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Blinken says Gaza truce best way to ensure regional stability
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday in Cairo that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza would be the best way to stop violence from spreading in the Middle East. This marks Blinken's 10th trip to the region since the start of the war that was sparked by Hamas's October 7...
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Trump recounts apparent assassination attempt as new details emerge
Donald Trump has given his first detailed account of what he experienced on Sunday during what the FBI has said “appears to be an attempted assassination of the former president”, as authorities revealed new details about the incident at his West Palm Beach golf club. Trump said he was playing golf...
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Violence, threats hang over Trump-Harris race after turbulent weekend
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump head into a newly intense phase of the US presidential campaign on Monday, with tensions heightened after a second apparent assassination attempt against the Republican former president. The arrest on Sunday of a gunman on Donald Trump's Florida golf course came the...
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Donald Trump safe after new assassination attempt thwarted at Florida golf course
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Several Secret Service agents fired on a gunman in bushes near the property line of the golf...
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Biden, Starmer put off Ukraine missiles decision
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Joe Biden have delayed a decision to let Ukraine fire long-range Western-supplied missiles into Russia, a plan that sparked dire threats from Moscow of a war with NATO. Starmer told reporters at the White House that he had a "wide-ranging...
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Genocide in the Foreground, World War Looming in the Background
If I were to describe our present geopolitical situation in ten words or less it would be “Genocide in the foreground, world war looming in the background.” While attention is justifiably focused on the present horrors in Gaza and the imminent possibility that it could spark another war in the...
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How Harris aims to keep drawing eyeballs as the hard campaigning begins
At a leadership retreat for top aides in Wilmington last week, Jen O’Malley Dillon – the campaign chair hired by Joe Biden and retained by Kamala Harris – ticked through the battleground states and warned them: the vice president still did not have any one sure path to 270 electoral votes....
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'Comrade Kamala': Donald Trump paints Harris red in quest for votes
Washington: "Everyone knows she's a Marxist," Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has repeated loudly and often, referring to his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, who he is hoping to tar with one of the oldest brushes in the US political playbook. The aim? To portray Harris as a dangerous...
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33,000 Boeing union members set to strike early Friday
Union members at Boeing rejected a proposed a four-year contract with the troubled aircraft manufacturer, authorizing the first strike at the company in 16 years, said the International Association of Machinist (IAM) union. About 33,000 workers are set to walk off the job, and the strike is set to...
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US seeks to slam shut Shein, Temu trade loophole
A group of US House Democrats has called for closing the “de minimis” trade loophole that has allowed Chinese e-commerce firms Shein, Temu and others to evade import tariffs when entering US markets. US Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Earl Blumenauer and Tom Suozzi on Wednesday sent a signed by 126...
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