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Washington (AFP) - A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Civil War Southern generals to two schools, four years after they were removed following a wave of protests for racial justice. The move by the Shenandoah County school board, in a five to one vote, bucks a nationwide trend of striking the names of prominent figures in the pro-slavery Confederacy from schools, US military bases and monuments. Honey Run Elementary School will once again be known as Ashby-Lee Elementary, while Mountain View High School will go back to being Stonewall Jackson High. Both are in the tow...
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Washington (AFP) - Most of Joe Biden's clean energy tax credits are now law and are unlikely to be reversed by Donald Trump if he wins November's presidential election, a senior administration official said Friday. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) -- one of Biden's most significant policy achievements as president -- contains tax credits, subsidies and grants worth hundreds of billions of dollars designed to turbo-charge America's energy transition. The legislation has been opposed by some Republicans, including Trump, who is reportedly looking at ways to gut Biden's signature law if he...
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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) - 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) - 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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Washington (AFP) - It ought to have been appointment TV as Stormy Daniels served up salacious details of her alleged tryst with Donald Trump in the sensational first-ever prosecution of a former president. Yet with New York state rules walling off the Republican billionaire's hush money trial from the world's television cameras, what should have been the trial of the century has turned into something of a ratings flop. "The trial is not receiving the attention it should -- given its historic nature and importance -- because there are no cameras in the courtroom, plain and simple," said Karen C...
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Washington (AFP) - Democrats voted to rescue the Republican leader of the US House of Representatives on Wednesday after a right-wing lawmaker moved to topple him, plunging the already-divided party into fresh conflict ahead of November's elections. Under House rules, any single lawmaker can force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene finally pulled the trigger more than six weeks after filing a "motion to vacate" his position atop the Republican majority. The Georgia conservative was booed by colleagues as she formally announced the effort on the House floor, reeling...
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New York (AFP) - Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of Donald Trump's historic criminal trial, testified Tuesday -– in sometimes explicit detail –- about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former president in a hotel penthouse suite. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels on the eve of his 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, when the lurid story of marital infidelity could have sunk his campaign. "The people call Stormy Daniels," prosecutor Susan Hoffinger said as Trump, who is ...
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Washington (AFP) - TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a legal challenge against the United States on Tuesday, taking aim at a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban. This comes around two weeks after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving TikTok 270 days to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the country. The video-sharing platform argues that this was unconstitutional. "For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent, nationwide ban, and bars every American from participating in...
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New York (AFP) - Stormy Daniels, the porn actress at the heart of Donald Trump's hush money trial, was due to testify against the ex-president Tuesday, US media said, in a blockbuster moment in the courtroom drama rocking the scandal-plagued Republican's attempt to recapture the White House. Daniels, a longtime actor and director in the adult film industry, says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and was then paid to keep quiet about it to avoid a final-hour upset of his 2016 election victory against Hillary Clinton. Prosecutors say that Trump -- desperate to kill the story before i...
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