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By Stephen Collinson of CNN Obama in Pennyslvania. Photo: AFP / Ryan Collerd Analysis: Exactly 16 years ago, an impossibly young-looking Barack Obama was barnstorming through Ohio on a bus tour Analysis: - Exactly 16 years ago, an impossibly young-looking Barack Obama was barnstorming through Ohio on a bus tour, electrifying huge crowds and emphatically closing the deal on his thumping 2008 election victory. On another October night on Thursday, the 63-year-old ex-president was back on stage, with a vast American flag for a backdrop, trying to do for Kamala Harris what she's so far struggled to do herself - put away the 2024 election. The snowy haired Obama had swapped Ohio, which ceased to be a closely contested presidential state as soon as he left the White House, for this year's ...

By Gerard Martinez for AFP A woman sits outside her home in Tampa, Florida, as people remove debris and clean their homes after flooding caused by Hurricane Milton. Photo: AFP/Giorgio Viera Hurricane Milton has left at least 16 people dead as residents begin the painful process of piecing their lives and homes back together. Nearly 2.5 million households and businesses were still without power, and some areas in the path cut through the Sunshine State by the monster storm from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean remained flooded. Milton crashed into the Gulf Coast late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, smashing communities still reeling from Hurricane Helene two weeks ago, which killed 237 people across the US southeast, including in Florida. On Siesta Key, a beautiful barrier is...