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To play this content please enable JavaScript or try a different browser.Video captions, In his Oval Office speech, President Biden called on Americans to reject political violence.Article informationauthor, Matt Murphyrole, BBC News 3 hours agoIn a primetime address from the White House, US President Joe Biden condemned the assassination attempt on his predecessor, Donald Trump, and urged the nation that American politics must never become a “killing ground”.Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was wounded in the ear when a gunman opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the attack that left one person dead and two seriously…
CNN — Donald Trump will re-emerge as an even greater mythical hero of his MAGA movement when the Republican National Convention opens on Monday after an extraordinary two weeks that transformed the 2024 campaign after an assassination attempt. More than 24 hours after Saturday’s shooting, the horror is only just beginning to emerge as a shocking new national trauma, but both the former president and President Joe Biden are trying to figure out how to navigate the political fallout. The assassination attempt on a presidential candidate, with all its historical overtones, threatens to take an even more sinister turn in…
Liang Ping Gao and Ryan WuBEIJING (Reuters) – New home prices in China fell to their steepest drop in nine years in June, while property sales and investment also slumped, increasing pressure on policymakers to deliver more stimulus to shore up a battered housing sector that has failed to find a bottom.New home prices fell 4.5 percent from a year earlier, the lowest since June 2015, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), down from a 3.9 percent drop in May.Prices fell 0.7% month-on-month in May, and continued to fall 0.7% in June.A…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Former President Donald Trump was attacked by a gunman identified by authorities as Thomas Crooks, who also appeared in an ad about a Bethel Park High School teacher, according to Blackrock. Spencer Pratt/Getty Images The Trump rally shooter appeared briefly in a 2022 ad, according to BlackRock.BlackRock said Thomas Matthew Crooks “appeared in the background” of the adverts but was not paid.Crooks can be seen in the 30-second ad, which focuses on an AP Economics teacher at Bethel Park High School. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said Sunday…
LimaPeru’s former president, Alberto Fujimori, is elderly and facing legal difficulties, but his daughter announced on Sunday that he will run in the country’s 2026 elections. “My father and I talked and we decided that he would be a presidential candidate,” said Keiko Fujimori, leader of South America’s main right-wing party. The 85-year-old Fujimori ruled Peru with an iron fist as president from 1990 to 2000 and led a military campaign that nearly defeated the Maoist guerrilla group known as the Shining Path. To some, he is remembered as a man who promoted economic growth through neoliberal policies while crushing…
The Copa America final in Miami was shrouded in confusion and fear even before kick-off, with thousands of fans stranded and increasingly crushed outside the gates of Hard Rock Stadium as security personnel tried, and apparently failed, to control the crowds arriving to watch Argentina play Colombia on Sunday.All gates to the stadium were closed for an extended period of time, an hour before the scheduled 8pm kickoff, after which organisers announced that kickoff would be delayed until at least 8:30pm. Kickoff was then postponed until at least 9:15pm.Meanwhile, fans were in distress. Children were crying. Several people were reported…
Donald Trump has announced he will reschedule his planned speech at the Republican National Convention in the wake of the assassination attempt.The former president arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a convention the day after the shooter. Thomas Matthew Crookes Shots were fired at him from a rooftop during an election rally. In an interview with the Washington Examiner During the flight on Saturday evening, Trump “The speech I was scheduled to give on Thursday was going to be epic.”had [the assassination attempt] “If that hadn’t happened, this would have been one of the best speeches focused primarily on President Joe…
Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Employees at British bank Lloyds Banking Group will have to avoid taking taxis and flying business class as part of cost-cutting measures.The bank, which is in the midst of a £4 billion strategic review, is making “some adjustments” to its business travel policy to cut both costs and its carbon footprint, according to a memo sent to Lloyds corporate and institutional banking staff earlier this month and seen by the Financial Times.A memo sent by Lloyd’s chief operating officer Nick Laird said business…
By Freddie Paul, Daily Mail Australia Updated: July 15, 2024 05:01, July 15, 2024 05:01 Unclean practices at Australia Post parcel collection lockers have infuriated Australians.The dirty practice came to attention after locals spotted a growing pile of empty coffee cups next to a locker in Crown Square, Waterloo, in Sydney’s south.They posted photos on social media of discarded cups neatly stacked on top of a broken wooden panel, with more rubbish stuffed into the holes.”Councillor or manager of the Crown Square retail precinct should provide bins or at least provide cleaners,” local residents wrote.”The pile of coffee cups is…
Whether they’re debating the best design of a bike lane or sweating the details of a sidewalk, sustainable transportation advocates often have an obsessive knowledge of the street realm. But what about, well, everything beyond it? In his new book, “The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook,” Nico Larco and his co-author Kaarin Knudson hand advocates and professionals a “magic decoder ring” to understand how green, equitable, human-scaled transportation systems fit into the greater puzzle of the built environment, and how we can better use urban design principles to accomplish a vast range of sustainability goals. And in the process, he’s also helping them…