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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will head to events championing unionized labor at an inflection point for the movement, with workers in new industries and geographies seeking to organize.

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines descended on the capital's main plaza on Friday in a show of solidarity against a shocking assassination attempt on the country's vice president a day earlier, which triggered an outpouring of support in a country gripped by deep political polarization and economic crisis.

Video footage of the incident shows a man holding a pistol inches away from the vice-president’s head as she greets supporters

The attack was thwarted when the assailant’s handgun misfired and he was quickly overpowered by her security officers

BUENOS AIRES: A man attempted to shoot Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner near her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday, the country's president said.

Argentina's president says an attempt to kill the vice president fails when a handgun misfires

Aregentina's president says a man tried to kill politically powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández outside her home, but failed because the handgun misfired

The president described the incident as a "homicide attempt."

Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was unharmed late Thursday when a man with a loaded gun tried to shoot her but the gun did not go off, officials said.