This Is Beirut, 13/09 05:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump said Thursday he would not take part in another debate with Kamala Harris, as the White House rivals headed back to battleground states that are set to decide a nail-bitingly close US presidential election. The Republican former president lashed out two days after his first televised clash with the Democratic vice president, when ...
This Is Beirut, 11/09 06:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump battled it out over immigration, abortion, Israel and their respective approaches to policy and performance in their pivotal presidential debate, as the nation barrels toward the November 5 election. Their first-ever meeting was a more energized showdown than the one two months ago in Atlanta, where President Joe ...
This Is Beirut, 10/09 04:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris touched down in Philadelphia on Monday on the eve of her first -- and possibly only -- presidential debate with Donald Trump before the knife-edge 2024 US election. With less than two months until polling day, the face-off could be a turning point in a bitter contest between the Democratic vice president and Republican former ...
This Is Beirut, 06/09 03:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty in a tax evasion trial on Thursday, after failing to secure a deal with prosecutors in a case that has caused embarrassment for the United States president. The 54-year-old admitted to nine counts of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes over the past decade, with prosecutors alleging he ...
This Is Beirut, 02/09 20:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States on Monday seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's plane in the Dominican Republic and flew it to Florida, saying it acted over violation of US sanctions. United States officials moved to take the aircraft, a Dassault Falcon 900EX private jet used by Maduro and members of his government, with the Justice Department saying ...
This Is Beirut, 30/08 05:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kamala Harris declared on Thursday that Americans are ready to turn the page on Donald Trump, as she reached out to centrist voters in her first interview since her dramatic entry into November's presidential election. The 59-year-old Democrat insisted on CNN that she would be tough on illegal immigration and support controversial oil and gas ...
This Is Beirut, 28/08 02:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed a revised indictment of Donald Trump, pressing ahead with bombshell charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 US election after losing to Joe Biden. The superseding indictment retains the same four charges against Trump as in an earlier version but takes into account a recent Supreme Court ruling that a former ...
This Is Beirut, 24/08 13:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's new government will seek to "manage tensions" with its arch-enemy, the United States, to help reduce pressure and neutralize crippling sanctions, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. "What we have to do is manage the tensions and hostilities" between Tehran and Washington, he said in an interview late Friday on state television. Iran and ...
This Is Beirut, 24/08 11:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scion of America's storied political clan, suspended his long-shot presidential bid on Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, injecting new uncertainty into the White House race. "I no longer believe that I have a realistic path of electoral victory," Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist who was polling in ...
This Is Beirut, 23/08 10:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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% in a nationwide poll by The Hill this week, would back ...
This Is Beirut, 20/08 21:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Qatar on Tuesday as part of a Middle East tour to push forward talks aimed at ending the 10-month-old Gaza war. A US senior official traveling with Blinken in the Middle East criticized "maximalist" remarks attributed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on maintaining control of ...
Lyne Sammouri, 20/08 13:55 - Reading : less than a minute
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As the United States braces itself for the 2024 elections, a traditional four-day event takes place. What is the Democratic National Convention? What happens during this event? What is expected?