Democrat Hillary Clinton and rival Donald Trump wade into their last presidential debate Wednesday with the Republican candidate spiraling downward in the polls amid allegations of sexual misconduct and wild charges of a “rigged” US election. With less than three weeks to go before Americans cast ballots November 8, polls showed Clinton widening her lead […]
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Many Americans are appalled by the prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency. Many are just as scared over what might happen if he loses. By insisting the November 8 election is rigged, the Republican nominee has stoked fears that he’s giving his supporters free rein for some kind of morning-after backlash if he […]
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Crowds of women converged on Chicago’s Trump Tower Tuesday in the latest of a string of protests over Donald Trump’s incendiary comments on women, brandishing signs saying “Real men get consent” and “Pussy grabs back.” Protesters in Chicago and Philadelphia Tuesday, and a day earlier in New York, have been pushing back after the Republican […]
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Melania Trump in an interview granted on Monday has justified her husband lewd comment on women, in which he bragged about groping them in a leaked tape from 2005 as “boy talk.” The wife to the Republican presidential nominee, who has kept a low profile during her husband’s presidential bid, gave her first television since the […]
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Nearly a dozen women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault or harassment — accusations denied by the real estate mogul who was caught in a newly-surfaced 2005 video boasting that stardom allowed him to grope women with impunity. Here are short accounts of their accusations. Jessica Leeds A former traveling businesswoman, Leeds told The […]
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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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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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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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