J.D. Vance
‘Threats from overseas’: Ohio cancels festival after pet rumour panic
Springfield has been the focus of global attention after Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance amplified debunked claims about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs.
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J.D. Vance describes Trump plan to end Ukraine war. It sounds a lot like Putin’s
The plan focuses on Russia keeping the territory it has captured and forcing Ukraine to become neutral. Sounds familiar?
- by Julian E. Barnes
How false claims of pet eating came to take centre stage in a US presidential debate
Rumours spread from a random Facebook post to become a major Trump campaign talking point, as the former president tries to stoke racial divides.
- by Sarah Ellison and Jeremy B. Merrill
Republicans pushing ‘dangerous’ Haitian conspiracy theory, White House says
The claim started in a Springfield Facebook group, where someone wrote that a cat had got lost, ABC News (US) reported. The person then without evidence claimed that Haitians took the cat for food.
- by Trevor Hunnicutt and Doina Chiacu
‘Two bowls of poison’: Why China dreads both Trump and Harris
The future of the US relationship with Beijing has been a backseat issue in the presidential campaign, but neither result bodes well for Xi Jinping.
- by Lisa Visentin
Spy, profiteer, ‘groomed’: US candidates use a growing China as campaign attack line
China’s unpopularity with Americans began growing around 2017 and only worsened during the COVID pandemic, which originated in Wuhan.
- by Liz Goodwin
From bad to worse: Inside Trump’s worst three weeks of the 2024 campaign
Questioning his opponent’s racial identity. Still hoping to “stop the steal”. Constant crowd comparisons. The former president’s people see a candidate knocked off his bearings.
- by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
A financial tale of two potential vice presidents
Tim Walz and JD Vance both come from modest backgrounds, but one running mate is rich and the other far from it.
- by Sharon LaFraniere
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US Votes 2024
The Harris-Walz waltz prompts relief among climate activists
Facing the possibility of a hostile Trump administration, global scientists and analysts are breathing a sigh of relief at the reinvigorated Democratic campaign.
- by Nick O'Malley
From hype to hope: Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?
The question is whether the newly rebooted Harris can sustain the Kamala-mentum or if it will fizzle out before election day on November 5.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Communist China is very happy’: Republicans pile on Tim Walz’s history
Walz first visited China to teach English and US history in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and has been back more than 30 times.
- by Patricia Zengerle and David Brunnstrom
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