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Biden oversaw the passage of the first major federal gun safety law in nearly 30 years. But advocates fear gun safety policy could be easily reversed: We are at a pivotal moment'Yoonie Yang was sitting in her Spanish two honors class in southern Florida when she first learned of a shooting at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school. She watched in horror as fellow students checked in on their friends to see if they were among the 17 victims.I don't think my peers know of an America or a world where there isn't gun violence," said Yang, now a senior at the University of Pennsylvania and a campus organizer for the gun safety group Students Demand Action. This is an issue that we're willing to take a stand on, and it's an issue that has affected our lives and affected our childhoods into our adulthoods." Continue reading...

Legal analysis released by Legal Defense Fund highlights specific harms rightwing plan poses to Black communitiesProject 2025, the 900-page ultra-conservative roadmap that details how the former president Donald Trump and his allies would restructure the US government if he is elected, has specific implications for Black Americans, according to a new report.The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), an organization that fights for racial justice, recently released the most in-depth legal analysis of Project 2025's impact on Black communities. It highlights how Black Americans would be harmed due to policies that would weaken anti-discrimination laws; dismantle the Department of Education; threaten Black political power; increase the use of the death penalty (which disproportionately affects Black people); and exacerbate health disparities caused by environmental racism. Continue reading...

University attendees ramp up outreach efforts and pitch pop-up polling sites as election day approachesCollege students formed a steady line outside a campus art museum to vote early on Tuesday at a pop-up polling place at the University of Minnesota.The one-day site, enabled by new state laws that allow for pop-up early voting, helps populations like student voters, who may not have access to transportation to get off campus, easily access the polls. Continue reading...

More than 2,000 Israelis have signed this letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use every possible sanction' to save us from ourselves'We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community - the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world - to intervene immediately and implement every possible sanction towards achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and its neighbors, for the future of both peoples in Israel and Palestine and the peoples of the region and for their rights to security and life.Many of us are veteran activists against the occupation, for peace and mutual existence in this land. We are motivated by our love for the land and its residents, and we are concerned for their future. We have been horrified by the war crimes committed by Hamas and other organizations on 7 October and we are horrified by the countless war crimes that Israel is committing. Unfortunately, the majority of Israelis support the continuation of the war and massacres, and a change from within is not currently feasible. The state of Israel is on a suicidal path and sows destruction and devastation that increase day by day.More than 2,000 Israeli citizens have signed this letter. The full list of signatories can be seen here. An earlier version of this letter was published in Liberation Continue reading...

The quarterback has more interceptions than touchdowns this season. But his struggles speak more of a player adjusting to circumstances than one in declineSeven weeks into their bid for immortality, the Kansas City Chiefs are undefeated. They've ripped off wins against the likes of the Ravens, 49ers and Bengals on their way to a 6-0 start. On defense they've been elite, putting a succession of the game's best quarterbacks through the blender. The back-to-back champs should have the feel of a runaway juggernaut, but something is amiss with KC's offense.Given his body of work, Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL. That isn't an opinion, it's a statement of fact. But through the opening stages of the season, the Chiefs have fielded a middling offense and Mahomes has been a statistically middling quarterback. The Chiefs' offense has yet to score 30 points in a game, despite facing only one defense in the top 12 in EPA/play, a measure of a unit's down-to-down effectiveness. Continue reading...

Progressives shouldn't dismiss the left-conservative' leader - her popularity is driven by her powerful critique of runaway capitalismOn a chilly autumnal evening last month, the Berliner Platz in the eastern German city of Cottbus was buzzing by the time Sahra Wagenknecht appeared. One activist, busy handing out leaflets promoting the latest maverick force to disrupt European politics, said she was there because Wagenknecht understands people like us". Anti-war banners were dotted around the square. One elderly woman proudly displayed a badge reading Omas fur Frieden (grandmothers for peace).Formed only last January, the eponymous Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) has been collecting voters from across the political spectrum, although mainly from the left. An unscientific straw poll suggested much of the Cottbus audience had previously voted for the Social Democrats, or the Left party to which Wagenknecht used to belong, or not at all. Her stump speech checklisted blue-collar anxieties: the cost of living crisis, declining healthcare provision, a lack of access to good jobs and affordable housing, and meagre pensions. Mainstream political and cultural elites, Wagenkecht told many nodding heads, suffered from an abject lack of empathy with these ordinary realities".Julian Coman is a Guardian associate editorDo 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...

With less than two weeks until polls open in the presidential election, Trump celebrated early voting in Georgia as Harris doubled down on fascist claim

The issue is on all our minds at this week's Commonwealth summit in Samoa. Now is Keir Starmer's chance to address it

At CNN town hall in Pennsylvania, the vice-president told Anderson Cooper she believes Donald Trump to be unfit to serve'Kamala Harris praised Donald Trump's former chief of staff for sending a 911 call" to the nation about the former president's unfitness to serve a second term, attacking her opponent as a fascist" who would send the nation down a dangerous path.Harris participated in a CNN town hall with undecided voters in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, as the battleground state appears poised to play a potentially decisive role in the presidential race. While taking voters' questions on everything from the cost of living to abortion access, Harris repeatedly steered the conversation back to questions over Trump's fitness for office. Continue reading...

This live blog is now. You can read our latest coverage of the US election hereThe Labour party has put out a statement rejecting allegations that it broke US election law because activists and staff members have been volunteering to help the Democrats.A Labour spokesperson said:It is common practice for campaigners of all political persuasions from around the world to volunteer in US elections.Where Labour activists take part, they do so at their own expense, in accordance with the laws and rules." Continue reading...

The push to vote early has amounted to an unprecedented wave, with more than 24.5m having voted early so farThe US election is under way across the country, and so far more than 24.5m people have voted early, according to the University of Florida's election lab.In numerous states, the push to vote before election day, whether by mail or in-person, has amounted to an unprecedented wave of early voting. Continue reading...

Ex-president makes characteristically rambling speech after report comes out of his alleged sexual misconductDonald Trump escalated his personal insults against Kamala Harris at a Wednesday evening rally in Georgia as he faces growing scrutiny over reports of his praise of Hitler and alleged sexual misconduct.This woman is crazy," the former president said at an event in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, hosted by Turning Point USA, a far-right youth group. He said voters should stand up to the vice-president and tell her: You're the worst ever. There's never been anybody like you. You can't put two sentences together. The world is laughing at us because of you." He also said that in her recent interview with CBS, she gave an answer that was from a loony bin", later adding: She's not a smart person. She's a low IQ individual."Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...

Chinese embassy denies connection to alleged coordinated interference on social media by troll network known as Taizi FloodAn army of Chinese-controlled social media bots is attempting to influence voters in Alabama, Texas and Tennessee, while denigrating US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, according to new research published on Wednesday by Microsoft.The operation represents a coordinated interference effort against down-ballot races, experts say, in which the fake accounts are denigrating representative Barry Moore of Alabama, representative Michael McCaul of Texas, Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn and Rubio, all Republicans. Continue reading...

Second gentleman campaigns in Florida, attacking Donald Trump and Project 2025, despite state being reliably redIn terms of presidential elections at least, Florida has fallen a long way since its heady days as the ultimate swing state. Seven cycles on from the 537-vote cliffhanger in 2000 that was finally resolved when the US supreme court placed George Bush in the White House, Florida is so reliably red, and Donald Trump so confident of picking up its 30 electoral college votes, that he has barely campaigned here.For the same reason, the Sunshine state has not featured on Kamala Harris's schedule either. So some eyebrows were raised when second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the vice-president's husband, rolled up on Wednesday to rally Democrats in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, on a break from stumping in the battleground states of the north-east.Don't miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alerts Continue reading...

Stacey Williams says the ex-president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them

VP gives surprise speech after reports that Trump's former chief of staff said ex-president repeatedly praised Hitler

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...