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Atlanta (AFP) - US President Joe Biden speaks Sunday at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr, in a bid to woo Black voters that risks being overshadowed by protests against Israel's war in Gaza. Biden's graduation speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, will be his most direct engagement with students since demonstrations over the conflict roiled campuses across the United States. Students at Morehouse, a historically Black university, have called on the college administration to cancel the speech over Biden's support for Israel, which has caused strong op...
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Atlanta (AFP) - Donald Trump used an expletive to attack Joe Biden during an address to an influential gun group Saturday, while the incumbent president warned in the crucial swing state of Georgia that his "unhinged" challenger is a threat to US democracy. The dueling events came as Trump sought to make the most of his limited time on the campaign trail, with a criminal trial over hush money payments to a porn star keeping him mostly confined to a gloomy New York courtroom. In a 90-minute rambling address to the politically powerful National Rifle Association, Trump said Biden is "the worst p...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A lawyer who was the architect of a plan to subvert the 2020 election and return Donald Trump to the White House denied all charges against him when he appeared in an Arizona court Friday. John Eastman is the first of 18 people charged in the battleground state to appear in court over the scheme to empanel fake electors to support their favored candidate. Others include Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one-time Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Jenna Ellis and campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn. Eastman on Friday entered not guilty pleas to ...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden accused election rival Donald Trump of suppressing diversity Friday, as the US president stepped up efforts to shore up support among Black voters ahead of November's election. In a speech at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, the 81-year-old Democrat said the "extreme" Republican and his allies were trying to "erase history." "My predecessor and his extreme MAGA friends are now going after diversity, equity and inclusion all across America," said Biden, referring to Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement. "They want a c...
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Miami (AFP) - Former US president Donald Trump attended his youngest son's high school graduation on Friday after being granted a break from his criminal hush money trial in New York. Barron Trump, 18, was graduating from Oxbridge Academy in south Florida, and the Republican leader -- who is running for a return to the White House -- was pictured watching proudly alongside third wife Melania and other parents at the private ceremony. The former first lady has doggedly shielded her son from the glare of the media, but he was dragged into the spotlight last month as the ex-president complained t...
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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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