JD Vance, the vice-president, criticized Republicans who have spoken out against a controversial campaign ad from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. The ad features the mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, calling her daughter a liar. In a Tuesday statement, Acton's brother, Philip Stearns, said his sister is estranged from her mother, who had married a man that sexually abused Acton when she was 12. He said his mother, Donna Arthur, remained in the marriage after her husband was arrested and her children were taken away from her Continue reading...
New Mexico lawsuit claims in exchange for furthering Epstein's criminal project, his associates received generous salaries'The attorney general of New Mexico on Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime attorney, Darren Indyke, and Epstein's longtime accountant, Richard Kahn, accusing them of having facilitated and concealed" Epstein's crimes, and is seeking to stop them from being paid by Epstein's estate while the litigation plays out.The lawsuit, filed in the US district court for the district of New Mexico, names Kahn and Indyke as defendants both in their individual capacity, and in their capacity as co-executors of Epstein's estate. The complaint also names Epstein's estate, and the 1953 Trust, which holds the estate's assets. Continue reading...
Vladimir Putin ordered the release of former teacher Stephen Hubbard, who had spent more than four years in Russian jails on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine. This came as Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met with the Russian president in St Petersburg for fresh talks on ending the war in Ukraine, amid increasingly close relations between Moscow and Washington.
As prices keep rising, more of the president's supporters are asking what happened to the economic good times he promisedIt is no great revelation that Donald Trump is enrichinghimself as president. He raked in $2.2bn in 2025, with his position and his personal interests frequently overlapping. Yet this week's poll finding that 34% of Republicans (and 66% of all American voters) think that he is using his position to make himself rich merits attention. Separately, voters in a Fox News poll last week put government corruption atthe top of their list of concerns - just ahead of inflation and high prices.Mr Trump pledged that people would be better off if they voted for him. The billionaires are; not the rest. He promised to lower the costs of groceries (they have risen again) and to cut the price of gasoline to below $2 a gallon. It's more than double that, thanks to his reckless and illegal war on Iran. Tariffs have bumped up the cost of living too. Incumbents will always struggle when the economy does. But the gulf between his own prosperity and the daily life of his base now looks less like an inspiration and more like an insult. Cash offers seem unlikely to help much. Continue reading...
Decision stands in contrast to recent trans rights actions from court that often sides with Trump administrationThe US supreme court went against Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday, refusing to allow the immediate enforcement of sweeping restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender individuals held in prisons and federal facilities.The decision marks an unusual victory for transgender rights before the nation's highest court, which has largely sided with the administration and other opponents of transgender rights in several major cases. Continue reading...
Cameras reportedly set up near site for Trump's proposed arch, Arlington Memorial Bridge and reflecting poolThe US Park Police are spending $343,000 to lease mobile surveillance cameras from a company that also supplies Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), federal contract records show. The deal comes as Donald Trump has insisted that vandals damaged the reflecting pool, one of Washington's best-known landmarks - charges that have since been dismissed.The Department of the Interior, which oversees the Park Police, awarded the lease to the Utah-based company LiveView Technologies (LVT) on 14 September, on a fully obligated government contract that runs through the end of February. The records do not say how many camera trailers are covered. Continue reading...
Voters disapprove of Trump's handling of economy and cost of living, says poll in new low recorded by NY Times/SienaDonald Trump's approval rating sank to 36% just two weeks before the midterm elections, the lowest recorded in a poll by the New York Times/Siena College, with most respondents expressing frustration over his handling of the US economy, cost of living and Iran war.In an October survey of approximately 3,494 likely voters, 59% said they disapproved of Trump's handling of his job, and 52% said they planned to vote for the Democratic candidate in the upcoming election. Continue reading...
Flights to third countries where the detainees have no ties are scheduled as early as Wednesday, relatives detailRelatives of gravely ill detainees at two Florida immigration jails say authorities are about to deport their loved ones to unknown countries in Africa despite worsening medical conditions.Flights are scheduled as early as Wednesday, according to the families and the immigration advocacy group the Workers Circle, which has been monitoring conditions and speaking with detainees inside two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in south Florida. Continue reading...
Lebanese officials were furious, claiming the city erased Gibran's identity. Yet there was a time when Arab immigrants in the US thought we were all Syrians'
A Washington referendum has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teensFor Kelsey Gellner, a Seattle-based pediatric nurse, a statewide proposal to bar trans girls from sports participation feels like a violation of her duty as a medical professional. The ballot initiative includes a requirement she calls invasive and extreme": all students who wish to compete on girls' teams would have to undergo genital exams.I tell my kids and patients that my No 1 job is to keep them safe," said Gellner, who is also a board member of the Washington State Nurses Association. I can say with confidence that girls do not want to have an unnecessary exam that creates an unsafe barrier." Continue reading...
President makes suggestion while announcing new program to reward tipsters who submit fraud allegationsDonald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he would serve as the arbitrator" of decisions in the justice department's new anti-fraud program that awards compensation to those who submit tips resulting in conviction or significant federal enforcement.While announcing the new program alongside JD Vance, the vice-president, who leads the White House's taskforce to eliminate fraud, the president told reporters he had a solution for situations where multiple people submit a tip for the same alleged fraud. Continue reading...
Coordination by Democratic officials overseeing elections includes Zoom calls and in-person tabletop exercisesDemocratic state attorneys general, other top state officials and civic groups have accelerated planning to thwart any federal meddling in the November midterm elections by Donald Trump as he continues his false charges of widespread voting fraud and veiled threats of interfering in the process.Since early this year, 24 Democratic attorneys general have expanded coordination with about a dozen Democratic secretaries of state and several civic groups using weekly Zoom calls and in-person tabletop exercises to strategize about countering any federal intervention in the elections. Continue reading...
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is spending $80m to help Democratic candidates, while Trump has promised Republicans $400m. Plus a vital investigation into justice in Louisiana
Against a backdrop of rising Islamophobia, Michigan Senate hopeful has challenged premise of repeated questions on Muslim Brotherhood, Israel and faithAs a candidate positioned at the center of what researchers say are the worst Islamophobic attacks seen since the aftermath of 9/11, many would expect Abdul El-Sayed to simply defend himself and move on.Instead, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan has repeatedly demanded those who question his positions on Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood and his faith, explain the premise of their inquiry. Rather than let others put his loyalties on trial, he has tried to put their assumptions on trial. Continue reading...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a house framer before he was killed by ICE agents. Countless other Latino builders in Texas live in fear of a similar fateEvery morning long before dawn, while America sleeps, legions of Texas construction workers grab their fluorescent vests and hard hats, sling ladders and tools into their trucks, and head down the highway for another day of grueling labour under the blistering sun.Elsewhere, before the first flush of daylight settles over Texas's concrete sprawl, a separate army gets on the move in a fleet of shiny unmarked SUVs. They hover at gas stations, prowl around bodegas, pounce on the highways. Continue reading...
From Roman-era political potboilers to stories of Catholic priests struggling to impose their authority, what could the reading list of vice-president JD Vance's wife be trying to tell us?Usha Vance, a very clever woman with dubious taste in men, likes to keep herself busy. While lesser mortals (me) waste their one wild and precious life watching Love Is Blind, the second lady has various self-improvement projects on the go. She's brushing up on her German! She's hosting a literacy podcast! She's rereading the classics! And, of course, she's juggling four young children and the demands of being the vice-president's spouse.How does she do it all? With the help of taxpayer dollars, I suspect. Easier to get some reading done when you're being helicoptered everywhere and, as JD Vance has boasted: People go to the grocery store for me." Continue reading...
As women's sprinting enters a golden era in the run-up to LA 2028, controversy surrounding a top coach threatens to overshadow the sport's biggest starsWhen Olympic 200m champion Gabby Thomas came second at the recent track and field World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest, she tried her best to be diplomatic: I am an equal-opportunity doping hater," she said. If you are actively doping in sport, I do take issue with that. I'm not saying any names, no names are mentioned. But if you look at yourself and you think that's what you're doing, then so be it."Thomas then went out of her way to congratulate her compatriot Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who finished ahead of her that day, aware of the territory into which she was straying. Continue reading...
Philip Sullivan, who sought to rebuild his life after gambling addiction, convicted of stealing from real-estate employerA Florida man who stole more than $1m from his employer to bankroll a gambling problem - before becoming the director of his state's gambling addiction helpline in trying to make amends - was recently sentenced to nearly a decade in prison.Bay county, Florida, authorities charged Philip Sullivan in March 2024 with stealing $1.4m from the Panama City Beach real-estate company for which he was the chief financial officer, Royal American, as local news outlets WMBB and WJHG had previously reported. Continue reading...
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In this episode of Guardian Australia's US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White House press secretary. They then examine the pattern of how women in the Trump administration are treated when they're perceived to have made mistakes - versus how men seem to survive their missteps.They also look at how the US might be changing course on Russia's war on Ukraine. Are relations between Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at their lowest point ever? And what happens if the US decides to take Vladimir Putin's side in the war?Read more:Enter the Zachbot: Trump's new press secretary malfunctions on podium debutAll the president's women: a familiar downward trajectory on Trump's team Continue reading...
Student told the university's police department that assault by two men occurred in August during a night of drinkingA sorority member at the University of Arizona has alleged she was sexually assaulted by two men at a fraternity house during a night of drinking in late August.The student told the university's police department that she consensually kissed one of the men at one point while at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on 26 August but doesn't remember agreeing to sex, according to search warrant records posted Monday night by KOLD-TV in Tucson. Continue reading...
Vietnam veteran William Reaves executed by lethal injection despite letter from fellow veterans urging haltFlorida carried out its 18th execution of the year on Tuesday under Republican governor Ron DeSantis's aggressive use of the death penalty in his final term.William Reaves, 77, was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a three-drug injection at Florida state prison near Starke. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1986 shooting death of Indian River county deputy Richard Raczkowski. Continue reading...
Toforest Johnson's death penalty reduced to life in prison without parole over doubts about his convictionToforest Johnson, an Alabama death row inmate, will no longer face execution after the state's Republican governor commuted his sentence amid increasing doubts about his conviction.Kay Ivey, the Alabama governor, commuted Johnson's sentence to life in prison without parole in the 1995 murder of William Hardy, a Jefferson county deputy sheriff. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent, and several former public officials, as well the local district attorney, have argued he should receive a new trial. Continue reading...
Anti-Defamation League post decries shylock' slur but does not explain that president used it at Kansas rally on MondayThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the use of the term shylock" as antisemitic on Tuesday, without explaining that the slur had been used a day earlier by Donald Trump in a speech in Kansas.Trump used the slur during a Monday night rally in support of Republican senator Roger Marshall, who is locked in a closer-than-expected re-election fight against Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton. Marshall, a doctor, as been criticized for filing lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills, leading to 18 of them being arrested. Continue reading...
Kennedy taught in New York public schools and advocated for disability rights after suffering severe spinal cord injuryKyle Kennedy, the granddaughter of Robert F Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, has died at the age of 42.Kyle, the daughter of Michael Kennedy, who died in 1997, and Victoria Gifford Kennedy, passed away peacefully" on 21 September at her home in Westwood, Massachusetts, according to her obituary published by Burke Funeral Homes. Continue reading...
Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 - does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset?Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance. The battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call, setting the stage for a potentially extraordinary upset.Some recent polls even put Democrat Adam Hamilton on course for a historic victory. Kansans have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932. Continue reading...
The statement revealed in court papers raises questions about the reliability of the list of 20,000 people in CaliforniaThe justice department's list of suspected non-citizens in California includes a high percentage" of people born in the United States, Los Angeles election officials said on Tuesday.The statement, made in court papers, raises further questions about the reliability of a list of 20,000 people the justice department provided to election officials in Los Angeles last week. The department sent the county and California secretary of state the list last week and gave them a 48-hour deadline to segregate ballots cast from anyone on the list unless they could verify their citizenship. California election officials refused and the Department of Justice sued them on Thursday. Continue reading...
Voters' emphatic rejection of separation strengthens Mark Carney's energy strategy in the face of a US trade war and threatsCanadians are proving to be a voice of sanity. In roundly rejecting the idea of separating from Canada, voters in the oil- and gas-rich province of Alberta sensibly backed the nation-building strategy of the prime minister, Mark Carney. He has put Alberta at the centre of his plan to make Canada an energy superpower that is much less dependent on the United States".Donald Trump's trade war and threats last week to make Canada the 51st US state were a fillip for Mr Carney in Alberta, a landlocked western province where Liberal prime ministers have historically been unpopular. The stakes were high: a successful separatist campaign would have handed Mr Trump leverage over Canada's resource belt. The result instead lets Mr Carney cast Alberta's mineral wealth as a national asset, rather than allow separatists to define it as a regional grievance.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Videos show shark launching several feet from water as a group of friends pose for photos along Marina state beachA great white shark put on a spectacular display for California beachgoers over the weekend, leaping from the water off Marina state beach and photobombing visitors.Videos circulating online show a great white shark launching several feet out of the water in the background as a group of friends pose for photos along the beach. Continue reading...
Mitchell Fairbarn found guilty of animal cruelty after prosecutors say he hurt and frightened the 27-year-old birdA Canadian man was convicted of animal cruelty charges on Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its enclosure at an iconic Las Vegas hotel.Prosecutors said it was a malicious prank while a lawyer for the tourist insisted it was drunken foolishness not meant to harm the bird. Continue reading...
Coyote euthanized after reportedly roaming Atwater Village comfortably for months and attacking one-year-old boyOne Los Angeles neighborhood has been at war over a wild coyote, and over the weekend it all came to a head.For months, the animal had been roaming the trendy Atwater Village, showing up in broad daylight, sleeping in back yards and approaching residents. At least one person had reportedly fed the coyote and others affectionately nicknamed it Wiley. But some residents feared the creature had become dangerously too cozy. Continue reading...
The administration seems intent on stripping the congresswoman of her US citizenship and deporting her. It's a terrible abuse of powerWhat do you think it is about Ilhan Omar, exactly, that seems to get under Donald Trump's tangerine-tinted skin? The president has claimed he has a problem with the progressive Democratic congresswoman because she is unpatriotic" to the US and disrespectful ... to Israel". However, the extent of his animus towards Omar, the first Somali American in Congress, suggests there's more to it. Trump has insisted he is the least racist person there is anywhere in the world", so I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that she's brown and Muslim. Truly, it's a mystery.Whatever the reason, Trump's not a fan. The president has plenty of enemies, but few have been attacked as ferociously and consistently over the years as Omar. He's called her garbage", among other nasty names, suggested (without evidence) that she married her brother, and said she should be thrown the hell out of our country". His supporters have echoed his calls to deport Omar, who fled war-torn Somalia as a child and became a naturalised US citizen at 17. Continue reading...
The Eagles quarterback's recent health issues highlight how football's toughness culture puts its players at riskJalen Hurts is likely to miss the rest of the NFL season after an ultrasound revealed blood clots in his lungs. Thankfully, he's now restricted from playing for the immediate future, meaning he won't be risking serious complications - or even his life - as he did when he played in the Philadelphia Eagles' Week 5 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in London.The quarterback complained to the Eagles' medical staff of calf pain on 8 October, according to ESPN. The Eagles say Hurts flew to London with the rest of the team and, out of an abundance of caution", was given an ultrasound. The test found a superficial clot in his calf. Doing an ultrasound before the flight would've been the most prudent thing. The same for making him inactive after the clot was found. But instead, he played in the game on 11 October, as the medical staff and doctors in London agreed that activity and mobility were important". Hurts also practiced all last week before a follow-up ultrasound also found clots in his lungs. Continue reading...
The veteran is adjusting to living in Melbourne and playing in the NBL after 12 years spent on the North American basketball rollercoasterBasketballer Joe Ingles appears as the archetype of the Australian larrikin. There is one box, however, he no longer ticks. The 39-year-old gave up alcohol in 2022 after suffering a serious knee injury, and he has now gone more than 1,500 days without drinking.Stopping - that part of it - during rehab was very easy," he says from Melbourne, after moving back to the NBL following 12 seasons in the NBA. At that point, it was just one aspect of aiding his recovery. Like staying healthy and avoiding junk food. Continue reading...
Deeply troubling' messages came to light during investigation into misuse of Flock camera systemFive officers resigned recently from a North Carolina police agency - and a sixth remained suspended - after they allegedly exchanged racist texts.The chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department (CMPD) said the messages came to light during an investigation into misuse of its Flock camera system. Continue reading...
Security cameras capture the moment a black bear walks into the Mammoth Lakes branch of the Mono county free library in California before opening time, reportedly raiding the staff's snack supply and helping itself to a jar of honey. The surprise visit coincided with the 100th anniversary of the publication of AA Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
Nearly half of enlisted families struggled to afford enough food last year. Congress has known for decades how to solve the problem This article was produced with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, and supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting ProjectThe Armed Services YMCA in Harker Heights, Texas, is a state-of-the-art facility, with a swimming pool, gym and coffee shop. There's also a food pantry tucked away in a small room at the far end of a hallway on the second floor, where active-duty soldiers stationed nearby at Fort Hood can receive free groceries. More than a dozen pantries surround the army base, where about 40,000 soldiers are stationed.The pantry's parking lot is where I found Miguel Perez on a July morning, lugging a heavy reusable grocery bag to his pickup under the already blazing central Texas sun. Continue reading...
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