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By Betsy Klein, Aaron Pellish and Ebony Davis, CNN US Vice President Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers her concession speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, 6 November 2024. Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP Vice President Kamala Harris offered an uplifting, positive charge to her supporters as she conceded the 2024 presidential election, acknowledging the stinging loss while committing to a peaceful transfer of power and vowing to "fight" in a much different way than a defeated presidential candidate promised four years ago. "Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect (Donald) Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power," she said in r...

Donald Trump campaigned on protectionist policies to favour Americans. Photo: AFP / Jim Watsonn Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is warning against jumping to conclusions about Trump policies that might affect New Zealand. Republican Donald Trump was projected to win the US election and had spoken on the campaign trail promising trade tariffs and protectionist policies to favour American manufacturers and farmers. Read more: Luxon congratulated Trump on a "comprehensive win". "I look forward to working with him and advancing the interests of our great countries. "I know both sides of the aisle in Washington... I've got no doubt we'll do everything we can to work constructively to move forward together." Asked about Trump's campaigning on trade tariffs which could be bad for New Zealand...

Photo: 123RF Most people dread a letter from the tax office. So spare a thought for the German man who got 1700 of them. In an administrative meltdown worthy of a Franz Kafka novel, the mountain of tax correspondence arrived at his front door in 10 boxes, a local newspaper reported. Germany's finance ministry apologised on Wednesday for the "technical error" that threw the man from Quickborn in northern Germany. "The finance ministry has contacted the taxpayer and apologised," said a ministry spokeswoman. The ministry offered to take the letters - which were all identical - off the man's hands and destroy them, but he declined the offer as unnecessary, she said. Europe's biggest economy may be at the forefront of many advanced industries but has long suffered from notoriously outdated bu...

Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has addressed supporters after conceding victory in the US election to her Republican rival Donald Trump. Trump is projected to win the election, clinching 291 electoral college votes so far. The candidates needed 270 to win. Votes are still being counted in some areas, with the winners in a handful of states - Alaska, Arizona, Maine and Nevada - yet to be announced. Harris has called Trump to concede and made a speech at Howard University in Washington DC where she said "we must accept the results of this election", but "while I concede this election I do not concede the fight that fuelled this campaign". Follow all the action with RNZ's liveblog: Source link

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN From left: Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Photo: AFP Analysis - Donald Trump's election victory will return him to the White House, but both his allies and detractors have made clear his second time around will look nothing like the first. With the Republican Party now entirely his, its anti-Trump figures banished for good, Trump will enter the Oval Office with both the experience of having done the job before and a wealth of resentments over how he believes the system failed him. That makes the coming four years uncertain ones that cannot be easily predicted by the first Trump presidency. His rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, tried warning voters of the risks. But to his supporters, the promises of fixing what he called a...

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is addressing supporters after her Republican rival Donald Trump claimed victory in the United States presidential election. Trump is projected to win the election, clinching 291 electoral college votes so far. The candidates needed 270 to win. Votes are still being counted in some areas, with the winners in a handful of states - Alaska, Arizona, Maine and Nevada - yet to be announced as of 5am Thursday NZT. Harris has called Trump to concede and is about to make her first speech following the result. Follow all the action with RNZ's liveblog: Source link

Donald Trump. Photo: JIM WATSON What does a Donald Trump victory in the US election mean for New Zealand's economy? Experts say Trump's protectionist policies could have far-reaching consequences, particularly in heavily trade-dependent nations such as our own. Trump has proposed tariffs of up to 20 percent on all imported goods, which would include major New Zealand exports like beef - and even larger ones targeted at countries he sees as economic adversaries, such as Mexico and China. "If it applied to New Zealand exports, it would be quite serious," New Zealand International Business Forum executive director Stephen Jacobi told Morning Report earlier this week. "I mean, it would kill off quite a lot of trade." Former senior government trade deal negotiator Charles Finny told Morning ...

File photo. A group of doctors joined abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the US Supreme Court on 24 April, 2024, in Washington, DC, before the court handed down a temporary win for abortion rights supporters in Idaho that will allow women to receive emergency abortions despite the state's near-total ban. Photo: AFP/ Andrew Harnik By Amy O'Kruk, Annette Choi, Lauren Mascarenhas, Kaanita Iyer and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN More than two years after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion, voters in 10 states cast ballots on whether to cement reproductive rights in their state constitutions. Measures to protect abortion access in Arizona, Colorado, New York, Maryland, Missouri, Montana and Nevada will pass, CNN pro...

By John Lyons, ABC global affairs editor Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump meeting on 27 September, 2024, in New York. The meeting coincided with Zelensky's visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Photo: AFP / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service Analysis - With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, the international outlook is in for a major shake-up. Perhaps even a wild ride. The most dramatic change would be regarding the war in Ukraine. The only way that Ukraine has been able to hold off Russia's push towards Kyiv has been due to the huge financial support of NATO. While Ukraine is not a member of NATO, the support of this alliance has allowed it to match a much larger and better-resourced army. The US is the biggest funder of NA...

Photo: AFP Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is expected to address supporters on Thursday (NZT) after her Republican rival Donald Trump claimed victory in the United States presidential election. CNN has projected that Trump will win the election, clinching 276 electoral college votes so far. The candidates needed 270 to win. Votes are still being counted in some areas, with the winners in a handful of states - Alaska, Arizona, Maine, Michigan and Nevada - yet to be announced as of 5am Thursday NZT. Reuters reported that Harris was not planning to make her concession speech until Wednesday afternoon in the US (about 10am Thursday NZT). Earlier, Trump called his win "a magnificent victory for the American people" and said it would usher in "the golden age of America". Meanwhile, Harris' s...