26 minutes ago Election 2024 live: Trump pursues Latino votes during roundtable; Harris sits down for NBC interview

Kamala Harris narrowly ahead of Donald Trump, new survey finds, as presidential race remains on a knife edge with just two weeks to go

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2 hours ago Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one | Marina Hyde

The great and good of US media and politics can’t decide if the lavish giveaway is unethical or illegal. I’m no expert, but it seems off to meFor a guy who has spent his entire life making “I am very rich” the keystone of his personal brand, there is something quite poignant about watching Donald Trump get financially cucked by Elon Musk on stage every night. Musk is much younger, much richer, and has had a much more successful series of hair transplants. But needs must, it seems.As you might be aware, Musk has recently decided to update the tired dystopian fiction trope in which impoverished citizens are forced to compete in deadly gameshows where the winner gets a life-changingly glittering prize, and the losers are killed for sport. In Elon’s rebooted version, the richest man in the ...

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3 hours ago Pennsylvania man ‘threatened to skin alive’ political party worker who was recruiting Election Day volunteers

John Pollard of Philadelphia has been charged with threatening to kill the unnamed victim in a series of violent text messages

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3 hours ago Elon Musk is trying to buy the US election for Donald Trump. What does he want in return? | Arwa Mahdawi

Billionaire funding is flooding into the ex-president’s campaign. If he wins, will we see prisons on Mars and Taylor Swift shot into space?Welcome to The Maga Millions: a thrilling new contest in which you can win a million bucks if you help a billionaire buy an election. As 5 November draws closer, Elon Musk has decided to try out some interesting – and possibly illegal – tactics to get his pal Donald Trump back into the White House.First up: cash payments. On Saturday, Musk announced that “America Pac”, his pro-Trump political action committee, will give away $1m every day until the election to a randomly selected signatory to his petition supporting free speech and gun rights. He had previously offered to pay registered voters in swing states – and only registered voters in swing sta...

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4 hours ago Yellen says isolationism 'made America and the world worse off' in speech to global finance leaders

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election

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7 hours ago New polls show Trump losing edge over Harris on economy two weeks out from Election Day: Live updates

Donald Trump previously led Kamala Harris on tax and housing but voters appear to be increasingly persuaded by vice president on the issue, new survey finds

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17 hours ago Harris holds 2:1 lead in early voting – as poll goers cite abortion as a main issue

Early voters tend to favor the Democratic candidate, and those waiting until Election Day will tend to favor her Republican opponent, according to a recent poll

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18 hours ago Election 2024 live updates: Trump slams Harris as a ‘cognitive mess’; Cheney urges pro

Polls tighten in key swing states as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set to end busy day of campaigning with events in Concord, North Carolina, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, respectively

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19 hours ago Trump repeats FEMA conspiracy during North Carolina visit; Harris joins Cheney to court suburban voters: Live

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

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