Just now Sam Cabral and Ana Faguy,BBC News BBC Donald Trump is the first former or serving US president to be found guilty of a crime – but what will his conviction mean for the election? Opinion polls have suggested it could change the minds of some voters, ahead of a tight race with President...
A retired four-star US Navy admiral has been arrested on allegations that he agreed to award a government contract to a company in exchange for a future job with the firm. Adm Robert Burke, who served as vice-chief of naval operations until 2022, could face up to 30 years in jail if convicted on bribery...
8 hours ago Rachel Looker,BBC News, Washington ‘Reckless’ to say Trump verdict was ‘rigged’ – Biden US President Joe Biden has said it was “reckless” for his predecessor, Donald Trump, to call his trial rigged, a day after the historic conviction. In his first public remarks about the guilty verdict for Trump on 34 counts...
Marian Robinson shunned the spotlight and rarely gave interviews – her daughter, Michelle Obama, once described her as a “sweet, witty companion who doesn’t need the limelight”. But it was that privacy, tightly guarded by the Obamas, that afforded Robinson the rare luxury of being able to live relatively freely in the White House and...
Marian Robinson, the mother of former US First Lady Michelle Obama, has died at 86, the Obama family has announced. In a statement, the family said that Robinson died “peacefully” on Friday morning. Robinson was a well-known fixture at the White House during the eight years of Barack Obama’s administration between 2009 and 2017. She...
The ex-president was found guilty on all counts of falsifying business records. Americans have mixed opinions about the verdict. Source link
4 hours ago Katty Kay,US Special Correspondent REUTERS/Andrew Kelly There’s a new front line in Donald Trump’s battle to get elected. Just minutes after he was found guilty on all 34 felony counts on Thursday, I heard from a person close to the former president who described this moment as a “civil war” within the...
US President Joe Biden has urged Hamas to accept a new Israeli proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, saying that “it’s time for this war to end”. The three-part proposal would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza. There would also be...
A man has been arrested in southern France for planning an attack on a football stadium which will be used during this summer’s Olympic Games, officials say. The 18-year-old of Chechen origin was apprehended in Saint-Etienne on 22 May after authorities found evidence of an Islamist-inspired attack, officials say. Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin praised the...
8 minutes ago Farouk Chothia,BBC News, Johannesburg Reuters The ANC’s leader Cyril Ramaphosa will have to form a coalition With most of the results now in from South Africa’s election, the long-ruling African National Congress (ANC), will have to contend with sharing power after a historic loss of its parliamentary majority. Counting in over 80%...