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Police shooting victim says ‘it hurts to breathe’

Jacob Blake, the young black man shot in the back at least seven times by a white cop in the US, has spoken publicly for the first time from his hospital bed.

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US President Donald Trump speaks during the first day of the Republican National Convention on August 24, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina. - President Donald Trump went into battle for a second term Monday with his nomination at a Republican convention where he will draw on all his showman's instincts to try and change the narrative in an election he is currently set to lose. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP)

Why the ‘quiet’ Americans are now essential for Trump

He may be one of the most divisive presidents in US history but Donald Trump has never lost a rusted-on 40 per cent of the population who support him. Now he needs them more than ever.

Leaders

The divided US state Biden must take from Trump

This is the stage for one of the US election’s toughest battles – a must-win county in a must-win state for both parties — where Americans are divided between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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YUMA, AZ - AUGUST 18: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stand for the national anthem before a campaign rally at The Defense Contractor Complex on August 18, 2020 in Yuma, Arizona. Trump excoriated presumptive Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden as being soft on illegal immigration as Democrats hold their convention this week remotely from Milwaukee. Hundreds waited in line in 104-degree heat to see the president, many without masks or maintaining distance from others, according to published reports. The crowd size inside the hangar was limited in a nod to the ongoing pandemic that has hit Yuma County particularly hard. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

What Australia can learn from America’s lockdown

They have the highest COVID rates in the world, but life in the US carries on regardless. Now, it’s time for Australia to work out its own way to live with this thing, not cower from it.

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TOPSHOT - Former vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (L) and Senator from California and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris greet supporters outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, held virtually amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, on August 20, 2020. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Kamala Harris duped by fake Greta Thunberg

Kamala Harris has been fooled by Russian pranksters pretending to be Greta Thunberg in a worrying security breach ahead of the US election.

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CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Balloons fall over the crowd at the end of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. John Moore/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Why these National Conventions are like no other

The Republican and Democratic Conventions are traditionally loud, colourful and energetic highlights of the election campaign. But like with so much else in 2020, COVID-19 popped the balloon this year.

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(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on June 11, 2019 shows US President Donald Trump (L) as he departs the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2019, and former US vice president Joe Biden during the kick off his presidential election campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 18, 2019. - With the White House campaign heading into its coronavirus-hobbled home stretch, Democratic nominee Joe Biden is preparing to announce his vice presidential running mate, a woman likely to play an outsize role in a new administration. (Photos by Jim WATSON and Dominick Reuter / AFP)

Biden faces challenge of life as Trump closes gap

Amid allegations of an extramarital affair, the big question for Joe Biden is whether or not he can get voters excited about anything other than the fact that he isn’t Donald Trump.

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Robert Trump (l.) with brother Donald at the Taj Mahal Casino Resort last week in Atlantic City, NJ (Robert Rosamilio/New York Daily News)(Photo by Robert Rosamilio/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

‘Best friend’: Donald Trump’s brother dies aged 71

US President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, has died aged 71. His political colleagues and rivals reached out to him to offer their condolences and support.

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The one thing Donald Trump and Australians have in common

There are many perks to being an Australian living in the US, but when it comes to international plumbing standards, it’s just one big soggy mess, writes Sarah Blake.

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press on arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on August 14, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

‘A hard time’: Trump’s family crisis

US President Donald Trump has had a family emergency, as it was revealed an FBI lawyer will plead guilty to falsifying a record to obtain a wiretap as part of a probe into the 2016 election.

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