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  • Who is Kamala Harris, the VP who Biden is backing for president?

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    22 Jul 2024
    KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN - JULY 17: US Vice President Kamala Harris attends a moderated conversation with former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye and former Republican voter Amanda Stratton on July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Harris' visit, following the attempted assassination of former President Trump, makes this her fourth trip to Michigan this year and seventh visit since taking office.   Chris duMond/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Chris duMond / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    Harris has finally reached a position she has long sought, but her journey has been fraught and full of difficult questions.

    Who is Kamala Harris, the VP who Biden is backing for president?
  • Biden vows to run as more Democrats ask him to drop out

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    20 Jul 2024
    US President Joe Biden gestures near the podium during the Vote To Live Properity Summit at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 16 July, 2024.

    US President Joe Biden's campaign reiterated on Friday that the president is staying in the race.

    Joe Biden vows to run as more Democrats ask him to drop out
  • Trump recounts attempt on his life, then abandons unity theme in marathon convention speech

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    19 Jul 2024
    Balloons fall as former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands alonside Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and US Senator from Ohio and 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance after Trump accepted his party's nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance for running mate. (Photo by Pedro UGARTE / AFP)

    Donald Trump told a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention today in his first speech since last weekend's assassination attempt that he was only there "by the grace of Almighty God."

    Trump recounts attempt on his life, then abandons unity theme in marathon convention speech
  • Watch: Longest nomination acceptance speech in presidential history

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    19 Jul 2024
    MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - JULY 18: Balloons fall after Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican presidential nomination on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Delegates, politicians, and the Republican faithful are in Milwaukee for the annual convention, concluding with former President Donald Trump accepting his party's presidential nomination. The RNC takes place from July 15-18.   Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    Donald Trump has broken his own record for the longest acceptance speech by a presidential nominee in history, reports say. Video

    Watch: Donald Trump takes to stage for first speech since assassination attempt
  • Top Democrats increase pressure on Biden to step aside - reports

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    18 Jul 2024
    US President Joe Biden pumps his fist after speaking at a campaign event at Renaissance High School in Detroit, Michigan, on 12 July, 2024.

    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who reportedly fear the president cannot win against Donald Trump. Audio

    Top Democrats increase pressure on Joe Biden to step aside, US media reports
  • Trump's running mate introduces himself to nation

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    18 Jul 2024
    MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - JULY 17: Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Delegates, politicians, and the Republican faithful are in Milwaukee for the annual convention, concluding with former President Donald Trump accepting his party's presidential nomination. The RNC takes place from July 15-18.   Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    US Senator JD Vance presented himself as the son of a forgotten industrial Ohio town who will fight for the working class if elected.

    Trump's running mate JD Vance introduces himself to the US at Republican convention
  • Trump will protect gun rights despite assassination attempt, adviser says

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    17 Jul 2024
    Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump arrives on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    The remarks comes just days after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.

    Trump will protect gun rights despite assassination attempt, adviser says
  • Trump appears with bandaged ear at Republican convention

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    16 Jul 2024
    Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks to his seat as he arrives during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024.

    Donald Trump walked into the convention with a thick bandage over the ear as the crowd chanted "Fight! Fight! Fight" and pumped their fist. Video

    Trump appears with bandaged ear at Republican convention
  • Israeli strike on Gaza school reportedly kills 22

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    16 Jul 2024
    A wounded Palestinian girl is brought to be treated at the al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp after the Israeli military bombardment of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) run Abu Oreiban, turned shelter, where internally displaced Palestinians are living, in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on July 14, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.

    The Israeli military said it had targeted a number of Hamas "terrorists" operating from Abu Oraiban School in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp.

    Israeli strike on central Gaza school reportedly kills 22
  • Trump picks running mate who called him 'idiot', 'America's Hitler'

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    16 Jul 2024
    ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JUNE 27: U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks to reporters in the spin room following the CNN Presidential Debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. President Biden and former President Trump are faced off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign.   Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    JD Vance once said he found Donald Trump "reprehensible", but will now be vice president if the Republicans win the election.

    Trump picks one-time critic JD Vance, now a fierce defender, as his running mate
  • After attempt on his life, Trump sees moment for unity

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    15 Jul 2024
    BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.   Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    "This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together," Trump says of his speech to the Republican convention later this week.

    After attempt on his life, Donald Trump sees moment for unity
  • 'Terrified' - Americans in NZ react to Trump shooting, Biden uncertainty

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    15 Jul 2024
    BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Attendees duck from gunfire at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump at Butler Farm Show Inc. on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump slumped before being whisked away by Secret Service with injuries visible to the side of his head. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter and one audience member are dead and another was injured.

    For many Americans who now call New Zealand home, the chaotic presidential campaign has left them shaken.

    'Terrified' - Americans in NZ react to Trump shooting, Biden uncertainty
  • Trump rally shooting: What we know so far

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    14 Jul 2024
    People watch unfolding news at a plaza in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after shots were fired at a Republican campaign rally as former US president Donald Trump spoke to the crowd, on 13 July, 2024.

    Everything you need to know about the suspected assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump.

    Trump rally shooting: What we know so far
  • 'We really want to lift the intensity' - Luxon on his first US visit as PM

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    13 Jul 2024
    NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon with various world leaders at NATO conference in Washington DC in July 2024. World leaders pictures include US President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

    Next on his agenda was a holiday - but not in Te Puke, the prime minister joked.

    Christopher Luxon reflects on first US trip
  • How to negotiate a ceasefire

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    10 Jul 2024
    This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke rising from the Palestinian territory on 24 April, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

    A ceasefire deal over Gaza has been on the table since June. So why are Israel and Hamas still at war? Audio

  • How to negotiate a ceasefire

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    10 Jul 2024
    This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke rising from the Palestinian territory on 24 April, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

    A ceasefire deal over Gaza has been on the table since June. So why are Israel and Hamas still at war?

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    Brokering peace in the Middle East
  • How Boeing's plea deal could affect the planemaker

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    9 Jul 2024
    Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are assembled at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington, on June 25, 2024.

    The agreement in principle allows the company to escape a courtroom battle with federal prosecutors.

    How Boeing's plea deal could affect the planemaker
  • Joe Biden's personal doctor met with Parkinson's expert - report

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    7 Jul 2024
    President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the verdict in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial and on the Middle East, from the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, May 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    The revelation comes amid speculation over the 81-year-old's cognitive abilities and calls for him to step down from the presidential race.

    Joe Biden's personal doctor met with Parkinson's expert - report
  • Biden at 81: Sharp and focused but sometimes confused and forgetful

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    4 Jul 2024
    US President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally on 28 June, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

    President Joe Biden's conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action.

    Biden at 81: Sharp and focused but sometimes confused and forgetful
  • 'I am not a church boy': RFK Jr responds to sex assault allegation

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    3 Jul 2024
    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention on May 24, 2024 in Washington, DC.

    A magazine article claimed the candidate sexually assaulted a babysitter in the late 1990s.

    RFK Jr pushes back on Vanity Fair, sexual assault allegation
  • Top Democrats reject calls for Biden to quit

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    1 Jul 2024
    US President Joe Biden speaks during a presidential debate hosted by CNN with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on 27 June, 2024, in Atlanta.

    After days of hand-wringing, the party's leaders have firmly rejected calls for their party to choose a younger candidate.

    US election: Top Democrats rule out replacing Biden amid calls for him to quit
  • US opioid epidemic: OxyContin settlement rejected by court

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    28 Jun 2024
    OxyContin tablets at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vermont, in 2001.

    A settlement sought by the manufacturers of OxyContin opioids has been rejected by the US Supreme Court, removing a potential legal shelter for members of the Sackler family.

    US Supreme Court rejects nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker
  • Kenya's parliament burns as protesters object to new taxes

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    26 Jun 2024
    Protesters scatter as Kenya police spray water canon at them during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, June. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

    Clashes spread out of the capital to other cities and at least five people have been reportedly killed.

    Kenya's parliament burns as protesters object to new taxes
  • Plane carrying Julian Assange leaves Bangkok

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    26 Jun 2024
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

    The WikiLeaks founder is headed to Saipan, the capital of the US commonwealth in the Pacific.

    Julian Assange on his way to Northern Mariana Islands for plea deal
  • Stella Assange says she will seek a pardon for husband Julian

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    25 Jun 2024
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

    The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plea deal that will set him free after a 14-year British legal odyssey and allow his return home to Australia.

    Stella Assange says she will seek a pardon for husband Julian
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