wi...
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Washington (AFP) - The 2024 US election is under threat from a growing number of foreign actors using ever more sophisticated methods to conduct interference, the country's top intelligence official warned Wednesday. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines singled out Russia, China and Iran as the worst offenders -- but added the federal government had never been better prepared to protect American democracy from foreign influence. "(There) are an increasing number of foreign actors, including non-state entities, who are looking to engage in election influence activities," she told US s...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump's lawyers on Tuesday got their first stab at Michael Cohen, the former president's confidante-turned-foe,trying to paint him as a money-hungry, untrustworthy narrator. But the first two hours of defense attorney Todd Blanche's questioning packed less of a punch than expected, even as senior Republican allies increasingly politicized the proceedings by showing up to support Trump -- who is again running for the White House but forced to sit through his own criminal trial, the first of any former US president. His most high-profile entourage to date turned out for t...
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Washington (AFP) - As Donald Trump faces a historic criminal trial, senior Republicans are beating a path to his New York courtroom to hammer home the narrative of a witch hunt and launch proxy attacks on witnesses he is barred from targeting. A succession of US lawmakers, state-level officials and other figures with designs on a job in the presidential candidate's next administration have made the pilgrimage to circle the wagons and question the legitimacy of the proceedings. US House Speaker Mike Johnson -- who is second in line to the presidency -- raised eyebrows Tuesday when he became the...
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New York (AFP) - US House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ramped up the politicization of Donald Trump's criminal trial, appearing at the New York court and assailing the justice system for being "weaponized" against the former president. In a provocative move, Johnson and other Republican lawmakers -- including a potential Trump vice presidential pick -- stood behind Trump in the court house as he spoke to reporters ahead of entering his trial. Later, the speaker of the House of Representatives -- second in line to the US presidency and wielding substantial constitutional power -- insisted T...
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Washington (AFP) - In the first ever criminal trial of a US president, television network coverage has been as divided as the watching nation. For viewers tuning into Fox News, the case against Donald Trump is, according to the conservative broadcaster's guests and hosts, "completely political" and as credible as a "Potemkin village." The prosecution's star witness Michael Cohen is "shady" and "notorious." "I can't imagine that any competent lawyer at this point would not be embarrassed by what has happened in this courtroom," conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley told Fox on Monday. "This is an...
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New York (AFP) - For more than a decade Michael Cohen worked his way into Donald Trump's inner circle, a loyal attack dog who fought vehemently on behalf of his boss. In return he wanted what any hound desires -- a treat, a pat on the head, or at least a moment in the sun. On Monday the latter was his, though perhaps not as he'd originally envisioned. Cohen took the stand as the star witness in the former president's criminal trial, painstakingly spelling out how he paid an adult film actress hush money at Trump's behest. The highly anticipated showdown between the two New Yorkers saw Cohen, s...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump's one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness at the former president's criminal trial testified Monday how the then-Republican candidate directed him to pay a porn actress to bury revelations of an alleged tryst. Michael Cohen, who once took pride in being Trump's attack dog, methodically delivered evidence against his former boss, glancing at Trump who sat slouched at the defendant's table as the crux of the case against him was laid out. The state of New York accuses Trump of falsifying business records to reimburse Cohen for a $130,000 hush-money payment t...
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New York (AFP) - Members of Donald Trump's entourage including a potential vice presidential pick live-tweeted from the ex-president's historic criminal trial Monday, an unorthodox effort to discredit the star witness, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Trump himself has been placed under a gag order by the judge overseeing the case, Juan Merchan, who has threatened the 77-year-old with jail if he directly criticizes trial witnesses. That includes Cohen and Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she received a $130,000 hush money payment from Trump lawyer Cohen to stay quiet during the 20...
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