A 61-year-old man was surfing on Friday morning when a shark bit him, completely severing his legA shark bit a Maui surfer on Friday and severed his leg, authorities said.The man, 61, was surfing off Waiehu Beach Park on Friday morning when a shark bit him. Police officers who arrived to the scene first tried to control the bleeding with tourniquets. His right leg was completely severed just below the knee," Maui county said in a news release. Continue reading...
Richard Allen's alleged admission came after investigators struggled over case of Liberty German and Abigail WilliamsProsecutors in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls in Indiana, continued this week to build their case with testimony from a prison psychologist and law enforcement officials who lent credence to the allegation that Allen confessed to the murders while in prison in 2023.Allen's alleged admissions came after investigators struggled for years to find the person who killed Liberty Libby" German, 14, and Abigail Abby" Williams, 13, in 2017 on a hiking trail outside the small town of Delphi. Continue reading...
Vice-president's historic campaign has aligned stars and positioned itself as an antidote to Trump's threat but contest remains deadlockedOn the second to last Sunday in July, Kamala Harris had just finished making pancakes and bacon for her grandnieces at the vice-president's residence in Washington, and was sitting down with them to work on a jigsaw puzzle when Joe Biden called.I got up to take the call, and then life changed," Harris recounted later. Biden, isolating with Covid at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and facing calls from all corners of his party to step aside, had reached the history-altering decision to end his bid for re-election.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Rights we have taken for granted can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked awayHello, I'd like a line of credit, please." Continue reading...
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Find out who's up and who's down in the latest US presidential election opinion pollsOn 5 November 2024, millions of Americans will head to the polls to choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for president of the United States. The two candidates have offered starkly different visions for the future of the nation. As the election enters the final stretch, the Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. Continue reading...
Ronald Gasser, 61, freed early from 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter in road rage shootingThe man who shot the former NFL player Joe McKnight to death during a road rage confrontation outside New Orleans has completed his prison sentence less than eight years after the killing.Ronald Gasser's release from imprisonment quietly ended a winding legal saga that involved an overturned murder conviction and his subsequently pleading guilty to manslaughter - despite his initial claims of fatally shooting McKnight in justifiable defense of his life. Continue reading...
In her podcast, the Black trans media founder unpacks the harmful wave of rhetoric and laws against US trans peopleImara Jones was filming a documentary on a road trip in California when she took a break to scroll the news. A story about state lawmakers in Idaho banning transgender girls from playing on female sports teams at public schools caught her attention; it was the second anti-trans legislation that Jones had seen passed in 2020. She turned to her producer and told her that they needed to look into this anti-trans stuff". Dozens of similar bills were introduced in statehouses throughout the nation soon after.A year later, Jones launched her podcast The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality to look into the religious extremists, conservative political groups and billionaires pushing an anti-trans agenda. Continue reading...
Experts fear those convicted over January 6 attack may act violently again - but biggest threat comes from lone actorsA year punctuated by two assassination attempts, high levels of threats and harassment, and a number of troubling, violent incidents in the lead-up to election day will culminate on Tuesday with an election deemed existential by all sides.It's the first presidential election since the January 6 insurrection, a reminder of the ways political violence can manifest that leaves Americans with a fear that such an attack could happen again. Those who study the attack and its participants say they aren't convinced criminal convictions against them will fully deter those involved on January 6 from future political violence, but that the biggest threat is a lone actor, not a large, coordinated event. Continue reading...
The election period has seen attacks on the voting process and threats of violence, but officials say voting is still safeIn the last week, the US saw numerous attacks on the voting process and threats of violence, and extremism experts are bracing for what comes after voting has ended.The goal of people committing these acts is often to create fear and distrust around voting or to sabotage the functioning of democracy. Still, election officials stress that voting is safe, and voters should not be deterred from voting because of any threats to the process, which are rare. Continue reading...
Trump, emboldened by the immunity ruling, wants to strengthen his grip on the courts. With a supreme court that has basically said Donald Trump can be a king, there will be no checks on him'If Donald Trump re-enters the White House on 20 January he will do so emboldened by a power that no previous incoming president has ever enjoyed: immunity from criminal prosecution for any act carried out in his official capacity.The protection, awarded in a July ruling from the far-right supermajority of the US supreme court, changes fundamentally the dynamics of the Oval Office. Continue reading...
Trump is right that resentment will be a winning message for some male voters. But women should not be underestimatedThere's one story of the 2024 presidential contest that says that this election is all about men, and their anger. Men, in this account, have gotten a raw deal: the decline of the industrial economy in the years since the postwar boom means that many of the jobs that gave dignity, structure, and steady paychecks to their fathers are now gone, and some men, especially those without college degrees, have fallen into a cycle of desperation and despair, unable to make the kind of living for which they could respect themselves.This economic argument about men is usually followed by a cultural one: that women aren't as nice to men as they should be, or maybe not as nice to men as they used to be. On one end of this conversation, there are paeans to male loneliness and discussions of the male suicide rate, quasi-poetic odes to their depths of despair and acute feeling: women just don't understand what it's like to be sad the way that men are sad.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
At 38, the sevens star finally retired - wistful over three Olympic disappointments and uncertain about the futurePerry Baker is a three-time Olympian and two-time World Rugby Men's Sevens Player of the Year, second for all-time tries scored on the sevens circuit. He has a live claim to be not just the greatest American sevens player of all time but one of the greatest rugby players of all time - from any country, in any form of the game.Right now, though, he just needs a full-time job. Continue reading...
On Sunday more than 50,000 runners will run a 26.2-mile route from Staten Island to Central Park. The New York City Marathon is seen as the toughest world major for a reasonNew York is a city built on detours. Even the most straightforward journey can turn on a dime - be it an unexpected road closure, unreliable subway, or the unorthodox navigation of a cab driver - into a protracted, often painful, expedition.The city's marathon is no exception. Continue reading...
Americans still don't seem to understand that our fight is not just about us: it's about safety and peace across the globeAround a month before the US elections, in the Kharkiv region, I sat down with a group of Ukrainian infantry soldiers together with the American historian Timothy Snyder. I suggested they ask questions of him not only as an American historian, but also as an American citizen.The servicemen were curious about the upcoming election, but mainly the chances of receiving significant military aid any time soon. They expressed pity that many Americans still don't understand that the Ukrainian fight is not just about us. It's in the world's interests to support the fight against blatant breaches of the international order. Continue reading...
A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. The tech boss will have a springboard to greater power even than the US presidencyThis is what happens when successive US governments fail to tackle inequality. While millions of people live in poverty, a handful grow unimaginably rich. Wealth begets wealth, and they acquire political power to match. It was inevitable that one of them - now the richest man on Earth - would launch what looks like a bid for world domination.A vote for Donald Trump next week is a vote for Elon Musk. Just as Trump is using Musk, Musk could be using Trump as a springboard to perhaps even greater power than the US president can wield. Musk's secret conversations with Vladimir Putin, reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, and his contacts with other extremist world leaders, suggest a pattern of power-seeking that could be even more alarming than the prospect of a second Trump presidency. Continue reading...
As candidates compete for swing state on final stretch to 5 November election, Cardi B warms up Harris crowd in Milwaukee while Trump laments bad hair day and reheats gun rhetoric towards Liz Cheney
by Alice Herman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on (#6RXYQ)
Robert F Kennedy Jr appears with Republican candidate, while congressman promotes state constitutional amendment to disqualify non-citizens from votingAt a Wisconsin rally on Friday, Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a low-IQ person" and vowed to save the economy from total obliteration" in a 1.5 hour-long meandering speech that touched on top campaign issues including the economy and foreign policy - but also featured threats to curb press freedoms and a lengthy discussion of his own rhetorical style.I will stop the criminal invasion of this country," said Trump during his opening remarks, promising to usher in a new golden age". Continue reading...
by Victoria Bekiempis in Warren, Michigan on (#6RXWJ)
In Michigan, the ex-president repeated his aggressive attacks that Liz Cheney should have rifles shooting at her'Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battled to woo voters in the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin on Friday, as the presidential campaign enters its final stretch.Harris made several appearances in Wisconsin on Friday, including one that featured the musician Cardi B, while Trump visited both Michigan and Wisconsin. Continue reading...
As voting day approaches, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain neck-and-neck in the polls. Keep up with our guide to Australian TV coverage, live results, news on the candidates and more
Brett Hankison is first Louisiana police officer at scene of raid that killed Taylor to be convictedA federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead.The 12-member jury returned the late-night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor's neighbors. Continue reading...
Moore, 59, was killed on Friday evening as the state pursues a rapid spree of killingsSouth Carolina has executed a man on death row, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared, including from the judge who originally condemned him to death.Richard Moore, 59, was killed by lethal injection on Friday evening, minutes after the state's Republican governor, Henry McMaster, announced he would not be granting him clemency. Continue reading...
Israeli student filed lawsuit after suspension for spraying pro-Palestinian protesters with foul-smelling substanceColumbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until May. Continue reading...
The former president leaned heavily into his agenda of hate and menace in a week as unedifying as it was unhingedThere was racism and misogyny by the bucketload. There was a firing squad death threat to a former congresswoman. And there was the extraordinary sight of a Republican candidate for president of the United States playing dress-up as a sanitation worker in the cab of a garbage truck.Donald Trump's final full week on the campaign trail was as unedifying as it was bizarre. Continue reading...
Civil suit claims that tech billionaire and his Trump-supporting America Pac giveaway is illegal lotteryA federal judge on Friday denied an attempt by America Pac - the political action committee founded by Elon Musk to support Donald Trump's campaign for a second presidency - to move to federal court a civil suit brought by the Philadelphia district attorney over a daily $1m prize draw for registered voters.The lawyers for Musk and his America Pac had argued that the lawsuit, which is seeking to halt the sweepstakes in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, needed to be resolved in federal court as it referenced the 5 November presidential election.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Pennsylvania event organizer says it doesn't share values' presented by the float denounced as racist by NAACPA Pittsburgh-area Halloween parade's depiction of Kamala Harris in chains and being dragged by a vehicle displaying Donald Trump's name is being condemned as racist - and has prompted an apology from the event organizer.Photos of Wednesday night's parade in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, that circulated widely across social media show a person dressed as the Democratic vice-president shackled and walking behind a golf cart-like vehicle. The vehicle - a float in a Halloween parade organized by the Mount Pleasant volunteer fire department - is decorated with American flags and Trump campaign signs carrying people dressed in what appear to be Secret Service agent costumes, along with a mounted rifle. Continue reading...
The legendary Mexican pitcher died just before the Dodgers' World Series win against the New York YankeesFernando Valenzuela died and all I wanted to do was cry.I don't understand it. I didn't know him, not really, not personally. The man is a legend to anyone who knows baseball. As a 20-year-old immigrant from Mexico pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he became the only Major League Baseball player to ever win the Rookie of the Year award and the Cy Young award in the same year. But that was in 1981; I wasn't even born yet. As I stared at a friend's Dia de los Muertos ofrenda, featuring a photo of Fernando among passed loved ones, I wondered: why am I so sad? Continue reading...
Recordings from 2017 reveal Epstein talking for some 100 hours' about the ex-president, journalist Michael Wolff saysA New York author and journalist has released audio tapes that appear to detail how Donald Trump had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that he has long denied.The tapes, released as part of the Fire and Fury podcast series by Michael Wolff, author of three books about Trump's first term and 2020 bid for a second, and James Truman, former NME journalist and Conde Nast editorial director, include Epstein's thoughts about the inner workings of the former US president's inner circle. Continue reading...
by Joan E Greve in Philadelphia and Sam Levine in All on (#6RXJY)
Candidates fight for a diminishing number of undecided voters, who are feeling a mix of fatigue, excitement and fearKamala Harris stood before a cheering crowd of hundreds of her supporters in Philadelphia and promised that she would deliver in Pennsylvania, a battleground state considered a must-win in the electoral college.Nine days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end," the vice-president told supporters in Philadelphia last weekend. And make no mistake: we will win." Continue reading...
Brad Raffensperger warns of foreign interference in US election as rightwing accounts share disinformationA video circulating on social media purporting to show Haitians voting illegally for Kamala Harris is fake, according to the secretary of state in Georgia.Brad Raffensperger said in a statement that the video had probably been created and spread by Russian government actors trying to interfere in the US election.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Former Fox News host says he was physically mauled' by unknown entity in assault that left him with claw marks'Tucker Carlson, the former CNN and Fox News political chat host, has said he was physically mauled" by a demon a year and a half ago, in an assault that he says left him bleeding and with scars from claw marks".Carlson made the claim while speaking in an upcoming documentary, Christianities? In a preview clip on YouTube, Carlson is asked by John Heers of the non-profit First Things Foundation if he believed that the presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the good". Continue reading...
Trump calls Liz Cheney a radical war hawk' and declares a gun should be pointed at her in latest dangerous commentRepublicans have made a series of offensive and misogynistic comments only five days before the vote, boosting Democratic hopes of turning out women on election day in a contest where the rights of women have been a central issue for the Kamala Harris campaign.With a large gender gap appearing to define the election race - women disproportionately breaking for Kamala Harris and men for Donald Trump - both campaigns have been seeking to shore up their bases in their final-pitch remarks.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as non-farm payrolls numbers deliver economic surprise days before presidential electionOil prices have risen by 2% after reports that Iran is preparing an attack on Israel.Futures prices for Brent crude oil, the North Sea benchmark, have risen by 1.9% to $74.22, while the North American equivalent, West Texas Intermediate, is up 2.1% to $70.73.UK manufacturing started the final quarter of the year on an uncertain footing amid speculation on government policies ahead of the Budget, which was widely reported to have led to a wait-and-see approach on investment and spending.This domestic headwind, combined with an ongoing loss of export business, led to the first outright contraction in new work intakes since April. Output growth came close to stalling as a result. Continue reading...
Neveah Crain died in October 2023 after doctor reportedly called for two ultrasounds to confirm fetal demise'A pregnant Texas teenager died after three separate visits to an emergency room in attempts to get care in another incident that has highlighted the medical impact of the loss of abortion rights in the US.Nevaeh Crain, 18, had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours in October of 2023, each time returning home feeling worse than before. Crain was only diagnosed with strep throat upon her first visit. The hospital did not investigate her sharp abdominal cramps, according to reporting by ProPublica. Continue reading...
We don't yet know whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will prevail in Tuesday's contest - but when we do, it won't feel hard to explainHere's one prediction about the US election you can take to the bank. When the result is finally known, there will be a stampede of experts and prognosticators rushing to insist that, in effect, they knew it all along - that, hard though it was to glimpse through the fog of polls and shifting data, the eventual outcome was obvious. Even inevitable.That will be truer still if, when the voters' will is finally known, it turns out not to have been so close after all, with one of the two main candidates sweeping most of the swing states to rack up a healthy majority in the electoral college if not the popular vote. Continue reading...
Latino voters, once reliably Democratic, increasingly pledge support for Trump despite his xenophobic rhetoricWhen the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made racist and disparaging comments about Latinos and referred to Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage", at a Donald Trump rally in New York on Sunday, it was met with outrage from many Latino politicians, voters and celebrities. Still, those comments did not deter some Republican Latinos from affirming their support for Trump.If you were already supporting Trump, I don't think this is a comment that will make you reconsider that choice," said the journalist Paola Ramos, the author of Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America. Continue reading...
They make nice with them when it suits, ridicule him when he's not listening. Their lives are money and gossip - with him they get bothDuring his term as US president, there was an established routine to Donald Trump's evenings in public service. When he got into bed at 6.30pm with the big cheeseburger and the bucket of Diet Coke - boudoir TVs set to channels talking about me" - Trump liked nothing more than yakking on the phone to this billionaire or that. He whined, he bitched, he divulged, and when they finally ended the call, whichever billionaire had been on the other end of the line promptly called one of the other billionaires to laugh about it all behind his back.What a fucking idiot," Rupert Murdoch once remarked after getting off a call with Trump in which Murdoch had had to explain that actually, the Silicon Valley elite did not need" Trump's help, as he imagined, having just enjoyed eight years where they practically ran" the Obama administration. Obviously, Murdoch's a notorious bitch; almost the Regina George of it all. But - also obviously - he was one of the special guys officially given cleared caller" status in Trump's White House, meaning they could get through to him any time. Plastics gotta plastic.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
We would like to hear from couples who voted for different candidates in the 2024 electionAll signs point to a gender gap playing a pivotal role in the 2024 election. Men are overwhelmingly supporting Trump, while women are overwhelmingly voting for Harris, according to multiple polls. This dynamic is playing out in relationships across the United States: wives and girlfriends voting against husband and boyfriends, partners canceling out" each other's ballots.Sometimes, partisan couples are open about their voting choices. Other times, those votes are kept secret. In fact, in the week leading up to election day, the Harris campaign and its allies reminded women that their votes were private - if they wanted to break rank and vote for Democrats, their Republican husbands would never have to know. Continue reading...
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Find out who's up and who's down in the latest US presidential election opinion pollsOn 21 July, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. This historic move changed the landscape of the election and how many felt about the race. The Guardian US is averaging national and state polls to see how the two candidates are faring. We update our averages once a week, or more if there is major news. Continue reading...
Polling experts point to fake polls' exaggerating his support, with baseless lawsuits alleging fraud already filedRepublicans are already laying the ground for rejecting the result of next week's US presidential election in the event Donald Trump loses, with early lawsuits baselessly alleging fraud and partisan polls exaggerating his popularity to make it harder for his supporters to accept that he did not win, veteran strategists say.The warnings - from Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans - come as Americans prepare to vote on Tuesday in the most consequential presidential contest in generations. Most polls show Trump running neck and neck with Kamala Harris, the vice-president and Democratic nominee, with the two candidates seemingly evenly matched in seven key swing states. Continue reading...
Disillusioned members of the US military have turned to Vietnam war-era policy to terminate their service because of religious or moral convictionsFor Joy Metzler, a second lieutenant in the US air force, joining the military had felt like answering a calling. An adoptee from China who was raised in a conservative Christian family, she believed she owed a debt to the United States.But the Hamas attacks in Israel last year, and Israel's war that followed, rocked Metzler's convictions. Within months, she filed for conscientious objector status, one of a small number of US military personnel seeking to end their service because of their moral opposition to US support for Israel. Continue reading...
Harris and Trump focus on key swing states of Arizona and Nevada. Plus, brat' is Collins' word of the yearGood morning.As the 2024 presidential race nears its climax on Tuesday, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to rush around swing states, rallying voters in the hopes of being sworn into the world's most powerful office on 20 January 2025.What are the polls showing? It's unclear. Nationally, Harris is at 47% and Trump 46%, but due to the electoral college system, it's going to come down to a few swing states. It's neck and neck.How many have already voted? More than 65 million people have cast their ballots, as of 31 October at 11pm EST.How do you spend a billion dollars in election funding? Check out Richard Luscombe's piece on where the money actually goes.Here's what the US envoy to the UN said: Robert Wood bluntly warned that Pyongyang's forces entering Ukraine will surely return in body bags".Ukraine is bracing for the outcome of the US presidential election: in an interview with the Guardian in May, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had no strategy yet" for what to do if Trump returned to the White House, though he suggested the outline of a plan rooted in an appeal to the candidate's vanity. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Increasing number of door knocks flagged as potentially fake, committee allegedly learned in SeptemberAmerica Pac, the political action committee founded by Elon Musk that has led the ground game operation for Donald Trump's campaign, was warned in September about increasing numbers of door knocks being flagged as potentially fraudulent, according to three people familiar with the matter.The confrontation marked the first time that America Pac's leadership became aware of the problem - canvassers falsely claiming to have knocked on doors - that has raised the possibility that thousands of Trump voters might not be reached by the field operation.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...
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The crime group has terrorised parts of Latin America, and the ex-president's exaggerations may just empower it moreAngela Villon Bustamante awoke to a WhatsApp notification on her phone. Still drowsy, she was horrified by what she saw: a graphic video showing the murder of a trans woman she knew named Rubi Ferrer.The killer shot Ferrer 31 times, recording the murder with her own phone before sending the footage to all her contacts, including Bustamante, a prominent activist in the Peruvian sex workers' movement. Continue reading...
Hubert Busby has returned to his former post with his employers saying he was cleared of allegations against him. That does not appear to be the caseThe Jamaican Football Federation has reinstated the coach of its women's national team falsely claiming he has been cleared of allegations of serious misconduct by Fifa's Ethics Committee.Hubert Busby Jr returned to lead Jamaica women's national team in May this year, two and a half years after being suspended by the federation after a former player alleged he made sexual advances towards her while he was coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps women's team in 2010 and 2011. Continue reading...
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