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On the eve of the midterm elections, the economy is the main concern of Americans. Meeting with residents of Austin affected by the rising cost of living. "Thank you for everything you do! You have such a big heart, you can't imagine how much you help me!" Sitting at the wheel of her pick-up, window down, Elena showers compliments on the Food Bank employee who has just taken her contact information. Behind the two women, a long line of cars stretches in a parking lot in southern Austin, the capital of Texas (United States). There are dozens of drivers, on this day at the end of October, waiting for the volunteers of this "drive" to load boxes filled with canned food and vegetables into their trunk. "We're sure to have a steady stream of cars throughout the distribution ," said Paul Gaither, communications manager for the Central Texas Food Bank, standing between two pallets of vegetables.  Between April and September, the organization saw the numbe...

The Americans must appoint a large part of their representatives to Congress on Tuesday in a series of elections that promise to be hotly contested. Amajor test, two years before the next presidential election in the United States . The Americans are called to the polls, Tuesday,  November 8, for the traditional mid-term elections. During these midterms, they will have to express themselves in referendums, sometimes choose their representatives in local assemblies, and above all appoint their elected representatives to Congress. This is a crucial moment for the Democrats , who must keep their very narrow parliamentary majority if they want to allow Joe Biden to continue his program. If the midterms usually benefit the opposition, the presidential party hopes to mobilize voters around the right to abortion . For their part, the conservatives are counting on dissatisfaction with galloping inflation to win seats in Congress. Franceinfo summarizes the stakes of these elections. Almost ...

With three days of "decisive" elections in the United States, President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama urged on Saturday to "vote" to protect "democracy", their opponent Donald Trump wanting a "giant wave" Republican for "saving the american dream". During a marathon day of competing meetings in Pennsylvania, a crucial state for the November 8 midterm legislative elections, the 46th (Biden) and 44th (Obama) tenants of the White House clashed at a distance with the 45th (Trump ), before an election that will lay the foundations for the 2024 presidential election. "Democracy is literally on the ballot. This is a defining moment for the nation and we must all speak with one voice," Joe Biden said, under a blue and red light, a huge American flag and the ovations from a room in Philadelphia, birthplace of the American Constitution at the end of the 18th century. All the spotlight is on Pennsylvania, a former...

At 18, basketball player Victor Wembanyama captivates with his dexterity matched by his 2.21 meters. Until the NBA stars he will join next year. Programmed to be number 1 in the draft and break the codes, the Boulogne-Levallois player is already a media phenomenon. During the match, the three girls had seen that this gentleman in a suit was familiar with their favorite. So, after the press conference, they asked Vincent Collet, coach of Boulogne-Levallois and the France team, if he could bring them back from the locker room "an autograph from Victor" . The one they couldn't grab when he left the field because of too much competition. It was eight days ago in the hall of Le Mans (6,000 seats), where we had sold out, a rare thing. The only actor thus courted, local team included, Victor Wembanyama had lent himself to the exercise with good grace, but failed. Before being the only one to lower his head to rush under the awning leading to the shower. The Wembanyama effect He ...

The new Twitter boss shared a conspiratorial article in response to a message from Hillary Clinton. In an increasingly polarized country, Elon Musk raises fears of the worst two years before the presidential election. Is the new "chief Twit" already crossing the line? Sunday October 30, only two days after the formalization of the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk , the latter shared on his platform a conspiratorial article on the attack on the husband of Nancy Pelosi . This while its recent acquisition of the platform raises fears of a resurgence of misinformation or problems related to the moderation of content. To understand the origin of this tweet, you have to go back 48 hours. On the night of Thursday to Friday, Paul Pelosi, the husband of the leader of the American Democrats in Congress, was attacked at their home in San Francisco by a man armed with a hammer. After breaking into the home, the assailant searched for Nancy Pelosi but only found her husband, whom he beat ...

 In a minute you'll know by what unlikely means three women were acquitted at their trial. It happened in 1983 in the United States in Florida. Three dancers are tried for having violated a law of the county where they practice. According to this ordinance, nudity is prohibited in places where food and drink are served. However, a few days earlier undercover police officers inspected the nightclub where these three girls work and found that they were showing too much. More in any case than what the law authorizes… The dancers are then accused of indecency . In their defense, their attorney then pleads that the panties they were wearing were too large to reveal those forbidden body parts the officers had claimed to see. To support his thesis, he asks the judge that the three girls, dressed in the same  panties , perform in front of the jurors exactly the same dance as that of the evening of their arrest. Except that the judge, who is young and a beginner, is afraid that it will...