Black leaders call out Trump’s criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict
Some Black Americans found irony in Trump railing against the injustice of his own conviction, in a courthouse where five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted in a case Trump supported so vociferously. The Central Park Five case was Trump’s first foray into tough-on-crime politics that preluded his full-throated populist political persona. To many, Trump employed dog whistles as well as overtly racist rhetoric in both chapters of his public life.
Opinion poll places Biden slightly ahead of Trump, who on Thursday was convicted of 34 crimes
Joe Biden’s lead was within the survey’s roughly 2 percentage point margin of error for registered voters, many of whom remain on the fence with about five months left before the November 5 election. A prior Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted May 7-14 showed Trump and Biden tied with 40 per cent support each.
Curtains come down on ANC’s dominance of South African politics as vote tallying ends
Vote tallying from Wednesday’s poll was entering the final stages on Saturday morning, with results in from over 98 per cent of polling stations giving the ANC 40.29 per cent. The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), had 21.63 per cent and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new party led by former president Jacob Zuma, managed to grab 14.71 per cent.
South Africa’s ruling ANC is on the brink of losing its majority in a landmark election result
South Africans vote for parties in national elections to decide how many seats each party gets in Parliament. Lawmakers then elect the president, and if the ANC is short of the 50 per cent mark, it will not have a majority of lawmakers and will need help from others to re-elect Ramaphosa for a second and final term.
Army: Separatist gunmen suspected to be members of IPOB kill 11 in southeast Nigeria
IPOB campaigns for the secession of southeastern Nigeria where the majority belong to the Igbo group. The movement’s leader – Nnamdi Kanu, a British citizen arrested in Kenya in 2021 – is now on trial in Nigeria on terrorism charges.
Irate Trump mobs agitate for lynching of judges, violent uprising after New York finds him guilty of 34 crimes
Threats of violence and intimidating rhetoric soared after Trump lost the 2020 election and falsely claimed the vote was stolen. As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has baselessly cast the judges and prosecutors in his trials as corrupt tools of the Biden administration, intent on sabotaging his White House bid. His loyalists have responded with a campaign of threats and intimidation targeting judges and court officials.
South Africa on course to ‘coalition country’ with fears President Ramaphosa is not sitting pretty in ANC
The ANC has had a clear majority for all 30 years of South Africa’s democracy since the party swept to power in a 1994 election which officially ended the apartheid system of white minority rule, leading Nelson Mandela to become the country’s first Black president. It has been the dominant political force and its slipping below 50 per cent would be a momentous change for Africa’s most advanced economy.
Trump makes history as first ex-US president to be convicited of crime, faces four years in jail
Donald Trump, 77, was found guilty of falsifying his New York-based real estate company’s books to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she alleges she had with Trump a decade earlier.
Date with fate: For Trump’s false records charges prison is rare, but not unprecedented
In deciding any sentence, Merchan may weigh the underlying seriousness of the charges due to their ties to the 2016 election, as well as Trump’s decision to go to trial rather than accept responsibility by pleading guilty.
Biden’s ‘retail politician’ style of campaign taps friend groups, social media with erratic results
Biden, 81, has spent decades honing his ‘retail’ politician style of wooing voters. Big, thundering speeches have never been his style but he lights up when meeting people one-on-one, thumping shoulders, hugging strangers and FaceTiming people’s moms.
