6 h. ago Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’

White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midtermsA year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overturn Republican majorities in the House and Senate next year, Trump and some prominent supporters have sought to discredit the possibility that Republicans could lose in a fair fight and are using that premise to justify demands for a drastically different kind of electoral system. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump tries to brush off election losses as Democrats hail mood shift

Republican governor says party suffered a ‘butt-whipping’ as voters delivered a rebuke to the president’s agenda

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4 d. ago Trump admits GOP took big election hit as he reconsiders shutdown strategy

Donald Trump admitted that Tuesday night's election was a massive loss for Republicans.

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4 d. ago Trump ducks blame after big election night losses for Republicans from coast to coast: ‘I wasn’t on the ballot’

The president posted on Truth Social minutes after it was announced that Democrat Zohran Mamdani had won the race for New York City mayor

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4 d. ago Trump ducks blame after big election night losses for Republicans from coast to coast: ‘Wasn’t on the ballot’

The president posted on Truth Social minutes after it was announced that Democrat Zohran Mamdani had won the race for New York City mayor

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5 d. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting delivers grim warning about voters 'despair' and says Labour must act

Health Secretary Wes Streeting compared the Caerphilly by-election result to the loss of Hartlepool in 2021, which prompted Keir Starmer to consider his future as party leader

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2 w. ago Reform's campaign office in Caerphilly vandalised after election loss

White spray paint on the shutters of the office reads "Now u can f*** off home."

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2 w. ago Prime Minister's spokesperson responds to Labour's Caerphilly by

Labour came third behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK in a historic by-election loss in Caerphilly

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3 w. ago Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

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4 w. ago Lucy Powell calls on Labour not to ‘write off’ May local elections

Exclusive: deputy leadership favourite says budget can revive party’s appeal, while Bridget Phillipson pitches to channel grassroots views to cabinetLabour should not “write off” next May’s elections as a likely moment for big losses but use the budget as a way to seize back voters’ attention, Lucy Powell has said as the battle to be the party’s deputy leadership entered its final period.With voting among party members under way, Bridget Phillipson, Powell’s rival for the post, said if she won she would set up a formal system to reflect the views of members and unions to the cabinet on a regular basis. Continue reading...

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