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US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and US former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo: AFP / Jeff Kowalsky, Charly Triballeau Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris are effectively tied heading into the final weeks of the election, according to a national poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College. Trump is up one percentage point, 48 percent - 47 percent, over Harris, according to the survey released on Sunday, a difference that is well within the survey's three-point margin of error, meaning a win for either candidate in the 5 November election is well within reach. While the Trump campaign endured a relatively rocky stretch in the weeks after Dem...

Kamala Harris has overtaken Donald Trump in several key polls. Photo: AFP Kamala Harris is making inroads into Donald Trump's lead in the seven vital swing states. But it is only by a nose, and there are plenty of dirty politics to come With less than two months remaining until the 2024 United States presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris has overtaken rival and former President Donald Trump in several key polls - but only by what looks like less than the margin of error. Harris, who officially took over the Democratic ticket in August, is boosting stronger numbers than President Joe Biden did before his sudden exit, especially in the vital swing states. The Detail speaks to Republican strategist John Jordan, and legal and political analyst Danielle Mclaughlin, a New Zealan...

Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill detained by police near the Dolphins' home stadium. Photo: Megan Briggs/Getty Images/AFP By Frank Pingue, Reuters Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill was placed face down on the road and handcuffed after being detained for a driving violation on Sunday ahead of his NFL team's season-opener and the Miami-Dade Police Department have opened an Internal Affairs investigation. Hill, who led Miami in receiving yards last season, was detained by police near the Dolphins' home stadium but released from custody in time to play in his team's home game versus the Jacksonville Jaguars. One of the officers involved in the incident with the five-time All-Pro wide receiver has been placed on administrative duties as the Miami-Dade Police Department conducts a review...

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (L) and boyfriend US NFL football player Travis Kelce attend the men's final match between USA's Taylor Fritz and Italy's Jannik Sinner on day fourteen of the US Open tennis tournament in New York, on September 8, 2024. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) Photo: AFP / KENA BETANCUR Taylor Swift headlined the list of celebrities present at the US Open final on Monday, as another Taylor - Fritz - aimed to end a 21-year American men's major drought on Arthur Ashe Stadium against Italian top seed Jannik Sinner. As it transpired, Sinner became the first Italian man to win the US Tennis Open, producing a powerful display to beat Taylor Fritz in straight sets, 6-3 6-4 7-5. Sports, television, movie and music stars have flocked to Flushing Meadows over the past fort...

Aiming to block communism's spread and foster increased living standards in developing countries, New Zealand provided Colombo Plan university scholarships to Malaysian high school graduates in the 1960s and 70s. Photo: Supplied Part 1 of a series of 4 - The stories of Malaysian students who were educated 8000km away from their homes during the 1960s and 70s. Hashim Yaacob wasn't sure what to expect when he first came to New Zealand. "I was quite unsure what I was going into… I had never met any white people before. I came from a very poor background," he said. "But New Zealanders, they were very friendly, beyond my expectations." Yaacob grew up without electricity or running water in Kelantan, the Malaysian state neighbouring Thailand. But Malaysia needed dentists, so to Otago's dentis...

By James Oliphant, Reuters US vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo: AFP Analysis - Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will battle each other this week in their first televised debate, a high-stakes clash that could give the winner an advantage in the final sprint to election day. For Harris, the square-off in Philadelphia on Wednesday is an opportunity to lay out her priorities and show her mettle against a rival who has belittled her intelligence and subjected her to racist and sexist attacks. Trump will get a chance to try and blunt some of Harris' momentum in a race that has tightened considerably since she became the Democratic nominee in July. Most...

By Stephanie Kelly, Reuters US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and US former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo: AFP / Jeff Kowalsky, Charly Triballeau US Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris will square off this week in their first presidential debate since President Joe Biden quit the race. It will be the first chance some 240 million US voters get to hear Trump and Harris explain their policies side by side ahead of the 5 November election, and a rare moment when the two are in the same room. Here are some details about the highly anticipated event: When is the debate and how do I watch it? The debate, hosted by ABC News, will take place on 11 September (NZ time) 1pm in Philadel...

Haulage trucks drive past fuel-ladden tanker which exploded and fell after a collision. Photo: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state's disaster management agency said. The State Emergency Management Agency in north-central Niger state said the fuel truck collided with a truck carrying travellers and cattle. Several other vehicles were also caught up in the accident, it said. The agency's spokesperson Hussaini Ibrahim put the death toll at 48 and officials were still trying to clear the scene of the incident. Nigeria's state-owned firm NNPC Ltd last week hiked the price of gasoline by at least 39 percent, the second major increase in more than a year but...

Vehicles queue at the Jordanian side of the Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan in 2022. Photo: AFP/ Khalil Mazraawi A gunman crossing from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities said. It was the first attack of its kind along the border with Jordan since 7 October, when Palestinian Islamist group Hamas carried out an assault on southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza that has since escalated throughout the region. The attack took place in a commercial cargo area under Israeli control where Jordanian trucks offload cargo entering the West Bank, officials said. The crossing, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, lies about midway between Amman ...

By Bridget Murphy and Alexander Lewis, ABC Glencore's Bulga coal mine in the Hunter Valley. Photo: AFP / David Gray Saturday's 4.5-magnitude earthquake at Muswellbrook, in the New South Wales Upper Hunter, was the latest in a series of moderate-sized events near the town in just over a fortnight. A 4.7-magnitude quake was recorded on 23 August, then a 4.5-magnitude quake rocked the same area the next day. The latest quake happened just before 6am on Saturday (Australian time), with Geoscience Australia receiving more than 1,000 reports from the public - some hundreds of kilometres from Muswellbrook. These quakes have been described by experts as a part of a "swarm". So what is that? And what could be the cause? Is mining behind the NSW earthquakes? Muswellbrook is one of Australia's ...