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Milwaukee (AFP) - After obliterating his Republican rivals, becoming the first former president convicted of a crime and surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump caps off a crazy year with his coronation as the Republican Party's presidential nominee. Trump the victorFrom the first night of the 2024 primaries -- the Iowa caucuses -- Donald Trump dominated the competition. The former president was thought to be in political trouble just a few months earlier given his mounting legal problems, but he easily clinched victory in the Midwest state. Though several Republican hopefuls had camp...
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Anaheim (United States) (AFP) - Hundreds of Disneyland Resort employees protested outside the world-famous California theme parks Wednesday, calling for better wages and denouncing alleged anti-union practices by the company ahead of a looming strike vote. Featuring workers in costumes from the parks' "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars" themed rides, among others, the rally was organized by unions representing some 14,000 Disneyland employees, from rollercoaster operators to candy makers. Slogans among the signs being carried included "Mickey would want fair pay" and "Disney, don't be the villain"...
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Washington (AFP) - When J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" was published in 2016, the book was widely cited as a key insight into understanding how America elected Donald Trump as president that year. Now, the Republican presidential candidate has chosen the author as his running mate, thrusting the bestseller back into the spotlight. As soon as Vance was announced on the Trump ticket, the book rocketed to the top of Amazon's list of bestselling books in the United States. Its publisher, HarperCollins, began reprinting the book, which has already sold over three million copies in the eight ...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Climate change is little more than an afterthought for attendees at the Republican National Convention, who are gathered this week to crown Donald Trump as their party's nominee for this November's election. "I don't believe all that," said Jack Prendergast, from New York, who believes that human activity does just as much harm to the planet as "when a volcano goes off." "Trump is going to drill pipelines and we'll become the leading supplier of energy in the world, in the gas and the oil," Prendergast told AFP. And the former president has promised as much -- adopting the sl...
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Washington (AFP) - Within minutes of the attempt on Donald Trump's life at a campaign rally, the US Secret Service faced a wave of criticism for failing its "no fail" responsibility: ensuring the safety of its high-profile protectees. President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he had ordered an independent review of the agency's handling of the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, where one attendee was killed and Trump was injured in the ear before the gunman was shot dead. Republican leaders in Congress have also announced a probe. While new information emerges about the campaign-altering inc...
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Thousands came to the US state of Wisconsin to see their hero Donald Trump be officially named as the Republican party's presidential nominee -- but were met with shock on Saturday evening. Sporting a red cap and T-shirt inscribed with "Trump", Philip Fredericks says he was shocked by the news he heard as he arrived in Milwaukee, the state's largest city, for the Republican National Convention: Trump had been wounded by a gunman at a campaign rally in Philadelphia. But Fredericks, who spent a week preparing for the convention, remained confident that Trump would still come to...
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Washington (AFP) - As Joe Biden's verbal gaffes, shaky voice and other troubling signs have brought an intense focus on the US president's mental acuity, health experts are calling on him and rival Donald Trump to pass additional cognitive tests, even while warning against leaping to conclusions. Such tests, experts said, could either help repudiate speculation that the 81-year-old president's mental state is in worrying decline -- or else confirm it -- and could enlighten voters on the mental abilities of Trump, who has had his own share of verbal lapses. But reliable diagnoses, they caution,...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Meta said Friday it was lifting restrictions on US presidential candidate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts, ending measures put in place after his supporters violently stormed the US Capitol in 2021. It said that "former President Trump, as the nominee of the Republican Party, will no longer be subject to the heightened suspension penalties." Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts were suspended indefinitely a day after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and it was determined he had praised people engaged in violence on social media....
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Milwaukee (AFP) - Donald Trump, famed for his unpredictable and inflammatory outbursts, is opting for self-censorship in a bid to expand his electorate to more moderate voters ahead of the US presidential election. The 78-year-old billionaire appears to be dialing back his rhetoric on key issues such as immigration and abortion -- a tactic that analysts say is buoyed by his confidence in the loyalty of his conservative base ahead of November's vote. In recent days, the self-proclaimed architect of overturning Roe v Wade, the federal guarantee of abortion rights, has softened his take -- well ...
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New York (AFP) - Jury deliberations began Friday in the high-profile trial of a powerful US senator charged with corruption after gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were found at his home. Robert Menendez, a 70-year-old Democrat from New Jersey, is accused of extortion, obstruction of justice and accepting bribes to perform favors for businessmen with connections to Egypt and Qatar. The most serious charges would carry up to 20 years in prison upon conviction in the trial which began in a New York court in May. Menendez, who said in June he would run as an independent in N...
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