James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed are favored among likely voters in Texas and Michigan, respectively, latest CNN poll finds; Dunleavy orders inquiry into Mary Peltola’s campaign
With days until the midterm elections, a new poll from CNN places Democrats well in the lead in key Senate races in Texas and Michigan, while projecting tighter contests in Kansas and Maine.
In Texas, the poll found 49% of likely voters would back James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, over Republican Ken Paxton, who netted just 43%.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/29/midterm-elections-politics-trump-obama-california-alaska-latest-news-updates", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:41:29 GMT" } }, { "id": "259c51b2fee80c42f0dfb930858e6f3adb1ae3ba", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Two Colorado college students found dead after going missing during hike", "summary": "Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon were on a trip in Rocky Mountains last weekend when heavy snowstorm hitTwo Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.The bodies of Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, of New York, were found on Wednesday afternoon in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Aspen, the Chaffee county sheriff’s office said in a statement posted on social media. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/colorado-college-students-found-dead-hike", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T15:17:16+00:00", "score": 92.44, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Two Colorado college students found dead after going missing during hike", "summary": "Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon were on a trip in Rocky Mountains last weekend when heavy snowstorm hit
Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.
The bodies of Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado, and Jackson Donlon, 20, of New York, were found on Wednesday afternoon in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles (160km) south-east of Aspen, the Chaffee county sheriff’s office said in a statement posted on social media.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/colorado-college-students-found-dead-hike", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:17:16 GMT" } }, { "id": "2d4371ec68da9eece2b600a5c081581c577650da", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘Strength of matriarchs’: New Mexico’s Deb Haaland poised to be first female Native American governor", "summary": "Ex-congresswoman is connecting with young people and Native voters with promise to expand the social safety netThe road to Isleta Pueblo, a Native American tribal community just 20 minutes south of downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, is peppered with campaign signs. Among the many names of candidates running in next week’s midterm elections and tribal elections later in November, there’s one that is poised to make history.Deb Haaland is set to become the first Native American female governor in the US when voters cast their ballots on 3 November. Recent polling shows her with a comfortable lead over her opponent, Republican Gregg Hull, a businessman and the longtime mayor of the city of Rio Rancho. Her bid for office also signals the growing power of the Democratic party in the state, where Democrats control the legislature, hold all top offices and have enacted progressive policies, such…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/deb-haaland-new-mexico-governor-midterm-elections", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T15:00:46+00:00", "score": 92.31, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "‘Strength of matriarchs’: New Mexico’s Deb Haaland poised to be first female Native American governor", "summary": "Ex-congresswoman is connecting with young people and Native voters with promise to expand the social safety net
The road to Isleta Pueblo, a Native American tribal community just 20 minutes south of downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, is peppered with campaign signs. Among the many names of candidates running in next week’s midterm elections and tribal elections later in November, there’s one that is poised to make history.
Deb Haaland is set to become the first Native American female governor in the US when voters cast their ballots on 3 November. Recent polling shows her with a comfortable lead over her opponent, Republican Gregg Hull, a businessman and the longtime mayor of the city of Rio Rancho. Her bid for office also signals the growing power of the Democratic party in the state, where Democrats control the legislature, hold all top offices and have enacted progressive policies, such as universal childcare, that have been heralded across the country.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/deb-haaland-new-mexico-governor-midterm-elections", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:00:46 GMT" } }, { "id": "b84c5bfee98eec96b654452908386db96ccc11fd", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Senate race in once reliably Republican South Carolina tied in final stretch – poll", "summary": "Democrat Annie Andrews neck-and-neck with Republican incumbent, Darline Graham, sister to Lindsey GrahamUS politics live – latest updatesA US Senate race in one of the most Republican states in the country is now a dead heat, according to a new poll showing Annie Andrews, a Democrat, tied with Darline Graham, the Republican incumbent senator.South Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1998, and Donald Trump won it by nearly 18 points in 2024, but a New York Times/Siena poll this week has the two candidates neck and neck, at 48% each. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/south-carolina-senate-tied-race", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T14:42:38+00:00", "score": 92.16, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Senate race in once reliably Republican South Carolina tied in final stretch – poll", "summary": "Democrat Annie Andrews neck-and-neck with Republican incumbent, Darline Graham, sister to Lindsey Graham
A US Senate race in one of the most Republican states in the country is now a dead heat, according to a new poll showing Annie Andrews, a Democrat, tied with Darline Graham, the Republican incumbent senator.
South Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1998, and Donald Trump won it by nearly 18 points in 2024, but a New York Times/Siena poll this week has the two candidates neck and neck, at 48% each.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/south-carolina-senate-tied-race", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:42:38 GMT" } }, { "id": "20260ffd1dad6043538f1ddd4e6e756383c0da1d", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "The low-budget Brewers won the World Series – and exposed baseball’s biggest lie | Howard Bryant", "summary": "Milwaukee’s first World Series championship is a rebuke to baseball’s oligarch class, whose insistence that small-market teams cannot compete has been laid bare as fictionFor the entirety of the 2026 baseball season, the overlords of the game have stood on the single position that what has now happened could not happen, and the result was a year that has been treated like an appetizer for the main course of the offseason: the shutting down of the game until the players, after 40 years of resistance, finally agree to a salary cap. The insistence that the game had been predetermined undermined the Milwaukee Brewers, who spent 149 days this season atop the standings.Baseball dismissed Milwaukee’s 22-0 demolition of Seattle on 18 August, the 20-0 waxing of Cincinnati a month later, and the comprehensive dusting of their division – their fourth consecutive National League Central title and f…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/29/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-title-mlb-salary-cap", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T14:01:44+00:00", "score": 91.83, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "The low-budget Brewers won the World Series – and exposed baseball’s biggest lie | Howard Bryant", "summary": "Milwaukee’s first World Series championship is a rebuke to baseball’s oligarch class, whose insistence that small-market teams cannot compete has been laid bare as fiction
For the entirety of the 2026 baseball season, the overlords of the game have stood on the single position that what has now happened could not happen, and the result was a year that has been treated like an appetizer for the main course of the offseason: the shutting down of the game until the players, after 40 years of resistance, finally agree to a salary cap. The insistence that the game had been predetermined undermined the Milwaukee Brewers, who spent 149 days this season atop the standings.
Baseball dismissed Milwaukee’s 22-0 demolition of Seattle on 18 August, the 20-0 waxing of Cincinnati a month later, and the comprehensive dusting of their division – their fourth consecutive National League Central title and fifth in six years – by 14 games. Baseball’s owners, at their persuasive best, would have their paying customers believe that the Brewers’ franchise-record 103 regular-season wins also were an illusion, or worse, the dreaded outlier, even though Milwaukee have won 770 games since 2018, the fourth-most in all of baseball. Even when Milwaukee exhaled and made the Dodgers look old in a stirring four-game sweep, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported the owners’ position remained unchanged.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/29/milwaukee-brewers-world-series-title-mlb-salary-cap", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:01:44 GMT" } }, { "id": "0afcfaca54ead8ae63f2da99c870d26d067c08a3", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign", "summary": "Republican Mike Dunleavy plans search after Peltola accused of recruiting Dan Sullivan to confuse votersThe Republican governor of Alaska announced plans to launch a criminal investigation after a report accused the campaign of the Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola of trying to confuse voters by recruiting a candidate with the same name as her opponent.Governor Mike Dunleavy wrote on social media that he was “directing the department of public safety to investigate whether this scheme violated Alaska’s laws and whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted”. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/alaska-investigation-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T13:10:39+00:00", "score": 91.41, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign", "summary": "Republican Mike Dunleavy plans search after Peltola accused of recruiting Dan Sullivan to confuse voters
The Republican governor of Alaska announced plans to launch a criminal investigation after a report accused the campaign of the Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola of trying to confuse voters by recruiting a candidate with the same name as her opponent.
Governor Mike Dunleavy wrote on social media that he was “directing the department of public safety to investigate whether this scheme violated Alaska’s laws and whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted”.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/alaska-investigation-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:10:39 GMT" } }, { "id": "21cd127b6322b85b36b2505d5d80424808235d6c", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "A Mississippi Democrat is unexpectedly threatening Republicans’ grip on the state", "summary": "As Scott Colom challenges incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith for Senate, one of the country’s most reliably Republican states may be in play in the midtermsOn Tuesday, with just one week until the election, Scott Colom’s headquarters was buzzing. Volunteers arrived for phone-banking, while staffers prepared for another day of campaigning. Colom, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith for US Senate, had just held a press conference in Corinth, Mississippi.Donald Trump campaigned for Hyde-Smith in Corinth, a small city near the Tennessee border that typically leans Republican on Tuesday, too. He told attenders that he was there “because Cindy’s doing great, but I just got to make sure. I can’t take a chance.” Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/mississippi-scott-colom-democrats", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T13:00:44+00:00", "score": 91.33, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "A Mississippi Democrat is unexpectedly threatening Republicans’ grip on the state", "summary": "As Scott Colom challenges incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith for Senate, one of the country’s most reliably Republican states may be in play in the midterms
On Tuesday, with just one week until the election, Scott Colom’s headquarters was buzzing. Volunteers arrived for phone-banking, while staffers prepared for another day of campaigning. Colom, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith for US Senate, had just held a press conference in Corinth, Mississippi.
Donald Trump campaigned for Hyde-Smith in Corinth, a small city near the Tennessee border that typically leans Republican on Tuesday, too. He told attenders that he was there “because Cindy’s doing great, but I just got to make sure. I can’t take a chance.”
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/mississippi-scott-colom-democrats", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:00:44 GMT" } }, { "id": "16cdb98eb5a027a619ef27d37eae2bcacf28b71c", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell", "summary": "The Michigan Senate candidate is calling for public ownership and other reforms, offering a potential antidote to ideological gridlockThe Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s praised by progressives, begrudgingly tolerated by moderate Democrats and largely demonized by Republicans.He’s also uniquely positioned to forge an all-too-elusive thread of political kinship between these perpetually-at-odds groups with his bold but contentious plan for reining in AI, called AI Under Democracy. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/abdul-el-sayed-ai-companies-public-ownership", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T13:00:44+00:00", "score": 91.33, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell", "summary": "The Michigan Senate candidate is calling for public ownership and other reforms, offering a potential antidote to ideological gridlock
The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s praised by progressives, begrudgingly tolerated by moderate Democrats and largely demonized by Republicans.
He’s also uniquely positioned to forge an all-too-elusive thread of political kinship between these perpetually-at-odds groups with his bold but contentious plan for reining in AI, called AI Under Democracy.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/abdul-el-sayed-ai-companies-public-ownership", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:00:44 GMT" } }, { "id": "72b5eb119bd1f1d86ce8790e35acc8182c6997d7", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Explosive book targets Jared Kushner’s role in US foreign policy | First Thing", "summary": "President’s son-in-law denies ‘completely insane’ claims he profited from unofficial position. Plus, the battle between psychics and AI• Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning. A book that contains incendiary claims about Jared Kushner’s financial dealings during Donald Trump’s first term has ignited a political and media storm. The book, by the author Matthew Cole, drew a furious response from Kushner, who called its claims “completely insane”.It contains numerous allegations about Kushner, who has served as one of Donald Trump’s top diplomatic envoys in the Middle East. The most explosive are claims linking him to huge bank accounts allegedly funded by Gulf states. Kushner continues to steer US foreign policy despite having no official role. The Guardian contacted Kushner’s legal counsel and received no response.Barack Obama offered a closing argument fo…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/first-thing-book-jared-kushner-role-us-foreign-policy", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T12:29:15+00:00", "score": 91.08, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Explosive book targets Jared Kushner’s role in US foreign policy | First Thing", "summary": "President’s son-in-law denies ‘completely insane’ claims he profited from unofficial position. Plus, the battle between psychics and AI
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Good morning. A book that contains incendiary claims about Jared Kushner’s financial dealings during Donald Trump’s first term has ignited a political and media storm. The book, by the author Matthew Cole, drew a furious response from Kushner, who called its claims “completely insane”.
It contains numerous allegations about Kushner, who has served as one of Donald Trump’s top diplomatic envoys in the Middle East. The most explosive are claims linking him to huge bank accounts allegedly funded by Gulf states. Kushner continues to steer US foreign policy despite having no official role. The Guardian contacted Kushner’s legal counsel and received no response.
Barack Obama offered a closing argument for Democrats in the final week of the campaign. “These are not serious people,” he said of Trump and the Republican party. “And we’re all paying the price for their lack of seriousness.”
The campaign of the Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola was behind an effort to recruit a challenger with almost the same name as the Republican US senator Dan Sullivan. Both men will appear on the ballot in next week’s midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Peltola’s campaign has denied involvement with the other Dan Sullivan, who will be listed on the ballot as “Sullivan, Daniel J Jr”.
Two rightwing influencers have been charged with felonies in Minneapolis over attempts in the state’s election primary to disguise themselves in what they called “Muslim garb” and claim they were local voters.
If you are having trouble keeping track of all the ways Trump and his administration have been attempting to disrupt the midterms, this four-minute video explainer has you covered. And the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, has this analysis piece looking at Trump’s midterm rally bigotry, with the president’s repeated attacks on Muslims and his strange obsession with people’s bodies.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/first-thing-book-jared-kushner-role-us-foreign-policy", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:29:15 GMT" } }, { "id": "834ea8a33e17019a411ee7a825f9d7210478799e", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "How Laura Loomer and Trump allies amplified ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ lie dogging Abdul El-Sayed", "summary": "Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist groupThe Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer eight years ago, a Guardian review of the evidence reveals.Loomer, an influential outside adviser to Donald Trump who calls herself “a proud Islamophobe”, has claimed since El-Sayed entered politics in 2018 that an open letter he signed in support of democracy in Egypt in 2012 was a public endorsement of the Muslim Brotherhood. The text of the letter, however, does not even mention the Muslim Brotherhood, and is not, as Loomer maintains, “a pledge” of support for the Egyptian Islamist group. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/laura-loomer-trump-abdul-el-sayed-muslim-brotherhood", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T12:13:25+00:00", "score": 90.95, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "How Laura Loomer and Trump allies amplified ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ lie dogging Abdul El-Sayed", "summary": "Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist group
The Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer eight years ago, a Guardian review of the evidence reveals.
Loomer, an influential outside adviser to Donald Trump who calls herself “a proud Islamophobe”, has claimed since El-Sayed entered politics in 2018 that an open letter he signed in support of democracy in Egypt in 2012 was a public endorsement of the Muslim Brotherhood. The text of the letter, however, does not even mention the Muslim Brotherhood, and is not, as Loomer maintains, “a pledge” of support for the Egyptian Islamist group.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/laura-loomer-trump-abdul-el-sayed-muslim-brotherhood", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:13:25 GMT" } }, { "id": "74df04555d82f5752dcd35fe6f0d36c57f1159b1", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Minnesota officials surveilled activists urging closure of waste incinerator, emails show", "summary": "Local officials tried to grow close to activist groups and collected information that was then shared with industryNewly released emails show local government officials in Minneapolis have quietly surveilled environmental justice activists who are working to close a controversial waste incinerator that is emitting pollution into low-income neighborhoods around it, activist groups allege.County officials sent an employee who is also an environmental justice activist to collect intelligence, among other tactics, emails show. The information was then used to help successfully kill state-level environmental legislation opposed by the incinerator’s leadership, and try to stay one step ahead of activist campaigns and protests. In another instance, a county employee presenting himself as an ally allegedly tried to obtain the identity of a whistleblower, a recording shows. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/minneapolis-waste-incinerator-emails", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T12:00:42+00:00", "score": 90.85, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Minnesota officials surveilled activists urging closure of waste incinerator, emails show", "summary": "Local officials tried to grow close to activist groups and collected information that was then shared with industry
Newly released emails show local government officials in Minneapolis have quietly surveilled environmental justice activists who are working to close a controversial waste incinerator that is emitting pollution into low-income neighborhoods around it, activist groups allege.
County officials sent an employee who is also an environmental justice activist to collect intelligence, among other tactics, emails show. The information was then used to help successfully kill state-level environmental legislation opposed by the incinerator’s leadership, and try to stay one step ahead of activist campaigns and protests. In another instance, a county employee presenting himself as an ally allegedly tried to obtain the identity of a whistleblower, a recording shows.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/minneapolis-waste-incinerator-emails", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:42 GMT" } }, { "id": "5479d5e1d22bccaa46a740be3a41dc302d23bffd", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "It’s easy to see through Trump’s Ukraine ploy | Kenneth Roth", "summary": "In advance of the midterms, Trump is blaming Kyiv for high gas prices while making clear moves to support RussiaAs the US midterms approach, Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine’s democracy in a desperate effort to deny responsibility for worsening inflation. Yet this past weekend’s dramatic elections in Brazil and Serbia show that voters can see through such subterfuge.There is nothing like a political party’s corrupt indifference to the plight of ordinary people to galvanize voter turnout. If US voters follow in the footsteps of their Brazilian and Serbian counterparts, a Democratic landslide is likely. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/trump-ukraine-midterms", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T12:00:42+00:00", "score": 90.85, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "It’s easy to see through Trump’s Ukraine ploy | Kenneth Roth", "summary": "In advance of the midterms, Trump is blaming Kyiv for high gas prices while making clear moves to support Russia
As the US midterms approach, Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine’s democracy in a desperate effort to deny responsibility for worsening inflation. Yet this past weekend’s dramatic elections in Brazil and Serbia show that voters can see through such subterfuge.
There is nothing like a political party’s corrupt indifference to the plight of ordinary people to galvanize voter turnout. If US voters follow in the footsteps of their Brazilian and Serbian counterparts, a Democratic landslide is likely.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/trump-ukraine-midterms", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:42 GMT" } }, { "id": "1c31df02a92db82ce07dda4b1f8e2673ce27a507", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Trump’s plea – ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ – deserves to backfire | Margaret Sullivan", "summary": "With his poll numbers tanking and his behavior getting odder, the remark seems more appealing to himself than to votersAs he criss-crosses the nation, stumping for Republican candidates, Donald Trump keeps asking voters to use their imaginations.“In this election, I’m asking you to pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just pretend,” he urged at a Kansas rally as he campaigned for the incumbent senator Roger Marshall and gubernatorial challenger Ty Masterson last month. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/trump-ballot-midterms-voting", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T10:00:31+00:00", "score": 89.87, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Trump’s plea – ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ – deserves to backfire | Margaret Sullivan", "summary": "With his poll numbers tanking and his behavior getting odder, the remark seems more appealing to himself than to voters
As he criss-crosses the nation, stumping for Republican candidates, Donald Trump keeps asking voters to use their imaginations.
“In this election, I’m asking you to pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just pretend,” he urged at a Kansas rally as he campaigned for the incumbent senator Roger Marshall and gubernatorial challenger Ty Masterson last month.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/trump-ballot-midterms-voting", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:31 GMT" } }, { "id": "2ad186745fd65d5220a89c7be20c09ff94a8c5ea", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Democratic lawmakers decry Osha’s push to roll back worker respiratory protections", "summary": "Elizabeth Warren and others joined by unions and industry experts in warning against the weakening of regulationsThe senator Elizabeth Warren, the congresswoman Ilhan Omar and several other Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) to abandon a rollback of respirator mask regulations, a change the lawmakers say would weaken worker protections against hazardous substances.Under the proposed rules, employers would face fewer requirements to provide workers with respirators masks when working with substances including “lead, asbestos, formaldehyde and inorganic arsenic, among other chemicals”, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Osha assistant secretary, David Keeling, a former UPS and Amazon executive. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/warren-lawmakers-osha-worker-respiratory-protection", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T10:00:30+00:00", "score": 89.87, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Democratic lawmakers decry Osha’s push to roll back worker respiratory protections", "summary": "Elizabeth Warren and others joined by unions and industry experts in warning against the weakening of regulations
The senator Elizabeth Warren, the congresswoman Ilhan Omar and several other Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) to abandon a rollback of respirator mask regulations, a change the lawmakers say would weaken worker protections against hazardous substances.
Under the proposed rules, employers would face fewer requirements to provide workers with respirators masks when working with substances including “lead, asbestos, formaldehyde and inorganic arsenic, among other chemicals”, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Osha assistant secretary, David Keeling, a former UPS and Amazon executive.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding some of the US’s biggest airlines, ride-share companies and retailers divulge how they are using algorithms and loyalty programs to target customers and drivers with different prices and wages.
Nine companies – Delta, United, JetBlue, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Target and Walmart – were named in the inquiry, which comes after investigations and lawsuits alleging consumers are charged different prices based on their buying histories and drivers paid different fares based on their personal histories.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/delta-uber-ftc-pricing", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:29 GMT" } }, { "id": "8706aeb523e4c1f46c9c926929d948c8a41fa895", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff", "summary": "Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governorFormer US president Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s “whole of government” response to his critique of his successor’s gilded White House renovations as he rallied Democrats in the final week of the US midterm election campaign.“These are not serious people,” Obama said of Trump and the Republican party at a campaign rally in suburban Atlanta on Wednesday evening. “And we’re all paying the price for their lack of seriousness.” Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/obama-atlanta-democrats-jon-ossoff", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-29T02:12:23+00:00", "score": 86.08, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff", "summary": "Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor
Former US president Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s “whole of government” response to his critique of his successor’s gilded White House renovations as he rallied Democrats in the final week of the US midterm election campaign.
“These are not serious people,” Obama said of Trump and the Republican party at a campaign rally in suburban Atlanta on Wednesday evening. “And we’re all paying the price for their lack of seriousness.”
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A federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate and not count ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over the results of the midterms.
The ruling from US district judge David Carter, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, comes about two weeks after the justice department delivered a USB drive to election officials in Los Angeles and Sacramento that it said contained the names of 20,000 non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls. There are more than 23 million registered voters in California and non-citizen voting is extremely rare.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/federal-judge-trump-california-ballots", "image": "", "published": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:54:47 GMT" } }, { "id": "2728e382d3f1c64503b123656f7dd1a85a23a53e", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while consolidating power at home | Shiri Pasternak", "summary": "The Canadian prime minister’s reckoning with Trumpism in Davos clashes with his attacks on environmental, Indigenous and labour rightsThe Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda.Shiri Pasternak is an associate professor in criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism research team, a collaboration between critical scholars and Indigenous land defenders across North America Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/mark-carney-trump-davos", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T13:00:04+00:00", "score": 79.66, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while consolidating power at home | Shiri Pasternak", "summary": "The Canadian prime minister’s reckoning with Trumpism in Davos clashes with his attacks on environmental, Indigenous and labour rights
The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.
But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda.
Shiri Pasternak is an associate professor in criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism research team, a collaboration between critical scholars and Indigenous land defenders across North America
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A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying we may reach 3C by 2050 – could it possibly be any worse?
How about throwing AI extinction in the mix?
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/ai-climate-crisis-humanity", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "8164ddb04bbb26985f9111dd8f17609645f951b1", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere | V (formerly Eve Ensler)", "summary": "Psychopatriarchy is jet fuel to racism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalismFor those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot.The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy.V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/psychopatriarchy-politics-opinion", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T10:00:03+00:00", "score": 78.2, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere | V (formerly Eve Ensler)", "summary": "Psychopatriarchy is jet fuel to racism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism
For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot.
The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls
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