We don't yet know whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will prevail in Tuesday's contest - but when we do, it won't feel hard to explainHere's one prediction about the US election you can take to the bank. When the result is finally known, there will be a stampede of experts and prognosticators rushing to insist that, in effect, they knew it all along - that, hard though it was to glimpse through the fog of polls and shifting data, the eventual outcome was obvious. Even inevitable.That will be truer still if, when the voters' will is finally known, it turns out not to have been so close after all, with one of the two main candidates sweeping most of the swing states to rack up a healthy majority in the electoral college if not the popular vote. Continue reading...
Latino voters, once reliably Democratic, increasingly pledge support for Trump despite his xenophobic rhetoricWhen the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made racist and disparaging comments about Latinos and referred to Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage", at a Donald Trump rally in New York on Sunday, it was met with outrage from many Latino politicians, voters and celebrities. Still, those comments did not deter some Republican Latinos from affirming their support for Trump.If you were already supporting Trump, I don't think this is a comment that will make you reconsider that choice," said the journalist Paola Ramos, the author of Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America. Continue reading...
They make nice with them when it suits, ridicule him when he's not listening. Their lives are money and gossip - with him they get bothDuring his term as US president, there was an established routine to Donald Trump's evenings in public service. When he got into bed at 6.30pm with the big cheeseburger and the bucket of Diet Coke - boudoir TVs set to channels talking about me" - Trump liked nothing more than yakking on the phone to this billionaire or that. He whined, he bitched, he divulged, and when they finally ended the call, whichever billionaire had been on the other end of the line promptly called one of the other billionaires to laugh about it all behind his back.What a fucking idiot," Rupert Murdoch once remarked after getting off a call with Trump in which Murdoch had had to explain that actually, the Silicon Valley elite did not need" Trump's help, as he imagined, having just enjoyed eight years where they practically ran" the Obama administration. Obviously, Murdoch's a notorious bitch; almost the Regina George of it all. But - also obviously - he was one of the special guys officially given cleared caller" status in Trump's White House, meaning they could get through to him any time. Plastics gotta plastic.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
We would like to hear from couples who voted for different candidates in the 2024 electionAll signs point to a gender gap playing a pivotal role in the 2024 election. Men are overwhelmingly supporting Trump, while women are overwhelmingly voting for Harris, according to multiple polls. This dynamic is playing out in relationships across the United States: wives and girlfriends voting against husband and boyfriends, partners canceling out" each other's ballots.Sometimes, partisan couples are open about their voting choices. Other times, those votes are kept secret. In fact, in the week leading up to election day, the Harris campaign and its allies reminded women that their votes were private - if they wanted to break rank and vote for Democrats, their Republican husbands would never have to know. Continue reading...
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Find out who's up and who's down in the latest US presidential election opinion pollsOn 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. The Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. We update our averages once a week, or more if there is major news. Continue reading...
Polling experts point to fake polls' exaggerating his support, with baseless lawsuits alleging fraud already filedRepublicans are already laying the ground for rejecting the result of next week's US presidential election in the event Donald Trump loses, with early lawsuits baselessly alleging fraud and partisan polls exaggerating his popularity to make it harder for his supporters to accept that he did not win, veteran strategists say.The warnings - from Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans - come as Americans prepare to vote on Tuesday in the most consequential presidential contest in generations. Most polls show Trump running neck and neck with Kamala Harris, the vice-president and Democratic nominee, with the two candidates seemingly evenly matched in seven key swing states. Continue reading...
Disillusioned members of the US military have turned to Vietnam war-era policy to terminate their service because of religious or moral convictionsFor Joy Metzler, a second lieutenant in the US air force, joining the military had felt like answering a calling. An adoptee from China who was raised in a conservative Christian family, she believed she owed a debt to the United States.But the Hamas attacks in Israel last year, and Israel's war that followed, rocked Metzler's convictions. Within months, she filed for conscientious objector status, one of a small number of US military personnel seeking to end their service because of their moral opposition to US support for Israel. Continue reading...
Harris and Trump focus on key swing states of Arizona and Nevada. Plus, brat' is Collins' word of the yearGood morning.As the 2024 presidential race nears its climax on Tuesday, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to rush around swing states, rallying voters in the hopes of being sworn into the world's most powerful office on 20 January 2025.What are the polls showing? It's unclear. Nationally, Harris is at 47% and Trump 46%, but due to the electoral college system, it's going to come down to a few swing states. It's neck and neck.How many have already voted? More than 65 million people have cast their ballots, as of 31 October at 11pm EST.How do you spend a billion dollars in election funding? Check out Richard Luscombe's piece on where the money actually goes.Here's what the US envoy to the UN said: Robert Wood bluntly warned that Pyongyang's forces entering Ukraine will surely return in body bags".Ukraine is bracing for the outcome of the US presidential election: in an interview with the Guardian in May, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had no strategy yet" for what to do if Trump returned to the White House, though he suggested the outline of a plan rooted in an appeal to the candidate's vanity. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Increasing number of door knocks flagged as potentially fake, committee allegedly learned in SeptemberAmerica Pac, the political action committee founded by Elon Musk that has led the ground game operation for Donald Trump's campaign, was warned in September about increasing numbers of door knocks being flagged as potentially fraudulent, according to three people familiar with the matter.The confrontation marked the first time that America Pac's leadership became aware of the problem - canvassers falsely claiming to have knocked on doors - that has raised the possibility that thousands of Trump voters might not be reached by the field operation.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
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The crime group has terrorised parts of Latin America, and the ex-president's exaggerations may just empower it moreAngela Villon Bustamante awoke to a WhatsApp notification on her phone. Still drowsy, she was horrified by what she saw: a graphic video showing the murder of a trans woman she knew named Rubi Ferrer.The killer shot Ferrer 31 times, recording the murder with her own phone before sending the footage to all her contacts, including Bustamante, a prominent activist in the Peruvian sex workers' movement. Continue reading...
Hubert Busby has returned to his former post with his employers saying he was cleared of allegations against him. That does not appear to be the caseThe Jamaican Football Federation has reinstated the coach of its women's national team falsely claiming he has been cleared of allegations of serious misconduct by Fifa's Ethics Committee.Hubert Busby Jr returned to lead Jamaica women's national team in May this year, two and a half years after being suspended by the federation after a former player alleged he made sexual advances towards her while he was coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps women's team in 2010 and 2011. Continue reading...
As the first female president of the United States' largest labor federation, I'm proud to support the vice-presidentThe 6.6 million union women in this country - nearly half of today's labor movement - know an ally when we see one. We know we have one in Kamala Harris.As president of the AFL-CIO, representing 60 unions across the United States in every sector of the economy, I've crisscrossed the country seeing our union members get out the vote for Harris in this election. So many of us - whether we're retail workers, caregivers, teachers, nurses, construction workers or in any line of work - see in vice-president Harris's story something that mirrors our own.Liz Shuler is the president of and first woman to lead the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, representing 60 national and international unions and nearly 13 million workers. Her home union is IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Continue reading...
The US election is fast approaching and residents of this battleground state appear disillusioned with both parties and with democracy itselfIn the housing projects of Pittsburgh's Northview Heights neighbourhood, vocal enthusiasm for this presidential election can be hard to come by.I am out with two women, Leslie Hughes and Luwaunna Adams, whom I met two years ago when we were making a video in western Pennsylvania - a perennial battleground region in the US's closest-fought swing state. The pair are members of the service workers' union, which represents lower-income cleaners and security personnel. They are also two of the most effective and persuasive canvassers I have encountered. Continue reading...
If you want to stay up and tune in to the denouement of the Harris-Trump showdown, there are plenty of optionsAre you ready? Here it comes: the too close to call" and on a knife-edge" US election. For those who don't want to go to bed and sleep there are plenty of opportunities to watch, listen, or spend all night communally for what could be one of the best, or worst, nights in living memory.Here is all you need to know about enjoying the US election results coverage after polls close on Tuesday 5 November. Continue reading...
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Shaun Walker in Kyiv and on (#6RX7X)
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he no strategy yet' if Trump wins - other than an appeal to his vanityOn Ukraine's frontline, soldiers hold Russian forces at bay with American weapons and ammunition. Across the country, American air defences protect civilians from Moscow's missiles and drones.So for Ukrainians, the outcome of the US presidential election could be a matter of life and death. If the arms pipeline slows or halts, grinding Russian advances across the eastern front in recent months could accelerate, and hospitals, schools, power stations and homes would become more vulnerable. Continue reading...
Jennifer Lopez introduced the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, at a Las Vegas rally, talking about her background as a Puerto Rican. The actor and singer pushed back at the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally called Puerto Rico 'a floating island of garbage', and called voters to act at the ballot box
Cash-strapped racetracks are selling out everyday bettors to whales who use algorithms to wager huge sums at friendlier odds. It's a rigged system designed for the rich to get richerAs the thoroughbred horse racing industry fades in America, I think back on the days when it was my life. I think a lot about what became of the thousands of horses I exercised. When I find myself locked in that headspace, the face of one kind little gelding haunts me. Dodgen Bullets, a Bob Baffert trainee, was no star and never going to be much as it was said, but he was willing and like all racehorses painfully innocent. We were young at the seaside in late summer at Del Mar racetrack, where this year's Breeders' Cup will be held over the the weekend. I exercised him into his first race, a Maiden Special Weight for two-year-olds which he won decisively. His connections pocketed over $50,000 in purse money and, aside from the $12 a day I made exercising him, I collected nearly $500 betting on his victory. As he was led back to the barn sweat-drenched, maybe frightened, I was clinking champagne and high on dopamine. These many years later I see how twisted my show of gratitude to him was.Despite that win I had no interest in gambling, was ignorant of the whole procedure, and fearful of losing the little money I had. Where I didn't contribute to the handle, many other racetrackers did daily. It is a way for underpaid backside workers to shore up low wages. Over the last decade while poverty on the backside hasn't much improved, and while horses are still endlessly churned through the industry without any mandated lifelong protection, track operators are exploiting the system to curate a more financially appealing landscape for themselves. Tracks like Del Mar serve up their retail customers, everyday bettors, to computer-assisted wagering (CAW) teams who use the wagering pools those customers create like a parasite does a host, and who work based off big figure deals with the tracks. Industry heavyweights like The Stronach Group, New York Racing Association, and Churchill Downs own the platforms these teams use to gamble on. Scott Daruty, president of Stronach-owned gambling entities Monarch Content Management and Elite Turf Club, said he does not see a conflict because ownership gives track operators a direct relationship with our biggest customers", and an understanding that we wouldn't have were middlemen conducting this activity", so it is the right thing in my opinion", he told California Horse Racing Board commissioners. Continue reading...
The candidates have raised an extraordinary amount of money in an election awash with cash on an unprecedented scaleIt was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris's face on the 516ft-wide, 366ft-tall Las Vegas Sphere.At a reported $450,000 per day for what is believed to be the first political ad to appear on the futuristic new attraction, it was also one of the most expensive. But even at those rates, it barely made a dent in the staggering election war chest of almost $1bn that Harris has built since replacing Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket this summer. Continue reading...
This long-running strike could be resolved if Tesla recognised a simple fact that I've uncovered in my reportingThe US presidential election has not been the only high-stakes date looming for Elon Musk. It has been more than a year since Swedish workers came out on strike against his electric car giant Tesla. Swedish industrial union IF Metall has been demanding better wages, benefits and conditions for mechanics in Tesla repair shops across the country, but fundamentally what is at stake is the Swedish labour market model of collective bargaining which Musk refuses to recognise.It is the first and only strike against Tesla anywhere in the world. And it has now become the longest-running strike in Sweden for a century. In April, six months into the dispute, Musk said: Actually, I think the storm has passed on that front, I think things are in reasonably good shape in Sweden." That was not true then, and it is not true now.German Bender is chief analyst at the progressive Swedish thinktank Arena and a senior research associate at Harvard Law School's Center for Labor and a Just Economy. His book on the Swedish Tesla strike will be published in 2025 Continue reading...
Candidates for president hold duelling rallies in swing state, hoping to convince Latino voters ahead of next week's US electionFrom the Rat Pack to Elvis, from fight night to the Sphere, Las Vegas serves up spectacle bigger and brasher than anywhere else. On Thursday the political circus came to Sin City as the US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump held duelling campaign rallies here.The events offered a tight focus on the contrast at the heart of next week's election. Harris's rally was a joyful affair, with mothers carrying infants on their shoulders, some supporters and volunteers sporting Halloween costumes and star turns by Mexican band Mana and Latina singer and actor Jennifer Lopez. Continue reading...
The Associated Press reports press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which the US president appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald TrumpWhite House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two US government officials and an internal email obtained on Thursday by the Associated Press.Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the US island territory of Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage." Continue reading...
Nerves are particularly stretched in Maricopa county, which will likely decide which way the state swings in the pollsPearl Hubbard picked up some yard signs for Kamala Harris at the vice-president's speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday afternoon, but wasn't yet sure whether she'd risk displaying them outside her home in a city that sits in some of the most hotly contested political territory in the country.I'm scared to put them up," Hubbard said. As I drive ... I only saw one place that had a [Harris] sign. Just don't see them. I think people are scared to put them up." Continue reading...
Actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany appear in video, released days before the US electionThe cast of Marvel's Avengers movies have come out in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris less than a week before the US election.In a video posted first on Vanity Fair on Thursday evening, actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany playfully riffed on their respective characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe while encouraging viewers to vote for Harris. Continue reading...
Speaking at a rally in Arizona, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Donald Trump doesn't believe women should 'make decisions over their own bodies'. Harris made the comment after Trump's appearance in Wisconsin, when he declared he would protect them 'whether the women like it or not'. Harris said: 'There's a saying that you gotta listen to people when they tell you who they are. He does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies'
Organizers award embattled actor and magic practitioner, under belief she has fallen victim to modern-day witch huntPracticing witches from around the world gathered in Salem by the hundreds on Thursday night to honor Stormy Daniels at their annual magic circle" ceremony recognizing loved ones who have died.Daniels - the adult film actor who allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump and was at the center of his May criminal trial that led to the former president's conviction on 34 felonies - was chosen to be honored in the Halloween ceremony as the organizers believe that she has been the victim of a modern-day witch hunt. Continue reading...
Trainer with quality and class' has eyes on second Juvenile Turf Sprint while Aidan O'Brien's City Of Troy has grand designs in the ClassicThere is more than a touch of the Jamie Vardys about Mick Appleby. Both were born in Yorkshire, both have a prolific strike-rate in their chosen professions, and in the same way that no profile of the Leicester forward was once complete without a nod to his non-league roots, Appleby is still familiar to many racing fans from his breakout seasons as the king of the sand".By Sunday morning, however, he may have earned a new title: the king of the Grade One sprinters. Big Evs, who was Appleby's first runner and first winner at the Breeders' Cup when he took the Juvenile Turf Sprint at Santa Anita 12 months ago, is back in southern California for a crack at the Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Saturday night. And, quite remarkably, Appleby has found another lightning-fast juvenile, Big Mojo, to attempt a repeat win in the Juvenile Turf Sprint on Friday. Continue reading...
Trump has vowed to stage the largest deportation operation in American history'. The totality of it is to make life so hard for immigrants that they are left with two options: stay and be subject to presidential demagoguery ... or leave their lives here'Every day, Nayeli arrives for work at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee - the same place where, on the morning of 5 April 2018, federal agents swept in, helicopters buzzing above, and took her and nearly 100 other workers into custody, as part of the Trump administration's then escalating crackdown on illegal immigration.They were rounded up and put on buses without the opportunity to explain who they were or how long they had worked there, she said. Many were sent to out-of-state detention centers. Nayeli was among those released that evening, allowed to return home to her son, who was nine at the time. All faced deportation. Continue reading...
Troopers report that multiple animals apparently killed Tad Fujioka, 50, and ate deer that he had huntedA 50-year-old hunter has been found dead in an apparent brown bear mauling on an island in south-eastern Alaska, authorities said Thursday.Tad Fujioka, of Sitka, was reported overdue on Tuesday evening after not returning from a solo daylong hunting trip on the heavily forested Baranof Island, Alaska state troopers said. Continue reading...
Ally of ex-president could be disbarred days after pleading guilty to trying to overturn Georgia's 2020 election resultsKenneth Chesebro, an attorney for Donald Trump, has been suspended from practicing law in New York and could be disbarred just days after pleading guilty in what prosecutors claim was an effort to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.Chesebro was charged in 2023, alongside Donald Trump and 17 others, with violating Georgia's anti-racketeering law relating to alleged efforts by the defendants to knowingly and willfully" join a conspiracy to change the outcome of the 2020 election in the state. Continue reading...
DoorDash and CVS also contributing funds to Raga group trying to re-elect Todd Rokita, who favors total abortion banAmazon, DoorDash and CVS Health are among major US companies publicly committed to supporting reproductive rights that have nonetheless contributed this year to a group supporting the re-election of Todd Rokita, the Republican attorney general of Indiana who supports a total abortion ban.He was also reprimanded by his state supreme court for criticizing a doctor who provided an abortion for 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. Continue reading...
Workers have been struggling to keep up with rising costs. Trump and Harris are hyper-focused on winning them overUrbin Gonzalez could be working inside, in the air conditioning, at his regular job as a porter on the Las Vegas strip. Instead, in the final few days before the US election, he chose to go door-knocking in the 104F (40C) heat, with the hopes of mobilising a few more voters to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris.I don't care because I'm fighting for my situation," said Gonzalez: for his retirement in 10 years, for a more affordable life, for housing that he and his family can afford. I'm doing this for me." Continue reading...
Speakers at ex-president's Madison Square Garden event spewed hateful rhetoric aimed at immigrants, Black and trans people and womenDonald Trump's infamous Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday ignited a firestorm of criticism and has been repeatedly denounced as racist, most notably due to the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's reference to Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage" .But the bigoted statements from the rally did not stop there. Here is a list of the people and groups who were attacked at Trump's campaign rally by speakers who spewed hateful vitriol throughout the night. Continue reading...
The once solidly Republican bastion in southern California is up for grabs, and Democrats are campaigning hardIn an industrial business park in Orange county - the affluent, largely suburban slice of southern California wedged between Los Angeles and San Diego - Dave Min was feeling the weight of the world last weekend.If we sit on our asses for the next 10 days, we lose," the Democratic candidate for California's 47th congressional district told a roomful of Asian American supporters at his campaign headquarters. We need to get out that vote." Continue reading...
Donald Trump dressed as a sanitation worker and sat in the cab of a garbage truck in a stunt meant to convince his supporters that Democrats believed those who were voting for him were 'garbage'. It follows an apparent gaffe made by Joe Biden, which the president said was intended to condemn the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico at Trump's recent Madison Square Garden rally
TV, radio and mailboxes in Saginaw, Michigan, and any place likely to decide next week's election, are being bombardedThere is almost no escape. One minute, you're watching the spin of a wheel on a game show and a few seconds later, Jeffrey Epstein is staring out of the screen with a youthful Donald Trump at his side.What follows is yet another of the election ads bombarding viewers in Saginaw, Michigan, or any other place likely to decide the outcome of next week's presidential election. The attack ad goes on to remind viewers that Epstein was accused of sex trafficking and abusing girls as young as 14 years old, and that Trump spent a lot of time in his company. Continue reading...
Parts of north-east and Great Lakes regions to surpass 80F as thunderstorms predicted from Indianapolis to LouisianaDo the undead sweat? If they do, this year's Halloween could be a taxing time for them across parts of the north-east and Great Lakes regions of the US, where temperatures are set to soar above 80F (27C) in some areas.On Thursday, CNN reported that nearly 50 daily high temperature records may fall, with temperatures rising more than 20F above normal. Continue reading...
Los Angeles have resources beyond the wildest dreams of most other MLB franchises. But they still had to scrap for their second title in five seasonsHours after the last out of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, the field at Yankee Stadium was strewn with ribbons of gold confetti. Jack Flaherty, who started Game 1 of the World Series for the now-champion Los Angeles Dodgers, spotted Shohei Ohtani, the presumptive National League Most Valuable Player, in the middle of an interview with the MLB Network crew on a small stage that had been erected in left field.Sho!" he yelled over the legion of fans who stayed to cheer and chant the players' names. Focus!" Flaherty reprimanded, having purposefully distracted Ohtani. Continue reading...
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Find out who's up and who's down in the latest US presidential election opinion pollsOn 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. As the election enters its final weeks, Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. We will update our averages once a week, or more if there is major news. Continue reading...
Genealogy testing confirmed DNA sample belonged to William Herman Hietamaki, last seen by his family in 1995Human remains discovered near the Hoover Dam over a decade ago have been identified as a Michigan man last seen by his family in 1995.Investigators with the Mohave county sheriff's office in Arizona announced on Tuesday that they had identified the remains through forensic genetic genealogy as William Herman Hietamaki, born in 1950, from Trout Creek in Ontonagon county, Michigan. Continue reading...
Doctors sign the hippocratic oath to do no harm, but how can we treat people without hospitals, staff and enough medicines?On 1 July 2024, the European hospital in Gaza evacuated all patients and staff. On that day I should have been shoulder to shoulder with my colleagues. I should have been tending gravely injured patients. I should have been helping them to flee. On ventilators, hooked up to IV fluids, on gurneys, in and out of consciousness and clinging to life, they had done nothing to deserve their situation, and they deserved my help.Instead, I watched from my home in Texas and read messages from the other medics, as an overcrowded hospital transformed into a ghost town. With anguish, I witnessed the tragedy unfold from afar.Dr Ali Elaydi is an orthopaedic surgeon. He is Palestinian-American and originally from GazaDo 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...
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