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US secretary of state makes comments after Trump tells US rally warships could intervene on return from IranMarco Rubio urged Cubans seeking political change in their country to act, saying now is the time" moments after Donald Trump told a Friday rally for candidates in south Florida that US warships could intervene in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war.The US secretary of state, in his social media post addressed to those who seek to create positive change", urged Cubans to capitalize on Trump's plans. The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete [sic] partnership with the CIA," Rubio said. Continue reading...

Kaylub Giamanco recounts the day he confronted the Silver Rail elementary school shooter, who killed three boys and one teacherThe Oregon father hailed as a hero for stopping a school shooting last week spoke for the first time about the incident, describing his experience and how he told a 911 operator: I have to go in. People are going to die."Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter, has received national attention and praise for stopping the bloodshed at Silver Rail elementary in Bend, Oregon, where his children attend school. Continue reading...

Police body camera and security footage released on 21 October shows the police shooting of Kohen Wiley on 14 June in Senatobia, Mississippi. The released video comes after the Mississippi attorney general announced that the shooting 'was justified'. After the release of the video, the police officer who shot into the vehicle and killed Kohen Wiley resigned from the Senatobia police department. Continue reading...

With just 11 days until the US midterm elections, Democrats need a net gain of four seats to reclaim CongressWith just 11 days until the US midterm elections, early voting data is rolling in nationwide. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to reclaim the majority in each chamber of Congress. Here is where the numbers stand as of Friday: Continue reading...

Rodney Hinton ran over Larry Henderson after he viewed body-cam footage of police shooting dead his son RyanAn Ohio man who killed a deputy with his car just hours after seeing video of his son killed by Cincinnati police was found guilty of murder and other charges on Friday, according to authorities.Rodney L Hinton, 40, faces between 15 years and life in prison after his convictions in the death of Hamilton county special deputy Larry Henderson. His sentencing is tentatively scheduled for 16 November. Continue reading...

Trump justice department claims there could be confusion' about two Republicans on the ballot named Dan SullivanDonald Trump said he ordered the justice department to file a lawsuit to block the certification of Alaska's US Senate results if the Republican incumbent loses, a move that voting rights experts called an unprecedented intervention" by the federal government with control of Congress in the balance.I'm the one that said do it," Trump told reporters as he landed in Florida for a campaign rally on Friday. Continue reading...

Donald Trump told rally-goers on Thursday evening that he had 'the right to run again' for president, invoking a claim he has repeatedly made that he may seek a third term despite it being unconstitutional Continue reading...

An electoral supercycle over the next year may redefine the continent's future. But what's happening on the streets is shaping it, tooFrance sneezed, and Europe has again caught the cold. The wave of unrest which began with teenagers at a high school soon drew in hundreds of thousands of people nationwide and then spread across the continent. Protests have filled the streets in Lisbon and Madrid, and have ignited into violence in Milan, Brussels and Tirana as well as in French cities.French authorities say they are deploying 70,000 officers on Saturday and are allowing only marches organised by unions. They blame hard-left militants as well as opportunistic young perpetrators for last weekend's destruction and looting, when a minority hijacked largely peaceful protests. But with fuel prices set to rise further over the winter, the demands and participants broadening, and President Macron utterly failing to meet the moment, there is no sign of an end to the wider discontent and no speedy resolution in sight. Continue reading...

Hunter Foster fired at vehicle during a shoplifting call at a Walmart, killing one-year-old Kohen WileyHunter Foster, the Mississippi police officer who shot into a vehicle and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley, has resigned from the Senatobia police department. Earlier this week, Mississippi's attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the shooting was justified".The Senatobia board of aldermen accepted Foster's resignation on 21 October and the resignation took effect immediately. Foster was placed on leave on 16 June, days after the 14 June shooting. Yesterday, the Mississippi department of public safety released body-camera and surveillance footage from the shooting, at a Walmart in Senatobia, during which the toddler died in his mother's arms after being shot. Continue reading...

US constitution unequivocally states that he can't campaign again, which the president also seems to acknowledge

People in Russian-occupied city facing severe shortages of food, water and electricity, with some reportedly surviving on weedsThe White House has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, where a deepening humanitarian crisis has left thousands of civilians struggling to survive.In a statement on Friday, the White House said both sides had agreed to halt all military operations in the city from 29 October to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and preparations for the evacuation of civilians. Continue reading...

Contents of laptop of Joe Biden's son were part of a bizarre saga in the final weeks of 2020 presidential electionTwo former FBI intelligence officials who specialized in foreign election interference were charged on Friday with making false statements about their roles in investigating the origins of Hunter Biden's laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides surrendered on Friday and made their first appearance in federal court in Washington DC. Floris's legal team expressed outrage at the development coming from the US Department of Justice, the parent agency of the FBI. Continue reading...

Voting rights advocates say directive would disenfranchise young and low-income voters, but Republicans say it's needed to combat voter fraud

The New York mayor's passion for the Gunners and human rights presents an opportunity to push back on the club's lucrative UAE sponsorshipLike him or not, there is no doubt that New York mayor Zohran Mamdani's passion for certain issues is electric, and that passion played a large part in him getting elected. But today, two of his biggest passions are on a collision course.On one hand, Mamdani is now arguably the US's most high-profile supporter of English Premier League champions Arsenal. A superfan since he was a child, he has put the Gunners into the American spotlight more than anyone since becoming mayor. The Empire State Building gleamed in Arsenal's red and white when they won the Premier League title. He wrote an essay about what Arsenal's championship means to him, talks about Arsenal at press conferences and interviews and inaugurated Thierry Henry Way near Times Square in honor of the Arsenal legend. Continue reading...

Conservative media personalities who have long benefited from boosting the president will be forced to wrestle with the likely fallout of Republican losses in next month's US midterm electionsNothing lasts forever. Jesse Kelly knows his meteoric rise through conservative radio will end one day - just like Donald Trump's power over the Republican party.Every day, the 6ft 8in Kelly walks a tightrope between sycophancy and criticism of the US president: the same fine line many rightwing hosts have attempted to tread throughout Trump's rise, fall, and then resurrection from the political graveyard after his 2020 presidential election defeat. Continue reading...

State authorities investigating killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti said federal officials paused transfer of evidenceThe federal government has stopped sharing evidence with Minnesota authorities who are investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers during a violent anti-immigration, anti-protest crackdown in the state earlier this year, state officials said in recent court filings.Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration in March for access to materials they said they needed to independently investigate the shootings. Continue reading...

CBP commissioner Rodney Scott says $46bn Texas project is justified amid court-ordered pause on wall's constructionThe Trump administration's top border official defended plans to build a wall and other infrastructure in the Big Bend of Texas despite mounting opposition against the project and a court-ordered pause on construction, saying his goal of fortifying the country's borders was non-negotiable".Rodney Scott, the commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said the $46bn wall project was justified despite a bipartisan coalition of landowners, local businesses and environmentalists who view it as a waste of taxpayer money that could be destructive to a region with historically low migrant crossings, in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press. Continue reading...

Republicans are resorting to childish taunts to defend an uncommonly dishonorable state attorney generalIt's a bit like Lucy with the football. Every few years, Democrats convince themselves that a Texas Senate seat might finally switch from red to blue. On paper, it makes sense. Texas is a large and urbanizing state with an increasingly educated - and increasingly non-white - population.Other one-time Republican strongholds that have undergone similar demographic shifts have turned purple or even blueish - think Georgia, for example. The border counties along the Rio Grande valley, with their deep poverty and big Latino populations, were long thought to be fertile ground to nurture a kind of anti-Trump populism that could be converted into pro-Democratic sentiment. The state Democratic party is anemic there, but a few talented candidates have emerged.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Byron Donalds removed mentions of the president from his website and has barely uttered his name - will his ploy prove successful in a tight governor's race?It took Byron Donalds, addressing a wildly supportive crowd at a rally in Florida's bluest county, some time to list those he blamed for any affordability" issues they might be experiencing.Joe Biden, and the radical policies of the Democrats, were at fault, the Republican nominee for Florida governor insisted in his stump speech at Broward county's Green Glades West ranch, even though neither has wielded power in Washington for almost two years. Continue reading...

Documents show German party's scramble to request support after president's 2016 election win and co-leader's pursuit of Steve BannonA data leak from Germany's far-right German Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has revealed the extent of efforts by the party to court Donald Trump and other leading figures in the Maga movement, stretching back more than a decade.The trove reveals the pains the AfD took in wooing the president, whom they saw from the beginning as a potential ally, with senior party officials agonising over the wording of an obsequious congratulatory telegram when he was elected in 2016, which included the wish that his hopes as a person be fulfilled". Continue reading...

Trump's latest tactic to champion Republicans at midterm rallies? Assessing men's bodies in meticulous detailSpeaking at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, earlier this month, to support the Republican senator Jon Husted, Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks.Trump said he had recently learned that Husted played football at university. The president, 80, said this had prompted him to conduct a physical assessment of Husted. Continue reading...

Omar Munoz, one of 28 people charged in California, speaks out about being dragged from his home in front of cameras as DoJ accused of disgusting' PR campaignOmar Munoz was getting ready to have his morning coffee just after 5am on Monday when he heard a loud bang at the front door of his Los Angeles home.Open up or else we'll break down the door, and it'll be bad for you," the man on the other side yelled, Munoz, 72, recalled. Continue reading...

The US president is portraying Zelenskyy as the villain as he strives for Russia's approvalIf Donald Trump could, he would fly to Munich to sign away Ukraine to Vladimir Putin, and return to wave the document as peace in our time", hoping to claim at least the second Fifa peace prize.Whatever the complicated motives of Neville Chamberlain, his well-grounded fear after the carnage of a world war of another apocalypse and his wishful thinking that Hitler would be satiated after carving up Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain had not sent his son-in-law and former golf partner and real estate partner in advance to cut back-end deals with the Nazis to profit for his family and cronies.Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth. He is a Guardian US columnist and co-host of the Court of History podcast Continue reading...

Voters in 39 states will face an array of referendum issues - including Alabama's on the national anthem in schoolsAmericans heading to the polls for next month's midterm elections are not just choosing whom to send to Washington, or their state capitols. There are also 145 statewide measures on ballots across 39 states, polling voters on actions from a novel wealth tax on California's billionaires to requiring Alabama's public schools to broadcast or perform the first stanza of the national anthem each week.Voters in Idaho, Nevada and Virginia are asked to protect abortion rights; voters in Missouri are asked to give those rights back. Property tax issues appear on dozens of state ballots. Several state referendums ask voters to bar trans athletes from competing in women's sports, or bar gender-affirming medical care for minors. Continue reading...

To reclaim control of the Senate, Democrats need to retain all the Senate seats they have and flip four more in the 2026 midterm elections. Shrai Popat, the Guardian's US politics reporter, explains which are the key races to watch in November. Continue reading...

The president shows a unique disregard for the opinions, norms and ideals of the nation - and, for that matter, humanityThe Democrats' focus on affordability seems to be a winning strategy (we'll know for sure in a little over two weeks). But we mustn't lose sight of the moral squalor at the core of the Trump regime and the necessity of ending it.It's that moral squalor - the utter disregard for the opinions, norms and ideals of the nation and, for that matter, of humanity - that uniquely marks Trump and the reprobates he has attracted to Washington. It has also poisoned much of the Republican party, including the billionaires and tech bros who finance it.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK Continue reading...

It's Milwaukee and Tampa Bay in the 122nd Fall Classic. Our writers predict how it will be decided, who will shine brightest and who will break their World Series maidenYes - and in fact, evidence that money actively undermines baseball happiness. For the big-market teams, anything less than a World Series is disappointing. Whereas for the Rays (who in April were given a 1.1% chance of winning the World Series by FanGraphs) or Brewers (2.1%), the season is already a success, and winning it all would give their fans more pleasure than a Yankees or Dodgers fan could ever experience. Alan Evans Continue reading...

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California flu test rate at 9.65%, higher than normal 1% rate for early October, amid mutation of H1N1 influenza A strainFlu cases on the west coast are on the rise months earlier than normal, prompting US health experts to stress the importance of the annual vaccine.Flu activity typically ramps up in December, hitting its peak in February. But this season has kicked into action earlier this year, with higher positive cases than normal recorded. Continue reading...

Ex-Trump adviser and former top aide for homeland security alleged to have profited off government roleCorey Lewandowski, a former political adviser to Donald Trump and top aide at the Department of Homeland Security, is under criminal investigation over allegations he profited off his role in the US government, three US officials and a fourth person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.The investigation began with a criminal referral to the justice department from the internal watchdog at DHS, according to the four people. The DHS inspector general's office has been investigating Lewandowski's involvement in the handling of certain government contracts, according to one of the people, a DHS official. Continue reading...

Violent storms overnight knocked over utility poles and trees and carried thunder and heavy winds through stateYet more severe weather struck Thursday in the US south-west as the Four Corners region surveyed blown-away roofs, trees knocked on to homes and power lines downed from overnight tornadoes that injured one person.The injuries weren't life-threatening but rare for an area better known for scalding heat. But this fall has been unusually soggy in the south-west with El Nino conditions that have sent one tropical system after another in from the Pacific, causing the Grand Canyon and surrounding deserts to rage with floods. Continue reading...

Becky Drury says she was hit by gunfire before she could intervene in attack that killed four, including three childrenA teacher wounded in last week's shooting at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school shared her account of the incident, and how she was shot before she could intervene and [pretended] to be dead".Becky Drury was seriously wounded at Silver Rail elementary when Griffin J John II, a 16-year-old former student at the school armed with a shotgun, broke in and headed toward a special education classroom. He shot six people, killing Megan Lambert, a 25-year-old teacher, and three children, including five-year-old Rhoam Summer. Continue reading...

Republican Mike DeWine said ad featuring estranged mother of Democrat Amy Acton was wrong'Donald Trump issued a swift rebuke against Mike DeWine, Ohio's Republican governor, who on Thursday said gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was wrong" to release an ad critical of his Democratic rival Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother.DeWine had implored Ramaswamy to take the ad down, but hours later, Trump urged Ramaswamy to keep airing it and accused the Republican governor of disloyalty. Continue reading...

A police officer shoved a woman to the ground and arrested her after a protest against datacenters at a Utah county commission meeting. A statement from the Utah county sheriff's office said that the woman refused to leave the meeting and struck the officer in the groin before being arrested Continue reading...

New account from Pike's lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flowThe Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of the death row prisoner Christa Pike through which she could be injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital repeatedly warned that her vein might be blowing", before they went ahead with the procedure, her lawyer has revealed.Members of the intravenous (IV) team used up to 10 needles as they sought to establish a line through which Pike could be killed with a massive dose of the sedative. About 20 minutes into the attempt, they began discussing among themselves whether the prisoner's vein might be blowing". Continue reading...

California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii health officials ask CDC prioritizing emerging technologies' to reconsiderCalifornia and Washington asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May to validate a new way to test for measles - but after waiting two months, the CDC denied the request, citing other competing priorities", according to a letter from the West Coast Health Alliance to the CDC director, Erica Schwartz.The letter, signed by health officials in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, asks Schwartz to reconsider and validate a rapid, high-volume measles test in preparation for major outbreaks. The alliance also asked the CDC to create protocols to test for other high-priority pathogens to prepare for future outbreaks. Continue reading...

The word justified' has haunted me since Monday,'' the child's maternal grandmother saysSince the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced on Monday that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old baby, was justified", footage of the shooting has been made public. It was first reported by Darkhorse Press, a Mississippi outlet.On Thursday, attorneys Ben Crump and Van Turner, who are representing the Wiley family, held a press conference at the Senatobia Church of Christ, in Senatobia, Mississippi. The press conference came shortly after members of the family were able to view footage of the shooting. Continue reading...

Federal judge says government's investigation into alleged noncitizen voting in nine states is relying on flawed dataA federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to halt investigations in nine states into whether noncitizens are registered to vote.US district court judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in Oakland found the government's effort was relying on data that is full of errors and that it was leading to intimidation of groups performing voter assistance efforts. She said it should be halted until polls close on election day on 3 November. Continue reading...

Tech company previously complied with president's demand to rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of AmericaDonald Trump said Google rejected his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean after himself or America.Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, the president said he had called Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, to ask whether the company could handle" his proposal. Continue reading...

Government inspections showed overcharges as high as 39% on some items. The discount store giant was the subject of a 2025 investigation by the GuardianDollar General, the nation's largest dollar-store chain, has agreed to a $1.875m deal to settle allegations that it repeatedly and persistently" overcharged customers across New York state.The New York attorney general's office found that Dollar General often charged customers higher prices at checkout than the prices it promised on shelf labels, signs, advertising circulars and its mobile app. The state agency said one check of 114 items across multiple stores revealed overcharges on individual items as high as 26%, 38% and 39%. Continue reading...