81 m. ago Americans go hungry and all Republicans and Democrats will do is point fingers while shutdown nears milestone

The whole exchange in the Senate about SNAP shows nobody is serious about stopping people from going hungry. Eric Garcia writes that Democrats aren’t blameless, but Trump bears the most responsibility

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92 m. ago US Army Corps of Engineers approves Enbridge plan to encase aging Great Lakes oil pipeline

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved energy company Enbridge's plan to encase a segment of an aging oil pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel

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1 hour ago Trump live updates: President’s crucial meeting with China’s Xi Jinping nears as shutdown impacts airport delays

Trump will meet with Xi in mere hours

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1 hour ago 'They were meant to protect him': Evil mother and father found guilty of murdering their three

Klevi Pirjani, 37, and his partner Nivalda Santos Pirjani, 34, of Seacombe, Wirral, were convicted of murder, causing or allowing the death of a child and grievous bodily harm.

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2 h. ago Trump’s ‘absurd’ DoJ compensation bid would be rejected if he were anyone else, experts say

President’s effort to win $230m in damages from Mar-a-Lago and Russia investigations criticized as ‘frivolous’Donald Trump’s effort to get his justice department to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars is based on specious legal claims that would likely be rejected if he were any other American, according to a legal expert and a former Department of Justice official who handled damages claims against the government.Trump has asked the justice department to pay him $230m in damages, the New York Times reported last week. The amount is the total of two separate claims in which Trump argues he is entitled to compensation because of investigations into the links between Russia and his 2016 campaign as well as the 2022 search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and subsequent criminal prosecution. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Celebrity Traitors fans call out 'perfect red herring' amid 'sad' move

Lucy Beaumont was the latest victim on the BBC series

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3 h. ago Louisiana and Virginia take steps toward redistricting amid national battle for partisan advantage

The redistricting surge began after Trump urged Republican-led states to redraw House maps before midterms

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3 h. ago Trump faces off with Xi in tariff showdown after pairing him with Putin as America's twin enemies

President Trump is preparing for one of the most closely watched encounters of his presidency during his Asia swing.

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3 h. ago ‘The novelty will wear off’: Labour hopes publicity will be Farage’s downfall

Government still struggling to win the agenda from Reform, leaving planners trusting voters will sour on what they seeAfter Nigel Farage dominated the summer headlines with weekly press conferences while his rivals were on their sunloungers and the news agenda was light, Labour strategists swore they would never let it happen again.Labour MPs had returned to Westminster after recess, fuming that the government had vacated the public arena and allowed Reform UK to shape the narrative, to the extent that the mood hardened against Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Donald Trump's granddaughter's new golf handicap as £2.5m decision made

Kai Trump, the 18-year-old granddaughter of the U.S. President, has been handed a huge opportunity to compete in her first professional event next month

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3 h. ago Trump live: Major airport forced to ground planes as federal shutdown causes huge staff shortage

Shutdown-linked travel disruption comes as Trump prepares to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in South Korea for key talks to try and defuse trade war

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4 h. ago Moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 95, loses wife, 66, two years after their wedding

Buzz Aldrin shared the sad news about his wife's passing on Wednesday, saying she died peacefully last night. He and their son Vlad Ghenciu, were by her side.

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5 h. ago Trump live: Hot mic catches president discussing Xi talks while tribal nations warn federal shutdown will spark hunger crisis

Trump ‘has strengthened China’s hand while weakening America’s leverage,’ a new report from Senate Democrats states

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5 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's George Clarke's 'sad' admission in public vote

George Clarke admitted that he felt as though the public did all the work during results night

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5 h. ago Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh indicted over role in ICE protests

According to court documents, Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois has been indicted along with five others over blocking vehicles during protests outside a federal immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago

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5 h. ago British rock band star dies as tributes pour in for 'incredible' lead singer

Sound of Guns frontman Andrew Metcalfe has been described as a "true artist, performer, lyricist and just a genuinely lovely man" in the tributes following his sad death

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5 h. ago The Guardian view on Argentina’s election: one step closer to becoming a Trumpian client state | Ediorial

A $40bn rescue may have helped Javier Milei scrape through midterms, but it leaves Argentina’s democracy and economy more dependent than ever on WashingtonArgentina’s rightwing president, Javier Milei, his party and its allies claimed victory this week in key congressional elections. But it was Donald Trump who emerged the biggest winner. A $40bn lifeline from the US president gave Mr Milei’s beleaguered government just enough credibility – and apparent firepower – to halt the Argentinian peso’s slide. Crucially, this helped to stabilise consumer prices in the final weeks of the campaign. The US rescue engendered a short-lived aura of competence that allowed Mr Milei to shift the blame for rising prices back to the opposition, despite his own role in accelerating inflation by devaluing the currency when he took office.Mr Milei’s wasn’t a decisive triumph. His rightwing coalition got 40% of the midterms vote thanks largely to a low turnout and a fragmented opposition. His “chainsaw” ...

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6 h. ago Premier League to make huge TV blackout decision with impact on Man United and Man City

The Premier League has been handed an exemption from the 3pm TV blackout that would allow the league to broadcast certain matches during that slot

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6 h. ago Mark Levin tells MAGA that ‘Bannon’s playing you’ over his Trump third

‘The guy pled guilty to a felony, ripping off little old ladies raising money for a wall that was never built. He's telling us Trump's gonna run for a third term,” Mark Levin fumed this week.

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6 h. ago Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrestUS politics live – latest updatesA top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide. Continue reading...

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