2 hours ago Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney; Trump trying to politicize military with ‘enemy within’ remarks, says Walz – US elections live

Vice-president campaigns in Pennsylvania in effort to win over Republican voters as her running mate warns over Trump commentsDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is...

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3 hours ago Employment rights bill will cost firms £5bn per year but benefits will justify costs, government says – UK politics live

Analysis from business and trade department says bill will significantly strengthen workers’ rightIn the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, o...

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3 hours ago Trump losing economic edge over Harris, poll suggests, as candidates blitz swing states – US elections live

Latest polling contains some positive news for Harris but election remains on knife-edge; nominees hit campaign trail with about two weeks to election dayDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them...

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4 hours ago Polls show tight races for Trump and Harris in crucial battleground states as Election Day nears: Live

Polls tighten in key swing states as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter final two weeks of campaign

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5 hours ago Birth control pills and condoms could be free for millions in US under new plan

Biden administration proposal comes days before US election as Kamala Harris vows to expand healthcareUS politics – live updatesMillions of people with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the morning-after pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.Right now, health insurers must cover the cost of prescribed contraception, including prescription birth control or even condoms that doctors have issued a prescription for. But the new rule would expand that coverage, allowing millions of people on private health insurance to pick up free condoms, birth control pills or morning-after pills from local storefronts without a prescription. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Starmer remains opposed to apology for slavery at major Commonwealth summit

The Prime Minister’s spokesman insisted talks of reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade are ‘not on the agenda’.

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6 hours ago Conspiracy theories and a $1m check: a night at Elon Musk’s surreal election giveaway

Musk’s latest ploy to assist Trump to win the US election has been to give away $1m every day to a member of the publicUS politics live – latest updatesStanding before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.“This kind of energy lights a fire in my soul,” he said, having just made one of the crowd a millionaire after everyone chanted his name. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Keir Starmer WON'T apologise for Britain's role in the slave trade at Commonwealth summit and reparations 'not on the agenda', says No10

The Prime Minister is this week heading to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, where he will be joined by King Charles .

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7 hours ago Streeting revives claim that some patients face avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current state of NHS – UK politics live

Health secretary says NHS is going through the ‘worst crisis in its history’In the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, one of the balloons is ...

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