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Trump appears with bandaged ear at Republican convention, names Vance as running mate

Updated: 2:20pm (AEST) Milwaukee, US Reuters Donald Trump made a triumphant entrance during the first night of the Republican National Convention on Monday, receiving a raucous ovation from the party faithful two days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear. Trump walked into the Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee with a thick bandage […]

Updated: After assassination attempt, Trump and Biden seek calm, unity

Updated: 12:15pm (AEST) Bethel Park, Pennsylvania Reuters Donald Trump arrived on Sunday in Milwaukee, where he will be formally nominated as the Republican presidential candidate later this week after surviving an assassination attempt that aggravated an already bitter US political divide. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, ordered a review of how a 20-year-old man with […]

Trump talks tariffs and taxes, calls Republican host city “horrible”

Washington DC, US Reuters Donald Trump criticised US aid to Ukraine and suggested raising tariffs to replace the US income tax on a Thursday visit to Capitol Hill where he also called the city hosting his party’s presidential convention “horrible”. In separate meetings with Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump sought […]

In the US, retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland dies at age 95

US Archbishop Rembert Weakland 2002

Milwaukee, US AP Retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, a leading Catholic liberal who pushed for social justice and increased power for women in the church before he resigned amid a sex and financial scandal, has died. He was 95. A classically trained musician who spoke multiple languages, Weakland died overnight at Clement Manor in Greenfield, […]