Biden tells donors he’d not be on the ballot ‘if Trump wasn’t running’ and ‘we can’t let him win’

Biden tells donors he’d not be on the ballot ‘if Trump wasn’t running’ and ‘we can’t let him win’

November was the campaign’s strongest grassroots fundraising month since Biden formally announced last April that he was seeking a second term, according to a campaign official who insisted on anonymity to discuss campaign finances before details are made public. The numbers will be released in January.

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Great Reset: Super-rich men pioneered seed, drug and food patenting, now want to ban competition and extinguish cows

Great Reset: Super-rich men pioneered seed, drug and food patenting, now want to ban competition and extinguish cows

Estimates range from 40 per cent to as high as 80 per cent of jobs being lost to AI, Bruner said. “So what happens when everybody loses their job?”

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Prosecutors oppose Hunter Biden’s application to subpoena Trump documents in gun case

Prosecutors oppose Hunter Biden’s application to subpoena Trump documents in gun case

The long-running case had appeared to be headed for a plea deal this summer, but the agreement on tax and gun charges broke down after Noreika, a Trump nominee, raised questions about it during a plea hearing.

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Shocking details of how Mormon Church covered up priest sexual abuse of daughter, $300,000 hush money offer

Shocking details of how Mormon Church covered up priest sexual abuse of daughter, $300,000 hush money offer

As detectives investigated the new allegations, John Goodrich, who was still facing charges in Chelsea’s case, called the woman at least four times, in conversations she recorded and which the AP obtained. In these conversations, Goodrich asked her to lie to police while admitting he drugged her even as he tried to minimise his actions and repeatedly apologised.

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Satanic  verses: Investigative journalists lay bare entrenched child sex abuse in American Mormon Church

Satanic verses: Investigative journalists lay bare entrenched child sex abuse in American Mormon Church

Sound of Paul Rytting, director of the Risk Management Division for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explaining the $300,000 confidentiality agreement to Lorriane Goodrich, the mother of Chelsea Goodrich who accused her father, John Goodrich, of sexually abusing her.

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Espionage: Ex-US ambassador to Bolivia accused of spying for Cuba arrested in Florida

Espionage: Ex-US ambassador to Bolivia accused of spying for Cuba arrested in Florida

Born in Colombia, Rocha was raised in a working-class home in New York City and went on to obtain a succession of liberal arts degrees from Yale, Harvard and Georgetown before joining the foreign service in 1981.

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Trump rallies supporters to ‘guard the vote’ and vows revenge against Biden if he wins 2024 poll

Trump rallies supporters to ‘guard the vote’ and vows revenge against Biden if he wins 2024 poll

Trump noted he was often attacked for these relationships and tried to defend them. “It’s good to have a good relationship with people who have nuclear weapons,” he said.

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Trump rallies supporters to ‘guard the vote’ as he vows revenge against Biden if he wins 2024 poll

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.” Trump’s allegations about Biden, a Democrat, echo the ones that Biden has been...

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Deepfakes: Families with teen girls victimised by deepfake nudes push for law to rein in AI technology

Deepfakes: Families with teen girls victimised by deepfake nudes push for law to rein in AI technology

The problem with deepfakes isn’t new, but experts say it’s getting worse as the technology to produce it becomes more available and easier to use. Researchers have been sounding the alarm this year on the explosion of AI-generated child sexual abuse material using depictions of real victims or virtual characters. In June, the FBI warned it was continuing to receive reports from victims, both minors and adults, whose photos or videos were used to create explicit content that was shared online.

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War diplomacy: A big part of Henry Kissinger’s legacy is the corruption of US foreign policymaking

War diplomacy: A big part of Henry Kissinger’s legacy is the corruption of US foreign policymaking

Kissinger ducked questions about the bombing of Cambodia, muddied the truth in public comments, and spent half his life lying about his role in the killings there. In the early 2000s, Kissinger was sought for questioning in connection with human rights abuses by former South American military dictatorships, but he evaded investigators, once declining to appear before a court in France and bolting from Paris after receiving a summons. He was never charged or prosecuted for deaths for which he bore responsibility.

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