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The ‘Meanwhile in America’ pregame guide to zingers, tells and expectations in the first presidential debate
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This was adapted from the September 30 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. It's showtime. The first, hotly an...
Secret Service adding former Biden agents to new presidential detail
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The US Secret Service has been planning to bring back to the White House a group of agents that previously worked with President-elect Joe Biden when he was vice president to fill out his security detail, a law enfo...
Trump easily wins CPAC 2024 GOP presidential nomination straw poll
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Trump, who’s repeatedly flirted with making another presidential run in 2024 to try and return to the White House, captured 70% of ballots cast in the anonymous straw poll, according to results announced by CPAC on S...
Russia says it would welcome another presidential call with Biden over Ukraine
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Russia would welcome another conversation between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a call with journalists on Thursday. The two presidents last spoke...
‘We need to make changes’: 16 states and Puerto Rico pitch themselves to go first on the Democratic presidential nominating calendar
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Washington, DC Democratic Party leaders are meeting this week to hear pitches from 16 states and Puerto Rico, which want to hold the first presidential nominating contests in 2024, as the party moves forward with ree...
Why the final presidential debate (still) might not happen
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On Thursday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will share a debate stage for the last time before the November 3 election. Maybe. Why only...
What to watch for at Biden’s first presidential news conference
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President Joe Biden is holding his first formal news conference on Thursday and will likely face scrutiny over his administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the growing number of unaccompanied migrant chil...
Philippines rights groups decry presidential bid of late dictator’s son
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Philippines human rights groups staged protests on Wednesday to denounce an attempt by the son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to return his family to power by vying for the presidency. Marcos, accompa...
France’s presidential election race is tighter than expected. Here’s what you need to know
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Paris At the start of 2022, France's upcoming presidential election looked set to be one of the country's most watched political races in decades. An incumbent president standing for election for only the second tim...
Karl Rove acknowledges presidential election ‘won’t be overturned’
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Washington Karl Rove, the architect of former President George W. Bush's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, acknowledged Wednesday that the 2020 presidential election will not be overturned regardless of the f...
Syrians vote in ‘non-event’ presidential election set to be won by Assad
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Syrians were voting Wednesday in presidential elections widely dismissed by experts and activists as a sham poll, rigged in favor of President Bashar al-Assad. Assad, 55, who has repeatedly been accused of war crim...
Roger Stone says Trump dismissed him when first encouraging presidential run: ‘You’re out of your mind’
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Stone, who served as an informal adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign, recollected on an early conversation he had with Trump where he encouraged the then-real estate mogul to throw his hat in the ring for president long...
Macron projected to win France’s presidential election
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Macron faced off against right-wing rival Marine Le Pen, who conceded soon after projections were released. Polling agency Ipsos shows Macron won 58.2% of the vote to Le Pen's 41.8% of the vote. FRANCE ELECTION: E...
Succession: Presidential and Vice Presidential Fast Facts
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Here is some background information about the line of succession for the president and vice president of the United States. Presidential Succession Article 2, Section 1, Clause 6, Constitution of the United States: ...
Bill Belichick declines Presidential Medal of Freedom offer from Trump
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New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has announced that he is declining the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he was scheduled to receive from President Donald Trump on Thursday. Belichick cited the "...
Rockets land near Afghanistan’s presidential palace during Eid prayers
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Three rockets landed in two different areas near the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, as President Ashraf Ghani joined other high ranking officials for prayers to mark the Muslim holiday...