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Chicago (AFP) - It was the hero's send-off he had hoped to defer for another four years but when it came, any lingering bitterness seemed forgotten for a cathartic hour as Joe Biden basked in the adulation of his party faithful. Chicago's United Center crackled with pride, love and not a few tears as the US president stepped out to deliver his farewell speech Monday at the Democratic National Convention. "The ending was like a fairy tale, because it seemed like a changing of the guard," said Azziem Underwood, 64, from Seattle, Washington. "He seemed good. I was like, 'Oh, why did he step dow...
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Chicago (AFP) - For better or worse, politics has always been a family affair for President Joe Biden, and his emotional farewell at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is no exception. First, his wife and fierce defender Jill Biden, the 73-year-old first lady, will take to the stage on Monday to speak about a presidency she reportedly believes was unfairly cut short. Then their daughter Ashley, 43, will ascend the podium to give an introduction to the speech by her 81-year-old father in front of thousands of delegates from the party that just pushed him out. Only after that will the...
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Chicago (AFP) - Chicago was awash with affection, gratitude and nostalgia for US President Joe Biden on Monday as he prepared to bring down the curtain on a storied political career at the opening of the Democratic National Convention. Biden's keynote speech at the United Center will mark the beginning of a long farewell for a politician who has been in the public eye for more than 50 years as a senator, vice president and commander in chief. The 81-year-old unseated Donald Trump in 2020 but exited the 2024 race last month after a dismal debate performance that convinced Democrats he was too o...
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Washington (AFP) - A few short weeks ago, Joe Biden was set to headline the Democratic National Convention -- but after a brutal political comedown, he's now the warm-up act for Kamala Harris. For a proud man like the 81-year-old US president, his speech on the first day of the party's gathering in Chicago on Monday is sure to come with conflicting emotions. Still harboring frustration over his exit from the White House race, Biden will be trying to balance his feelings with the need to help his vice president beat Republican Donald Trump in November. With Harris set to formally accept the De...
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New York (AFP) - Major pharmaceutical companies lashed out following a landmark deal unveiled Thursday to cut the costs of 10 key medicines, with some saying the price-setting process was not transparent. Their statements came after US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced a deal to lower costs of the first 10 drugs picked for Medicare price talks. The agreement with drugmakers -- who said they came on board with negotiations as they had no choice -- is set to save seniors in the United States $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs. It is the result of months of negotiati...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden, in his first TV interview since withdrawing from the election, has said he acted under pressure from fellow Democrats and out of a determination to see Donald Trump beaten. Explaining his shock exit in new detail, Biden said party colleagues standing for reelection feared he was damaging their chances as his age and mental abilities came to dominate the campaign. Biden, 81, has kept a low profile since ending his second-term bid on July 21 after his flailing debate performance against Trump triggered a slow-burning Democrat revolt against him. In the ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden warned that he was "not confident at all" of a peaceful handover of power to Kamala Harris if Donald Trump loses November's election, in an extract of a CBS interview broadcast Wednesday. Biden, 81, who dropped out of the White House race in July and was replaced by Vice President Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, said Trump's hints on the campaign trail about not accepting a defeat should be taken seriously. "If Trump loses, I'm not confident at all," Biden told the US network in the interview, which was due to air fully on Sunday, when a...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden has burnished his legacy by securing a huge prisoner swap deal with Russia -- and shone some reflected glory on Kamala Harris's election hopes. In a powerful piece of political theater, Biden and Harris hugged reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other American prisoners as they arrived back on US soil at Joint Base Andrews near Washington. For Biden, the multinational swap was a historic foreign policy win to savor, after his traumatic withdrawal from the 2024 White House race rendered him a lame-duck president. But it was also a chance to boost Harris, ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court has become a political flashpoint in recent years, triggering growing calls for reform, but enacting substantive institutional change in such a polarized climate is close to impossible, analysts say. Democratic President Joe Biden unveiled proposals Monday to reform the nine-member court, which has lurched sharply to the right with the nomination of three conservative justices by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump. Wielding a 6-3 majority, conservatives have stripped the nationwide right to abortion, weakened environmental protections and federal a...
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Austin (AFP) - Joe Biden unveiled plans Monday for sweeping US Supreme Court reforms, as he seeks to cement his legacy in the twilight of his presidency despite Republicans branding the proposals dead on arrival. Stung by shock rulings on abortion and other topics and by a series of scandals involving the conservative-dominated court, Biden called for 18-year term limits for justices and an enforceable ethics code. "Extremism is undermining public confidence in the court's decisions," Biden said in a speech outlining the "bold" plans at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin,...
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