39 minutes ago Musk offers voters $1 million to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution. Can that be legal?

Elon Musk is pledging to give away $1 million to voters for signing his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution

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41 minutes ago Trump makes bizarre stop at McDonald’s and learns how to make French fries ahead of Pennsylvania town hall: Live

Trump, fresh from his townhall dance-off, rants about Arnold Palmer’s manhood while Kamala Harris spends her birthday campaigning in Georgia

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96 minutes ago Trump has another go at Harris over her time at McDonald’s as he dons apron to work fry cooker: Live

Trump, fresh from his townhall dance-off, rants about Arnold Palmer’s manhood while Kamala Harris spends her birthday campaigning in Georgia

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1 hour ago AP Top 25: Oregon is No. 1 for first time since 2012; Vanderbilt enters poll and Michigan drops out

Oregon has become the fourth team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press college football poll

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2 hours ago Bill Gates says threat posed by AI is as serious as nuclear war and bio

The multi-billionaire said he finds AI “both wondrous and a little bit scary - but also pointed out the benefits of AI such as helping people access medical care and education

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2 hours ago The Guardian view on North Koreans in Ukraine: a Russian war is using foreign labour | Editorial

Moscow is relying on soldiers and workers enlisted from abroad to keep its war goingAround 1 million soldiers are believed to have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war in Ukraine. In addition to the vast Ukrainian civilian and military toll, average Russian casualties reportedly rose to a new height of more than 1,200 soldiers a day in September. Russia has four times as many men, but a war described by its own fighters as a “meat grinder” is rapidly diminishing the ranks, and using conscripts has a political cost. On some estimates, seven times more Russian soldiers have died since the invasion than Soviet troops died in Afghanistan in a decade.Valerii Zaluzhnyi, formerly Ukraine’s commander in chief and now its ambassador to the UK, remarked recently that in war “the only thing that...

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2 hours ago Bill Gates urges UK to maintain lead role in helping the world’s poorest people

Microsoft founder Bill Gates came to London to urge Keir Starmer to maintain Britain’s global leadership in helping the world’s poorest - and said the 'golden age' of giving is over

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2 hours ago Harris marks birthday with church visit after Trump’s crude rhetoric at rally

Democratic nominee campaigns on 60th birthday as Trump acolytes try to defend vulgar remarks about Arnold PalmerDemocratic governors from three states in the so-called blue wall that is key to their party’s aspirations for an electoral college victory delivered closing pitches for Kamala Harris on Sunday as their presidential nominee celebrated her 60th birthday with a visit to church.Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Tony Evers of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer barnstormed the Sunday morning political shows to talk up the vice-president’s policy agenda – and highlight differences with Republican candidate Donald Trump, 16 days before an election that polls suggest is still on a knife edge. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Russia only country waging war in Europe, says Healey, after ‘proxy war’ claim

The Defence Secretary rejected the Russian ambassador’s claim the UK was waging a ‘proxy war’ against Moscow in Ukraine.

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3 hours ago Harris tells Black churchgoers that people must show compassion and respect in their lives

Kamala Harris has told the congregation of a large Black church in suburban Atlanta that people must show compassion and respect in their daily lives and do more than just “preach the values.”

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