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Rapper who has helped produce the Super Bowl show for years is stepping up to perform himself, at SoFi Stadium in CaliforniaAfter years of producing the Super Bowl half-time show, Jay-Z has announced that the 2027 headline act will be none other than himself.After days of speculation, the NFL, Apple Music and Jay-Z's company Roc Nation announced on Monday night that the rapper will be the featured performer for the half-time festivities at the Super Bowl LXI on 14 February at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. Continue reading...

Suit that cites 2025 Guardian investigation alleges pattern of inaccurate pricing' that affects millions of purchases'The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states have sued Dollar General, the nation's largest dollar-store chain, for persistently overcharging customers at its more than 20,000 stores across the United States.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Nashville, cites a Guardian investigation published last December. Continue reading...

Last Ditch bar announced it would soft close' after it went viral following a story on its attempt to relax Covid rulesA Massachusetts lesbian bar that went viral for loosening its Covid mask policy last month announced plans to soft close" on Monday as it seeks new ownership.The Last Ditch bar, in the small city of Greenfield, said in an Instagram post that it was searching for co-owners, new owners or a full sale, and that it would soft close effective immediately", with only booked events" continuing while it closes this winter. It had opened just last year as a bar for dykes, transsexuals, gender freaks, workers, and their friends". Continue reading...

President's comments come ahead of November midterm elections and follow his claims of widespread voter fraudDonald Trump has announced a $1m reward for reports of voter fraud in past elections and the upcoming midterm elections, with payment contingent on the arrest and conviction of those responsible.In a Truth Social post on Monday, the president wrote: Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter." Continue reading...

Comey, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, accused of leaking information related to US national defenseThe justice department charged former FBI director James Comey on Monday with two counts of leaking information related to national defense, the third time the Trump administration has filed criminal charges against one of Donald Trump's most despised foes.The charges, filed in federal court in Washington DC, provide few details about what Comey is alleged to have leaked. The government alleges that the former FBI director leaked the information in 2016 and conspired with an unnamed person to give the information to a national news outlet. Continue reading...

Residents of coastal towns told to avoid beaches during high tides and keep further away from the ocean than usualCoastal communities across California were preparing for days of flooding amid potentially record-breaking tides" this week, as water levels began rising on Monday.The National Weather Service warned that significant coastal flooding was expected in San Diego and Orange counties through Thursday that could close roads and inundate homes, businesses and critical infrastructure. A wide swath of the coast from San Luis Obispo county to Los Angeles county could see minor to moderate" coastal flooding with tides as high as 8ft. Further north in the Bay Area, officials advised there could be as much as 2.1ft of inundation, primarily in low-lying coastal areas. Continue reading...

Republican and Democrat come together for a rare joint endorsement of candidate in unexpected competitive raceTwo South Carolina former governors, David Beasley and Jim Hodges, a Republican and Democrat respectively, have come together for a rare joint endorsement for Democrat Annie Andrews's Senate bid.Andrews, a pediatrician, is looking to flip the seat, currently held by Darline Graham, the Trump-endorsed sister of the late senator Lindsey Graham, in what has become an unexpectedly competitive race for the usually reliably red state. Continue reading...

How will Dallas and Philadelphia fare today? Here is what to know, including kick-off time, TV channels and live stream optionsThere is reeling", and then there is whatever the Eagles are doing heading into Monday Night Football against the Cowboys. Philadelphia have lost four games in a row to fall within a whisker of last place in the NFC East. Jalen Hurts's blood clots rapidly escalated and have probably knocked the franchise QB out for the season. Backup Tanner McKee has inherited a legitimate crisis. And it's not as if all was hunky-dory before Hurts went out. The Eagles had already blown a 10-point fourth-quarter lead to the Rams and let the Jaguars come back on them in shocking fashion in London before the Hurts news.The Cowboys have their own enormous issues. Former Eagles assistant Christian Parker joined up as defensive coordinator, aiming to fix a bad unit, but the Cowboys are still struggling to keep teams from racking up big point and yardage totals. Facing the Cowboys defense has been a salve for struggling offenses, as when a Packers team who couldn't convert a third down for their life suddenly converted nine of their first 10 against Big D last weekend. Continue reading...

All but one of the victims sustained gunshot wounds as boy faces 11 charges of attempted second-degree murderA 15-year-old boy was remanded into secure detention in Florida on Monday charged with 11 counts of attempted murder following a mass shooting at a college homecoming party on Saturday.Six adults and six minors were injured, all but one with gunshot wounds, in the gunfire near the Florida Agricultural + Mechanical University campus in Tallahassee. Continue reading...

At funeral service Chris Adrian remembers son Cole as capturing the heart' of everyone, after tragedy killing twoThe father of Cole Adrian, a six-year-old boy killed when a woman drove through a soccer game at a park in Wichita, Kansas, on 17 October, paid an emotional tribute to his son at his funeral service on Monday.Chris Adrian, of McPherson, Kansas, spoke through tears while he remembered Cole as an energetic, fun-loving child who loved life and captured the heart" of everyone he met. Continue reading...

Officials say Jacob Morley, who is serving a life sentence for a 2022 murder, escaped from a facility in TiptonvilleTennessee officials have mounted a manhunt after a convicted murderer's escape from prison on Sunday evening.The Tennessee department or correction (TDOC) on Monday announced that Jacob Morley, 28, escaped from the Northwest correctional complex in the community of Tiptonville. Local outlets reported that staff noticed Morley was unaccounted for at about 11.30pm on Sunday. Continue reading...

Daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, a Trump foe, was dismissed in 2025 despite her work being widely praisedMaurene Comey, the daughter of the former FBI director James Comey, was unlawfully fired from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York last year, a federal judge ruled on Monday.Judge Jesse Furman said that Comey, who was an assistant US attorney for a decade, was illegally fired in July 2025 despite her work on some of the nation's highest-profile cases and consistently receiving the highest accolades from supervisors and peers alike". Continue reading...

Trump lashes out on Maher after the host interviewed former White House press secretary Karoline LeavittDonald Trump launched a 1,300-word social media rant against the late-night US TV host Bill Maher on Sunday evening, calling him a TOTAL LOSER" in a fresh assault on the media.Let's talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher," the US president wrote. He's got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement - But that's all gone." Continue reading...

After the rejoicing, it will be vital to learn the lessons. The rightward shift is neither inevitable nor irreversible, but progressives cannot rest for a momentThe impossible happened. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth term in Sunday's runoff election in Brazil, overturning Flavio Bolsonaro's first-round lead in a historic comeback. No candidate has ever lost the first round and won the second, until now. Grassroots mobilisation, alongside social welfare policies, helped turn the contest into a referendum on Brazilian democracy, rallying voters against a candidate seeking to restore the legacy of his father, Jair Bolsonaro, imprisoned for plotting a coup after his 2022 defeat. Lula's victory suggests that defending democracy can still be a powerful electoral argument against the ascendant right.Having already consolidated most of the leftwing vote, Lula had limited room to attract supporters of other candidates after his first-round defeat. His best chance lay in mobilising abstainers and reconnecting with working-class voters. The Workers' party intensified its grassroots and digital campaigns, using social media influencers and messaging networks to reach supporters. Nearly 3 million more Brazilians voted in the runoff, and Lula gained ground across the country, particularly in major cities and his north-eastern strongholds. He also appealed to voters' immediate economic concerns, drawing on a record of reducing poverty and inequality, and increasing benefits under Bolsa Familia, the landmark welfare programme he launched in 2003. Lula framed the election as a choice between protecting social gains and democratic institutions, or returning to the Bolsonaro family's attacks on both, warning that his opponent would compromise Brazil's sovereignty by aligning himself with Donald Trump.Jordana Timerman is a journalist based in Buenos Aires. She is the managing editor of The Ideas Letter and compiles the Latin America Daily BriefingThe Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips will be answering your questions about the election and the future of Brazil from 1500 GMT on Tuesday 27 October as part of our Conversations series. Email questions to conversations@theguardian.com. Continue reading...

Two bishops express regret after the White House posts photos and video of a prayer with them in the Oval OfficeTwo Catholic bishops who bowed their heads with Donald Trump in the Oval Office now say they regret it, accusing the White House of turning a private prayer into a campaign photo opportunity before next week's US elections.Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee and Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines, who were among the 12 bishops who met administration officials last Thursday, issued separate statements of regret over the weekend. Continue reading...

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Leftwing incumbent becomes first candidate to reverse first-round defeat, but far-right son of former president rejects result. Plus, interviews with two legendary songwritersGood morning. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term as Brazil's president. Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat and asked for the results to be annulled.Following in the footsteps of his father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who four years ago also refused to acknowledge his defeat to Lula - before attempting a coup and being convicted for it - Flavio Bolsonaro cited a supreme court justice's decision to extend voting hours as the alleged reason for wanting to cancel the result.What does this result mean for Brazil now? My colleagues Libby Brooks in London and Tom Phillips and Sao Paulo spoke overnight. Phillips said: The Bolsonaro response is exactly as I feared, but I don't think it will mean very much. All these world leaders are now recognising Lula's win, and I don't think Bolsonaro has a hope of overturning this result. [For Lula] this is the crescendo of an incredible, if sometimes controversial, 50-year political career. The first elected working-class leader of Brazil, who has helped millions of people escape poverty."You can find the full results of the election here, and our ongoing live coverage here.What has Hebron's mayor said? Yousef al-Jabari accused the Israeli state of collective punishment", saying: They have dragged people from their houses, and they have prevented the media from getting into the district ... Netanyahu and his gang are using Palestinian land to displace Palestinian people, closing the city, closing the mosque, in order to achieve their political goals."How has a 21-year-old photographer described being the target of an Israeli attack? Zeinab Faraj found herself buried under rubble beside a dying colleague while reporting in Lebanon. My heart stopped" as she heard a drone descending towards them, she said. I've never heard anything like it in my life ... It was terrifying." The Israeli military later justified their attack, saying they had identified saboteurs violating the ceasefire. Human rights groups called it a war crime. Continue reading...

Law would open two-year window for child sexual abuse victims to file lawsuits beyond statute of limitationsChild sexual assault survivors in Pennsylvania are on the verge of being denied the opportunity to sue their attackers after a bill to temporarily waive filing deadlines stalled again in the state's legislature.Democrats have accused the Republican senate majority of playing politics with the bipartisan move to amend the state constitution and open a two-year window for victims to file molestation claims from years ago. Continue reading...

Democrats in the midterms are finally backing Medicare for All as a campaign issue amid a rising tide of voter supportAbdul El-Sayed, the Democratic US Senate candidate, starts this day on the campaign trail in Escanaba, Michigan, where nearby Wisconsin dairy country spills into dense forests and the sandy shores of Green Bay.This is the upper peninsula - the UP" - a rural slash of land north of Michigan's mitt. Electorally, it's crimson. Donald Trump won some districts near Escanaba by more than 41%. But at the county fairgrounds, past sheds labeled Beef" and Swine", hundreds of locals on the political left have gathered in the hangar-size 4H Club meeting hall to hear El-Sayed speak. Continue reading...

Animal-rights group released video footage that shows distressed baby macaques undergoing lab experimentsFootage released by the animal-rights group Peta reveals, for the first time, filmed experiments at the University of Washington's National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC), in which newborn monkeys were separated from their mothers and subjected to neurological tests after prenatal exposure to a neurotoxin.Records show that the infant monkeys, some just two days old, were used in research on domoic acid, a toxin produced by marine algae that accumulates in shellfish and can cause illness in humans. The experiments were part of a project that ran for six years until 2020. Continue reading...

The president's policies have taken such a toll on farmers that Republicans face trouble in deep-red statesDonald Trump's policies have been a disaster for the nation's farmers, so much so that a near electoral miracle may soon happen: Kansas, one of the deepest red, most rural states, may elect its first Democratic senator in nearly a century.After Trump won farm country handily in 2024, many rural voters in Kansas, Iowa and elsewhere have soured on him because the price of diesel fuel, a key input for farming, has soared by nearly 70%, farm bankruptcies have surged and because Trump's trade wars have significantly reduced agricultural exports.Steven Greenhouse is a journalist and author, focusing on labor and the workplace, as well as economic and legal issues Continue reading...

In a reliably red state, candidates say dissatisfied voters tell them they're planning to vote Democrat for the first timeDemocrat Kim McCarthy is canvassing in a middle-class Ohio neighborhood of four-bedroom, three-bathroom homes. There are $70,000 trucks in the driveways and robot lawnmowers at work.This is a neighborhood of two incomes and young families; people working hard," says McCarthy, who is running against a three-time Republican incumbent for a seat in Ohio's house of representatives. Continue reading...

As the US midterm elections approach, we take a look at data to see a true picture of the US economy under TrumpWith the midterm elections fast approaching, many Americans have the economy on their minds.US voters are exhausted by years of higher prices. Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 on promises to lower inflation and undo the damage he said the Biden administration had inflicted on the economy. Continue reading...

Health secretary's effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming - even as new vaccines are approvedUS vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, and some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration, experts say.Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies. Continue reading...

The Orlando City product scored his first goal in La Liga, playing three positions in a comeback win over ValenciaWhile most of La Liga's oxygen was consumed by the first El Clasico since Jose Mourinho's return to Real Madrid, another rivalry put Alex Freeman in spotlight position.Or quite a few positions, as it turned out. Continue reading...

No election outcome ever interprets itself. So how will Democrats interpret these results once they are known?Whichever metaphor one prefers - landslide, earthquake, wave - it seems increasingly like the Democrats can expect a significant victory in the midterms.As the joke goes, every gas station display of prices has become an ad for Democrats; what's more, some of them have managed to connect the relatively abstract issue of corruption to the daily misery of many Americans. Continue reading...

On 3 November, US citizens will decide whether Republicans will retain control of Congress or whether Democrats will come to power to stymie Trump's agendaDonald Trump will still be US president on the morning of 4 November. But he could be facing a very different political landscape, depending on the results of the US midterm elections held the previous day.As the name implies, midterm elections fall nearly halfway through a president's term. They are often a telling referendum on the sitting president's performance, something Trump is actively encouraging by telling voters pretend I'm on the ballot". In this case, voters will decide whether Trump's Republican party can retain its grip on Congress.All 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans are defending a narrow majority, with Democrats needing a net gain of four seats to take control.35 seats in the Senate. Thirty-three seats are up in regular elections, along with two special elections in Florida and Ohio to fill the remainder of terms that were vacated early. Republicans currently hold 53 seats, against 47 held by Democrats and independents who caucus with them. Democrats need to gain four seats to secure a majority.39 governorships. Voters will choose governors in 36 states and three US territories.Thousands of state legislative seats, as well as local offices, judicial contests and ballot measures on issues including taxes, abortion rights and voting rules. Continue reading...

The 42-year-old remains a polarizing figure. But the Steelers have a formidable defense and a quarterback who has seen it all beforeAaron Rodgers is nowhere near this season's MVP conversation. At times in his second season with the Steelers, the almost 43-year-old has shown glimpses of the player he was in his prime, slinging the ball with zest and precision, able to suss out any coverage. Other times he has looked like, well, a guy in his 40s playing a young man's game.Rodgers looked more like prime Rodgers in the Steelers' gritty 16-10 win over the Saints in Paris. He wasn't satisfied with his side of the ball, telling reporter Molly McGrath, I don't think we played very good on offense today." But Rodgers did enough to secure the win, including a 51-yard strike to DK Metcalf in the second quarter. He later scrambled for a first down on third-and-six to secure the win. Continue reading...

Trump again congratulated Ohio senator's rear end before his cheeky comment about rapper being hard to miss'Donald Trump reiterated his apparent love for buxom bums during a rally in Michigan on Sunday where he encouraged the crowd to compliment rapper Nicki Minaj's behind.Trump's cheeky comments about Minaj's derriere came as he explained his recent observation on the Republican Ohio senator Jon Husted's rear end. Earlier in October, Trump said of the former college football player: I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete. And I looked and I watched up and down. I looked at his ass and I looked at the whole - and then I looked at his hands. Look at his hands. He's got these, like, claws. Continue reading...

Peltola and her family sustained minor injuries after a driver struck the car transporting group to campaign stopMary Peltola, a Democrat who is running for Alaska's lone US Senate seat, and her family suffered minor injuries in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop on Saturday, her campaign said.The family was on its way to the Alaska Federation of Natives annual banquet when another vehicle crashed into the one transporting Peltola and her family, her campaign said in a statement on Sunday. Peltola required medical attention after the collision. Continue reading...

How will the Kansas City and Seattle fare today? Here is what to know, including kick-off time, TV channels and live stream optionsSunday Night Football this week is a blockbuster. The Chiefs take their undefeated record to Seattle, where the defending-champ Seahawks should have an early sense of urgency. Mike Macdonald's team enter at 3-3, already a full three games (plus, for now, a tiebreaker) behind the gangbusters 49ers. To have any real shot at a home playoff game - a critical edge in last year's Super Bowl run - the Seahawks need to get a win against a resurgent Chiefs squad who nothing like the husk they appeared to be down the stretch last season.In addition to a clash between two marquee franchises, the evening is a homecoming for one of the most important players of the young season: Kenneth Walker III. The Seahawks-turned-Chiefs running back has been key to KC's offensive revitalization after signing as a free agent following his Super Bowl MVP nod with Seattle. The Chiefs were in the bottom half of the league in rushing yards per carry last year but this season hold a whopping lead over the second-place team, averaging 5.5 yards to the Bills' 5.1. The 26-year-old Walker is having a career year and has worked his way from good player" to maybe the Offensive Player of the Year." Continue reading...

Man accused of shooting teen who was driving to a party is also linked to shooting of a vehicle days earlier, police sayA man accused in the shooting death of a Missouri teen has been charged in a second shooting incident - both of which involve firing into cars on the highway.Alyssa Wilson, 17, was shot and killed as she drove down Interstate 170 in Overland, Missouri, on 14 October. The teen was on her way to a Halloween party at St Louis Zoo, called Boo at the Zoo, when a suspect fired a single shot into the back of Wilson's Buick Encore. Continue reading...

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Police say altercation at a homecoming party escalated into gunfire and they are working to identify those responsible'A shooting near a Florida university campus in Tallahassee has left 11 people with gunshot wounds and another person injured, authorities say.The shooting took place near the Florida Agricultural + Mechanical University's campus on Perry Street on Saturday night, the university said, while police counted six adults and six juveniles among the injured. Continue reading...

Democratic and independent candidates stump the US midwest and prairie states, hoping to win over Republican strongholdsIn this final stretch of the US midterm elections, Democrats and independents could win back communities and towns across America's rural heartlands through a combination of resurgent prairie populism", local despair over the impact of Donald Trump's agenda and an old-fashioned tenet of shoe-leather politics: showing up everywhere.When Dan Osborn rolled into one of the most rural counties in Nebraska earlier this month, he started walking into businesses in the tiny main drag of Arthur, ready to meet whomever he could in the town of about 100. Continue reading...

How a rebuilt, historic California baseball diamond embodies the contradictions in America's legacy'When Dan Kwong first dreamed of staging baseball games at the Japanese American concentration camp where his family was held captive during the second world war, he thought of it as an exercise in living history, an eye-catching way to convey the trauma of 120,000 men, women and children who were locked up in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Baseball was a passion for Kwong, a 71-year-old performance artist from Los Angeles. He knew that the wartime internees had played the game not just as a distraction from their predicament, but as a quiet expression of their loyalty to the United States. He wanted to stage an event that would cast the game as an act of resistance, and teach new generations about the damage governments do when they strip a whole segment of the population of their constitutional rights. Continue reading...

VW investment, creating 4,500 jobs in Georgia, comes amid Trump's damaging tariffs, intense Chinese competition and costly shift towards EVsAudi has said it will spend $4bn (3bn) to build its first factory in the US, as its parent company, Volkswagen, struggles with the impact of steep tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.The German brand's chief executive, Gernot Dollner, joined Trump on stage at a campaign rally on Saturday night to announce the factory in Macon, Georgia, in an unusual move by a big European brand just days before the US midterm elections. Continue reading...

Shasta has embraced the Maga movement with gusto - can Democrats ever win back the rural, working-class voters they once relied upon?A crucial election was approaching and the country was desperate. Despite promises that economic conditions were improving, nearly a quarter of the US was out of work as voters headed to the polls in 1932.It was the darkest time since the civil war, a period so dire that in California's capital people fought each other for work. In early 1931, a crowd of 200 men scuffled over a handful of temporary jobs moving back-breaking loads of granite, the Sacramento Bee reported. Continue reading...

To understand where Trump is trying to take the US, we should look to the authoritarian playbook of his favorite ally: El Salvador's Nayib BukeleOne afternoon last year, Donald Trump welcomed a friend" to the White House - El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, the world's most popular authoritarian. I knew him as a very young man," the US president said before the cameras. He's done a fantastic job. Mr President, it's an honor to have you."Since March 2022, when gangs in El Salvador murdered 87 people over a weekend, Bukele has maintained a state of emergency in which key civil liberties are suspended and 2% of the adult population has been jailed - about 100,000 people, at least half of whom are probably not gang members, say local rights groups. The narrative of the Bukele miracle" - that he swiftly dismantled fearsome gangs and restored order - has made him an icon across Latin America, where a new host of rightwing leaders have sought to replicate his heavy-handed tactics. And in the US, Bukele's overnight success as a strongman has made him a hero of the American right. Continue reading...

The Dream and Valkyries are tied at 2-2 after four absorbing games. Many in America would rather we revisited the national anthem debateWhen Tyler Perry leading lady Crystal Renee took center stage at State Farm Arena to sing the national anthem before the Atlanta Dream's WNBA finals clash with the Golden State Valkyries on Saturday afternoon, a smattering of photographers, game officials and event security took their familiar places around her as the capacity crowd stood for the flag. The teams, as is now customary, spent that time in their locker rooms. As soon as the lights went back up, the teams returned to the floor to resume their shootarounds. Anyone genuinely invested in the finals would have been unfazed by them briefly stepping away - if they remembered it at all after the Valkyries' 67-62 win tied the series at two games apiece. But for many watching the game, basketball is beside the point.Seven years ago, Jay-Z declared that the culture had moved past kneeling" and similar national anthem protests, seemingly sounding the death knell for an era of sports activism that had helped raise awareness of racial disparities as a broader social movement gathered force. The line cemented his partnership with the NFL as the league bowed to political pressure to crack down on anthem protests, with other major US sports eventually following the NFL's lead. But rightwing media and politicians never got the memo. They're still making sports a battleground for patriotism, with basketball as the war's chief casualty. Continue reading...

This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industryThe US military has given Elon Musk's SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth's orbit to a controversial donor.The access also raises new national security questions, industry observers say. Continue reading...

State veterinarian attempted to get help from federal government but was told USDA didn't regulate mink farmsAn outbreak of bird flu at a mink farm in Utah - and the response from its owner and regulators - have sparked concerns from infectious disease experts about the Trump administration's ability to manage such viruses.While the mink becoming sick is unlikely to produce a tidal wave of human infections", an apparent lack of transparency from government officials about the infections is very troubling, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiology professor and director of the pandemic center at Brown University School of Public Health. Continue reading...

James Blair's data-driven approach delivered victory in 2024 but president's unpopularity and idiosyncratic style do not bode well this timeThey are both young, bald and fathers of four. They are also the brains behind Donald Trump. But while Stephen Miller is infamous as the US president's ideological enforcer, James Blair could, in the words of Time magazine, be the most important person in Donald Trump's Washington you've never heard of".That imbalance is deceptive, however. Blair has sufficiently impressed Trump to earn the nickname Brilliant James". And a well-positioned source told the Guardian: I would say that James is probably twice, five times, 10 times more effective than Stephen Miller." Continue reading...