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Photo: JIM WATSON / AFP Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is preparing to head to a convention centre in Palm Beach, Florida to address his supporters, his campaign aide has told Reuters. The Trump family have begun to arrive at the watch party in Florida. Media are reporting that Donald Trump Jr is shaking hands with supporters and pumping fists. It is unclear what time he will begin speaking, but RNZ plans to livestream his speech. Kamala Harris is not expected to speak tonight. This comes after a successful night for the Trump campaign. He has picked up swing states including Georgia and North Carolina and is most likely to beat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to the White House. If he does, he will have pulled off a remarkable feat becoming the first president s...

US voters lining up to cast their ballots in person read voting guides handed out by volunteers at a polling station in Tempe, Arizona, on the country's election day, 5 November. Photo: AFP/ Olivier Touron A growing number of Republicans say they don't recognise their party under Trump and they're voting to keep their home blue. Amy Wudel and Kelli Millett are members of the Arizona Republicans for Harris. "When he kind of made the political scene in 2016, I just had a distaste for the way that he approached politics and the way that he treated other people. I couldn't tolerate it and I couldn't get behind him as the leader of our party," Millett said. Wudel said she shared the same views. "I still think of myself as a conservative, but in 2016, Donald Trump was somebody who I could n...

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Photo: RYAN COLLERD/AFP The vote count is underway across the country but already the pundits have projected former president Donald Trump as winner in 17 states while Vice President Kamala Harris has earned the nod in eight. Harris is hoping to become the first woman elected president, while Trump is vying to become only the second former president to win a non-consecutive second term. Remember the winning candidate must earn at least 270 votes in the Electoral College to move into the White House. The election is expected to come down to a handful of battleground states - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In the list below we have key race alongside each of those states. Here's how it stands mid-afternoon on Wednesday. Alabama - Trump proj...

Polls will begin closing in the US election in the next few hours. It may be some time before the final result is known but initial results will start trickling in from midday. Earlier there were queues, hoax bomb threats - believed to be from Russian sources - at polling stations, a ballot-scanning glitch in one county, and forecast storm for part of th country. Opinion polls show the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven states likely to determine the winner. In those key states polls close by 4pm; Pennsylvania (2pm), Wisconsin (3pm), Michigan (2pm), Georgia (1pm), North Carolina (1.30pm), Arizona (3pm), and Nevada (4pm). Follow all the latest updates with RNZ's live blog: Source link

By Jared Richards, ABC Entertainment Here follows the lives of Richard and Margaret (Hanks and Wright) from their teenage to twilight years. Photo: Supplied / CTMG / Sony Entertainment Thirty years since Forrest Gump's lifelong love for childhood sweetheart Jenny gripped the globe and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright have reunited with director Robert Zemeckis for Here, another love story spanning decades. "It was like the 30 years had never passed," says Hanks. "And yet, we took a few minutes to note that 30 years had passed ... We had to have a couple of minutes to say, 'Can you believe that we get to do this?', celebrating the joy, love, and excitement of taking another shot at it. "[But] we picked [up] right where we left off because we sp...

By Tamar Michaelis, CNN Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have often disagreed over the war in Gaza Photo: AFP/ ANP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant after months of clashes over domestic politics and differences over Israel's war efforts. In a recorded statement Tuesday evening, Netanyahu said that "during the last months, this trust between me and the Minister of Defence has cracked." Israel Katz, currently the foreign minister, will become defenc minister and Gideon Sa'ar will replace Katz as foreign minister, the prime minister's office said Tuesday. Gallant responded to the decision shortly after it was made public, posting on X that the "security of Israel has been and will always be my lifelong m...

Queen Camilla recently travelled to Samoa with King Charles. Photo: AFP / Pool / Manaui Faulalo Queen Camilla, the wife of Britain's King Charles, has been forced to pull out of her planned engagements this week after suffering a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said. Camilla, 77, is resting at home while she recovers but no further details of her illness have been given, as is usual with royal medical issues. "Her Majesty the Queen is currently unwell with a chest infection, for which her doctors have advised a short period of rest," a palace spokesperson said on Tuesday. "With great regret, Her Majesty has therefore had to withdraw from her engagements for this week, but she very much hopes to be recovered in time to attend this weekend's Remembrance events as normal." The illness m...

Voters in South Philadelphia say voting was "easy" and "safe" this morning. Americans are heading to the polls today in what is shaping up as one of the closest presidential elections in living memory. Polls have candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a virtual dead heat. Voting stations in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania opened at 7am local time to allow for people to vote prior to work. Jonah Abrams, an elected Democratic official at the first ward voting station in South Philadelphia, told RNZ that turnout had been strong throughout the morning, with queues around the block when the polls opened. Abrams said since then there had been a steady stream of people in coming into vote in what is a predominately Democratic favoured ward. Jonah Abrams outside the South Philad...

By Florence Loeve and Sudip Kar-Gupta, Reuters A pedestrian walks past the Paris offices of the Netflix streaming company at Square Edouard VII in Paris. Photo: AFP Simultaneous raids by French, Dutch authorities Probe follows 2022 tax settlement in Italy Netflix declines to comment Investigators searched the offices of US streaming giant Netflix in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering, a French judicial source said on Tuesday. The French investigation, carried out by the PNF, a special financial crime prosecution unit notorious for pursuing high-stakes white-collar probes that often involve large international companies, was opened in November 2022. Representatives for Netflix in France and the Netherlands did not immediate...