61 minutes ago Trump roasts Harris for skipping Al Smith dinner as both candidates head to battleground state Michigan: Live

Donald Trump spoke at prestigious Catholic charity gala in New York City, with wife Melania making a rare appearance at his side, as Kamala Harris took to the campaign trail in Wisconsin

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83 minutes ago Elon Musk has been inescapable in this election. How could he affect the results?

Tesla and SpaceX chief’s behavior sets him apart from even the most politically active billionaires – serving as a Trump policy adviser and mega-donorLess than a month before the presidential election, Elon Musk has made himself a near-constant presence in the race. At a rally for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Musk jumps with glee wearing a custom black Maga hat. On social media, he posts AI-generated images attacking Kamala Harris. Behind the scenes, he bankrolls one of the largest pro-Trump political action committees.The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has emerged as a unique influence on the campaign in ways that set him apart from even the most politically active billionaires and tech elite. He is all at once a vocal Trump surrogate, campaign mega-donor, informal policy adviser...

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83 minutes ago First he urged women to put family first. Now Harrison Butker’s the latest angry rich guy with a Pac | Arwa Mahdawi

The Kansas City Chiefs kicker became a hero on the right after a speech in May. Suddenly Fox News is OK with athletes in politicsIn a segment last week, Laura Ingraham could barely contain her glee when she announced that Harrison Butker had decided to venture into politics: a “move sure to drive the liberals crazy”.Butker, for those who aren’t aware, is a kicker with the Kansas City Chiefs – who are famous in non-sporty circles for being the team that Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, plays for. As well as being the highest-paid kicker in the NFL and the owner of a very impressive beard, Butker is what a polite person might call “traditional” and a more direct person might call “Taliban-adjacent”. He essentially thinks women should stay at home making sandwiches for their husband...

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83 minutes ago Great Britain v New Zealand: America’s Cup 2024, races seven and eight – live

Team Emirates NZ lead Ineos Britannia crew 4-2Report from races five and six | And email YaraA week ago, race seven of the 2024 America’s Cup looked like a mere formality but not anymore. After Team New Zealand took a 4-0 lead Ineos Britannia cut it down to only two. The two wins were the first for a Great Britain team in 90 years and six days.But the celebrations can’t be too premature. Ben Ainslie and his crew know that there is no margin for error in this best-of-seven if they want their names in the history books. Today’s races provide an opportunity to tie things up. Will Ineos Britannia do just that or will it slip from their fingers. Continue reading...

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84 minutes ago Urgent standing desk health warning issued to anyone who uses them for work

A new study has shown that standing motionless for hours on end isn't as good for you as you might think, and could even lead to serious health complications.

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1 hour ago Tea dethroned as Britain's favourite beverage as bombshell survey reveals new king of the kettle

A new poll has found that 56% of people now prefer coffee to tea, with younger Britons in particular behind the trend and the nation's coffee capital also revealed

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2 hours ago Robbie Savage pooed in ref's toilet then 'left the door open and didn't flush'

Former Premier League star Robbie Savage once took a number two in referee Graham Poll's private toilet, allegedly leaving the door open and failing to flush

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2 hours ago The electoral college has become a gun held to the head of US democracy | Lawrence Douglas

Created as a constitutional afterthought, the system now holds millions of voters hostage to a handful of countiesThese are not easy days for supporters of American democracy. But what twists my innards is not the prospect that in three weeks’ time, the majority of voters could hand the reins of power to a vengeful authoritarian demagogue. Instead, I’m sickened by the prospect that the electoral college can do that for us – that Kamala Harris could win the national popular vote, but come up short where it counts.We know the popular vote winner has already twice lost in this young century, in 2000 and again in 2016. But few realize how narrowly we missed a catastrophic result in 2020 when Biden won the national popular vote by a substantial margin – over 7 million votes. In every other d...

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2 hours ago Trump gets record donations from big oil but far less than $1bn he wanted

Republican ex-president has received $14.1m oil and gas industry making it his fourth-biggest source of cashDonald Trump has raised more money from the oil and gas industry than at this stage of his previous campaigns for the US presidency, with a surge of fossil fuel funding coming in the six months since he directly requested $1bn from oil executives and then promised he would scrap environmental rules if elected.While the Republican nominee hasn’t quite managed to get to that $1bn figure, he has received $14.1m from the oil and gas industry in the period up to 31 August, donation filings show. This is more than he got from the industry at the same stage of his presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s planned rally at Madison Square Garden will be the ultimate act of ego and the climax of his Hitlerian rhetoricFor the apotheosis of his entire “poisoning of the blood” campaign, Donald Trump has planned a spectacular extravaganza in Madison Square Garden on 27 October, a week before the election. When JD Vance sings Trump’s fulsome praises to introduce him, his ominous tribute will not inspire comparison to the night in the Garden of 19 May 1962, when Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday, Mr President to John F Kennedy.Trump’s climactic rally will not be in the spirit of any past presidential event ever held there. His gathering for the great racist replacement theory will be the culmination of his spiraling descent since the Charlottesville rally in 2017 when neo-Nazis chanted, ...

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