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The primary aim for candidates in a vice-presidential debate is to do no harm to the name at the top of the ticket. Both JD Vance and Tim Walz passed that test with flying colours. In fact, this debate was more substantive, policy-focused and certainly more cordial than anything we heard from the Donald Trump
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TV debates have mattered more than ever before in this year’s US presidential election. President Joe Biden’s pitiful performance on 27 June effectively knocked the incumbent out of the race for the White House. Then on 10 September Biden’s replacement, vice president Kamala Harris, proved she is a real contender, baiting her opponent Donald Trump
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New York City’s mayor has been charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign nationals. Eric Adams “solicited and demanded” bribes, including free and heavily discounted luxury travel benefits from a Turkish official, according to an indictment filed by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan. Adams is the first of New York City’s
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Senior US officials have said overnight they expect a ceasefire deal to be implemented “in the coming hours” along the Israel-Lebanon border. Speaking to reporters in a late-night, last-minute phone briefing, the US administration officials said that exhaustive behind-the-scenes diplomacy had brought an agreement between the two sides close. One administration official said: “The ceasefire
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A man has been charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump after staking out the presidential hopeful on his Florida golf course. Ryan Routh was arrested after allegedly poking his gun through bushes surrounding the West Palm Beach golf course on 15 September. Routh was initially charged with two gun offences but prosecutors have upgraded
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The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for $15m over claims Elon Musk’s company trespassed and damaged a plot of its land. A lawsuit filed in Texas alleges SpaceX treated a plot of land owned by Cards Against Humanity as essentially its own for at least the past six
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FBI agents have boarded a boat managed by the same company whose cargo ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and caused it to collapse. The two companies in charge of the ship “recklessly cut corners” and ignored electrical problems on the vessel before the crash in March, alleged the US Justice Department on Wednesday. Three
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