5 hours ago McDonald Trump had a shift serving fries. Will the stunt supersize his base? | Arwa Mahdawi

Trump didn’t work a real shift: the franchise was reportedly closed for normal business hours and the customers were all pre-screenedRemember the creepy clown sightings that started in 2016? All over the world, scary clowns started popping up, terrifying small children. The trend also frightened executives at McDonald’s, who started to phase out Ronald McDonald as a result of the “current climate around clown sightings in communities”.Eight years later there has been another spooky clown sighting at a McDonald’s in the Feasterville, Pennsylvania, community. On Sunday Donald Trump popped into the Philadelphia-area fast-food restaurant to serve french fries to hungry passers-by. Or, more accurately, to take photos of himself cosplaying as a minimum wage worker. The former president didn’t...

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6 hours ago ‘This means a lot to us’: Samoa prepares to welcome Charles to the ‘land of kings’

Some government workers given time off to help prepare for royal visit and Commonwealth leaders’ meeting as excitement on the island buildsIn the small village of Siumu, south of the capital Apia, locals have been busy cleaning the sides of the road and hoisting British flags as they prepare for a historic visit from King Charles III.Bamboo has been planted on the roadside, coconuts and houses painted blue, white and red in the colours of the Samoan flag. Children will line the road to welcome the King and Queen Camilla to Siumu on Wednesday. School is on a semester break and more than 200 teachers have been pulled in to help prepare for the event. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Harris campaign reportedly fears ‘blue wall’ could crumble; AOC says Trump’s McDonald’s stunt was ‘making fun’ of workers – US politics live

Vice-president’s team concerned about Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania; New York congresswoman criticizes Trump campaign stuntDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsKamala Harris has a significant advantage over Donald Trump among young voters, matching the lead Joe Biden ended up taking in the 2020 election, a new poll finds.The survey from CNBC Generation Lab shows Harris up 20 percentage points with voters aged 18 to 34, with 60% support compared with Trump’s 40%. That’s about the same margin by which Biden won the group four years ago. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Donald Trump’s odds of winning the White House are now higher than they were before he debated Joe Biden

Polymarket gave Trump a 64.1 percent chance of winning while Harris had a 35.9 percent chance of winning

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9 hours ago FBI investigates intelligence leak of potential Israel plans to attack Iran

John Kirby says Biden administration unsure if leak or hack led to secret documents appearing online on TelegramThe FBI has launched an investigation into the unauthorized release of classified documents describing Israel’s preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran.The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said on Monday that the Biden administration was still not certain if the classified information was leaked or hacked but that officials did not have any indication at this point of “additional documents like this finding their way into the public domain”. Continue reading...

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13 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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24 hours ago Steven Spielberg and Missy Elliott receive top US honour in White House ceremony

US President Joe Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals.

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