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Dozens dead in one of worst US wildfire seasons on record
Portland, Oregon is a city at the centre of what is shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.
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Biden says election victory of ‘climate denier’ Trump would lead to more frequent wildfires
Up and down America’s Western states nearly 5 million acres of forest has been destroyed.
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Deadly US west coast wildfires forces 500,000 to evacuate in Oregon
In California, Oregon and Washington – dozens of large and aggressive fires have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and destroyed entire towns.
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Joe Biden in Kenosha amid Jacob Blake protests
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is in the town of Kenosha. He’s due to hold a community meeting that his campaign says will “bring Americans together”.
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Trump accuses Kenosha rioters of ‘domestic terror’
The Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife will visit Kenosha in Wisconsin tomorrow for a community meeting which they said would “bring together Americans to heal”.
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Democrats and Republicans blame each other over Portland unrest
In the US, with an election looming, Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for violence in Portland, Oregon, at the weekend, when a right-wing activist was fatally shot.
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Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies aged 43
Fellow actor Denzel Washington described him as “a gentle soul and a brilliant artist who will stay with us for eternity”.
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Still fighting for justice half a century after MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech
Thousands of people have turned out in Washington DC calling for racial justice at the spot where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech.
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Thousands gather to commemorate anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech
Thousands of people calling for racial justice have gathered near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC – more than half a century after Martin Luther King Jr’s historic speech – and amid yet another week of protests against police and vigilante violence.
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Trump and supporters attack Biden at Republican convention
Donald Trump started the week-long Republican Party Convention last night with a speech attacking his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
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Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon is charged with fraud over Mexico wall fundraising
One of President Trump’s former advisers has been charged with trying to defraud people who gave money to a fund to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
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US election: Joe Biden made official Democratic candidate
President Trump’s rival Joe Biden has been picked as the Democratic candidate to run against him in the election in November.
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Michelle Obama stars as virtual Democratic National Convention gets underway
Never in US history has there been a political convention like this one – as the Democrats head into the second night of their entirely virtual gathering.
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FactCheck: could Trump delay the election?
Delaying the election is up to Congress, not the President.
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Tech bosses grilled together for first time by Congress
Today for the first time, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google, are all appearing in front of the House subcommittee on market dominance.