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Are Trump’s global actions, from Ukraine to Iran, going to hurt him in elections?
Voters who backed the US president in the last election are saying they can’t vote for him today: ‘This is an abomination’Outside the Ukrainian educat...
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The final countdown to the make-or-break midterms – podcast
A total of 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 seats in the Senate and 39 governorships are up for grabs in Tuesday’s US midterm elections.J...
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Donald Trump’s Texas Troubles – podcast
Washington bureau chief David Smith reports from Texas, where the Democrats are hopeful of a stunning victory that could also signal a much wider defe...
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Vivek Ramaswamy discontinues attack ad that prompted wave of revulsion
Candidate for Ohio governor confirms campaign no longer airing ad that smeared rival and was defended by TrumpVivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee ...
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Trump administration opens criminal investigation over alleged noncitizen voting in California
On Wednesday, judge declined administration’s request to order state to not count ballots from up to 20,000 peopleThe Trump administration has opened ...
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DHS cites risk to more than 40,000 personnel in effort to take leaked data offline
The Department of Homeland Security asked an Icelandic hosting company to take down data obtained through hackThe US Department of Homeland Security (...
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Justice department issues subpoenas over ‘second Dan Sullivan’ candidacy in Alaska Senate race
Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign allegedly collaborated with party operatives to confuse voters in midtermThe US justice department on Thursday is rep...
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JD Vance letter may offer last chance to avert fresh conflict between US and Iran
US vice-president writes to top Iranian security official in sign Washington has not abandoned diplomacyHopes of averting a major new conflagration be...
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Donald Trump’s male gaze | Letter
The US president’s commentary on the beauty and brawn of various political figures is not without historical precedent, writes Randy FairAdam Gabbatt’...
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Cuts like a knife: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams trolls Trump with new song
Musician wrote a ‘love letter’ to Canada with a new album – and some pointed commentary about the US presidentLake Ontario, the vast body of water tha...
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Alaska Senate race: what to know about Democrats’ alleged ballot-stacking effort
Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign reportedly recruited a second Dan Sullivan in the race in what Republicans call a ploy to split votesUS politics live...
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Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s racist remarks at rallies: ‘really takes you back about 200 years’
Late-night hosts spoke about the president’s unhinged behaviour at rallies and why his comments about wealth show a major disconnect with votersLate-n...
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‘Strength of matriarchs’: New Mexico’s Deb Haaland poised to be first female Native American governor
Ex-congresswoman is connecting with young people and Native voters with promise to expand the social safety netThe road to Isleta Pueblo, a Native Ame...
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Senate race in once reliably Republican South Carolina tied in final stretch – poll
Democrat Annie Andrews neck-and-neck with Republican incumbent, Darline Graham, sister to Lindsey GrahamUS politics live – latest updatesA US Senate r...
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Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign
Republican Mike Dunleavy plans search after Peltola accused of recruiting Dan Sullivan to confuse votersThe Republican governor of Alaska announced pl...
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‘Mississippi matters’: Scott Colom aims to turn Mississippi blue
The Democrat is challenging incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith for US SenateOn Tuesday, with just one week until the election, Scott Colom’s headqu...
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How Laura Loomer and Trump allies amplified ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ lie dogging Abdul El-Sayed
Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist groupThe Republican campaign to defeat Democrat...
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Can Democrats win against Elon Musk's millions in Texas? – video
Democrats have failed to win statewide office in Texas for 30 years. Before the midterms, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to San Antonio t...
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Trump and Obama trade barbs on campaign trail in final days before midterm election – US politics live
Former president says ‘these are not serious people’ as Trump holds rallies for Republican candidatesAround lunchtime on Tuesday, a Rolls-Royce stoppe...
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‘Solidarity among young people’: four lessons the US can learn from the youth protests in France
Despite structural differences between countries, protests are a reminder of what makes demonstrations so powerfulSince mid-September, students in met...
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s defeat is a major blow to Trump and his orange wave
The far-right candidate was supposed to claim the presidency, but Brazilian voters had other ideasFor Donald Trump, Brazil’s presidential election was...
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Trump’s plea – ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ – deserves to backfire | Margaret Sullivan
With his poll numbers tanking and his behavior getting odder, the remark seems more appealing to himself than to votersAs he criss-crosses the nation,...
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Democratic lawmakers decry Osha’s push to roll back worker respiratory protections
Elizabeth Warren and others joined by unions and industry experts in warning against the weakening of regulationsThe senator Elizabeth Warren, the con...
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FTC orders Delta, Uber and others to hand over data on algorithmic pricing
Regulator demands companies explain how and why they charge different prices for the same product or service The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is dem...
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Was Ralph Nader right about (almost) everything? His challenge to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections
‘Really change things for the working class,’ the ex-presidential candidate saysA corporate plutocracy. A broken healthcare system. Massive and wideni...
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‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff
Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governorBarack Obama, speaking at a Wednesday ca...
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Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ’s bid to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots
Justice department had demanded state segregate ballots from people it claimed were non-citizensA federal judge declined to order California election ...
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I’ve mailed off my vote in the US midterms. It will be a nail-biting watch, but easier from outside Trump’s America | Eleanor Limprecht
I’m hopeful these elections will be a win for democracy rather than dictatorship, for peace rather than war, and humanity rather than hubrisRecently I...
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Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers
Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last monthThe leak website Distributed Denia...
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New book makes fiery claims about Jared Kushner’s finances in Trump’s first term
Kushner threatens to sue, denying allegations that two slush funds were set up to influence his Middle East roleA new book containing incendiary claim...
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California election official says federal agents threatened him over ‘voter fraud’
Keaton Denlay says agents handed him ‘poorly formatted Excel spreadsheet’ and threatened to criminally prosecute himA California county elections offi...
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US ambassador suggests Trump could blame Canada if midterms don’t go his way
Pete Hoekstra, controversial US ambassador to Canada, has also accused Canadian officials of interfering in US electionsThe US ambassador Pete Hoekstr...
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Education secretary Linda McMahon plans to spend nearly $43,000 on office furniture
Trump ally, who is seeking to shutter the department, had said office relocation would save taxpayers $4.8m annuallyThe Trump administration has insis...
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Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign reportedly recruited second Dan Sullivan in Alaska Senate race
Republicans have condemned the presence of two Dan Sullivans on the ballot, calling it a ploy to split votesAlaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign wa...
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‘Like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory’: how did the restaurant end up in a Maga fight over ‘elitism’?
Obama has been accused of ‘snobbery’ over his Trump diss, as people rush to defend the restaurant chain’s ‘affordable opulence’Around lunchtime on Tue...
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The bottomless depths of Donald Trump’s midterm rally bigotry
Both Obama and Trump are on the campaign trail, but only one of them appears to be descending into madnessThis was originally published in This Week i...
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‘A revolution in slow motion’: is Arizona’s wealthiest district finally done with Trump?
Circumstances are ripe for change in this onetime Republican stronghold given the current dissatisfaction with Trump agenda, experts sayDonald Trump h...
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Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s midterms mindset: ‘If his side wins, elections were honest’
Late-night hosts discussed Trump discrediting midterms results, and Don Jr’s friendship with a Russian oligarchLate-night hosts looked into Republican...
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How Trump is trying to disrupt the midterms – video explainer
From redrawing electoral maps to installing a sense of uncertainty around the electoral process ahead of the midterms elections on 3 November, Republi...
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The pro-Trump prosecutor trying to stop California ballots from being counted
Bill Essayli has launched a crusade against ‘voter fraud’, in his latest push to pursue Maga-aligned casesSince he was sworn in last year, Bill Essayl...
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RFK Jr assailed over ‘wildly racist tirade’ about Arabs at Michigan campaign stop
US health secretary falsely claims at Mike Rogers rally that Arabs have never won major prizes in science or literature Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US he...
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Dementia cases in US projected to rise dramatically by 2050, study finds
Increase will add strain on healthcare system already struggling amid cuts by Trump administration, experts sayThe number of people with dementia in t...
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Judge rules Trump-appointed US prosecutor in Los Angeles is not serving legally – US politics live
Department of Justice says it intends to appeal as administration tries to keep president’s ally Bill Essayli in officeSign up for the Breaking News U...
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We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)
Psychopatriarchy is jet fuel to racism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalismFor those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endle...
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Fed set to hold interest rates steady in last decision before midterms
US central bank last month raised rates for first time since 2023, in move that infuriated Donald TrumpThe US Federal Reserve is expected to leave int...
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Will ‘prairie populism’ defeat Republicans in the midterms? – podcast
Adam Hamilton in Kansas, Dan Osborn in Nebraska, Joshua Turek in Iowa. They’re all hoping to flip ruby red states in the midterm elections next Tuesda...
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Federal judge disqualifies Trump-appointed prosecutor for ‘unlawfully serving’ in role
Bill Essayli, a former GOP lawmaker and ally of president, has not been confirmed by the Senate in his roleA US judge ruled on Tuesday that Bill Essay...
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‘Shameful’: Alex Pretti’s parents accuse Trump officials of shielding son’s killers
Susan and Michael Pretti say they have been ‘ignored and misled’ in quest for justice over son’s killing by US agentsThe parents of Alex Pretti, the 3...
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Trump shows off tanker with ‘1m barrels of oil’ and floats Venezuela as 51st state
President at Texas campaign rally hails deal struck with post-Maduro government as ‘greatest oil victory in history’Donald Trump suggested Venezuela w...
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Grand jury declines to indict ex-White House staffer who testified about January 6
Cassidy Hutchinson had implicated Donald Trump in US Capitol attack during testimony before House committeeThe justice department on Tuesday failed to...
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JD Vance steps up extreme attacks on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
Vice-president tries to link El-Sayed to Paris protests and claims he would lead rioters in ‘burning down’ DetroitJD Vance has escalated his inflammat...
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US military says strike on alleged drug vessel in eastern Pacific kills five people
US military says it carried out an airstrike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in latest attack in regionThe US military said on Tuesday it kill...
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