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Washington (AFP) - The legendary Kennedy clan will endorse US President Joe Biden during a campaign trip to Philadelphia Thursday -- underscoring the election threat posed by family black sheep and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fifteen members of the politically influential family will back Biden amid fears that a strong showing by conspiracy theorist and vaccine-skeptic "RFK Jr" could tilt the victory to Donald Trump in November's US presidential vote. The environmental lawyer is the son of Robert F. Kennedy Sr, who served as attorney general under assassinated president John F....
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Scranton (United States) (AFP) - Joe Biden made a campaign trip to his beloved birthplace Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he unleashed a blistering condemnation of Donald Trump as the tycoon languished in court. The 81-year-old US president even visited his childhood home in the former mining town as he contrasted his blue-collar roots with the election rival he branded a self-obsessed billionaire. In a speech calling for the wealthy to pay more taxes, Biden said he "learned a lot here in Scranton." "I learned that money doesn't determine your worth." "People like Donald Trump learned...
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Scranton (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will draw a stark contrast with Donald Trump on Tuesday when he visits his birthplace in Scranton, Pennsylvania -- while his election rival is stuck in a New York courtroom. The 81-year-old has long traded on his blue-collar image as "Scranton Joe" to reach out to middle- and working-class voters, but his rally in a key battleground state in November's election is even more symbolic. Biden will be relishing the split screen as he tours America's industrial heartland while his Republican real estate tycoon rival is kept off the campaign tr...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden publicly released their 2023 tax return on Monday, carrying on a tradition of transparency temporarily interrupted under predecessor Donald Trump. The annual, unwritten custom is designed to build trust in the White House. Other politicians as well as candidates often also take part. The Bidens earned $619,976 in 2023, most of which was derived from the president's $400,000 salary and Jill Biden's $85,985 compensation for her teaching job at a college in nearby Virginia. That number was up from the $579,514 the couple earned i...
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Washington (AFP) - Iran's attack on Israel gives Joe Biden a familiar dilemma, but on steroids -- how to balance support for a difficult ally while preventing the nightmare scenario of a wider war? Tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's war on Gaza were papered over as the US president offered "ironclad" support, including shooting down Iranian drones. But the White House said it would not support an Israeli counterattack and warned Israel to "think carefully" about escalation that could trigger a full-blown regional conflict. The question then for Biden, who is facing a...
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Washington (AFP) - He wanted the US presidential election to be about "Bidenomics." Instead, it risks being about "Bidenflation." Joe Biden faces one of the biggest threats to his hopes of beating Donald Trump from rising prices that are hitting Americans in the wallet. The cost of living is rising more quickly again, just when the 81-year-old Democrat thought he had put the issue behind him to get a clear run at November's vote. Figures this week showed US consumer inflation accelerating to 3.5 percent in the year to March, the second straight month it has risen. Gas prices and rent contribut...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden vowed to "fight like hell" for women's reproductive rights in a reelection ad Thursday, as his team pounced on the backlash to a Republican-backed decision all but outlawing abortion in the swing state of Arizona. "Your bodies and your decisions belong to you, not the government, not Donald Trump," Biden says in the ad, which will be aired in Arizona during popular shows including American Idol and Saturday Night Live this month. Part of what the campaign said was a seven-figure media blitz, the ad is aimed at key Democratic target groups -- young people,...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged the US House of Representatives to vote immediately on billions of dollars in Ukraine aid, as the chamber's Republican speaker hesitates in the face of pressure from Donald Trump and his allies. "There's overwhelming support for Ukraine among the majority of Democrats and Republicans. There should be a vote now," Biden told reporters after meeting Japan's prime minister. Biden has proposed a package of $60 billion for Ukraine as it seeks to fight back against a more than two-year-old Russian invasion. The funds passed the Senate, led by...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Gaza policy was a "mistake" and urged Israel to call for a ceasefire, in an interview aired Tuesday. Biden's comments were some of his strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu amid growing tensions over the civilian death toll from Israel's war on Hamas and dire conditions inside Gaza. "I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," Biden told Univision, a US Spanish-language TV network, when asked about Netanyahu's handling of the war. Biden reiterated that an Israeli drone attack last week...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Friday that Israel was heeding his demand to let aid into Gaza, a day after he warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of a sharp shift in policy. Asked as he left the White House whether he had threatened to stop military aid to Israel in the call with Netanyahu, Biden replied: "I asked them to do what they're doing." Biden then brushed off a suggestion he might be abandoning Israel, saying: "Is that a serious question?" In a tense call on Thursday, Biden warned Netanyahu that US policy on Israel was dependent on the protection of civilians and...
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