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‘Take these attacks seriously’: journalist Imara Jones on the dangerous rise of anti-trans political ads
In her podcast, the Black trans media founder unpacks the harmful wave of rhetoric and laws against US trans peopleImara Jones was filming a documentary on a road trip in California when she took a break to scroll the news. A story about state lawmakers in Idaho banning transgender girls from playing on female sports teams at public schools caught her attention; it was the second anti-trans legislation that Jones had seen passed in 2020. She turned to her producer and told her that they needed to look into this anti-trans stuff". Dozens of similar bills were introduced in statehouses throughout the nation soon after.A year later, Jones launched her podcast The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality to look into the religious extremists, conservative political groups and billionaires pushing an anti-trans agenda. Continue reading...
Political violence has marked the 2024 race – but risks rise after election day
Experts fear those convicted over January 6 attack may act violently again - but biggest threat comes from lone actorsA year punctuated by two assassination attempts, high levels of threats and harassment, and a number of troubling, violent incidents in the lead-up to election day will culminate on Tuesday with an election deemed existential by all sides.It's the first presidential election since the January 6 insurrection, a reminder of the ways political violence can manifest that leaves Americans with a fear that such an attack could happen again. Those who study the attack and its participants say they aren't convinced criminal convictions against them will fully deter those involved on January 6 from future political violence, but that the biggest threat is a lone actor, not a large, coordinated event. Continue reading...
Bomb threats, ballot-box arson: a timeline of US election violence
The election period has seen attacks on the voting process and threats of violence, but officials say voting is still safeIn the last week, the US saw numerous attacks on the voting process and threats of violence, and extremism experts are bracing for what comes after voting has ended.The goal of people committing these acts is often to create fear and distrust around voting or to sabotage the functioning of democracy. Still, election officials stress that voting is safe, and voters should not be deterred from voting because of any threats to the process, which are rare. Continue reading...
If Trump wins the election, he could seize control of America’s courts
Trump, emboldened by the immunity ruling, wants to strengthen his grip on the courts. With a supreme court that has basically said Donald Trump can be a king, there will be no checks on him'If Donald Trump re-enters the White House on 20 January he will do so emboldened by a power that no previous incoming president has ever enjoyed: immunity from criminal prosecution for any act carried out in his official capacity.The protection, awarded in a July ruling from the far-right supermajority of the US supreme court, changes fundamentally the dynamics of the Oval Office. Continue reading...
This tight race is, in part, about sexist backlash. But feminists can lash back, too | Moira Donegan
Trump is right that resentment will be a winning message for some male voters. But women should not be underestimatedThere's one story of the 2024 presidential contest that says that this election is all about men, and their anger. Men, in this account, have gotten a raw deal: the decline of the industrial economy in the years since the postwar boom means that many of the jobs that gave dignity, structure, and steady paychecks to their fathers are now gone, and some men, especially those without college degrees, have fallen into a cycle of desperation and despair, unable to make the kind of living for which they could respect themselves.This economic argument about men is usually followed by a cultural one: that women aren't as nice to men as they should be, or maybe not as nice to men as they used to be. On one end of this conversation, there are paeans to male loneliness and discussions of the male suicide rate, quasi-poetic odes to their depths of despair and acute feeling: women just don't understand what it's like to be sad the way that men are sad.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Perry Baker might be the best American rugby player of all time – right now, he just needs a job
At 38, the sevens star finally retired - wistful over three Olympic disappointments and uncertain about the futurePerry Baker is a three-time Olympian and two-time World Rugby Men's Sevens Player of the Year, second for all-time tries scored on the sevens circuit. He has a live claim to be not just the greatest American sevens player of all time but one of the greatest rugby players of all time - from any country, in any form of the game.Right now, though, he just needs a full-time job. Continue reading...
From an Olympian to a 45-race veteran: the hopes of New York Marathon runners
On Sunday more than 50,000 runners will run a 26.2-mile route from Staten Island to Central Park. The New York City Marathon is seen as the toughest world major for a reasonNew York is a city built on detours. Even the most straightforward journey can turn on a dime - be it an unexpected road closure, unreliable subway, or the unorthodox navigation of a cab driver - into a protracted, often painful, expedition.The city's marathon is no exception. Continue reading...
Ukrainians ask what I'm hearing about our country on the US campaign trail. The truth? We're all but forgotten | Nataliya Gumenyuk
Americans still don't seem to understand that our fight is not just about us: it's about safety and peace across the globeAround a month before the US elections, in the Kharkiv region, I sat down with a group of Ukrainian infantry soldiers together with the American historian Timothy Snyder. I suggested they ask questions of him not only as an American historian, but also as an American citizen.The servicemen were curious about the upcoming election, but mainly the chances of receiving significant military aid any time soon. They expressed pity that many Americans still don't understand that the Ukrainian fight is not just about us. It's in the world's interests to support the fight against blatant breaches of the international order. Continue reading...
Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights? | George Monbiot
A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. The tech boss will have a springboard to greater power even than the US presidencyThis is what happens when successive US governments fail to tackle inequality. While millions of people live in poverty, a handful grow unimaginably rich. Wealth begets wealth, and they acquire political power to match. It was inevitable that one of them - now the richest man on Earth - would launch what looks like a bid for world domination.A vote for Donald Trump next week is a vote for Elon Musk. Just as Trump is using Musk, Musk could be using Trump as a springboard to perhaps even greater power than the US president can wield. Musk's secret conversations with Vladimir Putin, reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, and his contacts with other extremist world leaders, suggest a pattern of power-seeking that could be even more alarming than the prospect of a second Trump presidency. Continue reading...
US presidential election updates: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump swing through Wisconsin
As candidates compete for swing state on final stretch to 5 November election, Cardi B warms up Harris crowd in Milwaukee while Trump laments bad hair day and reheats gun rhetoric towards Liz Cheney
Donald Trump repeats anti-immigrant threads at Milwaukee rally
Robert F Kennedy Jr appears with Republican candidate, while congressman promotes state constitutional amendment to disqualify non-citizens from votingAt a Wisconsin rally on Friday, Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a low-IQ person" and vowed to save the economy from total obliteration" in a 1.5 hour-long meandering speech that touched on top campaign issues including the economy and foreign policy - but also featured threats to curb press freedoms and a lengthy discussion of his own rhetorical style.I will stop the criminal invasion of this country," said Trump during his opening remarks, promising to usher in a new golden age". Continue reading...
Harris and Trump tour key swing states as end of campaign draws close
In Michigan, the ex-president repeated his aggressive attacks that Liz Cheney should have rifles shooting at her'Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battled to woo voters in the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin on Friday, as the presidential campaign enters its final stretch.Harris made several appearances in Wisconsin on Friday, including one that featured the musician Cardi B, while Trump visited both Michigan and Wisconsin. Continue reading...
When is the 2024 US election, what time do polls close and when will we know the results? An armchair guide for Australia
As voting day approaches, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain neck-and-neck in the polls. Keep up with our guide to Australian TV coverage, live results, news on the candidates and more
Cardi B says Harris inspired her to vote as candidates hold dueling Wisconsin rallies – as it happened
Supreme court rejects Republican bid to throw out thousands of Pennsylvania ballots; Democrat condemns Trump's remarks on Liz Cheney
Ex-Kentucky officer convicted of using excessive force against Breonna Taylor
Brett Hankison is first Louisiana police officer at scene of raid that killed Taylor to be convictedA federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead.The 12-member jury returned the late-night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor's neighbors. Continue reading...
Lake Victoria stays unbeaten with Juvenile Fillies’ Turf win at Breeders’ Cup
South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors
Moore, 59, was killed on Friday evening as the state pursues a rapid spree of killingsSouth Carolina has executed a man on death row, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared, including from the judge who originally condemned him to death.Richard Moore, 59, was killed by lethal injection on Friday evening, minutes after the state's Republican governor, Henry McMaster, announced he would not be granting him clemency. Continue reading...
Columbia pays $395,000 to student suspended over protest ‘fart spray’
Israeli student filed lawsuit after suspension for spraying pro-Palestinian protesters with foul-smelling substanceColumbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until May. Continue reading...
Threats, racism, misogyny: Trump’s disturbing final week of campaigning
The former president leaned heavily into his agenda of hate and menace in a week as unedifying as it was unhingedThere was racism and misogyny by the bucketload. There was a firing squad death threat to a former congresswoman. And there was the extraordinary sight of a Republican candidate for president of the United States playing dress-up as a sanitation worker in the cab of a garbage truck.Donald Trump's final full week on the campaign trail was as unedifying as it was bizarre. Continue reading...
US judge returns lawsuit against Elon Musk’s $1m voter scheme to state court
Civil suit claims that tech billionaire and his Trump-supporting America Pac giveaway is illegal lotteryA federal judge on Friday denied an attempt by America Pac - the political action committee founded by Elon Musk to support Donald Trump's campaign for a second presidency - to move to federal court a civil suit brought by the Philadelphia district attorney over a daily $1m prize draw for registered voters.The lawyers for Musk and his America Pac had argued that the lawsuit, which is seeking to halt the sweepstakes in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, needed to be resolved in federal court as it referenced the 5 November presidential election.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Dodger fans swamp downtown Los Angeles for World Series victory parade – in pictures
Enormous crowds clad in blue take over the city to celebrate their team victory over the New York Yankees Continue reading...
Halloween parade float depicts shackled Harris being dragged
Pennsylvania event organizer says it doesn't share values' presented by the float denounced as racist by NAACPA Pittsburgh-area Halloween parade's depiction of Kamala Harris in chains and being dragged by a vehicle displaying Donald Trump's name is being condemned as racist - and has prompted an apology from the event organizer.Photos of Wednesday night's parade in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, that circulated widely across social media show a person dressed as the Democratic vice-president shackled and walking behind a golf cart-like vehicle. The vehicle - a float in a Halloween parade organized by the Mount Pleasant volunteer fire department - is decorated with American flags and Trump campaign signs carrying people dressed in what appear to be Secret Service agent costumes, along with a mounted rifle. Continue reading...
Shohei Ohtani and very good boy Decoy steal show at Dodgers’ World Series parade
The Dodgers’ Fernando Valenzuela was an LA icon. To the son of an immigrant, his death was personal
The legendary Mexican pitcher died just before the Dodgers' World Series win against the New York YankeesFernando Valenzuela died and all I wanted to do was cry.I don't understand it. I didn't know him, not really, not personally. The man is a legend to anyone who knows baseball. As a 20-year-old immigrant from Mexico pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he became the only Major League Baseball player to ever win the Rookie of the Year award and the Cy Young award in the same year. But that was in 1981; I wasn't even born yet. As I stared at a friend's Dia de los Muertos ofrenda, featuring a photo of Fernando among passed loved ones, I wondered: why am I so sad? Continue reading...
Jeffrey Epstein details close relationship with Trump in newly released tapes
Recordings from 2017 reveal Epstein talking for some 100 hours' about the ex-president, journalist Michael Wolff saysA New York author and journalist has released audio tapes that appear to detail how Donald Trump had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that he has long denied.The tapes, released as part of the Fire and Fury podcast series by Michael Wolff, author of three books about Trump's first term and 2020 bid for a second, and James Truman, former NME journalist and Conde Nast editorial director, include Epstein's thoughts about the inner workings of the former US president's inner circle. Continue reading...
Must-win Pennsylvania still bafflingly close as Harris and Trump fight for edge
Candidates fight for a diminishing number of undecided voters, who are feeling a mix of fatigue, excitement and fearKamala Harris stood before a cheering crowd of hundreds of her supporters in Philadelphia and promised that she would deliver in Pennsylvania, a battleground state considered a must-win in the electoral college.Nine days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end," the vice-president told supporters in Philadelphia last weekend. And make no mistake: we will win." Continue reading...
Top Georgia official says fake video of voter fraud probably spread by Russia
Brad Raffensperger warns of foreign interference in US election as rightwing accounts share disinformationA video circulating on social media purporting to show Haitians voting illegally for Kamala Harris is fake, according to the secretary of state in Georgia.Brad Raffensperger said in a statement that the video had probably been created and spread by Russian government actors trying to interfere in the US election.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Tucker Carlson claims that a demon attack left him bleeding in bed
Former Fox News host says he was physically mauled' by unknown entity in assault that left him with claw marks'Tucker Carlson, the former CNN and Fox News political chat host, has said he was physically mauled" by a demon a year and a half ago, in an assault that he says left him bleeding and with scars from claw marks".Carlson made the claim while speaking in an upcoming documentary, Christianities? In a preview clip on YouTube, Carlson is asked by John Heers of the non-profit First Things Foundation if he believed that the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the good". Continue reading...
Democrats hope to rally female voters after misogynistic Republican remarks
Trump calls Liz Cheney a radical war hawk' and declares a gun should be pointed at her in latest dangerous commentRepublicans have made a series of offensive and misogynistic comments only five days before the vote, boosting Democratic hopes of turning out women on election day in a contest where the rights of women have been a central issue for the Kamala Harris campaign.With a large gender gap appearing to define the election race - women disproportionately breaking for Kamala Harris and men for Donald Trump - both campaigns have been seeking to shore up their bases in their final-pitch remarks.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
US economy added only 12,000 jobs in October in shock pre-election drop – as it happened
Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as non-farm payrolls numbers deliver economic surprise days before presidential electionOil prices have risen by 2% after reports that Iran is preparing an attack on Israel.Futures prices for Brent crude oil, the North Sea benchmark, have risen by 1.9% to $74.22, while the North American equivalent, West Texas Intermediate, is up 2.1% to $70.73.UK manufacturing started the final quarter of the year on an uncertain footing amid speculation on government policies ahead of the Budget, which was widely reported to have led to a wait-and-see approach on investment and spending.This domestic headwind, combined with an ongoing loss of export business, led to the first outright contraction in new work intakes since April. Output growth came close to stalling as a result. Continue reading...
Mormons were once reliably Republican – but they could tip Arizona Harris’s way
Harris and Trump are going all out to woo the 450,000 Mormons, or 6% of the population, who live in Arizona
Pregnant Texas teen died after three ER visits due to medical impact of abortion ban
Neveah Crain died in October 2023 after doctor reportedly called for two ultrasounds to confirm fetal demise'A pregnant Texas teenager died after three separate visits to an emergency room in attempts to get care in another incident that has highlighted the medical impact of the loss of abortion rights in the US.Nevaeh Crain, 18, had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours in October of 2023, each time returning home feeling worse than before. Crain was only diagnosed with strep throat upon her first visit. The hospital did not investigate her sharp abdominal cramps, according to reporting by ProPublica. Continue reading...
Here's how the winner of the 2024 US presidential election did it | Jonathan Freedland
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...
‘Leaning into the whiteness’: journalist Paola Ramos on why some Latinos have turned to the far right
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...
Trump may become president again – but he’s already a useful idiot to the mega rich | Marina Hyde
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...
US couples: did you vote for a different candidate than your partner in the 2024 election?
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...
2024 US presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages
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...
Republicans preparing to reject US election result if Trump loses, warn strategists
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...
The women ‘cancelling out’ their Trump-loving partners’ votes: ‘No one will ever know’
Trend underlines vast gender divide as election approaches, as experts say some women face pressure to toe the line' politically at home
‘I had to get out’: the US military officers filing for conscientious objector status over Gaza
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 chase swing state votes as campaign nears climax | First Thing
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...
Musk’s America Pac was warned its canvassers may have lied about door knocks
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...
Tren de Aragua: are Trump’s claims about the violent street gang overblown?
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...
Jamaica FA falsely claims women’s team coach was cleared of alleged sexual misconduct
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...
Kamala Harris will be a president for the labor movement – and for working women | Liz Shuler
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...
I visited a deeply divided Pennsylvania – and found Republicans repeating an enormous lie
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...
How to watch and listen to the US presidential election results in the UK
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...
Ukraine braces for outcome of US elections: ‘We are worried about Trump’
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...
'Our pain matters': Jennifer Lopez endorses Harris at Las Vegas rally –video
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
How computer-assisted wagering became horse racing’s insider trading | Elizabeth Banicki
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...
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