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Paris (AFP) - Sea level rise could hit major US cities like New Orleans and San Francisco harder than expected by mid-century because coastal land is sinking, researchers said Wednesday, warning current flood defences leave people and property at risk. Global warming is melting ice sheets and glaciers and raising ocean water levels across the world, with predictions that the United States will see some of the fastest increases, threatening coastal regions that are home to some 30 percent of the country's population. Sea level rise of around 30 centimetres (nearly a foot) is already project...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States is a vibrant democracy of 330 million people, yet in an increasingly polarized nation the next president will likely be decided by just a few thousand votes, say analysts. Landslide presidential elections were once common, but no candidate has won the popular vote by double figures since Ronald Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states against Walter Mondale in 1984. Spool forward four decades and the race for the White House looks more like a crapshoot, with most states' outcomes beyond doubt before a ballot has been cast and candidates duking it out for scant vo...
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Washington (AFP) - With conservative moves to restrict abortion and voting rights dominating headlines, an outsider might be forgiven for thinking it was Republicans, not Democrats, who run Washington. But the most important elections of 2020 probably weren't for who would take the White House or Congress -- it was the battle for control of America's state houses. "The Republicans have been especially good at winning state legislative elections," Wendy Schiller, a professor of political science at Brown University, told AFP. "They smartly focused time, money and energy into winning the House o...
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Washington (AFP) - Neither the threat of dying from Covid nor an array of inducements from lottery tickets to guns and marijuana have been enough to sway America's staunchest vaccine holdouts. As the divide between the country's pro- and anti-immunization regions widens, and the dangerous Delta variant keeps gaining ground, experts are calling for more mandates in jurisdictions, colleges and businesses so Americans are protected where they live and work. The idea has sparked controversy in a nation that cherishes individual liberty, but these concerns need to be weighed against collective well...
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Washington (AFP) - A handful of US states have announced they will end extra unemployment benefits provided by the federal government, which they blame for creating a shortage of workers. Iowa on Tuesday joined Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana and South Carolina in cutting off the payments that through September are providing $300 a week on top of regular state benefits. But President Joe Biden pushed back against the argument that the extra payments -- funded by the $1.9 trillion rescue package Congress approved in March -- mean "people are being paid to stay home rather than go to wor...
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Washington (AFP) - A handful of US states announced they will end extra unemployment benefits provided by the federal government, which they say is hindering companies from hiring workers. Alabama and Mississippi have joined Arkansas, Montana and South Carolina in cutting off the payments that provided $300 a week on top of regular state benefits through early September. The moves in the Republican-led states came after a disappointing employment report for April released Friday showed the US economy recovered just 266,000 positions last month. The data show the economy still has not recovered...
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Washington (AFP) - State law enforcement officials warned Monday against pressure to declare the winner of the US election, amid reporting that President Donald Trump has mulled claiming victory before votes are counted."States do not certify the election on election night," Michigan Attorney general Dana Nessel told reporters. "We're not about to let anyone steal this election.""We have experience in handling close elections," Josh Stein, the attorney general of North Carolina, said in a briefing organized by the non-partisan Voter Protection Project."We may know the winner Tuesday night ... ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US election on Tuesday is boiling down to a handful of battleground states that Joe Biden must flip in order to snatch the White House from President Donald Trump.All of this year's top swing states -- Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arizona -- went to Trump in 2016, including four that had voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2012.In a sign of how critical they are, Trump traveled to three of them -- Michigan, North Carolina and Florida -- on Sunday alone, while Biden held two events in Philadelphia.The Democratic challenger leads by an aver...
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Washington (AFP) - The November 3 US presidential election is boiling down to a handful of key states that will decide the race between Democrat Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.Trump carved a narrow path to victory in 2016 by winning the battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arizona.This time polls have him behind in all six -- albeit by narrow margins in some.Trump also trails by a slim margin in three other states he won in 2016 -- Georgia, Iowa and Ohio, according to an average of state polls by the website RealClearPolitics (RCP).Here is...
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