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Billionaire promised to give $1m each day until election day to someone who signs petition supporting US constitutionThe US justice department has sent a letter to Elon Musk's Super Pac warning that the billionaire and Tesla CEO's $1m-a-day giveaways may violate federal law, according to multiple reports.A letter from the department's public integrity section, which investigates potential election-related law violations, went to the Pac, reports in CNN and the New York Times said. The justice department and Musk's America Pac did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continue reading...

A judge has granted preliminary approval for a settlement between the MMA promotion and fighters who claim they were underpaid. Here's what happenedNearly a decade after filing a federal antitrust lawsuit against the Ultimate Fighting Championship, more than 1,000 former and current professional mixed martial artists should begin receiving payments from a pool of $260m starting next June.Federal judge Richard F Boulware granted preliminary approval of a negotiated settlement between the two parties on Tuesday. Once final, the $375m agreement would end the proceedings in Le, et al v Zuffa LLC, one of two classes Boulware certified last year that cover UFC fighters from the end of 2010 through the present day. The other, Johnson, et al v Zuffa LLC, represents the interests of fighters beginning in July 2017, and is ongoing. Continue reading...

Poll conducted by union shows Democrat has significant advantage over Republican in battleground statesUnited Auto Workers (UAW) members in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada support the presidential candidate Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by 22 points, according to a poll conducted by the union.UAW members in Michigan - the center of the US auto industry - support Harris over Trump by 20 percentage points, with 54% supporting Harris over 34% supporting Trump, the poll found. The union claimed in 2020 that UAW members accounted for 84% of Joe Biden's margin of victory in Michigan.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...

Robert Buckland says it appears Labour activists covered their own expenses, after Trump team files legal complaintLabour did nothing wrong when party officials campaigned for Kamala Harris in the US election, a former Conservative minister has argued, after Downing Street faced fury from Donald Trump about the move.Robert Buckland, who has also campaigned for Harris due to his distaste for Trump, said it appeared that Labour activists who knocked on doors had volunteered and covered their own expenses, which would not be a breach of US laws on overseas involvement in elections. Continue reading...

Thomas Gallegos, 56, arrested for allegedly breaking into eight-year-old's home and attempting to abduct herA 56-year-old man in Colorado has been charged with attempting to kidnap an eight-year-old girl from her bedroom while wearing a clown mask, according to authorities.Police in Sterling, Colorado, announced in a recent press release that they have charged Thomas Gallegos with first degree burglary, second degree assault, second degree attempted kidnapping, third degree assault and child abuse after he allegedly broke into the girl's home and tried to abduct her. Continue reading...

Gates, who has not publicly endorsed Harris, reportedly expressed concern about a second Trump presidency

Back in May, a campus demonstration for Palestine drew hundreds of jeering counter-protesters. A student activist group regathers to honor the martyrs'On Sunday night, about 40 people gathered outside of city hall in Oxford, Mississippi, near the town's famed statue of William Faulkner, in front of a Palestinian flag that read Free Palestine". As more attendees arrived, organizers gave them electric tea candles and flowers to hold during the vigil, held for the estimated 42,000 Palestinians who have been killed since 7 October 2023. The event, organized by UMiss for Palestine, a student activist group at the University of Mississippi, marked a striking departure from its previous solidarity demonstration in May, which drew hundreds of counter-protesters, many of who spewed racist vitriol at the students.Sunday's event was reverent, with solemn expressions of grief and remembrance befitting a funeral. According to organizers, those who gathered did so to honor the martyrs, commit to fight for the living, and stand in solidarity with Palestinians in [their] community and in the rest of the world". Continue reading...

Comment evoking Trump's frequent references to jailing or prosecuting political adversaries sparks rightwing backlash

Residents of Las Vegas have endured a string of record-breaking heatwaves in summer with a very warm fallBy now, the canvassers at Make the Road Nevada know how to prepare themselves for the record-breaking heat.Members of the progressive group - which focuses on mobilising Black and Latino voters - layer on white, UPF-protective shirts, and sweat-wicking performance wear. They fill their 50-quart coolers with ice-cold water. And they pack lots and lots of chips - barbecue Lays, and Cheetos and Doritos - for the road. The salt helps stave off dehydration. Continue reading...

Brian Niccol's syrupy praise for store workers does not impress. He should focus on the hard problem of rising pricesSo this is what you get from a $113m chief executive: a ditching of profits guidance served with a dollop of platitudes about going back to the company's roots. Amazingly, the stock market still thinks Starbucks is worth 25% more than before Brian Niccol was appointed.To be fair to the new boss, he's been in post for a month, so it's too soon to expect a fully formed strategy. He was merely offering an initial helicopter view of operations (or perhaps the perspective from his private jet on the commute from Newport Beach, California, to the Seattle head office). That inevitably involved syrupy praise for our green-apron partners" and a homage to the unconvincing corporate claim that a chain with 36,000 outlets in 84 countries can still style itself as the community coffeehouse". Continue reading...

I call this state of being next-level incompetence. By doubting everything I do - from where I put a book to whether I picked up my medication - I cause chaosThere is something worse than pure incompetence, and that is next-level incompetence - when your incompetence starts feeding off itself. It's a dangerous place to be. It's like not only feeling depressed, but feeling depressed about being depressed, or feeling anxious about being anxious. Next-level incompetence is when, being dismally aware of your incompetence, you start - with good reason - to doubt everything you do and, crucially, blame yourself for things that weren't your fault. And this can cause yet more chaos.An example: a couple of Wednesdays ago, I was due to interview Geoff Hurst, England football legend, at the Cheltenham literary festival, about his new book, Last Boy of '66. On the Monday, being a consummate professional, I thought I ought to give the book a read. But I couldn't find the book anywhere in my flat. Where had I put it? Obviously somewhere so safe that I now couldn't find it. Continue reading...

There is a new push by his opponents to brand him with the F-word - and the effect has been both silly and seriousI remember when fascist" became a word we all used, right around the time we first learned what it meant in adolescence. It had the kerb appeal of a swearword without the rudeness to get you into trouble, and you could spit it - really put your shoulder into the f" at the front and the digraph in the middle. There was something satisfying about the word fascist", which was, back then, the apex, the very fanciest of insults. You thought I was being mean in a trivial, localised way, when in fact I was offering a structural analysis of your political ideology (plus your horrible personality and disastrous side-parting).Most of us aged out of that phase when everyone and everything that opposed us was fascist. Still, aspects of the pleasures embedded in the word survived its wear and tear so that decades later, there is still a vague frisson, partly nostalgic, lighting up its outer fringes. Among adults, fascist" tends to be used in a lightly ironised form, often in the context of a customer service dispute or fight with petty officialdom. Analogising the man at T-Mobile with the Nazis delivers some of the old sniggering satisfaction and for a long time this was fine, but now we have run into an obvious problem. The flippancy and babyishness of how we use fascist" is making it hard, if not impossible, to recharge its meaning.Emma Brockes 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...

Atlantic report claims Trump disputed funeral costs he offered to pay for Vanessa Guillen, a murdered US soldierA row has broken out in the aftermath of a report from the Atlantic that claims Donald Trump refused to cover the funeral costs of a soldier who was murdered at a Texas military base in 2020.The deceased woman's sister came to the defense of the former US president amid a wave of backlash against Trump. Continue reading...

As LeBron and Bronny James become the first father and son duo to play together in the NBA, more families with overlapping sporting careers Continue reading...

Finding the perfect combination of lifestyle hacks to live to 110 irks many experts who are more interested in quality of lifeThere is a whole body of scientific research dedicated to uncovering the lifestyles of people living in blue zones - areas of the globe where a higher proportion of people seem to live exceptionally long lives beyond the age of 100.From Okinawa in Japan to the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean, the seven blue zone regions have given rise to books, diets, documentaries and endless social media posts from wellness coaches" delving into what it is about these places that lead people to live for so long. Continue reading...

Little-known policy embraced by Trump and included in Project 2025 would transform previously nonpartisan jobsThe Democrat Eugene Vindman stood before a group of roughly 30 fellow veterans and warned of an impending danger if Republicans like his opponent, Derrick Anderson, won key House races next month: a little-known policy called schedule F.The policy, initially embraced by Donald Trump in the final months of his first term in office and now included in the rightwing manifesto known as Project 2025, would transform previously nonpartisan jobs in the federal government into political appointments. The change could fundamentally alter and perhaps jeopardize the employment of tens or even hundreds of thousands of government workers, including 14% of the residents in Virginia's seventh district, where Vindman is running for Congress. Continue reading...

Kelly Ortberg reports $6bn quarterly loss at beleaguered planemaker amid worker strike that has entered fifth weekThe new boss of Boeing has pledged to fundamentally" transform the culture inside the beleaguered aerospace giant, as its quarterly losses swelled to almost $6bn amid a sweeping strike.As thousands of workers vote on a new contract on Wednesday, raising the prospect of an end to the crippling industrial action which began almost six weeks ago, Boeing revealed the extent of the damage of a dire year on its business. Continue reading...

Citizen review committee will be created after decision outraged' advocates and community near HoustonA Texas county reversed its decision to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, a children's history book about the Native American experience, in the fiction category at local libraries.The decision drew the ire of the world's largest publishers, literary freedom groups and many community members. Continue reading...

Announcement is first time federal authorities have confirmed connectionGroups in Russia created and helped spread viral disinformation targeting the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz, a senior US intelligence official said on Tuesday.The content, which includes baseless accusations about the Minnesota governor's time as a teacher, contains several indications that it was manipulated, said the official with the office of the director of national intelligence. Continue reading...

France's second city makes headlines for crime, but also for being welcoming and progressive. Neither cliche does it justiceEarlier this month, France's second city suffered a pair of brutal killings that appeared to be the latest in a long list of tragedies inflicted by drug-related turf wars. In a place where groups have battled for years over highly coveted points of sale", many of them in the city's impoverished northern neighbourhoods, the age of those involved in the latest killings was especially stomach-churning. The Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, described how following the recent gang killing of a 15-year-old, a 14-year-old had been hired to carry out a revenge killing. A prisoner had recruited the teenager, the prosecutor said, and organised the logistics for him to be collected by car and brought to a hotel room in Marseille". The 14-year-old then allegedly shot and killed the taxi driver, who had nothing to do with the drugs trade, for not waiting for him.Unfortunately, grim stories such as these have become one of the big reasons Marseille makes headlines not just in France, but in the English-language press too. In addition to putting the spotlight on figures clamouring for more police authority and harsher prison sentences, they fuel a particular image of the port city in the rightwing imagination: Marseille as the ultimate symbol of French decline, a once-great metropolis torn asunder by decades of lawlessness and immigration that has become so dangerous it is now practically unliveable. Somehow, this reactionary fantasy hasn't yet damaged a radically different image of the city gaining steam: Marseille as a promised land for twenty- and thirtysomethings seeking sunshine, natural beauty and just the right dose of urban grit." Continue reading...

In recent years, money has poured into local politics as wealthy financiers try to remake the landscape of the cityAs San Franciscans gear up to decide whether their embattled mayor London Breed deserves another term, political observers are watching whether this fall's election - projected to be the most expensive municipal contest in history - will bring definitive proof of the growing political power of the city's tech elites.Wealthy financiers, including members of the city's traditional financial elite and the region's upstart tech oligarchs, have in recent years spent millions in an effort to reshape the political landscape of the city, pushing moderate candidates and policies over their more progressive rivals. Continue reading...

The Tampa Bay quarterback has shown the Browns what they are missing, while New England's rookie head coach failed to protect his team in public Continue reading...

The Harris town hall - a stand-in for the second presidential debate - will start at 9pm ET on Wednesday, hosted by Anderson CooperWith 13 days until the election, Kamala Harris will answer voter questions during a live town hall on Wednesday evening.CNN will host the one-hour-and-15 minute event from Pennsylvania, a battleground state both the Harris and Trump campaigns need to win to secure the White House. Continue reading...

Panel co-hosted by Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University to discuss changes to Georgia voting lawsGuardian US and and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University are co-hosting an event on 23 October at 6pm ET on the battle over voting rights in America.The event will focus on the past, present and future of fights over access to voting, including the sweeping changes to Georgia's voting laws since 2020. Those measures have made it easier to challenge voters, shortened the window to request an absentee ballot, and made it illegal to hand out food or water to voters waiting in line. Continue reading...

No Americans who care about the future of this country can afford to remain a mere spectator to our own democracyWith two weeks to go before election day, Kamala Harris and Donald J Trump are essentially tied.Neither candidate is ahead by even a single point in the New York Times's polling average of five critical battleground states - Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

This would be a horrific program of ethnic cleansing - yet most of the media reaction has focused on the economic costsIf you didn't know any better, you might think, from recent media coverage, that the problem with Donald Trump's proposal to round up and expel as many as 20 million immigrants is that it's not likely to work.The Republican presidential nominee has made the mass deportation pledge central to his case for a second term. On the campaign trail, he diverts every question, no matter what the issue, back to the supposed danger and malignancy of immigrants and the urgency of getting rid of them. The economy? It will be better when there are fewer immigrants competing for jobs, he says. Housing prices? They'll come down when millions of people are kicked out of the country, he claims. Crime will come down when the immigrants are gone, he says, because murder is in their genes".Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

The socialist millennial, and first south Asian man in the state assembly, is entering an already crowded mayoral raceIn a quiet and unassuming coffee shop in Astoria, a once affordable, diverse neighborhood in Queens where rent is skyrocketing to the heights of other parts of New York, a man in a black jacket sits against the window.He doesn't look the part of a large metropolitan city's typical politician, but Zohran Mamdani represents this area in the state legislature as the assembly member for district 36 - the first south Asian man in the state assembly and only its third Muslim. Continue reading...

No denial from candidate for governor of North Carolina, who is suing CNN for report on his Black NAZI' porn profileMark Robinson, North Carolina's embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can't take care of their children should be sterilized, according to one of a series of incendiary and racist social media posts from 2014 through 2019.The commentary made in reference to Black families, which used terms a white supremacist would find appropriate, predates his time as the state's lieutenant governor, but much of it came after his rise as a public figure on the right. Most of the social media posts have not previously been reported. Continue reading...

Recreational drug use boomed in the 1980s and basketball was far from immune. The trend ended careers as the NBA clamped downMicheal Ray Richardson was a brilliant player: a four-time NBA All-Star guard. He was also the first player banned for life by the league for drug use, something which was far more common during his playing days. Back in the 1980s, substances like cocaine were not only part of professional sports but also society and entertainment at large, and Richardson says talk about drugs was routine during what some still call the NBA's cocaine era. During warmups," Richardson says, guys on different teams would say, Yo, man, I got what you're looking for. Let's get together when [the game] is over.' And boom that's how it got going."At the time, drugs were everywhere - it was like a fad," says Richardson, who also goes by the nickname Sugar. But in the NBA, it alienated many fans. So much so that to correct the problem, the NBA instituted a three-strike system, which led to Richardson's 1986 banishment (all of which he discusses in his forthcoming memoir, Banned). Continue reading...

Nearly 80 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, analysis shows Black and Latino players still face obstacles as they attempt to make the majorsJackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947 to usher in a historic moment for civil rights, yet Black representation in Major League Baseball stands at the lowest level since the 1950s. MLB initiatives have increased the number of Black players taken with top draft picks since 2010 - but those draftees haven't made their way up from the minors often enough to stop the decline in the number of Black players in the majors.An exclusive new analysis of the minor leagues shows one factor stopping Black players from making the majors: there has been persistent bias against Black and Latino players since 1950, preventing them from playing at certain positions and rising through the ranks of the minors. Players of color with darker skin often moved to the outfield and suffered the most bias. Conversations with former players, scouts, front office analysts, and baseball historians confirm those findings, with some recalling instances of overt bias even within the last 20 years. Continue reading...

The former US president Barack Obama took to the stage in Detroit, Michigan, at a campaign rally for Kamala Harris after being introduced by Eminem. The rap artist told the crowd how much he loved his home city of Detroit and expressed his support for the Harris-Walz campaign before the presidential election in November. Obama went on to rap Eminem's signature track, Lose Yourself Continue reading...

Former president is introduced by rapper, who cites freedom of speech as he backs Kamala HarrisBarack Obama rapped Eminem's signature hit Lose Yourself to a crowd in Detroit during a campaign rally for Kamala Harris.He was preceded by Eminem himself, who told the crowd in his home city: It's important to use your voice, I'm encouraging everyone to get out and vote, please ... I don't think anyone wants an America where people are worried about retribution of what people will do if you make your opinion known. I think vice-president Harris supports a future for this country where these freedoms and many others will be protected and upheld." Continue reading...

Brian Niccol aims to turn around coffee chain, which has reported falling sales, revenue and profitsThe new boss of Starbucks has pledged to shake up its overly complex menu" in an effort to turn around the struggling coffee chain.Brian Niccol, who joined the company as chief executive in September, said Starbucks needed to fundamentally change" its strategy in order to win back customers. Continue reading...

Like Brexit, our vote on Europe teetered on a knife-edge. While the pro-EU side scraped a win, Russia is waiting to undermine itI have now gone through two EU referendums in my life - Brexit and Moldova's 20 October vote on whether to include EU integration in its constitution. As an EU national in the UK, I was not able to cast my ballot in 2016. I remember the expectation most people had that Brexit would not win. I received the news while travelling in Spain and staying with a British national settled there, who could not vote in the referendum either. Some London-born friends told me they felt as though they could no longer recognise their country, which had been split in two. With that British experience on my mind, I had a sense of deja vu as I watched the results unfold in my native Moldova on Sunday night.As opinion polls before the vote, which excluded Moldova's large, pro-European diaspora, suggested, there was between 54% and 65% support for the EU. The only fear for pro-European Moldovans was that the turnout would be too small to have the referendum validated. When it became clear that 51% of voters had showed up - more than in other recent elections - everyone in my bubble felt optimistic, posting pictures of their I voted" blue stickers given out at polling stations. I was in an echo-chamber.Paula Erizanu is a Moldovan journalist and writer based in Chiinu Continue reading...

After Trump campaign complaint, PM says Labour officials volunteering for Harris were doing it in their spare time' rather than in their official capacityKeir Starmer has insisted he can maintain a good relationship" with Donald Trump after the Republican candidate's campaign accused Labour of blatant foreign interference" in the US election.The Trump campaign filed a legal complaint overnight against Labour officials travelling to US battleground states to volunteer for his Democrat rival Kamala Harris. Continue reading...

Intervention from former Marine general dismissed as a debunked story', as Kamala Harris campaign sees appearances from Eminem and Barack Obama

Ex-president speaks with ultra loyalists in Miami as VP touches on creating economic opportunity for Latino menIt was billed as a roundtable discussion with Latino leaders, but the reality of Donald Trump's appearance at his Doral golf club in Miami on Tuesday was a succession of adulatory monologues from his most loyal Latino supporters, interspersed with familiar, lengthy rants from the former president laden with grievances and insults.Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent in the 5 November election, also courted Latino voters on Tuesday in an interview with Telemundo, touching on creating economic opportunity for Latino men. Continue reading...

Ex-president questions fitness of Grandpa' as Democratic vice-presidential hopeful calls Elon Musk dipshit'On the first day of early voting in Wisconsin, Tim Walz called Elon Musk a dipshit" while Barack Obama said of Donald Trump: You'd be worried if Grandpa was acting like this."Both were speaking at a rally in Madison, a growing Democratic party stronghold, to encourage early voting and warn of the perils of a second Trump presidency. Obama went on to campaign for Kamala Harris in Detroit on Tuesday evening, alongside rapper Eminem, in an effort to drum up support in Michigan where polls suggest Harris and Trump are in a virtual deadlock. Continue reading...

On the first day of early voting in Wisconsin, Tim Walz criticised Donald Trump over his appearance at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, saying there was 'something ... cruel about a billionaire using people's livelihood as a political prop'. The Democratic vice-presidential candidate also took aim at Trump over his threats to prosecute his political enemies

Authorities saw a 7% decline in September, with border patrol making 53,858 arrests, down from 58,009 in AugustArrests for illegally crossing the US border from Mexico fell 7% in September to a more than four-year low, authorities said Tuesday. It was likely the last monthly gauge during a presidential campaign in which Republican nominee Donald Trump has made immigration a signature issue.The border patrol made 53,858 arrests, down from 58,009 in August and the lowest tally since August 2020, when arrests totaled 47,283, according to US Customs and Border Protection. Continue reading...

This blog is now closed. You can find more of our US elections coverage hereKamala Harris has a significant advantage over Donald Trump among young voters, matching the lead Joe Biden ended up taking in the 2020 election, a new poll finds.The survey from CNBC Generation Lab shows Harris up 20 percentage points with voters aged 18 to 34, with 60% support compared with Trump's 40%. That's about the same margin by which Biden won the group four years ago. Continue reading...

Allegation references LinkedIn post saying 100 party staffers were headed to US to campaign for HarrisFirst King George III. Now Sir Keir Starmer.Citing the American revolution while misspelling Britian", Donald Trump's campaign has filed an extraordinary complaint against the UK's Labour party for what it claims is interference" in the US presidential election. Continue reading...

VP says she's focused on the challenges, the dreams' of Americans as opposed to Trump who is focused on himself'Kamala Harris said that she has no doubt that the US was ready for a female president, insisting that Americans care more about what candidates can do to help them, rather than presidential contenders' gender.The vice-president's statement came during an interview with NBC News's Hallie Jackson, who asked whether she thought the country was ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be in the Oval Office. Absolutely," Harris said. Absolutely." Continue reading...

Republican VP candidate tells supporters in swing state to pull friends to polls because race could go either wayTwo weeks out from election day, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance told supporters at a rally in swing state Arizona that they need to pull their friends to the polls because the race could go either way.Here's the scenario that I want you to consider, and I don't mean to give you nightmare fuel here, but I'm going to do it," Vance said to the crowd in Peoria, Arizona. We wake up on November the sixth, and Kamala Harris is barely elected president of the United States by a 700-vote margin in the state of Arizona. Think about that. And ask yourself what you can do from now until then to make sure it doesn't happen."Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...