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Washington (AFP) - The US Homeland Security Department on Thursday proposed a new rule that would allow for swifter expulsion of asylum seekers deemed to be a national security threat or who have been convicted of serious crimes. As he seeks re-election in November, President Joe Biden is under constant attack from Republicans, led by his presumptive opponent Donald Trump, with accusations that he is allowing undocumented people to cross over the southern US border in droves. The proposal published Thursday would allow authorities to reject claims from asylum seekers with certain criminal back...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Apple apologized on Thursday after an ad for its latest-edition iPad caused an uproar for showing an industrial press crushing objects linked to human creativity, infuriating artists. Social media users immediately criticized the ad, which was posted on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook, as painfully tone-deaf at a time when the creative community is worried about its future with the emergence of generative AI. "Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it's incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world," Apple's vice president of marketing To...
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Washington (AFP) - Dozens of American Airlines flight attendants demonstrated Thursday in front of the White House as they seek to be allowed to strike during protracted contract negotiations. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants organized the Washington rally along with parallel events at about a dozen US airports. "Flight Attendants are the only employees at American Airlines who have not had a raise in the past five years," said the APFA, which represents more than 27,000 workers at the big US carrier. "We've reached an impasse with American Airlines in our negotiations, and we...
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New York (AFP) - Stormy Daniels finished her marathon testimony at Donald Trump's hush money trial on Thursday with attorneys for the former president seeking to paint her as a greedy liar who profited from her allegations. The X-rated film actress, who claims to have had sex with the married Trump in 2006, denied that she threatened the tycoon if he did not buy her silence. "I wanted the truth to come out... to get my story protected with a paper trail so that my family didn't get hurt," the 45-year-old Daniels said during aggressive cross-examination by Trump's attorney Susan Necheles. Trump...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Pop titan Justin Bieber and his model wife Hailey are going to be parents, the couple announced Thursday. The pair posted pictures of the 27-year-old fashionista and businesswoman cradling her baby bump while wearing a sheer lace dress. Followers of the couple's separate social media accounts were also treated to a video that apparently shows them renewing their vows at an open-air ceremony. The video also shows Hailey, the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin, ensconced in a passionate kiss with the Canadian megastar. Other pictures show Bieber, 30, taking photos of his pregn...
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Washington (AFP) - Days after the October 7 attack, Joe Biden walked onto the tarmac in Tel Aviv and offered a warm bear hug to Benjamin Netanyahu, a sign both of solid support for Israel and the US president's long, if not uncomplicated, relationship with the prime minister. Seven months into the devastating conflict, the gentle approach is over. Biden, who memorably once wrote to Netanyahu "I love you," has for the first time raised the ultimate leverage the United States has on Israel -- military aid, which totals $3 billion a year. Biden -- whose backing for Israel in the face of civilian ...
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Washington (AFP) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump urged oil industry executives to raise $1 billion for his campaign, promising to reverse environmental regulations imposed by Joe Biden's administration once he is re-elected to the White House, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The paper cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the meeting, which was said to have taken place last month at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Contacted by AFP, Trump's campaign neither confirmed nor denied the content of the article. "Joe Biden is controlled by environmental extremists who a...
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Washington (AFP) - Un appareil d'imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM), construit avec de simples pièces disponibles dans le commerce associées à de l'intelligence artificielle, a égalé les performances d'appareils d'IRM haut de gamme, selon une étude publiée jeudi qui pourrait favoriser un meilleur accès à ces outils coûteux qui sauvent des vies. L'IRM est une technique d'imagerie médicale permettant d'obtenir des vues précises en deux ou trois dimensions de l'intérieur du corps, de façon non invasive. L'IRM joue notamment un rôle crucial pour localiser des tumeurs et pour soigner des patho...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A federal lawsuit brought by a group of California children who claimed the US government was harming them by failing to clamp down on pollution has been tossed out by a judge. The case was one of a series of legal actions taken around the world by young people worried about the effects of climate change. The youths, aged between eight and 17, had claimed the US Environmental Protection Agency "intentionally allows life-threatening climate pollution to be emitted by the fossil fuel sources of greenhouse gases it regulates, harming children's health and welfare." The suit, f...
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Washington (AFP) - A Black airman in the US Air Force was shot and killed in an "excessive" use of force by a Florida sheriff's deputy who burst into the wrong apartment, a lawyer retained by his family said Thursday. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has represented the families of other African American victims of police violence, demanded a full investigation into the May 3 death of Roger Fortson. Sheriff Eric Aden of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said the deputy was responding to reports of a "disturbance in progress" when the shooting occurred. But Crump, at a press conference, ...
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