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Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, AP-NORC poll shows
Americans are divided on Trump's legal issues, impacting his potential presidency. Republicans largely support him, while others doubt his credibility. Verdict before GOP Convention may influence his campaign.
US Polls: Donald Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP's presumptive nominee for 3rd straight election
Donald Trump, despite legal troubles and controversies, secures the GOP nomination for the presidential election. His campaign tests democratic norms, threatens alliances, and focuses on issues like inflation and immigration.
Just how climate-friendly are timber buildings? It’s complicated
The wood components are strong enough to hold up an office tower or apartment block, and building with them is thought to emit much less CO2 than using standard materials.
Philadelphia Marathon Weekend 2023: Here's everything you need to know
The Philadelphia Marathon, now in its 30th year, will take place on Sunday, November 19. It began as a tiny, local race with only 1,500 participants and has since grown to become one of the top ten marathons in the United States.
Scouting out the next wave of robot workers
Automation might not be ready to over the Amazon warehouse yet but the robot revolution has certainly begun and accelerated by the pandemic.
The robots we were afraid of are already here
A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum. It then placed the boxes on an assembly line and walked back to the shelf to search for more.
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Scientists discover miracle protein that can induce calorie burning, reduce obesity: Study
This protein will reportedly allow the 'good fat' burn excess calories and thereby helping us lose weight.
Charles Fuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of acclaimed 'A Soldier's Play', passes away at 83
The play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1982 and two years later was made into the Oscar-nominated best picture.
The supply chain broke. Robots are supposed to help fix it.
The stakes are especially high for companies engaged in transporting goods. Their executives contend that the Great Supply Chain Disruption is largely the result of labor shortages.
Joe Biden to visit Philadelphia as a speaker at the AFL-CIO convention on Tuesday
President Joe Biden will visit Philadelphia on Tuesday to speak at the AFL-CIO convention, bringing together 57 unions to debate, set course, and pass a vote on resolutions for the labour movement's future.
Electric cars are passé: This flying battery is the dream of every green aviator
A battery-powered aircraft with no internal combustion has been a goal of engineers ever since the Wright brothers.
Want to be more productive? 'Stop trying' is a surefire way to succeed
The pandemic has prompted a collective awakening, born of a constant and immediate fear of contagion and death, over cultural priorities.
Trump's legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
The strategy may have played well in front of television cameras and on talk radio. But it has proved a disaster in court, where judges uniformly rejected their claims of vote fraud and found the campaign's legal work amateurish.
Michigan Republicans backtrack after refusing to certify Wayne County election results
The state vote certification process is usually a routine task, and the ultimate resolution in Wayne County propels Biden toward formal victory in Michigan. Still, Tuesday's chaotic developments are likely to sow more doubt among Trump's supporters in the election results and could galvanize Republicans in other states to try to look for ways to slow down the final steps in making his loss official.
Joe Biden shores up fragile 'blue wall' in industrial north
Biden, from the start, sought to reclaim at least some of those voters, making his appeal as a son of Scranton, Pa., who attended a state college, had known financial struggle, and could relate to their concerns.
How Biden navigated pandemic politics to win the race to the highest American office
Biden's decision to stop campaigning for days was without precedent in modern American politics. Barack Obama and John McCain returned to Washington in the final weeks of the 2008 campaign to respond to that year's financial collapse, but only briefly. In an era when voters are accustomed to seeing their presidential candidates constantly, the idea of a complete withdrawal was unthinkable.
Donald Trump's errant assault on election integrity
Election officials, Democrats and some Republicans blanched at his baseless recitation of sinister doings and his effort to delegitimize democracy's highest calling.
America Decides: A country in crisis
Some US House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday blamed Tuesday’s election losses on colleagues who embraced defunding police departments and 'socialist' policies.
White House in reach for Biden as he builds leads in Pennsylvania, Georgia
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gained more ground on President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania on Friday, edging closer to the White House hours after Trump falsely claimed the election was being "stolen" from him.
2020 US election: What you need to know right now
A bipartisan majority of Americans do not accept Trump's premature victory declaration in the election and most are willing to wait for all votes to be counted before deciding who won.
Trump and Biden protesters duel outside ballot-counting centers in cliffhanger election
The demonstrations were largely peaceful, although Trump supporters occasionally shouted with counterprotesters. Trump says the election is being stolen but there has been no evidence of fraud.
Philadelphia police probe alleged plot to attack vote counting venue
Local police received a tip about a Hummer with armed people driving up from Virginia with plans to attack the convention center, a police representative said.
America's partisan poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in extended battle over ballots
Tasked this year with monitoring a record number of mail ballots, partisan poll watchers are designated by a political party or campaign to report any concerns they may have. With a few reports of overly aggressive poll watchers, election officials said they were carefully balancing access with the need to minimize disruptions.
Protesters pro- and anti-Trump converge at Philadelphia vote counting center
Biden supporters want every vote counted, while Trump backers want votes that came in by mail after election day be ignored -- and support the president's unsubstantiated claims that the mail-in ballot system was riddled with fraud.
Trump sues in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, lays ground for contesting outcome
The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted, and raise absentee ballot concerns, the campaign said. However, at one Michigan location in question The Associated Press observed poll watchers from both sides monitoring on Wednesday.
'You are no longer my mother': A divided America will struggle to heal after Trump era
Throughout his nearly four-year norm-smashing presidency Trump has stirred strong emotions among both supporters and opponents. Many of his backers admire his moves to overhaul immigration, his appointment of conservative judges, his willingness to throw convention to the wind and his harsh rhetoric, which they call straight talk.
Why the Pennsylvania vote count might throw U.S. into political crisis
In Pennsylvania and across America, retailers are reinforcing glass, hiring guards or retaining on-call teams that barricade and board up buildings. Citizens of all political stripes are snapping up guns and ammunition in record numbers.
View: How the development of the Covid vaccine could influence the US polls outcome
The November 3 election certainly is an important factor to the ‘race for a Covid vaccine’.
Donald Trump on the road as Joe Biden prepares for convention show
On Tuesday, Trump will take on Biden over his immigration policies during a visit to Yuma, Arizona. He is also set to travel to Pennsylvania, the state of Biden's birth, on Thursday, ahead of the Democrat's acceptance speech.
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