Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made their final case Monday in the hours before Election Day, when voters will either choose America’s first woman president or hand the Republican an unprecedented comeback likely to rattle the world.With polls showing a dead heat, Trump promised to lead the United States to “new heights of glory” while …
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Voters in the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day in the first minutes of Tuesday with a tied vote, mirroring the incredibly close national polls in the White House race.Kamala Harris and Donald Trump each got three ballots in the tiny community in the northeastern state of New Hampshire which for decades has kicked off …
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump held dueling rallies Monday in the final hours before Election Day, when Americans will either choose the first woman president in US history or deliver the Republican an unprecedented comeback likely to rattle the world.With polls showing a dead heat, the candidates offered up starkly different visions as they spent …
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A Taiwanese radio host and his wife have been charged with receiving $2.3 million from “overseas sources” including China in exchange for attempting to influence the island’s elections and referendums. The man surnamed Chang and the woman surnamed Hung were charged Monday with violating Taiwan’s anti-infiltration law, the district prosecutors’ office in southern Chiayi city said …
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Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar’s faithful — but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is now a perilous task.Buddhist-majority Myanmar has been mired in bloody conflict since the military toppled the government of Aung San Suu Kyi in …
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Japan’s top national security official said he conveyed “serious concerns” to China’s foreign minister over North Korea’s deepening ties with Russia after the pair held talks in Beijing.Their meeting on Monday was four and a half hours long, according to Japanese media, which said the two also discussed a possible head-to-head between President Xi Jinping …
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Hamas-run Gaza’s health ministry said Monday Israeli forces were bombarding the last partially functioning hospital in the territory’s north, as Israel formally notified the UN it is cutting ties with the main aid agency for Palestinians.Vowing to stop Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza, Israel launched a major air and ground assault nearly a month …
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Polls opened Tuesday in the Pacific nation Palau, which is voting in a presidential election dominated by cost-of-living worries, China meddling claims, and the expanding military footprint of the United States. The Melanesian microstate of some 20,000 people is one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic friends and is seen as a steadfast US supporter in a region where …
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Quincy Jones, the polymath hitmaker who ruled the American music industry with a magic touch for well over half a century, has died. He was 91 years old.The singular artist was surrounded by family at home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air when he died Sunday, his publicist Arnold Robinson said in a …
Panic buttons for poll workers, special weapons teams deployed on rooftops, and hundreds of National Guard personnel on standby. The 2024 US presidential campaign has been a particularly volatile one, and security for Election Day on Tuesday is being ramped up to unprecedented levels given concerns over possible civil unrest, election chicanery, or violence against election …
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