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by Brigitte DUSSEAU WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Even if, as most polls predict, he loses Tuesday’s US presidential election, Donald Trump’s populist charge will leave its mark on the American body politic. The 70-year-old billionaire tycoon is the Republican flag-bearer even though part of the Grand Old Party’s establishment has rejected him, and others are voting for him while holding their noses. But Trump has managed to craft his own political brand, building a […]
by Ivan Couronne with Dave Clark in Washington CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — The FBI on Sunday lifted the threat that Hillary Clinton might face charges over her private email server — dropping a campaign bombshell 36 hours before her White House showdown with Donald Trump. The Democrat’s camp welcomed the news that FBI Director James Comey had decided not to change his July recommendation that she not be prosecuted for putting US secrets at […]
https://youtu.be/cbe8poau5IM Is Donald Trump Russia’s best friend? Many in the country seem to believe the flamboyant White House candidate could help fix shattered ties between the two former Cold War foes. (Video courtesy AFP TV)
https://youtu.be/1S-g4LPeRpY President Barack Obama bolsters Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency in a final push, as the nominees head into a fierce final weekend of campaigning. (video courtesy AFPTV)
Cleveland, United States (AFP) — by Ivan Couronne with Michael Mathes in Hershey, Pennsylvania Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump brandished starkly different visions of America as they headed into a fierce final weekend of campaigning Saturday, one celebrating hope as the other bashed corruption. Trump doubled down on his attacks on Clinton as a product of a venal and incompetent establishment, while Clinton headlined an optimistic concert spectacular featuring superstar singer Beyonce. Forecasts based on […]
by Jewel Samad, with Michael Mathes in Washington RALEIGH, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton unleashed top surrogates including campaigner-in-chief President Barack Obama to bolster her case Thursday in the election’s homestretch, as rival Donald Trump deployed wife Melania to soften his image in crucial battleground states. As a slew of polls showed the race tightening with just five days to go, the campaigns brought all hands on deck in a handful of states that […]
by Thomas URBAIN BERWYN, United States (AFP) — Melania Trump, the Slovenian-born former model who could become America’s first foreign-born first lady in two centuries, appealed to her husband’s soft side in the battleground state of Pennsylvania Thursday. Dressed in a filmy pink blouse and white skirt, it was the 46-year-old’s first solo campaign appearance — the third wife of Donald Trump she is a full-time mother to the mogul’s youngest child, Barron. “He will […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton saturated the airwaves and deployed star surrogates to battleground states Thursday, looking to snuff-out an eleventh-hour insurgency that has put Donald Trump at the gates of the White House. As a slew of polls showed the race tightening, President Barack Obama shuttled into Florida for multiple rallies aimed at firing up the Democratic base and turning out the vote for Clinton in a must-win state. […]
HAGATNA, United States | AFP | — A group of former altar boys have filed lawsuits against the Catholic Church in Guam seeking damages for historic child sex abuse allegedly committed by clerics in the Pacific territory. Four men lodged separate claims in the Guam Superior Court on Tuesday, three of which accuse Archbishop Anthony Apuron of molesting them when they were children. Apuron, who denies any wrongdoing, has stepped aside from his duties […]
by Dave Clark WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton painted a grim picture of life under a Donald Trump presidency Wednesday, warning undecided voters as the ever tighter White House race entered its final five-day stretch. Clinton made an optimistic choice in staging a huge rally in Arizona, a swing state she hopes to poach from the Republicans, but the Democrat’s tone was grim as she invited voters to envisage her defeat. “Imagine it […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama implicitly criticized FBI director James Comey Wednesday, insisting US investigations should not operate based on “innuendo” or “incomplete information.” Obama’s remarks in an interview with website NowThisNews were his first public comments since Comey’s announcement Friday that the FBI had discovered a new trove of emails that might or might not be pertinent to an earlier probe of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information. […]
by Michael Mathes with Dave Clark in Washington EAU CLAIRE, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump stormed into traditionally Democratic territory on Tuesday in a last-ditch bid to open up a path to an unlikely White House win, buoyed by a shock new poll showing him edging ahead of Hillary Clinton. If Clinton was rattled by the dramatic tightening in the numbers a week before Election Day, she did not show it, barnstorming through key […]
