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In the run-up to the election, Donald Trump is ahead in five out of seven critical battleground states, according to polling averages. The race remains tight in the first three states, with margins close enough to be within a typical polling error of 3.5 points, making both a Trump or Biden victory feasible. In the […]
Iran is formally indicting the US government and 73 American military officials for the 2020 drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani. According to Iranian state media, Tehran’s judiciary chief announced the 164-page indictment and urged the accused to appoint legal representatives for a public trial at the Tehran Criminal Cour...
A right-wing group aligned with Donald Trump is compiling a list of federal employees considered “disloyal” to the former president. The American Accountability Foundation aims to scrutinize high-ranking government officials, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. News website Axios reports that Trump’s “top...
Abdullah Hammoud, the Democratic mayor of Dearborn, says the US president risks losing reelection against Donald Trump by siding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Frankly, it’s Biden right now who is choosing Benjamin Netanyahu over American democracy,” says Hammoud during an interview with AFP. “For me, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli military analyst Amos Harel says the army wants to withdraw from Gaza, but that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has other ideas.” In an article in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Harel said Netanyahu “continues to declare that the all-out war against Hamas will continue for as long as it takes.” “HeR...
Tijuana, Mexico — AFP Muslims from Algeria, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan wait for US asylum at a shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana — more used to seeing migrants from Latin America than the Middle East. At the Assabil Inn, Mexico’s first shelter catering for US-bound Muslim migrants, the background stories of the ...
Gun control advocates and lawmakers have reacted strongly to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision overturning the Trump-era bump stock ban. The ruling in Garland v. Cargill was criticized for allowing the accessory, linked to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, back into circulation. Congress members, like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, condemned the move citing ...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden attempted a political high-wire act Tuesday by announcing a citizenship pathway for half a million immigrants married to US nationals, in a counterweight to his recent crackdown on illegal border crossers. The Biden administration has been struggling to address immigration, a hugely div...
Detroit, United States – AFP Donald Trump met with Black voters Saturday as he courted a community that largely supported his rival Joe Biden four years ago but has seen notable numbers of African Americans shift allegiance ahead of November’s presidential rematch. But the Republican former president also attended another campaign ...
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on bump stocks. It was enacted by the Trump administration after a 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. By a 6-3 vote the justices found the Trump administration had exceeded its power when it prohibited an attachment that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire at […]
