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Boardwalk destroyed in Long Beach and homes damaged, while Baja California in Mexico and Las Vegas also affectedSouthern California coastal communities are picking up the pieces after a weekend of extreme weather brought flooding that overtook city streets and intense waves battered beachside homes.The remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel hit Mexico's Baja California over the weekend as well as southern California and Las Vegas. While meteorologists noted that Rachel weakened into a post-tropical cyclone as it approached California, it still left a trail of destruction. Continue reading...

White House told Guilfoyle, who is alleged to have sought a bill payment from a Trump donor, to resign from post

When asked about the decision to request US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation, Donald Trump told the press she 'was doing a good job' but that the administration 'didn't like what we were reading', referring to allegations that Guilfoyle had asked a Trump donor to pay her credit card bill. Guilfoyle, who was once engaged to Trump's son, Donald Jr, was a longstanding political ally

James Robertson was the state's 17th execution this year, amid scrutiny over failed lethal injection of Christa Pike

Musk's midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024Elon Musk has become the biggest political donor of the 2026 US midterm elections cycle, funneling about $366m into political groups and campaigns as he backs conservative candidates and rightwing causes. The world's richest person has poured more than $276m into politics since July alone, some of the most rapid political spending in US history. He's targeting key races that will determine which party controls the US Senate.The New York Times first reported the spending numbers, which will be released in a federal filing on Thursday. Musk's spending outpaces his 2024 presidential election contributions, in which he sunk nearly $300m into Donald Trump's re-election campaign. Continue reading...

Martin Shkreli's 2022 release conditions bar him from participating in the pharmaceutical industry, including ownership stakes or business decisionsThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and seven US states have alleged that pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli repeatedly violated a lifetime ban on participating in the pharmaceutical industry, and they are asking a judge to hold him in contempt.In a motion filed on Tuesday in US district court in New York City, the FTC and its state co-plaintiffs allege that 43-year-old Shkreli - nicknamed the Pharma Bro" - has traded stocks in at least 60 pharmaceutical companies and publicly commented on their businesses since his release from prison in May 2022. Continue reading...

Democrats have described a raid on the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as deeply disturbing" and a rogue abuse of power" by the Trump administration. The Democratic representative for Minnesota has long been a target of highly personal attacks by Donald Trump, who claims he was not involved in ordering the Justice Department raid. Omar criticised the raid as an attempt to weaponize law enforcement" as part of a campaign of political intimidation" against her. Lucy Hough speaks to Guardian US political reporter Shrai Popat - watch on YouTube Continue reading...

The Maga member believes the 2020 election was stolen and seemingly her new boss is saving the world from a cabal of satanic paedophiles. She'll fit right in thenPoor Donald Trump. His (third) wife seemingly can't bear to be near him and his (fifth) press secretary recently abandoned him to be with a baby she had only recently met.She decided she loved her children more than she loved Donald Trump," the president lamented in August when Karoline Leavitt decided to step down a few months after giving birth. I'm very upset about this. She has to go home and spend time with her children. That does happen on occasion with some people - when they love their children." Continue reading...

Miguel Parra-Hernandez suffers from serious hip and leg injuries in Houston and remains in ICE custody, according to his representatives

Russian meddling probably didn't affect the referendum result - but the Kremlin's motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matterRussian territorial aggression against Ukraine didn't feature much in the Brexit referendum campaign. It made headlines briefly when Boris Johnson blamed Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea on the European Union.According to the Vote Leave frontman, Vladimir Putin's land grab was a consequence of Brussels making foreign policy on the hoof" and having pretensions to running a defence policy".Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Theme park company Six Flags temporarily closed nine rollercoasters across six amusement parks on Monday after one person died and several others were injured in an incident involving a coaster in Georgia. Officials did not confirm how the person died, nor how the others were injured or their conditions. Witnesses who spoke to NBC affiliate WXIA of Atlanta said they saw a man fall from the Goliath rollercoaster. He fell and hit the car three different times," one witness told the station.

Sean Duffy targets bike lanes and immigrant truck drivers while steering funds away from addressing lethal US roadsBarbara McCann may have been the first person to notice that the Federal Highway Administration had removed several safety policies from public view.McCann worked on road safety policy at the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) for more than a decade across multiple administrations, retiring in January 2025 just before Donald Trump's second term started. After Sean Duffy, the president's ally and former Fox news host, took the wheel at USDOT, she became increasingly worried as the secretary appeared unmotivated to address pedestrian safety and regularly bashed bike infrastructure. Continue reading...

Latest fatality is unvaccinated woman, 39, with underlying conditions' but CDC still lists only two deaths nationwideA sixth death has been announced in Pennsylvania's measles outbreak, as new figures show cases in the state have risen above 1,100.The most recent fatality was reported in Franklin county on Monday in a statement posted to Facebook by its coroner. The victim was identified as a 39-year-old female who had several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles with treatment". Continue reading...

Author Natasha Lennard discusses how to disrupt the certainties' that don't serve us and how to fight backAt the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020, journalist Natasha Lennard started noticing a constant thrum of collective apprehension, epitomized in the phrase in these uncertain times". The expression acknowledged we didn't have solutions for many of society's problems: a globally spreading virus, the rise of the far right and stark haves v have-nots" inequalities. In the years since, that uncertainty" hasn't gone anywhere, risking enabling paralysis - not knowing where to start to fix things and therefore giving up before trying.In her new book, On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times, Lennard, who also was an organizer in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement, deconstructs the problematic nature of giving in to uncertainty. She also uses the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1969 book On Certainty to question what is held as certain" in today's world, and who gets to make those calls. Continue reading...

Trial could see white supremacist who killed 10 people in New York state store get the death penaltyJury selection is set to begin on Tuesday in the trial that could see the white supremacist who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket get the death penalty.The attack is believed to be the deadliest shooting targeting Black people in modern history. Continue reading...

The Getaway Driver brings Katherine Ann Power's story to stage, and amplifies a lesser heard voice: Clare Schroeder, daughter of officer who was killed in 1970 by activist groupIt is not every day that you can buy a home from a realtor who was a notorious fugitive.Katherine Ann Power, a 77-year-old grandmother in glasses and grey bob, is more than an agent who can cut you a deal for a condo in Boston: She spent 23 years on the run from the FBI, from 1970 until 1993. The longest of any woman in American history. Continue reading...

The pre-midterm defenestration of ACA enrollees looks like political madness - but the president appears to believe hitting poor people might work for himThere is a manic quality to Donald Trump's desperate dash to do something, anything, ahead of November's midterm elections to convince beleaguered Americans that he can make the pressures his policies have imposed on their livelihoods go away.The US president offered to lower barriers against beef imports to limit surging meat prices, only to consider backtracking under pressure from the cow lobby. He offered to stop diesel exports, only to find oil companies were not interested. He weakened fuel efficiency standards, claiming this would trim the price of a new car (and forgetting to point out it will also raise spending on gas.) In early October he started mailing $500 checks to nearly a million people touting his healthcare wins". Oh, and he promised adult Americans a $5,000 check if Republicans maintain control of Congress. That, too, will go nowhere. Continue reading...

Minnesota congresswoman criticized raid as attempt by Trump administration to target political enemies and weaponize law enforcement'. Plus what is to be done about the world record in the women's marathon?

Away from the public eye, deportation planes at Youngstown-Warren and Akron-Canton airports carry hundreds of immigrants daily amid Trump's ICE crackdownJust after 10.30am on a recent weekday morning, a Bombardier CRJ200 Air Wisconsin aircraft landed at Youngstown-Warren regional airport.Having made the 75-minute flight from Milwaukee, the 50-seater came to a halt and its twin engines fired down next to another Air Wisconsin plane and a larger Eastern Air Express Boeing 737, planes that flew in the evening before from Alexandria, Louisiana. Continue reading...

Trump's reform law that seeks to make coverage harder to get, and to keep, includes working 80 hours per monthIt is a date keeping US healthcare providers up at night: 1 January 2027.As the midterm elections loom, everyone from hospital leaders and to patient advocates are focused on the New Year, when Republicans scheduled the most controversial elements of their healthcare reform law to go into effect. Continue reading...

Police used recently discovered DNA to pin murder of eight-year-old girl on Thomas McInerney, who died in 2006Chicago police on Monday said they recently used newly discovered DNA evidence to tie the 1960 murder of an eight-year-old girl to one of its own former homicide detectives.Thomas McInerney had been dead for 20 years by the time authorities issued a statement identifying him as the killer of Gloria Kowalewicz - well after retiring from the Chicago police department (CPD) and two federal public defender's offices in Nevada where he worked as an investigator. Continue reading...

The winger is 28, and younger teammates are rising into the high-pressure spots he has usually occupiedUsually, the second weekend of October sees Christian Pulisic flanked by compatriots as the Star-Spangled Banner plays. Last year, he was involved in US friendlies against Ecuador and Australia. But this year, with Fifa having folded the October window into September, Pulisic didn't have the chance. On Sunday, his prescribed pre-match music was O Generosa, the Serie A anthem, which he observed with a soft smile.Mark Twain's first visit to Italy left him describing the country as a vast museum of magnificence and misery," and it's a fitting summary of Pulisic's three-plus years with Milan. The magnificence: 43 goals and 28 assists in 138 appearances. The misery: just one trophy since he arrived in July 2023, a 2025 Supercoppa Italia held in Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...

Though Democrats have a strong edge heading into the midterms, some races have openings for RepublicansWhile marquee races from Maine to Michigan get all the attention, and draw in a ton of money, a significant batch of lower-profile contests across the US could result in upsets.Democrats have a strong edge heading into November's US midterm elections, polls show. In recent days, election prognosticators have shifted even more races in favor of Democrats. Continue reading...

France's always-cool winger has crowds hanging on his every move - adulation that means more than any title couldWhen I was younger, I wanted to be the captain on my football team because back then, I assumed that the armband was given to the best player. It was a goal of mine for so long that, even as my youth teams won tournaments and trophies, and I won top scorer and best player awards, I still felt unsatisfied because someone else always had the armband. Whenever I saw another teammate sprinting around with the armband on, I took it as an indictment.I had forgotten this childish way of thinking until France v Belgium in the Uefa Nations League last week. Ousmane Dembele, who was wearing the armband for France, was particularly active. Had it not been for the wastefulness of his teammates, he would have had several assists during his time on the field. Continue reading...

Six Flags says nine rollercoasters across six amusement parks temporarily closed after reported fatal incident on Goliath ride in GeorgiaTheme park company Six Flags temporarily closed nine rollercoasters across six amusement parks on Monday after one person died and several others were injured in an incident involving a coaster in Georgia.A spokesperson for the park said they closed similar attractions across their parks out of an abundance of caution" after the incident at Six Flags Over Georgia, about 15 miles (24km) north-west of Atlanta. Continue reading...

Timothy Broglio says Catholics on army firing squad should ask to be excused since it clashes with church teachingsThe archbishop who oversees the spiritual care of Catholics serving in the US military condemned the Pentagon's proposed plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan later this year.Archbishop Timothy Broglio also stipulated in a Monday statement that any Catholic soldier assigned to the US army firing squad should ask to be excused from that duty, which he described as contrary to the teachings of the church. He joins other Catholic leaders in speaking out against the death penalty and the live stream plans. Continue reading...

Top House Democrats question the corrupt weaponization' of federal government against Trump's adversariesIlhan Omar's Democratic colleagues have condemned federal agents' search of the Minnesota congresswoman's home on Monday morning, describing it as deeply disturbing" and emblematic of the Trump administration's corrupt weaponization" of the US government.House Democratic leaders, including minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, party whip Katherine Clark and caucus chair Pete Aguilar, issued a joint statement excoriating the president for the search. Continue reading...

Runners in Moab 240 successfully evacuated from race route after flooding from remnants of tropical storm RachelAbout 70 runners participating in Utah's Moab 240 ultramarathon were successfully evacuated from the race route on Sunday after being stranded by flooding stemming from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel.The event's host, Destination Trail, addressed the emergency rescue effort in a social media statement which confirmed that all runners were safe and accounted for. Continue reading...

Ana Reyes demands Trump officials explain East Potomac tree cutting and says it will likely cause irreparable harm'US district judge Ana Reyes on Monday ordered a 24-hour halt to tree cutting at the historic East Potomac golf course while she decides on an emergency order from plaintiffs concerned that Donald Trump's plans for the course are moving forward despite a pending court case challenging them.Tree removal for routine maintenance is not exempt from this order," Reyes' wrote. Plaintiffs are likely to suffer immediate and irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief. Continue reading...

Trump and key allies have accused Omar of immigration fraud, and have called to expel her from the countryFederal agents searched Representative Ilhan Omar's home on Monday morning as part of a criminal investigation, according to the Department of Justice and reports in the Associated Press and Fox News.In a social media post later on Monday, Omar criticized the raid as an attempt by the Trump administration to target political enemies and weaponize law enforcement" and said she would not be silenced". Continue reading...

Ukrainian leader says he was surprised by Trump's energy ceasefire' announcement, posted as Russian drones hit KyivVolodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to respond to Russia's continuing attacks on the Ukrainian power grid as European leaders rally around Kyiv amid a feud with Donald Trump over Ukraine's strikes on oil refineries.Speaking to a gathering of European security officials in Warsaw on Monday, the Ukrainian president said Kyiv would retaliate if strikes on its power grid continued: If Russia does not agree to an energy ceasefire this winter, we will respond." Continue reading...

Mayor calls for end to agency's operations in city after agents shot and wounded man with five-year-old in carThe New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, on Sunday compared US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s recent shooting of a man in the Manhattan enclave of Marble Hill to a mass shooting scene - and called for an end to the agency's operations in his city.Mamdani's joined MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff for his first media interview since ICE agents shot and wounded Oscar Belgal, 28, during an enforcement operation while he was in his car with his five-year-old child also inside. Continue reading...

Regina Romero draws on unique biography to connect with voters in Arizona battleground - can she flip a key swing seat?On a recent morning, Tucson mayor Regina Romero knocked on a yellow door above a mat emblazoned with a cat's silhouette and the words go away, peasants". A young man cracked the door open and stood there silently, a toothbrush dangling from his mouth.After giving him a moment to finish brushing his teeth, the mayor introduced herself and asked if the man had heard of JoAnna Mendoza, the Democrat running to unseat Republican congressman Juan Ciscomani. Romero handed him a pamphlet and rattled off her candidate's virtues. The young man stood stone-faced, until she mentioned that Mendoza had served for nearly two decades as a US marine. Continue reading...

New York judge also orders administration to cancel remaining portion of a $20m advertising purchaseA federal judge has ordered Donald Trump's administration to temporarily halt the broadcast of taxpayer-funded television ads promoting the president ahead of the 3 November midterm elections.Effective as of 6.45pm ET on Sunday, US district judge Jennifer L Rochon of the southern district of New York issued a temporary restraining order aimed at the ads that is meant to stay in effect for at least 14 days. Continue reading...

It's not just that the club's recent charges themselves are unprecedented - it's the language used to describe them too

Researchers will head to remote Pacific atoll, but sceptics say satellite images unlikely to be of her aircraftA team of US researchers is approaching a remote Pacific atoll where they suspect the famed aviator Amelia Earhart crash-landed in 1937, in the latest attempt to crack one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century.The 17-person expedition was inspired by satellite images taken over several years showing a submerged object in the uninhabited island's sandy lagoon - evidence dismissed by other longtime Earhart sleuths who say it is probably a fallen tree. Continue reading...

Boaz Weinstein's hedge fund is waging an aggressive campaign against the FTSE 250's Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust

The debt-collection ecosystem will change as AI takes notes in exam rooms, codes visits and sends billing messagesMedical debt is expected to grow in coming years as Republican-led health cuts come into force this winter. As it does, a changing world of medical billing and debt collection awaits patients: one where artificial intelligence increasingly listens, codes, bills and collects.Artificial intelligence takes notes in exam rooms, codes visits, sends out billing messages and powers AI agents who text patients in billing portals - all changing the debt-collection ecosystem. Continue reading...

Children's Health Defense and RFK Jr publicly dispute recent measles deaths to distract' from damage caused and question vaccines, experts sayThe six-year-old girl at the children's hospital in Lubbock, Texas, burned with fever and struggled to breathe. Doctors soon put her on a ventilator, snaking a thick tube down the child's throat so a machine could breathe for her; they placed IVs to rehydrate her tiny body and they prescribed antibiotics for any bacterial infections that may have taken hold in the weeks she had spent at home battling measles.But it was too late. Within a day of being ventilated, the child went into shock, her blood pressure crashed and she went into cardiac arrest. She could not be resuscitated. Her family, and the nation, mourned: she was the first child to die of measles in the US in a decade. Continue reading...

The rise of AI makes the preservation of democracy even more urgent - especially as the technology threatens institutionsAI safety is having a moment. After years as a topic for techies and futurists, the potential risks from artificial intelligence systems - from cyberattacks to hyper-persuasion to rogue behavior - are suddenly under discussion both in the corridors of power and around kitchen tables.In fact, the conversation now reaches beyond classical safety concerns, getting into AI's impact on economic life and the environment, as well as possible responses, from alignment research to government regulation. Continue reading...

Ukrainian president says the deal is news to me' and that Russia is still attacking energy infrastructure. Plus, investigation into continuing mystery of Havana syndrome

From restaurants to farms to healthcare, the US president's hardline policies have reshaped Americans' daily livesIf there is one campaign promise that Donald Trump has kept, it is his pledge to deliver mass deportations".Two years later, voters are living uneasily with the consequences. Continue reading...

As an alleged 2024 gang-rape at Cornell comes to light, universities are grappling with a choice: student safety or alumni donationsDaniel R Schwarz, an 85-year-old English literature emeritus professor, still works at Cornell University after 59 years because he loves teaching and watching young people grow", he said.Most of his students, he also said, have not been part of fraternities at Cornell in Ithaca, New York, where seven men allegedly gang-raped a woman in 2024. Continue reading...

In a recent visit to Greece, the secretary of state suggested that Europe must rediscover the values of conquest and expansionThey had obviously worked hard on the backdrop - and it was magnificent. On 7 October, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a major speech in Athens, outdoors, with the Acropolis behind him. The sun was setting, bathing the ancient scene, including the Parthenon, in the light of the golden hour.The golden hour, but yet not quite the golden age. This was not Pericles defending democracy. Instead, Rubio offered a haunting vision of the choices facing the west, arguing that the US and Europe must rediscover the values of exploration and conquest that once drove centuries of expansion, or face decline and irrelevance. Continue reading...

Roger Marshall says he has no idea how this happened' and repaid bill double for 2020 election watch party treatsThe Republican US senator Roger Marshall says he has finally paid off a bakery debt - after six years and repeated collection attempts reported by a Kansas business that had supplied a large order of treats for a 2020 election watch party.We have absolutely no idea how this happened", the Kansas senator wrote in a social media post containing a screenshot of the payment on a $678.75 invoice from Holly's Sweet Treats as well as his $1,300 payment. And we have repaid the bill ... double." Continue reading...