Ex-Republican congresswoman, longtime abortion rights opponent, campaigns with vice-president in swing statesLiz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and longtime opponent of abortion rights, on Monday condemned Republican-imposed bans on the procedure and urged conservatives to support Democrat Kamala Harris for US president.Cheney was speaking during three joint events with the vice-president in three swing states aimed at prising suburban Republican voters away from party nominee Donald Trump. She has become the Democrat's most prominent conservative surrogate and is rumoured to be in contention for a seat in a potential Harris cabinet.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Republican nominee reflects on assassination attempt and says my faith took on new meaning on July 13'Donald Trump urged Christian voters on Monday to participate in the 2024 election, claiming that a Kamala Harris administration would restrict religious freedoms and casting himself as a protector of Christians.During an event in North Carolina billed as an 11th-Hour Faith Leaders Meeting", a series of conservative pastors warmed up for Trump, including Guillermo Maldonado, an apostle" and longtime Trump ally who cast the election in perilous terms. Continue reading...
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This blog is now closed. You can find more of our US elections coverage hereWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian's Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world's richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is taking a major step to expand contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. This new action would help ensure that millions of women with private health insurance can access the no-cost contraception they need. Vice President Harris and I have worked tirelessly to protect and build on the Affordable Care Act. We lowered costs for Marketplace coverage by an average of $800 per year for millions of Americans, and more Americans than ever before have signed up for health insurance through the law.At a time when contraception access is under attack, Vice President Harris and I are resolute in our commitment to expanding access to quality, affordable contraception. We believe that women in every state must have the freedom to make deeply personal health care decisions, including the right to decide if and when to start or grow their family. We will continue to fight to protect access to reproductive health care and call on Congress to restore reproductive freedom and safeguard the right to contraception once and for all. Continue reading...
Lawmakers unhappy with handling of Robert Roberson case as doubts grow over science used to secure convictionRepublican lawmakers in Texas expressed alarm on Monday at the apparent willingness of state officials to execute a potentially innocent man on the basis of junk science, as the political fallout of the 11th-hour reprieve of Robert Roberson continued to roil the state.Several Republican members of the state's House committee on criminal jurisprudence lined up to air their discontent with the handling of the case of Roberson, 57, who was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis in 2002 by violently shaking her. Continue reading...
Publication said decision was mutual and found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias' in Nuzzi's coverageThe politics writer Olivia Nuzzi and New York magazine have parted ways just over a month after she was placed on leave following the disclosure that she had engaged in a personal" relationship with Robert F Kennedy Jr.The departure was announced in a statement from New York magazine on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...
Cochise county supervisor Peggy Judd agrees to plead guilty to misdemeanor chargeA Republican county supervisor in rural Arizona who refused to certify the 2022 midterm election has agreed to a plea deal, becoming the first person criminally sanctioned for refusing to certify an election since 2020.Peggy Judd, a Republican supervisor in Cochise county, Arizona, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge for failing or refusing to perform an official duty by an election officer. She will serve an unsupervised probation of at least 90 days and pay a maximum $500 fine, Arizona's Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, said in a press release announcing the plea deal on Monday.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Lt Cdr Lyndsay P Evans and Lt Serena N Wileman, both 31, died when their Growler jet crashed east of Mount RainierThe US navy identified on Monday the two crew members who died last week in a fighter-jet crash near Mount Rainier as two 31-year-old female aviators from California.Lt Cdr Lyndsay P Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt Serena N Wileman, a naval aviator, died when their EA-18G Growler jet from the Electronic Attack Squadron, known as Zappers", crashed east of Mount Rainier last Tuesday during a training flight, according to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Continue reading...
Five years after playing before crowds of 2,000 fans in White Plains, the Liberty completed a stunning turnaround with a first WNBA title. And the future looks brighter than everFrom the earliest days of the Women's National Basketball Association, it seemed like winning a championship was only a matter of time for the New York Liberty. A glamour franchise by default, they first reached the doorstep of a title during the league's inaugural season back in 1997, falling to the Houston Comets in a championship game that was wiped from the headlines within hours by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. That was the first of five times New York tripped at the final hurdle, including last season's crushing defeat to the Las Vegas Aces on their home floor. As the years became decades, much like their longtime Madison Square Garden co-tenants, coming up short became the Liberty's brand despite a parade of name-brand stars like Rebecca Lobo, Teresa Weatherspoon, Becky Hammon, Cappie Pondexter and Tina Charles.That's one way of saying that Sunday night's cathartic triumph, when New York finally hauled in the sport's biggest prize with a heart-stopping overtime win over the Minnesota Lynx and became the last of the WNBA's Original Eight franchises to win a title, was a long time coming. But as the confetti rained down inside the Barclays Center while Ellie the Elephant twerked away to Empire State of Mind amid the roars of 18,800 spectators, it was easy to forget just how down bad the Liberty were under their previous caretakers - and how extraordinary the ensuing turnaround has been. Continue reading...
Officials say no further leaks but investigation under way into how documents came to be published on TelegramUS government officials investigating the leak of two classified intelligence papers assessing Israel's plans to attack Iran have said they did believe any more documents had been compromised.However, the Biden administration remained deeply disturbed" by the unauthorized release, John Kirby, the national security communications adviser, told reporters at a White House briefing on Monday. Continue reading...
Republican candidate repeats false claims that Fema spent money on illegal migrants' in Helene-ravaged areaDonald Trump on Monday used a trip to a hurricane-ravaged part of North Carolina to double down on false claims about the federal government's recovery effort and promote baseless conspiracy theories about immigration.Trump claimed the Biden administration had not done enough work for recovery and aid in North Carolina, saying instead the federal government spent its resources on illegal migrants", three weeks after a hurricane devasted the state.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
by David Smith in Bozeman, Montana, with photographs on (#6RMKY)
Jon Tester is fighting to keep his Senate seat amid the prospect that Democrats like him are now facing political extinction in the stateHe was a young and little-known underdog. So Max Baucus, candidate for Congress, decided to trek 630 miles across Montana and listen to people talk about their problems. As luck would have it, on the first day, I walked into a blizzard," he recalls, pointing to a photo of his young self caked in snow. It was cold! But the blizzard didn't last that long."Baucus shed 12lbs during that two and a half month journey in 1974. He also made friends. The Democrat defeated a Republican incumbent and would soon go on to serve as a Montana senator for 36 years. He never lost an election but saw his beloved home state undergo many changes. Among them is the prospect that Democrats like him are now facing political extinction. Continue reading...
The role of the United Arab Emirates in fuelling the war is under the spotlight. But other countries too are exacerbating the deadly conflictThe often denied but obvious involvement of foreign powers in Sudan's deadly civil war is now firmly in the spotlight. Tens of thousands of people, including many civilians, have been killed since it began last April. Now, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has accused the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) of bombing its ambassador's residence in Khartoum, causing extensive damage". The SAF denied it, claiming that last month's strike was the work of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), backed by the UAE.What's not in doubt is that both sides are committing war crimes and that they are able to do so because foreign governments are supporting them. The ceaseless flow of arms has resulted in a vast, growing humanitarian disaster. Last week, UN-appointed experts accused combatants of using starvation tactics" against 25 million civilians. Additionally, 10 million people have been displaced, and diseases such as cholera are rapidly spreading amid the world's largest hunger crisis.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...
First lady says family is excited to start new chapter of our lives' in Good Morning America interviewJill Biden acknowledged Monday that her husband, Joe Biden, made the right call" by stepping down from his run for re-election as president.In a candid interview on Good Morning America, the first lady spoke openly about her feelings as her family's time in the White House comes to an end. Continue reading...
Secretary of state Brad Raffensperger says false election claims will really hurt our turnout on our side'Georgia's top elections official says he believes Republicans' claims of doubting the integrity of the vote in November's presidential election will really hurt" their party's chances at the poll.In an interview on Sunday with NewsNation, the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, defended the election process he oversees amid the casting of a record number of early votes in recent days. His comments came after the Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Raffensperger's fellow Republican, posted claims on X that a voting machine had misprinted a voter's selections to the detriment of her party.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
The Minnesota coach, Cheryl Reeve, said the WNBA championship was 'stolen' from her team during her complaints about the officiating. The New York Liberty beat the Lynx 67-62 in overtime in Game 5, getting there after a disputed foul gave Breanna Stewart two free throws that tied the game with 5.2 seconds remaining in regulation. 'We know we could have done some things, right, but you shouldn't have to overcome to that extent,' Reeve said. 'This shit ain't that hard. Officiating is not that hard'
The dead, in their 70s and one woman in her 90s, were on Sapelo Island to celebrate the Gullah Geechee cultureNew details have emerged in the catastrophic collapse of a dock gangway on a small island in Georgia over the weekend that killed seven people and injured many more.The collapse, which caused at least 20 people to plunge into the water, occurred after the Cultural Day festival on Sapelo Island in honor of Gullah Geechee culture. Officials say that up to 40 people were standing on the dock gangway to board a ferry back to the mainland when the structure gave way.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...
The House of Mouse taps former Morgan Stanley CEO as its new board chair, who will lead search for Iger's replacementWalt Disney said it would announce another replacement for CEO Bob Iger in early 2026 and named a veteran of Morgan Stanley as board chair on Monday, for the first time announcing a timetable for succession at the storied media and entertainment company.James Gorman will step down as executive chair of Morgan Stanley at the end of 2024 and take on the position at Disney in January. He had served as CEO of the Wall Street bank for 14 years and is credited with transforming it into a wealth management powerhouse. Continue reading...
Poll shows more voters support US vice-president's tax and housing policies compared with the Republican nomineeDonald Trump has lost his advantage over Kamala Harris on who is best qualified to manage the economy, new polls suggest.With millions of voters already casting early ballots for the presidency ahead of election day on 5 November, a fresh Associated Press/NORC poll says Harris, the Democratic nominee, has taken a slight lead when it comes to some key economic questions that concern middle-class voters. Continue reading...
Richard Hasen, a professor specializing in election law, on Elon Musk's petition and Cards Against HumanityElon Musk's new tactics for attracting votes for Donald Trump are raising red flags when it comes to election finance laws.Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, suggested in an interview this weekend that law enforcement should investigate Musk's proposal to give $1m once a day to a registered swing state voter who has signed a petition supporting free speech. Continue reading...
As Hoy has said, there is agony in trying to predict the future. Medical advances mean we might be able to navigate an awful diagnosis with some certaintyWe can all sympathise with Chris Hoy for his terminal cancer, and admire the manner in which he revealed it. Dignity so rarely goes with celebrity. We wish him well. But Hoy has two advantages over me. First, he cycles faster. Second, he knows how long he has to live. It is four years at the outside.Hoy can therefore plan. He can draw up a final bucket list. He can complete the projects, deepen the friendships and make the trips. He still has time to climb the munros, visit Machu Picchu and see all of Shakespeare. Or he can choose not to. He can be a hedonist and take each day as it comes, revelling in what he calls his good fortune to have lived at all. He does not mention religion, but I sense that for him life itself has a sufficiency of meaning. Continue reading...
Washington is sixth state to detect H5N1 in workers, with farm in Franklin county source of known outbreakFour workers in rural Washington state were presumptively diagnosed with bird flu at an egg farm, officials said Sunday.Washington is the sixth state to detect what is formally known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in workers. The farm in southern Franklin county was the source of a known outbreak where workers had already euthanized about 800,000 chickens. Continue reading...
Child among victims, officials say, while crash comes days after FAA notice warned some lights on tower inoperableA helicopter crashed Sunday after hitting a radio tower in Houston, killing four people on board, including a child, fire officials said.Houston authorities said the aircraft, an R44 helicopter, went down just before 8pm in Houston's Second Ward, east of the city's downtown, after apparently taking off from Ellington Field about 15 miles away. Continue reading...
Older Americans had highest number of deaths, but younger Americans of color had highest disease ratesAlthough older Americans had the highest number of deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic, younger Americans had the highest rates compared with the overall population - especially among people of color, according to a new study.And in two groups - Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander and Native American or Alaska Native - working-age people (ages 25 to 64) had the greatest increase in mortality of any age group. Continue reading...
Women and doctors describe heart-wrenching decisions under what may be the US's strictest abortion ban in Idaho. Everything that's happening is a playbook for the rest of the country'When Jennifer Adkins and her husband were considering having a second child in Idaho, they vaguely thought how the state's near-total abortion ban could affect them. But Adkins' first pregnancy had gone so smoothly, she didn't even use an epidural when she gave birth. Her next pregnancy, she expected, would be similar.But in April 2023, 12 weeks into her second pregnancy, an ultrasound scan shattered that hope. Continue reading...
Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs' book on European colonization of Native American land reclassifiedAnti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers' colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.The furor in Montgomery county - near Houston - follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs in the fiction section of children's libraries. Continue reading...
Four people, including a child, have been killed after a helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas. Authorities say the helicopter struck the radio tower just before 8pm local time to the east of the city's business district. Footage on the ground shows flames burning while emergency services attended the crash site Continue reading...
Republican Bernie Moreno is trying to shrug off responsibility for mistruths, tax bills and a casual sex profileBernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio, came to the US from Colombia at the age of four. He has said he learned English through Ronald Reagan's speeches. That claim has been questioned, but if Moreno did learn the language that way, it seems one famous speech may not have fully sunk in.At the Republican convention in 1968, Reagan said: It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." Continue reading...
It's sounds like an impossible dilemma for activists and organizers, but it isn't. Progressives can and must do bothThe war in Gaza is not high among most voters' concerns. But for many Arab Americans and protesters of the war, it is. As election day nears and the margins tighten - and with the critical swing state of Michigan, home to the largest Arab American community in the nation, up for grabs - these people are among the small, scattered constituencies that could determine the results. This makes their political strategies crucial to the US's - and, by extension, Palestine's - future.Some activists working to end the genocide are putting that urgent cause ahead of the other urgent cause: electing a Democrat, if only to prevent a Trump presidency. If I'm going to be a one-issue voter and that issue is genocide, I'm okay with that," a Dearborn, Michigan, woman told NPR's Code Switch.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books Continue reading...
In critical battlegrounds, Maga allies mounting lawsuits to lay the groundwork' to challenge election if he losesKey rightwing legal groups with ties to Donald Trump and his allies have banked millions of dollars from conservative foundations and filed multiple lawsuits challenging voting rules in swing states that are already sowing distrust of election processes and pushing dangerous conspiracy theories, election watchdogs warn.They also warn that the groups appear to be laying the groundwork for a concerted challenge to the result of November's presidential election if Trump is defeated by Kamala Harris. Continue reading...
Death of John Kinsel Sr leaves just two living code talkers - men whose communication played vital role in war effortOne of the last remaining Navajo code talkers who helped the US and its allies win the second world war died over the weekend, according to officials.The death of John Kinsel Sr, 107, on Saturday left just two living Navajo code talkers: his fellow US marines Thomas Begay and Peter MacDonald, who are both in their 90s. Continue reading...
Move follows fears over jobs and control when private equity firm CD&R entered talks to buy Opella for 16bnThe French government is to take a stake in the pharmaceutical company Sanofi's consumer healthcare division to try to quell a backlash as the US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice enters talks to buy the unit for 16bn (13.3bn).Sanofi is spinning off Opella, which makes the paracetamol brand Doliprane, the laxative Dulcolax and other over-the-counter medicines. However, the revelation of talks with CD&R earlier this month prompted concerns over French jobs and the loss of control to a foreign company. Continue reading...
The QB's injury confirmed what most of us already knew: the Browns' decision to give him $230m was the worst in NFL historyCleveland's fanbase came into Sunday's home Browns-Bengals showdown steeped in feelings. Some of them greeted their own quarterback, Deshaun Watson, with deafening boos as he ran on to the field. If there was any doubt about how many fans feels about Watson, the same crowd showered running back Nick Chubb with cheers at an even higher decibel as he made his return from a lengthy injury layoff.Watson looks like he is headed for a lengthy period on the sidelines himself: in the second quarter, he went down with what the Browns fear is a torn achilles. Probably out for the season. Possibly the end of Watson's career - the quarterback's play has declined and achilles injuries often leave players a shadow of their former selves. As Watson was carted off the field in tears, the feelings in Cleveland were on overdrive. For some, there was catharsis or a feeling that karma had been served. For others, there was legitimate sadness. After all, despite Watson's dismal performance as Cleveland's man under center, and the allegations against him as a man, you never want to see someone injured. Although maybe in this case, you do. Some of the Browns fans did: there were scattered cheers when Watson went down injured, a reaction Cleveland cornerback Greg Newsome II later described as bullshit". Continue reading...
Even as I am taught about the German credo of tolerance and compassion, the government is betraying it to pander to the far rightI live in a small, quaint old town in north-west Germany, and every day I attend four hours of German and integration lessons. I attend because I am an immigrant: I am South African, and moved to Germany three months ago, along with my German husband and our children. These classes, which will take 700 hours to complete, are a requirement of my staying here for more than a year.The course takes place at the local Volkshochschule (VHS - the people's high school"), a network of about 900 public adult education centres that offers a wide range of courses, including languages and vocational training. The schools are deeply rooted in Germany's commitment to lifelong learning and social inclusion.Bonita Dordel is a corporate communications consultant, Nelson Mandela scholar and recent migrant to GermanyDo 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...
In today's newsletter: From stacking election boards to purging voter rolls, we look at the tactics that could sway key states Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. With two weeks to go until the US presidential election, the race could hardly be closer. But when you're next frantically obsessing over the odds, keep in mind: it may not be as simple as who most voters want to see in the Oval Office.If the attempt to subvert the 2020 election was an anti-democratic horror show, its impact was somewhat mitigated by the fact that Donald Trump seemed to be making it up as he went along. This time around, Republicans are a lot more organised in their efforts to influence the outcome - and as the Maga takeover of the GOP has rolled on over the past four years, election denialism has moved from the fringes to become a central tenet of the party.NHS | The health secretary, Wes Streeting, is to unveil plans for portable medical records giving every NHS patient all their information stored digitally in one place, despite fears over breaching privacy and creating a target for hackers. The news is part of a major consultation on the government's plans to transform the NHS from analogue to digital" over the next decade.Middle East | At least 87 people were killed or missing and 40 injured after intense Israeli airstrikes hit the north of the Gaza Strip. In Lebanon, hundreds of residents fled their homes in Beirut after what appeared to be an Israeli attack on areas linked to a Hezbollah banking system.UK news | Tributes poured in for the Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy after he revealed he had received a terminal cancer diagnosis. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Hoy, who won six golds and one silver medal for Team GB, said doctors had told him he had between two and four years to live.Prisons | Fewer women could be sent to jail under a review to be announced by ministers this week that is expected to cut sentences for thousands of criminals. The review is expected to be carried out by the former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke.Monarchy | King Charles has been heckled by an Indigenous Australian senator, who called for a treaty and accused the crown of stealing Aboriginal land, as he concluded a speech at Parliament House in Canberra. Lidia Thorpe approached the stage and shouted This is not your land. You are not my king." Continue reading...
On each side of the Atlantic, so much rests on what she says, positions she takes and who meets her approval. She is where pop meets politics nowWhen people say that music can change the world, they don't usually mean songs that capture with bright, sharp intimacy how girls feel.They mean protest songs, political songs, anthems against the Vietnam war; not the soundtracks to aching teenage summers or to eight-year-olds' dance routines in the playground. They don't, in short, mean Taylor Swift songs. But that was what Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel peace prize-winning campaigner for women's right to an education, used to sing with her friends growing up in Pakistan. Music, she posted on Instagram, after attending one of Swift's London gigs this summer, made me and my friends feel confident and free". Which is why, in Afghanistan, the Taliban bans it. Continue reading...
Kamala Harris sings with Stevie Wonder in Georgia and invokes the Good Samaritan, while Donald Trump serves fries in Pennsylvania and Elon Musk continues cash giveaway
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Vice-president marks birthday with call for compassion, while rival visits McDonald's and attacks opponentsKamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday on the campaign trail on Sunday while Donald Trump visited a McDonald's and doubled down on his dangerous rhetoric labeling Democrats as enemies from within," as both candidates tried to shore up support in key states ahead of the US presidential election.Harris rallied Black voters in Georgia on Sunday with souls to the polls" visits to two community churches. Continue reading...
This blog has now closed. You can read the latest story hereDespite a revitalization, Donald Trump wrongfully claimed Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is virtually bankrupt" with massive crime".There is one thing about her community that makes Kristin Hopkins-Calcek prouder than anything: her city is now one of the few boroughs in Pennsylvania with a growing population. Continue reading...
National guard conducting search-and-rescue missions as officials say more than 300 people rescued since SaturdayThe New Mexico national guard is conducting search and rescue missions in Roswell after record rainfall resulted in severe flooding.New Mexico state police said on Sunday that at least two people have died as a result of the flash flood, but information on the victims or the circumstances of their deaths were not immediately released. Continue reading...
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