Niece locates her uncle Luis Armando Albino living on other side of the country after search sparked when she took online DNA test just for fun'A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.The Bay Area News Group reported on Friday that Luis Armando Albino's niece in Oakland - with assistance from police, the FBI and the justice department - located her uncle living on the US east coast. Continue reading...
Democratic nominee says she accepted an invitation from CNN to debate Republican rival, who said it was too late'Kamala Harris laid down another challenge to Republican rival Donald Trump to meet her for a second debate before November's presidential election, telling supporters in New York that her opponent seems to be looking for an excuse" to avoid a second confrontation.On Saturday, the vice-president and Democratic nominee said she had accepted an invitation from CNN to debate the former president, but Trump said it was already too late". Continue reading...
Republican nominee says in interview that he doesn't see that at all' and he hasn't made deals with Musk or RFK JrDonald Trump said in an interview released on Sunday that he did not think he would run for president again in 2028 if he loses this year's race for the White House.In an interview on the Full Measure television show with Sharyl Attkisson, the former US president - who ran in 2016 and 2020 - was asked whether he saw himself running yet again in four years time. Continue reading...
Ex-president attacks influential entertainment figure after Winfrey hosts livestreamed interview with vice-presidentJust over a week ago, it was the pop superstar Taylor Swift. Now Donald Trump is taking aim at Oprah Winfrey over her support of Kamala Harris.Whether or not attacking some of the most popular and powerful entertainment figures in US history will prove a solid campaign strategy is yet to be proven, but the former president has not held back. Continue reading...
Haitians escaping violence at home now face it in their refuge in Ohio thanks to the extreme right and the Republican presidential campaignThere is a humanitarian crisis involving Haitians and, despite JD Vance's lies, it isn't in Ohio. It's in Haiti itself, where violence has reached terrifying levels. Five children a week are killed and injured and almost 5million people - about half the population - face acute hunger. Little wonder families flee. Most of the 15,000 Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield are in the US through the temporary protected status(TPS) granted to them because of the turmoil intheir owncountry.Now they face fresh danger thanks to the vicious and baseless lies of Donald Trump's campaign. In his debate with Kamala Harris, Mr Trump declared that In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats." He had picked up on his running mate Mr Vance's slanders on X that pets [have been] abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country".Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Michigan governor responds to ex-president saying women will no longer be thinking about abortion if he wins electionGretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, called Donald Trump just deranged" on Sunday after he said women would no longer be thinking about abortion if he is elected as president in November.This guy just doesn't understand what the average woman is confronting in her life in this country, and how could he? He's not lived a normal life," Whitmer said in an interview on CNN's State of the Union. Continue reading...
Senator does not call for Robinson to drop out of governor race and says he deserves a chance to defend himself'The senior Senate Republican Lindsey Graham has said reports that the North Carolina Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, calling himself a black NAZI!" in posts on the porn forum Nude Africa a decade ago are beyond unnerving" and should see him end his political career if proven true.If they're true, he's unfit to serve for office," the long-serving South Carolina senator said Sunday. If they're not true, he has the best lawsuit in the history of the country for libel." Continue reading...
Police say multiple victims were caught in crossfire in nightlife area of Five Points South in BirminghamA major manhunt is under way in Birmingham, Alabama, for those responsible for a shooting at a nightclub late on Saturday night in which four people have died and 17 were wounded.The violence is just the latest shocking incident that highlights the epidemic of gun violence and killings that continues to plague the US and yet prompts little to no political action. Continue reading...
While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush's eraThe MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell this week hit out at George W Bush, the Republican former president, for refusing to weigh in on America's looming presidential election.All any decent person wants him to do is to say, Don't vote for Donald Trump, and here's why,' and he won't even do that," O'Donnell told the Fast Politics podcast, of the Republican president who was in office from 2001 to 2009. Continue reading...
Public letter calls VP a candidate who defends America's democratic ideals' and says Donald Trump is unfit' for jobMore than 700 national security leaders and former military officials publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a letter released on Sunday, calling her a candidate who defends America's democratic ideals".They also said her Republican rival, Donald Trump, was unfit" for the job. Continue reading...
Police say Shawn Stines killed Kevin Mullins after argument in judge's chambers as town struggles to understand motiveA small Kentucky town is still reeling after a longtime sheriff was accused of shooting and killing a judge at the county courthouse on 19 September in an act of shocking violence that has left many questions unanswered.State police said that the sheriff, Shawn Stines, 43, killed the district judge Kevin Mullins, 54, after an argument in the judge's chambers. Stines turned himself in, was arrested at the scene and now faces first-degree murder charges. Continue reading...
Coins are latest merchandise launch by Republican, who raised third of the amount brought in by Harris in AugustDonald Trump has launched a range of $100 commemorative coins, which join Trump sneakers, Trump Bibles, Trump playing cards, Trump NFTs and strips of the suit he wore when he was booked in Georgia last year, in his hunt for campaign cash.The latest addition to the Trump entrepreneurial universe - one that four bankruptcies and a recent financial fraud conviction only begin to attest to - display a profile of Trump's face and an image of the White House with the words In God we Trust". Continue reading...
Being human is so complicated - all that doubt, dread and self-loathing. Dogs have a much better time of it. But can I access their world of pure sensation?You know how sometimes you think you've had a brilliant idea, then it bites you in the bum like an athletic but mean jack russell? Suggesting I could live like a dog for a day to see if they're happier" turned out to be one of those.It seemed so promising. When I heard the title of the philosopher Mark Rowlands' book The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living, it struck me like a Frisbee to the head. Rowlands hasn't written a how-to guide - rather it's a lovely meditation on what it's like in our canine companions' heads - but it filled me with urgent longing. Continue reading...
From Vance's penchant to create stories' to Trump's false claims, lies are brazenly flaunted as a tactic to win supportJD Vance was holding court on CNN's State of the Union programme. The American media totally ignored this stuff," he complained last Sunday, until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes."But it wasn't just a meme, objected interviewer Dana Bash. The Republican vice-presidential nominee gave a telling response: If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast." Continue reading...
Locals support and volunteer at Haitian-owned businesses to stand against Trump and Vance's anti-immigrant liesThe line down the center of the Rose Goute Creole restaurant on Springfield, Ohio's South Limestone Street is halfway out the door. It's been like this ever since former president Donald Trump falsely accused immigrants in Springfield of eating cats and dogs during a televised debate on 10 September.At the back of the restaurant, kitchen staff scramble to take orders and load plates of herring patties, rice and beans, and barbecued chicken legs on to serving trays. Outside, cars with plates from Georgia, Wisconsin and Indiana - diners who've stopped off a nearby highway to show support for the Haitian community - fill the parking lot. Continue reading...
A new baby in the family means learning to pronounce a new name - and a bit of cruel fun for parentsI have a new niece, as my sister Fionnuala and her husband Adam welcomed Sadhbh (pronounced: Sadhbh) into a grateful world this week. At time of writing, she is three days old, but she seems very sound and her sister Clodagh is delighted by her company. My kids haven't met her yet, but are wholly infatuated. They insist on watching the few videos we've been sent on a loop, and attempt to learn her name as they do so.My son sees Sadhbh written down as I show him pics from our family WhatsApp group. The pile-up of consonants taxes his English brain a little too hard for intuitive speech. Give it a go, we tell him, baiting an age-old trap beloved of all Anglo-Hibernian relationships. He tries Sadib' and Sahiddybib', which draws cruel laughter from his loving parents. It's sigh-v' we tell him, like five, but with an S instead of an F.' Continue reading...
US president is recorded on hot mic singling out Beijing, saying it continues to behave aggressively' in areas including the South China SeaJoe Biden has been recorded on a hot mic telling the leaders of Australia, India and Japan that an aggressive China is testing us", in remarks at a Quad summit that risked undercutting the group's declaration that carefully avoided referring to Beijing by name.The comments came as Biden opened a farewell summit in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware, with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. Continue reading...
In ceremony in Kake, military acknowledges bombardment of village that destroyed it and led to many deathsIn a ceremony Saturday afternoon, the US navy apologized for firing upon and torching the Alaska Native village of Kake in 1869.Surrounded by tribal Chilkat weavings, historic photographs and other Lingit artwork in the Kake elementary and high school gymnasium, R Adm Mark B Sucato expressed the military's regret, in the first of two apologies planned by the military for bombardments of Alaska Native communities in the late 1800s. Continue reading...
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Tim Ryan, former Ohio Democratic representative, says Trump is avoiding debate because he is scared'Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN to participate in another debate with Donald Trump, on 23 October, her campaign said on Saturday.Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate. It is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June, when he praised CNN's moderators, rules and ratings," the Harris campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said in a statement. Continue reading...
Nate Hochman recorded several videos for America 2100, a thinktank linked to the Republican Florida senatorThe rightwing activist Nate Hochman, who was fired last year by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, for employing neo-Nazi imagery in a campaign video, is now the face of a Marco Rubio-linked thinktank's efforts to spread anti-immigrant panic from Ohio to Pennsylvania.Videos featuring Hochman recorded in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, have been boosted on X by a range of rightwing figures including the platform's owner, the tech billionaire Elon Musk. Continue reading...
Chinese aggression in the South China Sea forcing countries such as Japan to increase defences and talk up an Asian Nato'Whoever declared that in this world nothing is certain except death and taxes" plainly led a sheltered life. Some authorities say Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase, but it was probably first voiced by the memorably named Toby Guzzle, a comedic character in Christopher Bullock's 1716 English farce, The Cobbler of Preston.With all due respect to Guzzle, war is a third inescapable, global certainty, as present-day citizens of Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan know only too well. China's expansionist regime is testing this proposition again in the choppy waters of the South China Sea. Maritime states from the Philippines to Japan struggle with Beijing's aggression. Continue reading...
Marcee Gray, 43, charged with exploiting an elderly person in Ben Hill county, 200 miles from Apalachee high schoolThe mother of a Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school has been indicted in connection with an alleged domestic incident last year.The indictment handed down earlier this week charges Marcee Gray, 43, with exploiting an elderly person and other crimes in Ben Hill county, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. It appears unrelated to the school shooting at Apalachee high school earlier this month, which occurred in a different Georgia county nearly 200 miles away. Continue reading...
Decision that weakened power of government regulatory agencies sows confusion to already chaotic cannabis lawA recent supreme court decision that weakened the power of US government regulatory agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has added additional confusion to America's already chaotic cannabis law.This month, a federal court was able to overrule the DEA on what qualifies as legal hemp, in part because of a supreme court decision that nullified the Chevron doctrine, which once directed courts to defer to the expertise of federal agencies. But now the reverse will apply and courts may have the final say over even highly technical regulations. Continue reading...
Voters picked Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Winning Saginaw is key to securing Michigan - and the White HouseA local law says that residents of Saginaw Township in Michigan cannot publicly display political signs in support of a presidential candidate until 30 days before the US election, even on their own front lawns.But you wouldn't know it while driving through this neat midwestern township that borders a town of the same name - simply, Saginaw - in the most closely contested county, also called Saginaw, of a battleground state that Donald Trump won in 2016 when he took the White House and then lost in 2020 when Joe Biden wrested it from his control. Continue reading...
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If anyone could undo ... the will of Louisiana ... the Catholic church can and will,' says survivor whose case is targetedMonths after Louisiana's supreme court upheld the constitutionality of a state law that let child molestation victims sue for long-ago abuse, despite arguments to the contrary by a Roman Catholic diocese, another church organization is asking the federal government to strike the statute down.Behind the request in question are the Dominican Sisters of Peace and a law firm that boasts about having represented Catholic institutions in Louisiana courts for more than a century. Another of the law firm's clients in question, the archdiocese of New Orleans, is offering clergy molestation victims less than 10% of what they are requesting in a bankruptcy settlement, in part by arguing the so-called lookback window" law doesn't apply to more than 600 abuse claims. Continue reading...
The US presidential election is neck and neck. But only one candidate has been compared to Adolf Hitler. Is it an exaggeration or based in fact?Is Donald Trump really a fascist? It's a question that has been bubbling away since he first announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2015 after a years-long campaign to brand Barack Obama an illegitimate occupant of the White House. Back then his questioning of Obama's citizenship appeared overtly racist (When I was 18, people called me Donald Trump. When he was 18 @BarackObama was Barry Soweto"). So were his comments about Mexican immigrants at his campaign launch: They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Trump's early indications that he would not accept the results of any election he did not win made him sound like an anti-democrat. And he told Hillary Clinton in their first presidential debate that if he became president, she would end up in jail, which is where he seemed to think his political opponents belonged. It was plenty. But was it fascism?Before 2016, the closest the US had ever come to electing a fascist as president was in a work of fiction. Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, published in 2004, imagines an alternative history for the country in which Charles Lindbergh - real-life aviation hero and Nazi sympathiser - has defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election on a promise to keep the US out of the second world war. In Roth's telling, Lindbergh then initiates non-aggression pacts with Hitler's Germany and Imperial Japan before embarking on a domestic programme of forced Jewish assimilation. Only when the popular radio host Walter Winchell announces he will stand against Lindbergh for the presidency and is shot dead at a campaign rally does the country come to its senses and drive Lindbergh out. Continue reading...
Combs's business empire once seemed to know no bounds. Now he faces abuse allegations and a string of chargesBrooklyn's grim Metropolitan detention center (MDC) is now for the foreseeable future home to Diddy, AKA Sean Combs, one of the most well-known voices in American entertainment whose business empire once seemed to know no bounds.The MDC is 5 miles (8km) from the public housing projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant where Combs's biggest Bad Boy Records star, Biggie Smalls, grew up, but more than 20 miles from the middle-class suburb of Mount Vernon, where Combs himself was raised. Continue reading...
A precursor to Duke University once stripped students of their culture. Cherokee teachers are leading the changeBetween 1882 and 1887, some two dozen children from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were enrolled in Trinity College's Industrial Indian boarding school. The school, which operated about 20 miles south of Greensboro, North Carolina, alongside the college's traditional liberal arts program, received federal funding in pursuit of its goal to assimilate Indigenous students.The students, who ranged in age from eight to 18, were forced to work and wear western clothing, and were prohibited from speaking Cherokee or otherwise maintaining their traditions, while other students who attended Trinity College were instructed in the liberal arts. Continue reading...
The 80s president known for sunny optimism also has a darker legacy on issues like race and Aids. I don't think you can just say, wow, Trump arrived from Mars,' says Max BootUnderstand this about immigration," Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House of Representatives and a staunch Democrat, said in an interview on HBO earlier this month. The best speech on immigration was by President Ronald Reagan."Pelosi is not alone among Democrats heaping praise on the 40th president for his pro-immigration views, defiance of tyranny and politics of optimism - It's morning in America." For many he has come to symbolise nostalgia for a more innocent, less partisan time. Visitors to America's capital often land at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport. A newly released biopic starring Dennis Quaid is the latest burnishing of the myth. Continue reading...
Nate Silver's election model is once again being pored over by millions of anxious voters. The gambler turned statistician talks about the race for White House, the risk-takers redefining our culture, and the probability of GodIs London a little bit tame for Nate Silver? The stats expert known for his hugely influential US election model is in town promoting a new book about risk, and can't help noticing all the ways in which we play it safe on this side of the Atlantic. You go to the tube in London and they have guard doors, which they don't have in the subway in New York." (He's evidently been riding the Elizabeth line). Or, You're in an Uber and you don't put your seatbelt on in the back seat,and there's like the very polite Britishbeeping," he says, with a disarming, high-velocity giggle. Notthat he mindstoo much - you get the impression he's fond of the city, wherehe spent a year as a student, andin any case both countries are making different trade-offs" - the US has less regulation and higher growth, but lower life expectancy: the very definition oflivefast, die young.It's clear, though, where he feels most at home. I spent a lot of time in casinos over the course of writing this book," he confesses in the opening pages of On the Edge, describing one in Florida that boasts 200 gaming tables, 1,275 guest rooms, 3,000 slot machines and a glimmering guitar-shaped hotel that shoots beams of neon blue light 20,000ft into the sky". A far-cry from the sedate charm of the Royal Society ofArts, where he sits, in a baseball capand T-shirt, munching chocolate brought by his PR for a much-needed blood sugar boost (It'seight hours of back-to-back stuff today"). To go by hisnew taxonomy ofcontemporary power, we're very much in The Village"; that dopamine-doused casino he described is part of The River". Continue reading...
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Our writers pick the champion, key players and dark horses as the WNBA postseason tips off on SundayObviously there is a large contingent of fervent, passionate WNBA fans that are not new to this whatsoever. But I'm looking forward to the first WNBA playoffs when the rest of the sports world has finally caught up: high-profile national TV coverage, dramatic storylines, podcast hand-wringing - it should all be there this time around. And it's about time. CDL Continue reading...
In besieged Kharkiv, I saw how Ukraine is approaching a perilous moment. To turn the tide, it first needs to decisively knock back RussiaEarlier this week, I started a 3,000km, two-day journey back from the other end of Europe, where I witnessed Ukrainian resilience against Russian terror in the besieged city of Kharkiv. A university lecturer told me that from a 12th storey balcony in a north-eastern suburb she had actually seen the flashes of missiles taking off from launchpads just across the frontier, in the Russian city of Belgorod. An S-300 missile can reach Kharkiv from Belgorod in about 30 seconds, so you have no time to hide. If it's not a missile, it's a glide bomb launched from a Russian warplane - and so, day after day, death rains indifferently down.After more than 900 days of the largest war in Europe since 1945, Ukraine is approaching a perilous moment of truth. The Ukrainian David has courage and innovation, but the Russian Goliath has ruthlessness and mass. In an underground location in Kharkiv, I was shown highly sophisticated, novel military uses of IT and drones. With its Cossack-style innovation, the country has developed more than 200 different kinds of drone.Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Private was sentenced to 12 months of confinement and dishonourably discharged from army but has been released because of time already servedA US soldier who fled into North Korea last year has been sentenced to 12 months of confinement after pleading guilty to desertion as part of a plea agreement, his lawyer has said.Because of good behaviour and time served, the soldier was released, the lawyer, Franklin Rosenblatt, said on Friday. Continue reading...
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This liveblog is now closed. You can read our latest story hereKamala Harris will be in Georgia today and is expected to speak about Donald Trump's role in the abortion bans that now blanket much of the United States, days after news broke that two Georgia mothers died after being unable to access legal abortions and adequate medical care.The deaths of the Georgia mothers, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, were first reported earlier this week by ProPublica and occurred as a result of Georgia enacting a six-week abortion ban. Georgia's maternal mortality review committee looked at both women's cases and deemed their deaths preventable", according to ProPublica.You're looking at a mother that is broken, the worst pain ever that a mother, that a parent can ever feel. Continue reading...
Nominee emphasizes support for abortion rights at rally in key state, and declares herself the underdog in this race'Kamala Harris campaigned in Madison, Wisconsin, the deep blue capital of the state and college town that Democrats hope will turn out enough voters to turn the election in the presidential nominee's favor.We know this is gonna be a tight race until the very end," said Harris. We are the underdog in this race, and we have some hard work ahead of us." Continue reading...
Cal Fire says Robert Hernandez ignited blazes while off duty in forest land in north of stateA California department of forestry and fire protection employee was arrested on Friday on suspicion of starting five brush fires in northern California in recent weeks, officials said.Robert Hernandez, 38, was arrested at the Howard forest fire station in Healdsburg, California, on suspicion of arson to forest land, the state agency said in a statement. Continue reading...
Henry Payne's cartoon of the Palestinian American congresswoman called out as anti-Arab and IslamophobicRashida Tlaib, the Palestinian American congresswoman, has accused a political cartoonist of racism after he depicted her next to a pager exploding days after such devices blew up across Lebanon in what the Arab country has said was an attack by Israel.A statement from the Democratic US House representative also expressed concern that the cartoon by Henry Payne would incite more hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities". Continue reading...
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Republican majority approves requirement for poll managers to hand-count ballots before tabulating votesForty-six days before the election, Georgia's state election board has approved a new rule requiring a hand-count of paper ballots cast on election day before tabulating votes.The three Trump-aligned members that make up the majority on the board approved the rule that would require three people in every precinct to check machine-vote tallies by hand-counting the election results, despite a warning from the state attorney general that this rule and others in consideration very likely exceed the board's statutory authority". Continue reading...
Vice-president speaks after news breaks that two women died after being unable to access procedure legallyIn her first speech dedicated exclusively to abortion rights since becoming the presidential nominee, Kamala Harris spoke on Friday afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia, blaming Donald Trump for the abortion bans that now blanket much of the United States.Harris spoke days after news broke that two Georgia mothers died after being unable to access legal abortions and adequate medical care in the state. Continue reading...
Benny and Susanne Anguiano are back home in California with Rayne Beau, who ran into woods during camping tripFor two months, a California couple was heartbroken, worrying about the whereabouts of their beloved cat after losing him in Yellowstone national park, a wilderness larger than some US states.But as summer came to a close, so did their tragic story. Benny and Susanne Anguiano reunited with their lost feline Rayne Beau last month after an animal welfare group called to let them know their cat had been found in Roseville, California, about 800 miles (1,287km) from Yellowstone. Continue reading...
Mike DeWine criticizes pair in New York Times op-ed for repeating racist claims about Haitian immigrantsOhio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, on Friday criticized former US president Donald Trump and his election running mate, JD Vance, for repeating racist rightwing claims about Haitian immigrants eating other residents' pets in the city of Springfield, Ohio.The conspiracy theories have caused uproar and led to an onslaught of threats and harassment. Continue reading...
Ronald Rowe says lack of diligence' contributed to shooting at ex-president's rally and vows to not repeat mistakesThe US Secret Service had a complacency" problem and was responsible for multiple security failures that preceded Donald Trump being shot by an attempted assassin during an election rally in Pennsylvania, the acting director of the agency said on Friday.Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement and a lack of diligence" hampered the Secret Service's performance ahead of the July assassination attempt on the former US president, according to a new report that lays out a litany of missed opportunities to stop a gunman who opened fire from an unsecured roof. Continue reading...
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