Michelle Obama has said she looks forward to a quieter, calmer life after politics. But on Thursday she hit the campaign trail with a vengeance. Her voice quivering with emotion, the wildly popular first lady launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump’s sexually aggressive talk about women, calling it “disgraceful,” especially coming from a man […]
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The Afghan-born American wanted for bomb attacks that rattled New York and New Jersey last month pleaded not guilty from his hospital bed on Thursday to charges of attempted murder. Ahmad Khan Rahimi’s public defender entered a plea of not guilty on state charges that his client attempted to murder five police officers and unlawfully […]
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump launched a defiant attack on US media Thursday, calling published accusations by several women that he sexually assaulted them “pure fiction.” “These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. And the Clintons know it,” Trump told a rally in West Palm Beach, accusing […]
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US First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday launched a scathing takedown of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling his sexually aggressive comments about women “disgraceful” and “intolerable.” Obama, a Harvard-educated lawyer who has largely shunned the political limelight to focus on education and health issues, galvanized a rally for Democrat Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire […]
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The UN’s rights chief warned Wednesday that Donald Trump’s statements pointed to a “dangerous” figure emerging on the world stage if he won the US presidency. At a press conference in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said he was “not keen or intent on interfering in any political campaign.” […]
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Embattled White House hopeful Donald Trump lashed out at “disloyal” Republicans in a ranting tweet storm Tuesday, saying they are to blame if his faltering campaign comes up short. Declaring himself unchained from party strictures, the bombastic real estate mogul publicly berated party big-wig Paul Ryan — the speaker of the House of Representatives — […]
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Polls suggest that Hillary Clinton won Sunday’s bitter US presidential debate against Republican rival Donald Trump as he struggles to shake off a wave of criticism over lewd remarks about women. But the snap surveys of debate watchers showed a less decisive victory for the Democratic candidate than when the two presidential hopefuls first went […]
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President Barack Obama condemned the Republican vying to replace him in the White House, Donald Trump, for his “demeaning” lewd boasts about groping women that have thrown his campaign into crisis. “Are we really going to risk giving Donald Trump the power to roll back all the progress we’ve made?” Obama asked during a campaign […]
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Donald Trump launched a scorched-earth bid to salvage his faltering campaign during a caustic presidential debate, vowing to put Hillary Clinton in jail and accusing her husband of sexual misconduct. Before tens-of-millions of viewers and an audience that included Bill Clinton and three women who accuse him of past abuse, the Republican nominee shattered the […]
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The United States called Saturday for the International Monetary Fund to speak out on crucial global economic matters, such as exchange rates, even if this made it unpopular. “The IMF must intensify analysis of and become more vocal on key issues that impact growth and stability of the global economic system,” US Treasury Secretary Jacob […]
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Donald Trump rejected calls that he step aside as the Republican presidential nominee over lewd videotaped remarks about women, telling The Wall Street Journal on Saturday there is “zero chance I’ll quit.” “I never, ever give up,” the newspaper quoted Trump as saying following calls by some Republicans that he quit the race after being […]
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The International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast for the world’s largest economy Tuesday, saying the United States has lost some of the momentum that has anchored global growth the last few years. The global crisis lender predicted the US economy would expand by just 1.6 percent this year, compared to its July estimate of 2.2 […]
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