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Chicago (AFP) - Kamala Harris is set to deliver the biggest speech of her life Thursday as she accepts the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago after a historic turnaround in the 2024 White House race. The 59-year-old US vice president is expected to focus on optimism and her personal story, drawing a contrast with the often dark vision of her Republican rival Donald Trump. Excitement was already at fever pitch hours before her speech, with delegates clapping and cheering, and special musical guests lined up to perform, including pop star Pink and country band The Chicks. Speculation ...
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Chicago (AFP) - "This is the real DNC!" says Chicago drag queen Lucy Stoole, sporting a gold dress, heels and blond wig, offset with a thick beard. Moments later another performer dressed as Yoda from the "Star Wars" films and sporting a red sparkly "Harris-Walz" bustier vanquishes two "Trump-Vance" stormtroopers with a lightsaber. The drag event at a Chicago music hall, on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention, is one of a number of efforts across the United States to promote LGBTQ voter turnout and political volunteering. Alongside stripteases and lip syncing on stage, Democrat...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Apple will allow iPhone and iPad users in the European Union delete the App Store or its Safari browser, the tech giant told developers on Thursday. Apple had long fiercely protected the App Store as the lone gateway for digital content to get onto its popular mobile devices. The change comes as the company loosens its grip on devices in the EU due to the bloc's landmark new digital rules. "The App Store, Messages, Camera, Photos, and Safari apps will be deletable for users in the EU," Apple said on a support page for developers. "Only Settings and Phone will not be delet...
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Paris (AFP) - A Paris court Thursday rejected an appeal by a French-Vietnamese woman who has been trying to sue Monsanto and other makers of Agent Orange for the chemical's use in the Vietnam War. Tran To Nga, who was born in what was then French Indochina, accused 14 agrochemicals firms of causing grievous harm to her and others by selling Agent Orange to the American military, which used the herbicide to devastating effect in Vietnam. She lost her initial case in 2021, when a French court ruled that the companies enjoyed legal immunity from prosecution because they worked for a sovereign gov...
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Washington (AFP) - Sales of previously owned homes in the United States edged up in July, industry data showed on Thursday, breaking a four-month trend of declines. Homebuyers in the world's biggest economy have been grappling with a surge in mortgage rates after the US central bank rapidly lifted the benchmark lending rate in 2022. But the popular 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ticked down slightly in late July, potentially offering some relief to buyers. Existing home sales rose 1.3 percent from June to an annual rate of 3.95 million, seasonally adjusted, said the National Association of Realto...
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Chicago (AFP) - US talk show host Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday, calling on her fellow independent voters to vote for "joy". In an electrifying address to the US political party convention, Winfrey said: "We are so fired up we can't wait to leave here and do something". "And what we're going to do is elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States. And let us choose joy!" Winfrey said, a day after former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle addressed the DNC. "Let us choose common sense over nonsens...
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Chicago (AFP) - Tim Walz introduced himself to millions of Americans on a star-studded night at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, as he accepted the nomination to be Kamala Harris's White House running mate. In a whirlwind quarter-hour address, Walz raced through the story of his middle-class upbringing in small town Nebraska, where he worked on the family farm, and described his experience teaching students who inspired him to go into politics. "They saw in me what I had hoped to instill in them: a commitment to the common good, an understanding that we're all in this together, an...
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Chicago (AFP) - While Democratic luminaries including the Obamas enthusiastically support Kamala Harris for US president at their party's convention, an unlikely band of rebels is joining the effort: Republicans urging fellow conservatives to ditch Donald Trump. The message is nothing new -- several Republicans have spoken out against Trump over the years. But their presence at this week's carefully orchestrated Democratic confab has amplified the call for conservatives and independents to reconsider their election choice in November. "Let me be clear to my Republican friends at home watching,...
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Washington (AFP) - Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to drop out of the race for the White House, US media reported on Wednesday, with the independent candidate due to make a major address later in the week. The New York Times and CNN reported that Kennedy, whose support was at 8.7 percent in a nationwide poll by The Hill this week, would back Republican nominee Donald Trump upon dropping out. Analysts say that in the tight race between the Democratic Party's Kamala Harris and Trump for the presidency, the votes of Kennedy's supporters could determine the outcome in some...
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Washington (AFP) - The nomination of Kamala Harris in Chicago on Thursday to be the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in the November presidential election will cap one of the wildest months in US political history. On the afternoon of July 21, President Joe Biden upended the White House race with a post on X saying he would not seek reelection. The 81-year-old Biden bowed to growing pressure from party leaders to step aside following his disastrous debate performance against Republican candidate Donald Trump in late June. Biden's announcement, while not completely unforeseen amid mounting co...
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