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Former President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated launch of his 2024 White House campaign drew strong reactions Tuesday, with conservatives and liberals alike expressing dismay. “Donald Trump failed America,” read a message posted from President Biden’s personal account during the 76-year-old Trump’s Mar-a-Lago address. The 79-year-old president’s tweet included a video blasting his predecessor’s record on the economy, health care and women’s rights — and also accusing Trump of “coddling extremists” and “inciting a violent mob” on Jan. 6, 2021. The president himself was attending a mangrove tree-planting ceremony as part of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, when a reporter asked...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California's messy budget feud may have nicked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity, but the weeks of frustration steeled his determination to change the way business is conducted in Sacramento, aides said Tuesday. Passage of the $103 billion budget is expected this week - nearly a month beyond the June 30 deadline. In recent trips around the state, Schwarzenegger has pointed to the delay as fresh evidence the Legislature remains outdated, inefficient and a handmaiden of special interests. The governor's agenda has yet to fully take shape, but aides said he is looking at ideas that range from...

The BBC: bruised, but not broken September 26 2003 at 04:15PM London - The David Kelly affair has shaken the BBC but in the long run the credibility of the world's biggest and best-known public broadcaster looks largely intact, media experts say. Evidence before the inquiry into Kelly's suicide broadly confirmed the May 29 report on BBC radio's Today programme that so angered the government - that intelligence experts had expressed unease over its September 2002 dossier on Iraq and the country's alleged weapons of mass destruction. It was after a meeting with Kelly, a ministry of defence expert on...