Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden told Americans Wednesday he quit the 2024 election to unite the country, saying in a historic Oval Office speech that it was time to pass the torch to “younger voices.” “I revere this office. But I love my country more,” the 81-year-old said in an elegiac [&he...
Charlotte, United States – AFP Donald Trump launched a volley of attacks against US Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday, calling her a “radical left lunatic” in his first rally since she became the de facto Democratic Party nominee for November’s election. In a speech where he also claimed that Harris was in favor of...
An Ohio Republican senator known for once likening Donald Trump to “America’s Hitler” has been selected as Trump’s vice presidential running mate. Yale-educated lawyer and Iraq War veteran J.D. Vance shifted from Trump critic to ally after he won his Senate seat with Trump’s endorsement two years ago. Vance is mar...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Senator Peter Welch on Wednesday became the first Democratic senator to call on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race after his poor performance in his first debate with Donald Trump last month. “We cannot unsee President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. We cannot ignore or dismiss the...
The first presidential debate on Thursday night left Democrats anxious about President Joe Biden’s ability to confront Donald Trump. Biden’s stumbling and hesitant delivery sparked widespread worry about his age and ability to effectively lead the party. Prominent Democratic strategist David Plouffe described the debate as a “Defcon 1 moment...
WASHINGTON (AA) – United States Vice President Kamala Harris called Sunday for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. During remarks in Alabama to mark the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day state law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Harris said the threat posed by Hamas to Israel must ...
NEW YORK (AA) – Funds raised for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a cause supported by Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of US Vice President Kamala Harris, have surpassed $11 million. Ella Emhoff, the daughter of Kerstin Emhoff, the first wife of Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff, openly endorsed and shared on her socia...
Palestinian Territories – AFP United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has voiced alarm that hundreds of thousands of Gazans “are being confined into ever smaller areas” in the southern of the territory. “There is no safe place in Gaza,” he said on Sunday. Israel has killed more than 15,500 pe...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — AFP Vice President Kamala Harris told the UN’s COP28 conference on Saturday that the United States will contribute $3 billion to a global climate fund — its first pledge to it since 2014. “Today, we are demonstrating through action how the world can and must meet this crisis,” Harris ...
