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The USMNT star has been a key figure for the Italian giants, earning the trust of coach Stefano Pioli on and off the fieldChristian Pulisic is still half a decade too young to serve in the US Senate, but no such age restrictions apply to the Italian sporting lexicon. As Milan prepared to face Newcastle in a do-or-die Champions League group game last month, the Gazzetta dello Sport named him together with Olivier Giroud as the two players who teammates would look to for leadership. Milan must trust in experience," wrote journalist Marco Passotto, it must trust its senators."Aged 25, Pulisic is 12 years Giroud's junior. Yet he had already made 53 Champions League appearances - only 13 fewer than the Frenchman, and 18 more than any Newcastle player. Continue reading...

Not only are more runners doing ultramarathons in their seventies and eighties, they're also going fasterOn a bone-cold morning in November, Wally Hesseltine, far from his cozy California home, was lying prone in southern Illinois - beside a trail of crushed gravel - his right knee bruised and bloodied. The initial 95 miles of the Tunnel Hill 100 footrace had unfolded with the swiftness of a fleeting breeze. Brisk, beautiful miles under a collage of crisp autumn foliage. The 80-year-old hadn't fallen once. But the last five miles presented a particular problem. They were all downhill.He couldn't feel it, but he could see it - his upper body drooping like a glove without a hand - his hunched shadow sinking into itself until he finally dove into the soft grass. Little is known about the leans", a temporary but debilitating condition that can crop up in older ultrarunners. The phenomenon is oft observed but poorly understood. The same is true of Hesseltine. Continue reading...

Bulgarian workers far from home make Europe's wreaths and jumpers. What if we chose another way to celebrate?The wreath is made from real pine branches. It is attractive and cheap. I can smell the pine. But the label confirms what I already know: made in Germany and shipped across the sea then loaded on to lorries along recently expanded motorways, to this supermarket in Scotland. And it so happens that I know the people who made this and the million other wreaths that sit in the warehouses of Europe's supermarket chains. They are unskilled" workers from the mountains of southern Bulgaria. I can hear their voices, humorous and philosophical. They know it's absurd, and many of them are Muslims, too.You plant the saplings and next season you cut the branches and make Christmas wreaths for the Germans."Kapka Kassabova is a Bulgarian writer based in Scotland. She is the author of Elixir and Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Continue reading...

First mass thefts, then fossil fuel sponsorship and claims of Soviet-style management. This is how an incredible institution lost its wayThere are six floors in the British Museum, three above ground and three below. In terms of the crisis that has exploded into public view since the summer - the alleged theft of up to 1,500 artefacts - it has felt, a curator recently told me, as if the institution's standing had finally risen above the very lowest possible level, and was moving slowly upwards. But, the staffer added, it had not yet risen to the ground floor.This week it feels as if the lift has hurtled back down to the adamantine depths. The British Museum's decision to accept 50m from BP is, aside from the profound ethical objections to receiving support from one of the world's biggest polluters, a decision remarkable in its tone-deafness. It has already been widely condemned, and, in practical terms, this will lead to years of protests by campaigners. To many who love the museum, it feels like a betrayal.Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian's chief culture writerDo 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...

Fiona Hill, a former White House Russia expert, argues in a podcast why Moscow is eager for the ex-president to returnVladimir Putin has had Donald Trump's number for some time ... knows how to manipulate him" and still sees him as an asset", the former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill said, discussing the Russian leader and the Republican presidential frontrunner.That's literally [Putin's] trump card," Hill told the One Decision Podcast, hosted by the reporter Jane Ferguson and Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, when asked if she thought the Russian president, bogged down in war in Ukraine, was betting on Trump beating Joe Biden next year and returning to power. Continue reading...

At church, we feel our fragile hopes, together. Raising your voice along with others somehow redirects the gloom, even redeems it a littleI tell myself I'm not a crier, but Christmas carols always prove me wrong.I'm old school. By carols", I don't mean the jolly background tunes to your Christmas shop, still less the shiny, happy singalong that is Carols in the Domain. It sounds bah humbug but I'm a purist who's stingy with my limited tears. Those songs won't make me weep. Trad carols, however, will. Continue reading...

Two leaks of anhydrous ammonia were reported at La Quesera Mexicana in Greeneville on Wednesday morningTwenty-nine workers at a Tennessee cheese factory were sent to the hospital on Wednesday morning after a leak of anhydrous ammonia, the Greeneville city manager, Todd Smith, said at a news conference.The Greeneville fire department was first called to La Quesera Mexicana at 7.15am when a leak occurred during maintenance on a valve. Six people were hospitalized at the time. Continue reading...

Colorado's supreme court concluded the ex-president could not hold office. Alas, the US supreme court will likely not agreeThis is how dictatorships are born." Such was Donald Trump's response to news that the Colorado supreme court had ruled that the former president is disqualified from holding office and so should be removed from the state's Republican primary ballot.Anytime Trump speaks of dictatorships" these days we should pay attention. He has all but declared his intention to engage in dictatorial rule should he win in 2024. It isn't clear, then, whether his statement, in a fund-raising missive fired off minutes after the news broke, was meant as a condemnation of the ruling or a prediction of how he would handle such legal setbacks should he be returned to the White House.Lawrence Douglas is the author, most recently, of Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. He is a contributing opinion writer for the Guardian US and teaches at Amherst College Continue reading...

Worden Butler and Alexis Hartnett charged after FBI search house in Horry county following alleged racially motivated campaignThe FBI has searched a house in South Carolina after a white couple allegedly put up a cross that faced their Black neighbors and set it on fire.On Wednesday morning, federal agents searched the house of 28-year-old Worden Butler and 27-year-old Alexis Hartnett in Horry county for a civil rights investigation involving allegations of racial discrimination", WBTW reports the agency saying. Continue reading...

Complaint details human rights violations, including lack of food, water and shelter and denial of emergency careTheresa Cheng was volunteering with mutual aid groups at the US-Mexico border when she learned of a migrant on the US side of the wall with severe injuries. Cheng, an emergency physician, rushed to an encampment where asylum seekers wait to be processed by border patrol and pumped frantically on the chest of a 13-year-old boy bleeding on the ground while volunteers dialed 911.It took 60 minutes - nearly as much time as Cheng and another migrant did CPR on the teen - for an ambulance and emergency medical services to arrive at the scene in eastern San Diego county. The boy, whom local media identified as Dario Zamudio, had suffered traumatic injuries in a car collision on the Mexican side of the border and had been taken to the border wall to receive quicker treatment. Continue reading...

Federal 2020 election interference trial is currently set for 4 March, the day before Super TuesdayLawyers for Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the US supreme court to reject a request from the special counsel to expeditiously decide whether he was immune from prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, contending prosecutors lacked standing to bring the petition.The argument from the ex-president was that prosecutors had no basis to appeal a lower court ruling that was favorable to them, and should instead defer intervening in the case until a federal appeals court issued its own judgment first. Continue reading...

The US president, Joe Biden, said Israel and Hamas were no closer to reaching a deal that would pause fighting, allowing humanitarian aid to Gaza to be facilitated and Israeli hostages to be released.Biden was also asked for a response on the number of casualties in Gaza passing 20,000 people. 'I think it's tragic,' he said

Wolves are the first part of a plan to reintroduce the endangered species into the state after it was eradicated in the regionIn an effort to restore an endangered species, Colorado just released five gray wolves in the western part of the state.On Monday, Colorado parks and wildlife released two female and three male wolves on to remote public land. The predators were captured and brought over from Oregon, after Wyoming, Idaho and Montana refused to share their wolves citing interstate migration and financial concerns. Continue reading...

The shoes - which debuted as Lee's footwear at the 2019 Academy Awards - were found in a clothing donation bin in Portland, OregonA pair of rare Nike Air Jordan 3s made for Spike Lee have sold for more than $50,000 at Sotheby's after they were discovered earlier this year in the donation chute of a homeless charity in Portland, Oregon.On Monday, the gold shoes, one of only four to five pairs custom-made for the film director Spike Lee and his inner circle, were auctioned off at Sotheby's for $50,800. The shoes were originally discovered in April by a participant in Portland Rescue Mission's long-term shelter program who was sorting through several clothing and shoe donations. Continue reading...

President makes first public comment since Colorado ruled to remove Trump from state's 2024 ballotJoe Biden has said it is self-evident" that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist in his first public comments since Colorado's supreme court removed the former president from the state's 2024 ballot.The president was speaking before boarding Air Force One to an afternoon engagement in Milwaukee, and said he would not comment on the legal premise cited by the Colorado panel for its majority decision, or the likely intervention of the US supreme court. Continue reading...

The smokescreen generated by recent carbon-offset setbacks should not blind us to the simple truth that we must protect our intact forests and bring back those we have lostSome have recently questioned whether forests really are the climate solution they have long been held to be. This is because some emit great quantities of carbon, while the markets set up to finance them have stumbled. But there is no pathway to a livable climate without saving our intact forests, regrowing some, and finding a more straightforward way to pay for them than carbon offset projects.A 2021 study led by Brazilian scientists established that the Amazon was emitting more carbon dioxide than it was absorbing. The great carbon sink had seemingly become a smokestack. The paper mirrored a 2019 analysis of Canadian forests, which showed they had been net emitters since 2001. Continue reading...

Metropolitan Museum of Art's survey of more than 70 female designers celebrates overlooked brilliance. It is long overdue - but still won me overThere weren't many men visiting Women Dressing Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit on female designers through modern history. It was as if all the ladies who attended had checked their boyfriends or husbands at the door, where they huddled together like dads outside a Forever 21 dressing room during back-to-school shopping season.We were better off for it. It felt like a screening of the Barbie movie inside the Met's Costume Institute on an early afternoon last week. I saw people of various races, ages and body types let out collective shrieks at an original Chanel little black dress. As I stood in front of a sexy, see-through, white Tory Burch gown, I nodded emphatically when a woman turned to me and said, I need that for my wedding." Nearby, one twentysomething complimented another on her Telfar loafers. When two elderly women admired a Norma Kamali parachute dress, a young mother offered to take their photo in front of it. Continue reading...

Predictably, the ex-president took to his social media site to condemn the decision - and to raise fundsThe Colorado supreme court ruling on Tuesday that bars Donald Trump from the state's presidential ballot has kicked off a firestorm among Republicans and legal scholars, and fury from Trump himself.Though the former president did not address the decision during a rally on Tuesday night in Iowa - where he went on abusive rants against immigration - he posted on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday. What a shame for our country!!!" Trump wrote. A sad day for America!!!" Continue reading...

Justices in the US state say the ex-president isn't fit to stand. But no matter what the courts say, he may still be a winner with votersTen days out from the end of the year, and who could have foreseen the latest Trump plot twist? On Wednesday morning, Americans woke to absorb the fallout from the previous day's news that Colorado - of all places - had ruled via its supreme court to ban Donald Trump from the ballot in the run-up to next year's presidential election. There are many sober things to say about this, but in the first instance let's give way to an unseemly squeal. How completely thrilling!Colorado leans Democrat - both its senators are blue - but it's a western state with large conservative enclaves that is not exactly Massachusetts or Vermont. The decision by the state's top justices is unprecedented in US electoral history. According to their ruling, Trump is in breach of section 3 of the 14th amendment, the so-called insurrectionist ban", in light of his behaviour during the 6 Januarystorming of the Capitol. Continue reading...

Local police chief describes horrific tragedy' after four boys aged two to 13 and a four-year-old girl die trapped in duplexFive children died in a house fire in Arizona while their father was out shopping for Christmas.Four boys - aged two, five, 11 and 13 - and a four-year-old girl were home alone in Bullhead City, Arizona, when a fire broke out just before 5pm on Saturday. Within five minutes firefighters were on the scene and reported the blaze was out at 5.03pm. But by then it was too late. Continue reading...

Driver reportedly said he was trying to avoid hitting a dog at first, then trying to avoid a parked car, before crashing into Bar:PMAn LGBTQ+ bar owner in Missouri who was jailed after police accidentally crashed a cruiser into his establishment is facing charges filed against him by prosecutors - albeit ones that were quickly reduced amid a public outcry over the case's circumstances.Nobody should have to go through this - going from being a victim to going to have to defend yourself, your family and your business," James Pence, whose husband, Chad Morris, was arrested and charged, told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday in their home town of St Louis. That's not what the police are here to do." Continue reading...

US readers shared their hopes for the homes they'd like to have, portraying an America where even modest housing dreams are out of reach for manyLisa Williams is a minimalist. After her husband passed away in 2014, she was content to move into a studio apartment in Las Vegas. But when her rent increased by 25% from 2020 to 2022, she had to downsize more than she'd ever expected.Now, Williams, 63, is a workamper", parking her 17ft trailer in national and state parks across Nevada, California and Arizona. She works as a visitor center host for 25 to 30 hours a week in exchange for an RV spot with full hookup - which can cost $800 a month or more. Williams still has to make a $210 monthly payment on her trailer, about all she can afford on her social security and pension income of $35,000 annually. Continue reading...

Once regarded as a retirement league for ageing European stars, evidence of MLS's rise can be found in the steady stream of talent heading the other wayIn the last January transfer window, 33 players left Major League Soccer for Europe. Top European clubs are increasingly looking to US soccer in search of stars who, thanks to the American season finishing in December, are primed to hit the ground running upon arrival.And after a season that drew more transatlantic attention than ever before thanks to Lionel Messi's move to Inter Miami, several MLS stars will have caught the eye of Europe's elite. Continue reading...

Judge orders Republican congressman to turn over 1,700 records from his phone for 2020 election interference investigationA federal judge ordered the top House Republican Scott Perry to turn over nearly 1,700 records from his phone to special counsel prosecutors that could inform the extent of his role in Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, including removing justice department officials.The move by the chief US district judge James Boasberg, who oversees grand jury matters in federal court in Washington DC, means prosecutors can access the majority of the records that the FBI pulled from Perry's phone. The device was seized in response to a court-approved warrant. Continue reading...

After the fire destroyed homes Lahaina couldn't afford to lose, non-profits and the government are getting creative.In September, a military jet delivered dozens of foldable steel containers, each roughly the size of a single-car garage, from Hungary to a 10-acre field in the center of the Hawaiian island of Maui.Over the following months, organizers transformed each box into a tiny home, complete with a kitchenette, bathroom and lanai - a traditional Hawaiian veranda. They installed water wells and solar systems, and built playgrounds, gardens and resource centers. Continue reading...

I work for an airline that is keen to be festive. Spare a thought for all us obliged to have fun' while serving the publicI've just received a company-wide message from the airline that I work for telling me, All cabin crew are invited to wear Christmas hats over the festive period!" The exclamation mark at the end suggests the company thinks we'll all be utterly delighted at the thought of it. I'm not: I feel weird enough in a uniform already, and adding a Santa hat is more enforced jollity than I can take.I'm not one of those cabin crew who's dreamed of doing the job since I was a kid. I just made the mistake of doing a journalism degree without having rich parents. I was a millennial with inflated expectations, and I'm paying the price, OK? I'll dress up and smile and serve you mini pretzels, with pleasure - after all, it's my job. But please don't make me wear the stupid hat as well.Meryl Love is the pseudonym of a crew member working for an international airline Continue reading...

Pilot and photographer killed as news helicopter for Philadelphia-based station 6ABC crashes in state forestA pilot and a photographer were killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday night during an assignment for a local news station in New Jersey.The Philadelphia-based news station 6ABC reported on Wednesday morning that its news helicopter was returning from an assignment on the Jersey Shore when it went down over a state forest, about 30 miles away from the shore, at approximately 8pm on Tuesday night. Continue reading...

The fuss over Eve Gilles' gamine coiffure is bizarre in a nation that is supposed to celebrate femininity in all its formsIn December, Britain has pantomimes and France has silly beauty controversies. The latest one, which erupted on social networks last weekend, must be one of the most bizarre witnessed since the beginning of the Miss France pageant, 103 years ago.Twenty-year-old Eve Gilles, the former Miss Pas-de-Calais, was crowned Miss France last Saturday. But it wasn't just her win that dominated headlines but her short hair. Choquant, non? Critics vented their fury online that a lithe, androgynous-looking woman could take the crown as, ostensibly, France's most beautiful woman. Some denounced it as an example of diversity gone too far. Some talked about the victory of wokery. Pardon?Agnes Poirier is a political commentator, writer and critic Continue reading...

A year and a half after the supreme court struck down Roe v Wade, abortion continues to weigh heavily on voters' mindDays before Josh Cole won his toss-up race, the Democratic candidate for Virginia's house of delegates predicted that his party would perform well on election day, largely because the issue of abortion had motivated many voters to turn out at the polls.There are people who are absolutely passionate about reproductive freedom and making sure that an abortion ban doesn't come to Virginia," Cole said. Continue reading...

Four branches of the bank in New Mexico, Alaska, California and Florida have filed for union elections since NovemberWorkers at Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the US, have ramped up their union organizing campaign in recent weeks in a move that marks the largest union drive at a US bank in decades.Four Wells Fargo branches have filed for union elections since November in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bethel, Alaska, Atwater, California, and Daytona Beach, Florida. The first union elections in New Mexico and Alaska are set to be held on 21 December. Continue reading...

State's highest court declares former president ineligible for White House under US constitution's insurrection clause. Plus, how chemical exposures affect sperm health

A bipartisan coalition is growing on Capitol Hill to bring back the expanded child tax credit. America's children desperately need itLegislators are fleeing Washington, DC and heading home for the holidays. They leave behind a dysfunctional Congress with a rookie Speaker, brutal wars ongoing overseas, and a country with 11 million children living in poverty.Yes, after a brief reprieve, child poverty is once again on the rise in the United States. But Congress can put a stop to that. As members of both houses, and both parties, work together on an end-of-year tax deal, they can re-implement a simple, wildly popular measure that has already proven to dramatically reduce child poverty: the expanded Child Tax Credit.Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of the Nation and serves on the Council on Foreign Relations Continue reading...

No one seems to care about the incarcerated men with mental health issues who bang and scream above my headI was moved onto unit 1EE on the south compound inside New Jersey State Prison a year ago. On the floor just above me is 2EE, which is known as the crazy unit".This unit is where incarcerated men throughout the state are sent when they experience mental health difficulties. It has three cells for suicide watch, where men are stripped down and given turtle suits", thin vests that barely keep them covered. There are no pillows, blankets or sheets. A man is left with only his skin and his wits.Banging is normal in prison. We hear it all day, constantly.Kory McClary is a writer for the Prison Journalism Project, a non-profit news organization that provides incarcerated writers with tools and training. As part of a partnership, a reporter with MindSite News, a non-profit news outlet that covers mental health, investigated the death - and life - of the man who had been incarcerated above McClary. That story can be found here.This story is the product of a collaboration between the Prison Journalism Project, MindSite News and the Guardian US. Continue reading...

Musk is the world's best accidental salesman for unions, even as his Tesla workers make 30% less than UAW automakersIn case workers need any additional arguments for why labor unions are good for them, a powerful new argument comes from none other than Elon Musk. Last month at the New York Times DealBook Summit, a gathering of lords of finance and industry, Musk said: I disagree with the idea of unions ... I just don't like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing."That the world's richest human dissed the idea of unions should certainly be seen as a selling point for unionizing. Musk's statement shows that he realizes that unions can be highly effective in harnessing the collective voice and power of workers, not just to limit the autonomy of power-hungry CEOs like him in managing their companies, but also to counter the capricious and often officious way he runs things. Musk is allergic to the idea of letting workers and their union have a voice in how to run - and improve - things. Continue reading...

A collaboration between a prison journalist and an investigative reporter reveals the suffering and death of a 49-year-old man serving life at a New Jersey prisonThe banging and groans from the cell above had been going on for days. Kory McClary didn't know the name of the man, but his distress was unmistakable. McClary heard him banging on his toilet and his bunk continuously with only small breaks in between. He heard him battling guards who entered the cell. He heard him screaming in pain.Then one morning, the sounds stopped. The prisoner had been moved to another cell. Two days later, McClary learned from a prison porter, the man was dead. Continue reading...

Women do twice as many festive chores as men. How can I stop stressing about his last-minute wrapping dash?I am, by my own admission, sickeningly smug about how balanced a relationship I have with my partner. Ours is what some might deem a rather millennial" alliance: we are equal breadwinners, work the same hours and divvy up the childcare. We communicate well about our feelings, our finances, our families. He doesn't babysit our son - he parents him. We even have a civil partnership because we felt marriage was too problematic, too steeped in historical gender inequality. There are no boy jobs" or girl jobs" in our household. So why, when it comes to Christmas, do I find myself doing all the bloody work?The festive merry-go-round starts in September when the annual text comes in - to me, of course - from a family member: What are you thinking for Christmas this year?" And so begins my seasonal shift as a logistics coordinator (no pay), managing the needs of different relatives, working out who we prioritised last year and who we need to consider this time. Tentative suggestions about our plans are met with shrugs and sures" from my partner as I liaise with friends and family on timings, locations and, now we have a baby to think of, festive nap schedules. (Should he nap at my mum's or yours? Pram or car? Before or after lunch?" Sure." Sure." Sure.") The list of plans - and of people to communicate them to - is seemingly endless, and seemingly my responsibility. Continue reading...

The 300-year-old music of Joseph Bologne opened the door to magic and connection, and took me to Guadeloupe this year

The rules-based world order' is no more than a myth. It's time for a major overhaul of institutions from the UN to the ICC

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Indigenous Americans fought through genocide and forced assimilation to use peyote in peace. Will the psychedelics boom co-opt it?On the first day of autumn, evening temperatures near Window Rock, Arizona, were brisk. Beneath the late September sky, a traditional round hogan in this remote corner of the Navajo Nation was enveloped in darkness. Ten tribal members gathered inside.After a dinner of mutton and fry bread, the group settled in a circle around a wood stove radiating with burning juniper, preparing to ingest what the Dine (Navajo) call azee - the medicine. Continue reading...

President praised the first female US supreme court justice in pointed remarks at the Washington funeralJoe Biden hailed Sandra Day O'Connor as an American pioneer" who embodied principle over politics in his eulogy at the Washington funeral of the US supreme court's first female justice.The president praised O'Connor for breaking down barriers in the legal and political worlds, transcending political divisions and weighing ordinary people in her decision-making in pointed remarks that contrasted sharply with his words about the current supreme court. Continue reading...

Democrats call on attorney general to halt state law, while Mexican president and ACLU both say they will challenge itAs a group of Texas and Hispanic Democrats demanded the US attorney general block what they called the most extreme anti-immigrant state bill in the United States", signed by the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, on Monday, the president of Mexico and the American Civil Liberties Union also vowed to fight the law.Texas, we'll see you in court," the ACLU said. Continue reading...

Noel Montalvo was in Pennsylvania prison for 20 years for murders that he blamed on his brother who died in prisonA man formerly on death row has been released from prison following dismissal of murder charges in a double slaying a quarter-century ago that he blamed on his brother, who died in prison while appealing his own death sentence in the case.Noel Montalvo, who turned 59 on Tuesday, was freed on Monday night after York county, Pennsylvania, prosecutors dismissed charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy and burglary shortly before a retrial was to begin. He pleaded guilty to an evidence tampering charge for which the judge sentenced him to a year of probation. Continue reading...

Egypt and Saudi Arabia notably absent from Operation Prosperity Guardian as more shipping companies forgo routeThe US has announced the creation of an enhanced naval protection force operating in the southern Red Sea in an attempt to ward off mounting attacks from Yemen's rebel Houthis on merchant shipping.Britain said it would be among the countries participating but notable absentees were Arab nations Egypt and Saudi Arabia while analysts speculated that shipping would continue to be disrupted and attacks continue. Continue reading...

Deadly winter storm leaves hundreds of thousands without power and deposits flooding and freezing temperatures in its wakeAt least six people were killed and hundreds of thousands were left without power as a deadly winter storm swept across the north-eastern US on Monday, depositing flooding and freezing temperatures in its wake.Two of the deaths were in Maine in separate cases involving fallen trees, authorities said. Other deaths were reported in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and New York.Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

Trump's odious rhetoric about the border must be rejected. But the Biden campaign speaks from both sides of its mouthAt a campaign rally in New Hampshire last Saturday, the former president Donald Trump repeated a claim he made back in September: immigrants coming to the United States, he said, are poisoning the blood of our country". The phrase is particularly disturbing as it evokes Nazi language about blood and nation.The last time Trump uttered this poisoning the blood of our country" phrase, criticism from historians and civil libertarians was swift. This time, Joe Biden's re-election campaign saw an opportunity and pounced. Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler," a Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that Trump is not shying away from his promise to lock up millions of people in detention camps." Continue reading...