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    President Barack Obama urged Democrats to carry onetime rival Hillary Clinton to victory in November as America's first woman president, while savaging her Republican opponent Donald Trump for fueling hate and division. The two-term president rallied his party's faithful at their national convention, offering a comprehensive endorsement of his first secretary of state as the one person uniquely qualified to succeed him. At the end of his powerful 45-minute speech, Clinton joined him on stage, prompting deafening cheers from the thousands of convention delegates and guests packed into a Philadelphia sports arena to hear the president's address. To the strains of Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," Obama shared a warm embrace with his would-be successor, capping an ...

    The Russians are coming to invade an email near you, and at the invitation of Donald Trump, no less. At least that’s how the mainstream media have interpreted the Republican Presidential candidate’s latest comments. Headlines referring to Trump’s call on Russia to cyber-invade the United States have contributed to a media frenzy, with the DNC accusing Russians of hacking into its emails. The topic can now be found at the top of news feeds across every social media platform following Trump’s press conference on Wednesday when he jokingly weighed in on the email scandal. Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, said Trump, while commenting on ongoing debacle. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. The c...

    The Democratic Convention officially elected Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Candidate. Clinton is now the first female presidential candidate who received the nomination from one of the two main political parties in the US. Hillary Clinton was a First Lady, US Senator, and US Secretary of State but now she reached a new climax in her political career. Hillary Clinton was officially elected to be the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, the first woman in American history to achieve such a status. The traditional roll call progressed at a satisfactory rate for Clinton, who needed the support of 2,382 delegates. Although the results were known in advance, the Clinton campaign was concerned that the email scandal surrounding the Democratic Party intervening in or...

    Two people have been murdered and 16 have been wounded in a mass shooting at a Florida night club. The gunman opened fire in the parking lot hitting people as young as 12 outside Club Blu Bar and Grill, in Fort Myers in Florida. The incident happened shortly after 12.30am. The shooting took place at Club Blu in Fort Myers, Florida shortly after 12.30am at a teenage disco Two people have been confirmed dead and approximately 16 people have been wounded in the shooting Timothy Settles broadcast on Facebook from his hospital bed and said he did not want to die after the shooting Witnesses said the scene was that of a 'mad house'. Four people are described as being in a critical condition in hospital including a 12-year-old child. The victims are aged between 12 and 27 accordi...

    Jill Harth, a makeup artist, has stayed quiet for almost 20 years about the way Trump pursued her, and – according to a lawsuit she instigated – cornered her and groped her in his daughter’s bedroom. After Trump mounted his campaign for the White House, details emerged of the 1997 complaint, in which Harth accused him of “attempted ‘rape’”. She said she was quickly inundated with interview requests from major US television networks, but resolved not to speak about the events – until Trump publicly said in May that her claims were “meritless” and his daughter Ivanka gave an interview in which she said her father was “not a groper”. Harth, who feels she has been publicly branded a liar and believes her business has suffered because of her association with the allegations, de...

    A Muslim man was removed from an American Airlines flight after a flight attendant publicly announced his name, seat number and said she would be watching him. Mohamed Ahmed Radwan had boarded a plane in Charlotte, North Carolina and the flight attendant went to the tannoy and said: “Mohamed Ahmed, Seat 25-A: I will be watching you.” The employee made no other announcements about any other passenger. Mr Radwan asked the employee why she had made the announcements. She reportedly responded that he was being “too sensitive”. The passenger then reported the incident to two other American Airlines employees. He was told he must leave the plane as he had made the first air stewardess “uncomfortable”. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a complaint about the inci...

    Donald Trump's wife, Melania, took centre stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention but faced accusations that a portion of her speech plagiarised Michelle Obama. Commentators noticed similarities with Mrs Obama's 2008 convention speech. Mrs Trump's speech also praised her husband as a "compassionate" man who would "fight for the country". It was her first speech of the campaign and she had the help of a speechwriting team. Mr Trump's communications adviser Jason Miller issued a statement saying: "In writing her beautiful speech, Melania's team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking. "Melania's immigrant experience and love for America shone through in her speech, which m...

    "Have a safe summer," reads a sign at the entrance to John D Horn high school in Mesquite, Texas, from which Dallas gunman Micah Johnson graduated in 2009. The man who this week shot dead five police officers before being killed by police using a remotely controlled explosive device, was already a member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps when he left school. By 2013, as a full-blown reservist, he was deployed to Afghanistan as a mason and carpenter with the US Army’s 420th Engineer Brigade. He is not believed to have seen combat, though he was awarded an Army Achievement Medal and a Nato Medal. Yet whatever his state of mind when he left for the Middle East, he returned to the US the following year a troubled man. Johnson left the Army in 2015 as a private first...

    The city of Dallas was plunged into chaos overnight as five police officers were shot dead and at least six others were wounded when dozens of shots were fired during a downtown protest against violence. It was the deadliest day for US law enforcement since 9/11. There was a lengthy standoff between police officers and one man suspected to be one of the shooters, before, according to numerous local reports, he was shot dead. It was unclear whether the suspect was shot by police or killed himself. The Guardian was unable to confirm the reports. Three other suspects were in custody. The Dallas police chief, David Brown, said he did not have a “complete comfort level” that all suspects had been apprehended. The suspect involved in the standoff had warned that bombs had been p...

    A college student stepped on a “homemade” bomb in Central Park Sunday, blowing off his left foot, authorities said. Connor Golden, 18, of Fairfax, Va. had just climbed down off of a rock near E. 60th St. and Fifth Ave. around 11 a.m. when the blast went off. The explosive appeared to have been in the area more than a day, according to Lt. Mark Torre, the commanding officer of the NYPD’s Bomb Squad said. He ruled out authorities’ initial suspicion of a self-inflicted fireworks mishap. Two friends of the victim, Connor Golden, 18, of Fairfax, Va., insisted they had no fireworks or other explosives. One witnesses said the victim’s foot was “all but gone.” Another said the blast sounded “like a cannon.” Bomb-sniffing dogs combed the area around the explosion. Cops also examine...