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Washington (AFP) - When a Democrat ousted Republicans from a district in deeply conservative Alabama this week, she won hearts and minds with a pitch about repealing the state's no-exceptions abortion ban and protecting reproductive rights. Marilyn Lands's triumph was the first major test of public reaction to a court ruling that halted in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the state -- and the latest demonstration of the threat the issue poses to the Grand Old Party (GOP). Democrats framed the vote as a sign of what to expect in November as President Joe Biden vies for reelection against Donald Tru...
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San Francisco (AFP) - California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration. The richest state in the United States by GDP, California is a hotbed of no-holds-barred tech innovation, but lawmakers in state capital Sacramento want to give the industry laws and guardrails it has largely been spared in the internet age. Brussels has enacted a barrage of laws on US-dominated tech and sprinted to pass the AI Act after OpenAI's Microsoft-backed ChatGPT arrived on the scene in late 2022, ...
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New York (AFP) - The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's trial for allegedly making pre-election hush money payments to a porn star slapped a partial gag order on the former president on Tuesday. Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump not to publicly attack potential witnesses, prosecutors, court staff, their families or prospective jurors. The move came just hours after the Republican presidential candidate lashed out at the judge and his daughter in a series of posts on Truth Social. The 77-year-old Trump described Merchan as a "true and certified Trump hater who suffers from a very serio...
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Oakland (United States) (AFP) - Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer and political newcomer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate Tuesday, as he pursues an anti-establishment campaign seen as an increasing threat to Democrat Joe Biden. The nephew of John F. Kennedy and prominent vaccine skeptic is more popular than any independent candidate since Ross Perot in 1992, with average support of around 12 percent nationwide. Democrats fear that nostalgia for their party's iconic political dynasty could make a significant dent in Biden's v...
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Washington (AFP) - Facing a total of 88 felony charges in four separate federal and state cases, Donald Trump is employing a simple tactic that has always served him well in the past -- running out the clock. The 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate has deployed an army of highly paid lawyers in New York, Washington, Georgia and Florida to push back his trial dates. The goal is clear: delaying court action beyond the November election when, if he recaptures the presidency, he could potentially have the federal charges against him dropped -- or even pardon himself. So far the strategy ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A man who repeatedly threatened to kill an Arizona election official was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Monday, as investigators warned of increasing hostility towards poll workers ahead of this year's high-stakes US votes. Joshua Russell, from Ohio, directed numerous expletive-laden tirades against the person chiefly responsible for the smooth running of the 2022 mid-term election in Arizona, the state's department of justice said. "Mr. Russell made three phone calls to the office of then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs threatening to put her in the ground o...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump will in three weeks become the first former US president to face a criminal trial, a judge ruled Monday, hours after an appeals court threw the tycoon a lifeline in his bid to stave off an unrelated, half billion dollar civil fraud judgment. New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected demands from Trump's attorneys to further delay his trial on charges of paying hush money to a porn star and ordered jury selection to begin on April 15. The Republican presidential candidate denounced the upcoming trial and other cases brought against him as "election interference" by Demo...
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Washington (AFP) - When Joe Biden takes the stage with Barack Obama at an election fundraiser in New York this week, it will be all smiles for a duo who collectively have spent nearly a dozen years in the White House. But while Biden, 81, will be glad to have the star power of Obama and also former Democratic president Bill Clinton at the event on Thursday, there will also be tensions with his former boss, whom he served as vice president for two terms. Obama, 62, will be there to support Biden's reelection. But he reportedly expressed concerns about Biden's bid during two lunches in recent mo...
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New York (AFP) - Shareholders approved a merger Friday to list Donald Trump's social media venture on the US stock market, providing a potential financial lifeline to the former president as he faces possible seizure of his properties. After many previous delays, investors voted to approve the merger of Digital World Acquisition and Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) -- owner of the Truth Social platform, company officials said on a webcast of the vote. The action could potentially provide Trump some $3 billion, as he faces a $454 million court payment for his New York fraud case, although ...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden may be struggling against Donald Trump in the polls ahead of November's US presidential election but his numbers are looking good in one department: campaign cash. The Democrat holds a widening lead over his Republican rival in the fundraising stakes, while Trump is burning through legal fees as he battles multiple criminal and civil cases. The cash crunch has also given 81-year-old Biden a new line of attack on the campaign trail, as he mocks the self-proclaimed billionaire tycoon for his mounting financial woes. "Just the other day, a defeated-looking guy came up...
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