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Edited video clip of president's remarks suggests he insulted Trump backers, but his wording is unclearJoe Biden put out a statement that he had meant to say" earlier on Tuesday that a pro-Trump comedian's hateful rhetoric" about Puerto Rico was garbage". But in an edited video clip already widely circulating on social media Tuesday evening, a phrase that came out of Biden's mouth was the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters".Republican politicians and rightwing media outlets quickly picked up the clip to argue that Biden had called Trump's supporters garbage, comparing his remarks with Hillary Clinton's labeling of half of Trump supporters as belonging in a basket of deplorables" in 2016, a comment that is widely seen as undermining her campaign. Continue reading...

Ex-president's comments come after comedian at one of Trump's recent rallies called Puerto Rico island of garbage'Donald Trump praised Puerto Ricans on Tuesday during a Pennsylvania rally, days after a comedian made a racist joke and referred to Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage" at one of his rallies.Nobody loves our Latino community and our Puerto Rican community more than I do," the former president said a little over an hour into a rally in Allentown, in the Lehigh Valley, which has a sizable Latino population.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...

With the presidential race deadlocked a week before election day, Kamala Harris pledged to seek common ground in her 'closing argument' speech from a park near the White House, where Donald Trump spoke in 2021 before a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a last-ditch effort to overturn his 2020 loss. Harris cast her opponent as a divisive figure, planning to leverage the power of the presidency against his political enemies rather than in service of the American people

Vice-president strikes hopeful tone in remarks delivered from site of Trump's speech before deadly January 6 attackWith the White House illuminated behind her, Kamala Harris asked the vanishing slice of undecided Americans to elect a new generation of leadership", likening Donald Trump to a petty tyrant" who had stood in the very same spot nearly four years ago and, in a last-gasp effort to cling to power, helped incite the mob that stormed the US Capitol.The choice between her and Trump in the deadlocked presidential contest was about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division", Harris said, from the Ellipse near the White House's South Lawn, where tens of thousands of supporters gathered one week before the final votes of the 2024 election are cast. Continue reading...

The Democratic nominee mentioned Trump by name 24 times at the Washington DC event, before pivoting to hopeWhither the politics of joy? Kamala Harris's solid if unspectacular closing argument for why she should be elected US president was not about Kamala Harris. It was first and foremost about Donald Trump.The Democratic nominee's big speech in Washington mentioned Trump by name 24 times and Joe Biden only once. It confirmed that, even when Trump is not commander-in-chief, he still commands the American psyche. Continue reading...

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On 6 July 2024, Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store in Phoenix, Arizona, when two officers of the city's police department stopped him. Kenyon's encounter with police left him with third-degree burns and deep scarring. The incident took place during a day in which Phoenix was under an excessive heat warning. Kenyon said the burning during the arrest 'felt like acid on my skin'. Kenyon has not been charged with a crime Continue reading...

Trump ally served four-month sentence for defying subpoena in investigation into 6 January attack

Craigslist ad offers 3ft by 10ft space for just $250 a month - for nerdy gamer' but nobody with a criminal recordA California home" for rent is shining a light on the US housing crisis - and evoking Harry Potter's living situation.For $250 a month, an online ad is offering the opportunity to reside in a 3ft by 10ft cubby located under the stairs of a one-bedroom apartment in downtown San Jose. Continue reading...

Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burnsOn 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city's police department stopped him.They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived. Continue reading...

State charges included kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of husband of Nancy PelosiThe man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.A San Francisco jury in June found David DePape guilty of charges including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder. Continue reading...

Running mate criticizes Kamala Harris on Michigan campaign trail but avoids mention of Trump rally jokes

Reader backlash against decision not to make presidential endorsement rolls on despite Bezos defense of decisionDeterioration of the Washington Post's subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik. Continue reading...

Maybe my own childhood with a narcissistic, abusive, seductive father was what gave me eyes to see Trump for what he isI went to the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Or I tried to. I wanted to see it, to feel it, to know it. I spent two hours smushed in a crowd of thousands, waiting in the cold, unable to move, in the midst of belligerent conversations, alcohol consumption, rantings and racist posturings. There were older Jewish men, Black families, Asian couples and young Latina women. I heard south Asian men calling Kamala Harris hateful slurs, others saying women needed to just shut up and listen to men. I saw working men showing off their jackets with artistic renderings of Trump as bullfighter slaying the deep state dragon. What I mainly heard and felt was grievance.I've always thought America was a mean place. And what I mean by that is that it's structured for meanness. It's a place of winners and losers, people who matter and those who can be disposed of, a country built on violent theft of Indigenous lands and hundreds of years of enslavement of millions of Black people. It's a place where when a person rises in status, they show it off to those who have less, rather than bringing them along. Where the rich and famous flaunt their wealth and clothes and fabulous lives every single day, and watching is a national past time. A place where most people get lost or abandoned, forgotten or judged. Where an ambitious few can turn that suffering into gold, but most get swallowed in self-hatred and despair. Continue reading...

Presidential candidate defended rally and told reporters 'the love in that room, it was breathtaking'. The six-hour rally has been heavily condemned for racist remarks after the first speaker described Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage

Unknown artist who made bronze piece of feces to honor' January 6 rioters appears to be behind new statueThe unknown artist or artists who fashioned a swirled bronze piece of feces on a replica of the former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk - and placed it on the National Mall recently - appear to have struck again.This time, the artistic-political commentary is focused not on the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack carried out by Donald Trump supporters, when a participant did indeed defecate on Pelosi's desk. Instead, the display satirically evokes the notorious white nationalist Unite the Right tiki torch parade through Charlottesville's University of Virginia campus in August 2017, with some marchers chanting: Jews will not replace us". Continue reading...

Polls show US voters unhappy about the economy, their top election concern. How would the presidential candidates address economic issues such as cost of living and labor?The economy looms large over next month's presidential election as tens of millions of Americans begin casting their votes.Employers are hiring and inflation is fading but consumers are still counting the cost of years of soaring prices. Polls show voters of all persuasions remain unhappy about the state of the economy.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...

Ex-president also says worst gang members' are entering US, and hinted at transgender operations all over the place'

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Amanda Gallagher was taking pictures of skydivers when she inadvertently stepped back into a spinning propellerA photographer was killed after inadvertently walking into a spinning airplane propeller while taking pictures in Kansas.Amanda Gallagher, 37, was on a work assignment on Saturday capturing pictures of skydivers getting on and off planes in the town of Derby - less than 15 miles from Wichita - when she stepped back into the propeller of a plane that was stationary yet still running. Continue reading...

The longtime Trump ally had just been released from prison after serving four months for contempt of CongressSteve Bannon, a longtime Donald Trump ally who orchestrated his successful 2016 presidential campaign, was just hours out of federal prison when he returned to peddling unfounded conspiracy theories, urging supporters to make sure Democrats cannot steal the election".Bannon, who early on Tuesday morning completed a four-month sentence in Danbury, Connecticut, for flouting a congressional subpoena in an investigation of the January 6 US Capitol attack, fanned the flames of electoral unease on his first War Room podcast post-release. Continue reading...

In blocking the newspaper from endorsing Kamala Harris, Jeff Bezos is not acting cowardly so much as slylyLast week the Washington Post refrained from endorsing a candidate in the presidential race for the first time in 36 years. The decision was reportedly ordered by Jeff Bezos, the Post's owner and one of the richest men in the world. The Seattle billionaire, who owns Amazon, purchased the flailing newspaper in 2013 in a rare fit of civic duty.The blowback was immediate and substantial. Within 48 hours of the announcement as many as 200,000 paying readers cancelled their subscriptions to the already money-losing news organization, according to reporting by NPR. Continue reading...

Top-ranked podcast says he rejected terms placed by Harris's team but indicates she might still do it'

Almost a decade since his lawsuit brought down the Gawker website, the former wrestler seems to have a taste for hanging around with vengeful billionaires. He might even harbour political ambitionsIt was less WWE, more WTF. On Sunday night, Terry Gene Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, strutted on stage at Madison Square Garden to speak at a Donald Trump rally. Wearing tiny yellow sunglasses that looked as if they'd been nicked off a toddler, Hogan attempted to rip his shirt off. It took a bit of struggling, but eventually the 71-year-old wrestling legend managed it.The high jinks continued: Hogan treated the crowd to a dance. Notably, Hogan's dance moves are just like the ones Trump has shown off at numerous rallies. A lot of arm-pumping; kinda looks like they're milking a cow. (That said, my own dancing looks like a penguin being caught in an earthquake, so I'm not judging.) Continue reading...

US vice-president's campaign has stalled because Americans continue to struggle with their bills despite economic growthI don't know about you, but I'm feeling more anxious about the outcome of the upcoming election. I'm still nauseously optimistic, but the nausea is growing.I'm as skeptical of polls as any of you, but when all of them show the same thing - that Kamala Harris's campaign stalled several weeks ago, yet Donald Trump's continues to surge - it's important to take the polls seriously. Continue reading...

The World Series returned to the Bronx for the first time in 15 years on Monday night, with the Yankees reeling from two losses to the Dodgers in the opening games Continue reading...

The men on Graham Norton's sofa found self-defence a hoot. I'm sure most women have found ourselves in that conversationIn a development that absolutely must not catch on, something interesting has happened on a TV chatshow. What a precedent: I'm desperately hoping the entertainment industry rallies around to prevent it ever happening again. We can probably count on it. The dance of all chatshows these days is almost entirely mechanised. You go on. You do your rehearsed anecdotes. The news that the late Michael Parkinson is being relaunched as an AI barely raises an eyebrow because it's all so synthetic anyway.Therefore the moments when it isn't take on outsize significance. As you may have guessed, we are talking about last Friday's episode of The Graham Norton Show, on which the Blitz star Saoirse Ronan appeared as a guest alongside Gladiator II actors Denzel Washington and Paul Mescal and Day of the Jackal leading man Eddie Redmayne. We join the sofa as Redmayne is doing an anecdote about how his Jackal preparation involved being trained in self-defence, in order to do what Team America would call his acting". (Not how Eddie put it, obviously. And yet, the reality.) Redmayne's revelation that he was shown how to use a phone as a weapon if attacked proves quite the hoot, with Mescal riffing on the absurdity - Who's actually going to do that, though?" - Norton chiming in, and Denzel laughing along. Ronan is trying to say something but she gets honked over, before managing to cut through with a line for the ages: That's what girls have to think about all the time".Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

At Saginaw city's biggest soup kitchen, most are hoping for a candidate who can usher in notable economic changePeople on the east side of Saginaw city are more used to seeing buildings come down than go up. Bulldozers have erased houses, schools, department stores and factories over recent years as jobs disappeared and the population plummeted.But builders will soon be at work in one corner of the Michigan city constructing a sprawling extension to Saginaw's largest soup kitchen after demand soared through the Covid-19 pandemic and then as rampant inflation hit a community where many people live on the edge financially. Continue reading...

Center was one of the first US schools for formerly enslaved people, and now preserves Gullah Geechee cultureEarlier this month, the historic Penn Center, a 50-acre site in St Helena Island, South Carolina, that served as one of the nation's first schools for formerly enslaved people of African descent in the 1860s, joined a Unesco network. It was named one of 22 places around the world that holds significance for its preservation of enslaved people's history by the Unesco Network of Places of History and Memory.The network is part of the organization's Routes of Enslaved Peoples: Resistance, Liberty and Heritage program that was launched in 1994 to recognize the history of slavery and its impact on the world. Over the course of the five-year initiative, the institutions' staffs will share sustainability practices and create shared activities through the international network. Continue reading...

A Guardian investigation into the ballot's demise reveals a confluence of rightwing actors working in parallel to ensure the measure was quashed before it ever reached voters

Patients left behind accounts of their experiences at the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic before it was shut down

Angel M Cintron, party's chair on island, says he will not vote for Trump unless he says sorry for speaker's comments

Donald Trump dismissed claims that he or his supporters were comparable to Nazis after his rally at Madison Square Garden drew widespread criticism from opponents for crude and racist remarks from several speakers. The event drew comparisons to a 1939 pro-Nazi rally in the same venue. At a rally in Wisconsin, Trump's running mate JD Vance sidestepped criticism over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's racist remarks about Puerto Rico

Turnout is key in the swing state Biden turned blue in 2020. Georgians from all over are voting early in record numbersMary Holewinski lives in Carrollton, Georgia, home turf for the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But Holewinski is a Kamala Harris supporter and has a sign in her yard. It draws some nasty looks, she said. I've lost neighbor friends."It helps that Carrollton is a college town, and discussing politics is possible - to an extent. I feel like the people I live around, you can sit down and have a conversation with them, and they are willing to listen ... but not everybody. There are some people who don't want to hear your side of it." Continue reading...

Ryan James Girdusky removed from NewsNight show after telling fellow guest I hope your beeper doesn't go off'CNN has apologised to its viewers after a panellist on its NewsNight programme made derogatory remarks implying that a fellow guest on the show, the broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, was a terrorist.Ryan James Girdusky, a conservative commentator, told Hasan, a Guardian US columnist and former host on MSNBC, who is Muslim, that he hoped his beeper doesn't go off", in an apparent reference to Israel's targeting of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon with exploding pagers last month. The wave of coordinated explosions killed 12 and injured thousands. Continue reading...

Millions of lives could be saved if the world would only consider more innovative ways to help poorer nations tackle AMRDrug-resistant infection, already one of the world's biggest killers, is expected to rise sharply. By 2050, the number of people dying due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is likely to increase by about 70%, with drug-resistant infections expected to cause 39 million deaths, and as many as 169 million associated deaths during this time.We know that the most effective ways to prevent many of these deaths is by increasing equitable global access to essential antibiotics and better medical care, and by developing effective new tools. However, what is less clear is how this will be funded. At the recent United Nations general assembly, governments committed $100m (76m) towards this effort. While this is encouraging, the scale of the challenge is such that it will fall way short of the $63bn a year that is needed. Continue reading...

There is simply no moral argument for allowing the former president to win in the name of opposing genocideIf you're undecided about your vote, a reliable rule of thumb is to always side against the candidate who is a convicted criminal, admires good things" done by Adolf Hitler, and is labeled a fascist" by four-star generals who worked in their administration.However, just days before the chaotic 2024 US election, many American voters are still loathe to vote for Kamala Harris due to the Biden administration's complicity in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. It's hard to blame them. How can we vote for genocidaires?" ask many Democratic voters radicalized and infuriated by Israel's daily war crimes. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu's fanatical government, populated by a rogue galley of Jewish supremacists, openly declared their desire to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and illegally occupy more land. Their desire for ultra-violence and carnage does not spare journalists, UN workers, doctors or even US citizens. More than 42,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed.Wajahat Ali is editor of The Left Hook substack, co-host of The Democracy-ish Podcast, and author of the book Go Back to Where You Came From and Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American Continue reading...

Past threats former president - and present Russian ones - have spurred Europe to invest in self-defence, but as conflicts rise the alliance still looks vitalPoliteness and convention dictate that European leaders try to sound noncommittal when asked whether a Donald Trump presidency would hurt Nato. But despite the rhetoric about Trump-proofing", Nato cohesion will be at risk from a hostile or isolationist Republican president, who has previously threatened to leave the alliance if European defence spending did not increase.The truth is that the US is Nato and Nato is the US; the dependence on America is essentially as big as ever," said Jamie Shea, a former Nato official who teaches at the University of Exeter. Take the new Nato command centre to coordinate assistance for Ukraine in Wiesbaden, Germany. It is inside a US army barracks, relying on US logistics and software." Continue reading...

US bank accuses four users of stealing about $660,000 in total from ATMs using fake chequesJPMorgan Chase is suing customers in the US it accuses of stealing thousands of dollars from ATMs by exploiting a technical glitch that went viral on TikTok this summer.The US bank has filed lawsuits in at least three federal courts against people who withdrew funds before a cheque bounced, in the so-called infinite money glitch". Continue reading...

Bradley's pick was a panicked one after failing to entice Woods and the early noise around 2025 event resembles chaotic circusA potential scenario, one which may be necessary to preserve some of the lofty status already bestowed on the 2025 Ryder Cup. Early noises around the event are so chaotic that CocotheClown feels like an appropriate mascot for Bethpage as the US host Europe.Via this theoretic plan, Keegan Bradley continues his ascent back towards the summit of professional golf. He qualifies for the team of which he is, for the time being, the captain. Because it is supposedly impossible to combine playing for a modern-day Ryder Cup team with captaining one, Bradley has to pass on his duties. Continue reading...

At 340lbs, the New York Giants star would be the largest player to lead the NFL in sacks for a season. Few would bet against him on current formAs you may expect for a discipline that requires speed as well as strength, the list of NFL sackmasters and pressure artists weighing 340lbs or more is pretty short.Per Pro Football Reference, Dan Big Daddy" Wilkinson, who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins and Washington from 1994 though 2006, is the NFL's all-time leading defender in that size range with 54.5 career sacks. Wilkinson stood 6ft 4in and weighed (at least) 340lbs. Behind Wilkinson are Sam Adams (44.0 career sacks at 6ft 3in, 350lbs), Shaun Rogers (37.5 sacks at 6ft 4in, 350lbs), Grady Jackson (35.5 sacks at 6ft 2in, 345lbs), Ted Washington (34.5 sacks at 6ft 5in, 365lbs), and Haloti Ngata (32.5 sacks at 6ft 4in, 340lbs). Continue reading...

Michael Dressel was born in Berlin but spent four decades living and working in the US. As the election looms, he talks us through his new book capturing a nation in crisis Continue reading...

A state parliament debate about the design movement shows how fear of un-German' ideas is being revived for the 21st century

In today's newsletter: The polls are neck and neck. So why are some Kamala Harris supporters convinced the Republicans have the election in the bag? Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. With a week to go until America votes, the polls consistently show Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a statistical dead heat.The nerds who simulate the race hundreds of times to model the likelihood of each result are consistently finding extraordinarily even chances between the two. And nothing that happens - not assassination attempts, Kamalamentum, convention speeches, running mate selections, celebrity endorsements, multi-million-dollar political ads, the debate, erratic rally performances, or plausible accusations of fascist tendencies - seems to change anything for more than a minute. The election, in summary, looks too close to call.Budget | The government is expected to announce an increase of about 4% to NHS funding, an increase that could translate to about 7bn for the health budget in England. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said that the money would deliver more surgical hubs and radiotherapy machines in a drive to add 40,000 appointments each week.Middle East | Israel's parliament has voted to ban the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) from the country within 90 days. Alongside a decision to declare Unrwa a terror group, the move is expected to lead to the closure of Unrwa's East Jerusalem headquarters and would effectively block the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza via Rafah.Crime | The far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months for contempt of court for repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee, in breach of an injunction. Robinson had repeated his false claim that Jamal Hijazi, who had been filmed being attacked at a school in West Yorkshire, violently attacks young English girls" despite losing a libel case.Justice | Prisoners serving controversial indeterminate sentences were given minimum terms of less than six months but have remained in jail for at least 16 years, newly released data shows.Wildlife | Hedgehogs are now listed as near threatened" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list, after a decline in numbers of at least 30% over the past decade across much of their range. Continue reading...

The Republican candidate embodies all the worst aspects of capitalism, condensed into human formDear US voters, in the spirit in which I would beg a dear friend not to get a facial tattoo, I'm writing to ask you not to vote for Donald Trump. While the decision to do so would make a statement, signalling your justifiable anger about the pain you have suffered, it is likely to disfigure you, damage your life chances and prove irreversible. In the wake of his rally at Madison Square Garden, no one can now doubt what he intends to do to you.I can guess where you think I'm coming from, but I have no love for the Democrats. Unlike the UK Labour party staffers campaigning for Kamala Harris, I have no affiliations. While there have been some improvements under Joe Biden, for decades, regardless of which party was in power, the value generated by the middle and working classes has been mopped up by the very rich. This is the result of 45 years of neoliberalism, a life-sapping programme to which both parties subscribe. I share the horror and disgust many of you feel towards Biden's foreign policy, especially his support for the Israeli government while it pursues its genocidal onslaught in Gaza and invasion of Lebanon. Continue reading...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Donald Trump's words echo those of Hitler as Jeff Bezos writes op-ed defending Washington Post ducking endorsement