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Harris and Trump voters share their election opinions from a Guardian callout that received more than a thousand responsesIt's like being sucked into a tsunami," said Vivian Glover, a Kamala Harris voter from South Carolina, about the realisation that Donald Trump had been re-elected as president.The contrast between the two campaigns couldn't have been more stark. On the one hand an intelligent, highly qualified public servant with a unifying message, and the opponent someone who epitomizes corruption, immorality, dishonesty, incompetence, racism, misogyny, tyranny and has clearly indicated his willingness to embrace authoritarianism." Continue reading...
Rubio is reportedly in line for secretary of state, with Waltz expected to be made national security adviser. Plus, what's behind all the celebrity lookalike contests?
At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfareA friend recently asked: Do you think the United States will survive the anger of white men?" As blunt as the question is, the core element is not so far-fetched. In fact, the majority of white men (and women) who voted in the presidential election in 2024 have rallied around a man who has called for the termination of the constitution", vowed to be a dictator", and threatened to deploy the US military against Americans. They support a man who is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a proven liar, who has been fined nearly half a billion dollars for fraud, who incited an insurrection that injured 140 police officers, and who mismanaged the Covid-19 pandemic causing hundreds of thousands to die needlessly.The fact that Donald Trump's candidacy was even viable, given that horrific track record, was because of the support of white men. White men, whose anger was on full display at Madison Square Garden as they spewed racist, misogynistic venom. White men who attacked poll workers and also voters of Kamala Harris. White men who chafed at the thought that their wives and girlfriends would not vote for the man who thought it was a beautiful thing" that reproductive rights had been destroyed. And, as the New York Times reported, the downwardly mobile, frustrated white men without a degree, [who] have been surpassed in income by college-educated women".Carol Anderson is the Robert W Woodruff Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Continue reading...
Lawsuit filed by pro-choice protesters seeks to clarify medical exceptions in states's near-total abortion banWomen denied medically necessary abortions in Idaho are expected to testify this week in a trial over the state's near-total abortion ban.The trial, which starts on Tuesday and is expected to last through at least Thursday, is part of a lawsuit filed by abortion rights supporters who want to clarify the medical exceptions in Idaho's near-total abortion ban. Currently, abortions are only permitted in Idaho to preserve a patient's health. The vagueness of the exception means women have been forced to go out of state for the procedure, or wait until they get sick enough that doctors can legally intervene. Continue reading...
Once Ice acting director and Heritage visiting fellow, Homan was called the father' of Trump's family separation policyIn 2018, then acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) Thomas Homan told HuffPost that Congress needed to fix immigration laws because: I'm the first one to say, I can't arrest 11 million people."Now, newly tapped as Donald Trump's border czar", he will be tasked with just that. The president-elect said on Monday that Homan, a former law enforcement official who has served in immigration enforcement under multiple presidencies, would be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin". Continue reading...
Just because Trump is publicly distancing himself from abortion does not mean Republicans won't enact a national banAbortion rights initiatives were on the ballot in 10 states on Tuesday, and won in seven of them. One of the losers was prop 4, Florida's abortion rights measure, which received a whopping 57% of the vote but failed to meet the state's unusually high 60% threshold, meaning that the state's six-week ban will remain in place. Asked about the Florida abortion rights proposition ahead of the election, Trump said that when he went to cast his ballot near Palm Beach, he would vote against it.It has always been a little hard to believe that Donald Trump personally hates abortion, even if it is abundantly clear how little he thinks of women. Trump, after all, has claimed to have numerous conflicting positions on abortion rights throughout his life. And his brand of masculinity is boorish, vulgar, and above all, sexually entitled - far from the priggish, repressed moralism of more classical anti-abortion figures like Mike Pence.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
In evading legal consequences for his actions, Trump was handed a chillingly simple strategy: just run for president againDonald Trump's most vital campaign did not involve his political consultants, the hysteria of his rallies, the paranoid TV spots about migrant murderers and transgender bogeymen, his blathering on bro" podcasts or the prancing of a hopped-up Elon Musk. Nor was it about a garbage can in the ocean, eating pets or divine intervention.Trump's vulnerability was always at the forefront of his mind. He knew he could have been eliminated at crucial moments before election day. He was anxious about more than an assassination. He understood that his most threatening adversary was the criminal justice system. Trump had to get away with his crimes to survive. The making of the president required the unmaking of justice. Continue reading...
As the business end of the season comes into view, we look at the weaknesses that could end the championship hopes of some of the league's best teamsAs we career at high speed into the second half of the season, even the best NFL teams have issues they need to shore up before the playoffs. Because in the postseason every mistake is magnified, and every big play is bigger.So, here are five of the NFL's most credible contenders, and the one potentially fatal flaw that could boot each one of those squads out of the race to Super Bowl LIX. The list is far from exhaustive - there are plenty of other teams who could win the title - feel free to add your own choices, and their weaknesses, below. Continue reading...
So far, the president-elect's rhetoric has been at odds with reality. If that changes, it would redraw the US electoral mapDonald Trump's unpredictable style and electoral success reflect a turbulent era when neither progressives nor authoritarians have secured control. Far from signalling an autocratic takeover, his rise shows a political landscape in flux. The 2008 crash and its uneven recovery marked the decline of the old economic order. But in 2016, the rise of Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left highlighted a real shift, as neoliberalism's grip loosened, making space for once marginalised ideas.Since then, two US presidencies have acknowledged the need to rebuild an economy that supports blue-collar workers affected by free trade, immigration and globalisation. While neither administration succeeded - and paid for it at the ballot box - the result has been a growing constituency on both sides of the American political divide that takes seriously, albeit often rhetorically, economic injustice. But for any political movement to become dominant, it has to shape the core ideas that matter to everyone, not just its diehard supporters. Continue reading...
Spirit Airlines flight heading from Florida to Port-au-Prince diverted to Dominican Republic after flight attendant was grazed by bullet, amid broader violence in Haiti's capitalHaiti's international airport shut down on Monday after gangs opened fire at a commercial flight landing in Port-Au-Prince, prompting some airlines to suspend operations as the country swore in a new interim prime minister who promised to restore peace.The Spirit Airlines flight headed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Port-Au-Prince was just hundreds of feet from landing in Haiti's capital when gangs shot at the plane, striking a flight attendant who suffered minor injuries, according to the airline, the US embassy and flight tracking data. Continue reading...
The end to this bloody stalemate must come with negotiation, and Putin should not wait until Trump is in the White HouseFirst the good news. The US is talking to Russia. Then the bad. Vladimir Putin has been phoned not by the current US president, but by a known admirer and sceptic of the US's support for Ukraine, the president-elect, Donald Trump. Could these two facts offer a path to peace?Two years ago, Putin made a terrible mistake. He thought he could invade Ukraine and topple its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He failed utterly. Ukraine's forces pushed him back to the supposedly pro-Russian territory of his 2014 invasion. At talks in Istanbul months after this failure, Putin's representatives might have settled for a ceasefire and the acceptance of some western security guarantee for Kyiv. The talks broke down with the west encouraging Ukraine to fight on. In what amounted to a proxy war on Moscow, the west attacked Russia and its people with the severest sanctions ever seen, while donating to Ukraine huge sums of aid.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
A fresh wave of violence between Haitian police and gangs has gripped the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, with a Spirt Airlines flight bound for the capital's main airport from Florida forced to divert after it was struck by gang-related gunfire. On the same day, the country swore in a new prime minister tasked with restoring peace. 'The first essential task that will determine the success of the transition is to re-establish the security of people, property and infrastructure, food security and freedom of movement throughout the country,' incoming Haitian prime minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime said Continue reading...
Some supporters believe race and gender were underlying reasons many won't admit to for why the vice-president lostIn the hours after Joe Biden's decision to end his re-election bid and endorse Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee for president, 40,000 Black women - leaders in politics, business and entertainment - met on a Zoom call to rally around the vice-president.We went from that call to organizing our house, our block, our church, our sorority, and our unions," said Glynda C Carr, president and co-founder of Higher Heights, an organization that works to help Black women get elected to political office. That is what we did for the 107 days that she ran for office. Black women used our organizing power around a woman that we knew was qualified, that had a lived experience." Continue reading...
Pramila Jayapal says party has to pick some big fights' and blames leaders for falling hostage to big-money interests'As shell-shocked Democrats try to understand why working-class Americans - once the cornerstone of their political base - chose a billionaire over them, progressives argue the path forward is to champion popular and populist" economic policies.Democratic recriminations have intensified in the nearly seven days since their devastating electoral losses, which may yet deliver a new era of unified Republican governance in Washington, after Donald Trump stormed to a second term while his party easily flipped the Senate and is on the verge of winning a majority in the House. Divisions have deepened, with progressives blaming the party's embrace of corporate America and swing-state Democrats accusing the left of tarnishing its appeal with ex-urban and rural voters. Continue reading...
Tubman helped free several Black people from slavery and led soldiers on a gunboat raid during US civil warThe revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland's Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state's national guard. Continue reading...
Richard Allen, 52, could face up to 130 years in prison for killings on a hiking trail in Delphi, a small Indiana townA jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.Deliberations stretched into a fourth day before jurors found Richard Allen guilty of the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. The former drugstore worker was convicted of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Allen, 52, could now face up to 130 years in prison. Continue reading...
Status of abortion in state has been contested since Roe was overturned, triggering the 175-year-old ban into effectDuring heated oral arguments on Monday morning, the Wisconsin supreme court appeared poised to find an 1849 law banning most abortions cannot be enforced.The legal status of abortion in Wisconsin has been contested since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and ended the right to abortion nationwide, triggering bans across the country - including in Wisconsin, where a 175-year-old ban immediately went into effect. Continue reading...
Victim reported being sexually assaulted by several males' and coerced into taking drugs on frat row, officials sayOfficials at Cornell University have suspended one of the Ivy League institution's Greek fraternities while police investigate an incident in which a victim was allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted by several males" and forced into taking drugs.The New York university's police department said it received a report about an assault said to have taken place at an off-campus event in the city of Ithaca on the night of 25 October, the Times Union reported. Continue reading...
Despite his fall from grace, the royal always seems to find a pal to pay his way. In a world awash with murky interests, it is rather important that we find out whyIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a fortune is usually dead keen to throw it at Prince Andrew.Because they keep on doing it, don't they? They just can't help themselves, from the oligarch son-in-law of Kazakhstan's then president, who so obligingly paid 3m over the asking price for the Duke of York's former marital home at Sunninghill Park, to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who so famously lent the duke's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson 15,000 to help clear her debts. Even after King Charles stopped paying his security bills, Andrew is believed to have found what the royal journalist Robert Hardman's biography of the king delicately calls other sources of income" related to his contacts in international trade - a phrase that makes you long for the good old days of Fergie gamely doing WeightWatchers ads to pay off her overdraft or Princess Anne's son-in-law going on I'm A Celebrity to discuss her reaction to his novelty boxer shorts.Gaby Hinsliff 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...
Nicholas Wayne Hamlett arrested almost one month after police found body of Steven Lloyd of TennesseeAuthorities in South Carolina have captured a man who allegedly murdered a hiker in woodlands in Tennessee then attempted to disguise the killing as a bear attack.Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was arrested in Columbia on Sunday night almost one month after police found the body of the hiker, Steven Lloyd of Knoxville, Tennessee, close to the Cherahola Skyway in Monroe county, 80 miles north-east of Chattanooga. Continue reading...
The Jennings Creek wildfire has burned more than 3,000 acres and caused the death of at least one personFire crews are continuing to battle a large wildfire spreading across New Jersey and New York amid an increase in wildfires in the north-eastern US.Much of the region is facing a drought, and dry conditions across almost the whole country have made wildfires a more frequent occurrence, with windy periods further exacerbating potential or existing fires. Continue reading...
Pep Guardiola's team have lost four in a row. While they have overcome hurdles before the nature of their problems this season present a fresh challenge
Trump outperformed his 2016 and 2020 election runs substantially with groups such as young men and Black peopleDonald Trump defied the polls and pundits and received both a majority of the popular vote and of the electoral college. His margin of 3.4 percentage points (thus far) was well beyond anything that anyone projected and it is the first time a Republican candidate for president received a majority of popular votes since 2004. It is probably safe to say that even his own pollsters did not see this tornado coming, otherwise the president-elect's team would not have issued statements earlier in the day attacking voting irregularities and election tampering. Certainly not if you are expecting to win.Published polls and the television network-sponsored exit polls both revealed some new truths that help explain what really happened and must be studied by winners and losers, academics and both political strategists and junkies. Continue reading...
The ultra-wealthy talk about solving the climate crisis or ending inequality. But what they're really interested in is outliving or escaping anyone poorer than themNearly three years ago, I started working on an idea for a book. It started out with the pretty mild proposition: we're in a class war, but it's a weird one, because one side is curiously coy. The capital class used to strut its stuff. It used to build libraries and great estates; it used to tell you it thought it was superior, and why. Now that it is billionaires on one side and everyone else on the other, they are like ghosts. They might tell you what they think, in TED talks, at Davos, but it can't be real: according to them, all they care about is fixing climate change, solving inequality and bringing about world peace. Mysteriously, none of those things ever come about.I dragged my feet a little bit, and while I did so, the billionaires got louder, and maybe truer to their authentic selves. Vladimir Putin, estimated to be worth billions, invaded Ukraine. Elon Musk bought Twitter. Sam Bankman-Fried got outed as not-a-billionaire - the billions turned out to either belong to someone else, be fictional, be priced in crypto, or all three - and a lot of his fantasies for the future came tumbling out in the same legal proceedings: a plan, stated in a memo, to purchase the sovereign nation of Nauru in order to construct a bunker/shelter" that would be used for some event where 50%-99.99% of people die [to] ensure that most EAs [effective altruists] survive" and to develop sensible regulation around human genetic enhancement, and build a lab there". Continue reading...
It was a fatal error certainly for Palestinians and quite likely, as we now see, for Americans, tooCould Kamala Harris have won the election if she had promised to change course in Gaza? It's impossible to know, of course, but there's reason to think so. Instead, Harris hewed far too closely to Biden's position, alienating large numbers of voters along the way. The result? We can expect the catastrophe for the Palestinian people to continue, while we learn to live with a much more dangerous Donald Trump, a man whose far-right agenda threatens many of us in and out of the United States.What seems to have doomed Harris most was not so much traditional Democrats casting votes for the Republican Trump, though there was some of that. In fact, party loyalty, at around 95% for both parties, was basically the same as in 2020. Rather, Harris's shortcomings point to the rank-and-file of the Democratic party not coming out to vote and to more first-time voters casting Republican ballots. We don't have the final voter tally yet, but so far Harris has amassed just over 68m votes, compared with Trump's 72m. Biden, by contrast, earned over 81m votes in 2020. By the time the final numbers are in, it's likely that Trump will have won more than the 74m votes he had in 2020, and Harris will have been the first Democrat to lose the popular vote in 20 years. Continue reading...
Tech leaders' politics are encoded into their platforms - and with Trump's ascent, they have direct access to the Oval OfficeI'm a researcher of media manipulation, and watching the 2024 US election returns was like seeing the Titanic sink.Every day leading up to 5 November, there were more and more outrageous claims being made in an attempt across social media to undermine election integrity: conspiracy theories focused on a tidal wave of immigrants plotting to undermine the right wing, allegations that there were millions of excess ballots circulating in California, and rumors that the voting machines were already corrupted by malicious algorithms. Continue reading...
Italian city has struggled to shake off image associated with it as a result of murder of Meredith KercherThe mayor of Perugia, where the British student Meredith Kercher was murdered, has apologised for allowing a controversial TV series co-produced by Amanda Knox to be filmed in the Italian city.Angry residents displayed banners reading Rispetto per Meredith" (respect for Meredith) around the city as the crew arrived to film scenes of Blue Moon, an eight-part drama chronicling Knox's battle to clear her name of the murder, that will be aired on the Disney-owned streaming service Hulu. Continue reading...
by Pjotr Sauer Russian affairs reporter on (#6S4FB)
Putin has no specific plan to speak to president-elect, says spokesperson, after reports Trump urged him not to escalate Ukraine warThe Kremlin has denied reports that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, spoke to the US president-elect, Donald Trump, calling the media reports pure fiction".The Washington Post first reported that a call had taken place, citing unidentified sources, and said Trump had told Putin he should not escalate the Ukraine war. Reuters also reported on a call. Continue reading...
I need my own space and have a limited tolerance for human company ... Might I actually be a moggy?The only time I have ever mentioned my bird-lover's slight - slight! - ambivalence towards cats in a public forum, it brought me the angriest virtual postbag of my career, so I hesitate to even mention them again. Cats are great! I feed my neighbours' cat! My niece is a cat! (By which I mean I view my best friend's cat as a niece-like figure; she is not a child identifying as a cat, a phenomenon some highly suggestible sections of the media got overheated about several news cycles ago.)But I'm daring to mention felines after reading an interview with a French veterinary psychiatrist in the New York Times. Over aperitifs in a cafe not far from the Eiffel Tower" (you can see why he chose to specialise in psychiatry - kir royale with the NYT sounds nicer than expressing a pug's anal glands), Claude Beata explained what cats, who like to keep themselves to themselves", went through during lockdown.Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The president-elect could spark tension between the culturally open cities staging events and a national government promoting insularityVery soon after the outcome of the US presidential election was clear, Fifa's president issued an old photograph of himself shaking hands with a beaming, football-clasping, Donald Trump.Congratulations Mr President! We will have a great Fifa World Cup and a great Fifa Club World Cup in the United States of America!" Gianni Infantino wrote on social media. It was the latest example of Infantino's oleaginous flattery of Trump, whom in 2018 Infantino called part of the Fifa team". And vice versa, it seems. Continue reading...
Elections have multiple causes, of course. Yet foreign policy was one of the reasons Americans gave Trump the largest Republican victory in decadesLast October, Joe Biden made the most significant address of a presidency defined by war. Sitting in the Oval Office, he asked Congress to approve $106bn in emergency aid mainly to arm Ukraine and Israel in their ongoing wars. He barely attempted to explain what the United States was seeking to achieve in either place, or how the fighting would come to an end. Instead, he claimed that American allies, and freedom itself, were under attack, and the United States had to help because of its very identity as a nation. We are, as my friend Madeleine Albright said, the indispensable nation,'" Biden intoned. Albright had served as Secretary of State in the late 1990s, at the apex of America's global dominance.The next day I attended a meeting of outside experts" convened by the National Security Council. The group, in fact mostly composed of seasoned national-security hands, showered praise on the administration for Biden's soaring speech. If the attendees had made up the US Congress, they would have rubber-stamped the aid that afternoon and probably added billions more. (The actual Congress balked at the request, approving it only after five months of uncertainty.)Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and Catholic University Continue reading...
It was a wild Sunday for kickers as their errors and heroics helped decide several games. Don't let anyone tell you the position is dullThe late, great coach Buddy Ryan once quipped, Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one." If Ryan were alive today, he might think again. Kickers dominated Week 10 with a collection of horrors and heroics. A few examples of how they made their presence felt: Denver's Wil Lutz entered Sunday with a 95% success rate on field goals this season. So, when Bo Nix led the Broncos down the field and set Lutz up for a potential game-winning, Kansas City Chiefs-beating 35-yarder as time expired, the odds were in his favor. BLOCK. The Chiefs won 16-14 and remain undefeated. Continue reading...
Like most boxing fans I hate the idea of this deluded nonsense but there certainly seems to be a market for itMark Borkowski is the public relations maestro who has worked with everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Diego Maradona to Jim Rose, an American exhibitionist who used to hang weights from his penis. Borkowski also helped Ian Botham recreate Hannibal's walk across the Alps with elephants, and, for his sins, was the mastermind behind Cliff Richard's Saviour's Day reaching Christmas No 1, despite minimal radio play. So who better to talk about the biggest sporting stunt of the year, Mike Tyson's fight against Jake Paul, which will be streamed into 300m homes via Netflix this weekend?Instinctively, as I told Borkowksi, I hate the idea. Most boxing fans do. It sells a myth that wasn't even close to being a reality in 2004, let alone 2024: namely that Tyson is one of the most ferocious warriors alive, not a 58-year-old who lost 26lb in May after an ulcer flare-up that left him throwing up blood and defecating tar. It risks Tyson's boxing reputation and his health. And, Netflix's lavish promotion aside, it feels more like a sham or a circus than a genuine sporting event. Continue reading...
Imagine how isolated in their trauma Arab-American voters must have felt to turn to Trump. But that's what happenedI would be sceptical of post-election analyses in the wake of what is seen as a shock result. For both sides, voting patterns at this point are a sort of Rorschach test - people will see what they want to see. What I offer here is a mix of instinct and conjecture (what's new, I hear you ask). But it is based on one specific factor that doesn't come as a shock, and which was predicted to harm the Kamala Harris campaign. We can be certain that the Democrats lost voters because of Gaza. The numbers are stark. Another certainty is that those voters will still not be heard.In Dearborn, Michigan, the largest majority Arab American city, Joe Biden won in 2020 with around 70% of the vote. Early stats indicate that Harris received something like 40% of the vote. As concerns over the war were raised loudly and specifically, Harris not only continued to ignore and isolate these voices, but also the campaign sent Bill Clinton out to shush them. Harris never even visited the city. But guess who did? That's right, Donald Trump. And now he's won in Dearborn and taken all of Michigan.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Immigration hardliner said last week that if Trump needs help running a deportation operation, I am standing by'US president-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), will be in charge of the country's borders in his new administration.Homan's areas of control will include the southern border, the northern border, all maritime, and aviation security", Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump added that border czar" Homan will be in charge of the deportation of illegal immigrants. Continue reading...
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This live blog is closed now, you can read our latest full report hereHere is a video report on the protests against Donald Trump in New York and Washington DC mentioned earlier:Protests against Donald Trump erupted in the US on Saturday as people on both coasts took to the streets in frustration about his re-election. Continue reading...
In phone call, Trump reminds Putin of US's sizeable military presence in Europe', Washington Post reportsDonald Trump spoke on the phone with Vladimir Putin on Thursday and discussed the war in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.The US president-elect advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington's sizeable military presence in Europe", the Post reported. Continue reading...
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