Henry Nowak’s family speak on ‘unbelievable pain’ after student’s murder
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Democrat endorses Republican candidate in key Michigan Senate race as party spat escalates
Haley Stevens, a former congresswomen who lost out on the Democratic nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, endorses his opponent days before the vote.
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Voting is particularly high in states with tight Senate races that could determine which party controls the chamber US citizens are casting ballots in record numbers ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, another potential indication, analysts say, of voter dissatisfaction with Republicans and Donald Trump. Voting was particularly high in states that feature tight Senate races that could…
Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Abdul El-Sayed’s Republican rival Mike Rogers
Stevens lost the party’s Michigan primary by a close margin and had refused to endorse El-Sayed, with tensions between the two high Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed his Republican rival, Mike Rogers, in an extraordinary rebuke of her party’s nominee on the eve of the midterm elections. Her endorsement came in a video posted…
How Rachel Reeves has mapped out economic agenda for Andy Burnham’s government
On Brexit, devolution and investment, the former chancellor is eerily in tune with the man who sacked her Reeves says UK’s future is in the EU Which senior politician has argued that “Brexit did deep damage” and that the government seeks “not to turn back the clock but to look toward a new and stable, future relationship?” It was not Andy Burnham, who has been the torchbearer for thinking the…
How child killer Lucy Letby spends time behind bars revealed by former inmate
Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole life orders and is locked up at HMP Bronzefield
How a small Wisconsin city scuttled a secretive $1.6bn datacenter project
Residents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus proposed by Meta – and community resistance to the AI boom is growing In the spring of 2025, Sydney Brennan was riding high. The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Menomonie, a city of about 17,000 in the lush plains of north-western Wisconsin. Weeks into the new job, she was invited…
Russia ramps up disinformation war on UK with propaganda claiming Britain is ‘ungovernable and defenceless’
Exclusive: Putin’s campaign to erode trust and cause chaos has reached staggering levels amid Britain’s support for Ukraine and Russia’s closer relations with Donald Trump
Multiple shootings in Dallas leave four dead and 15 injured on Halloween night
Separately, one person was killed and eight wounded in a Birmingham, Alabama, shooting after a football game Police in Dallas say four people are dead and 15 are injured following separate shootings in a Dallas neighborhood. The police chief, Daniel Comeaux, said police are still trying to determine if the shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were related. Separately, one person was killed…
‘My vote still matters’ - Americans weigh in on the power of their ballot
The BBC asked voters from across the United States what voting means to them and whether they think it matters in the midterm elections.
The UK's stance on its role in the slave trade is shifting, but reparations remain off the table
U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has expressed openness to formally apologizing for Britain's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
Republican senator Dan Sullivan says he will accept Alaska election results
Senator was allegedly targeted in ballot-stacking ploy by his Democratic opponent to peel away votes from him Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican allegedly targeted in a ballot-stacking ploy by his Democratic opponent, Mary Peltola, told CNN this morning that he would accept the results of his upcoming election. According to a recent New York Times investigation, aides from Peltola’s…
Treasury minister criticised for suggesting employers are not ‘working people’
Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick said: ‘Labour don’t think employers are working people’
Green party must avoid being taken over by hard left, says former leader
Adrian Ramsay says some new members would be ‘more at home’ in Your Party or Socialist Workers party The former Green party leader Adrian Ramsay has said the party must fix its internal democracy to avoid a takeover by the hard left, saying that some new members “might be more at home” in Your Party or the Socialist Workers party. Ramsay, who has been critical of the handling of the row over a…
Warning as rare deadly pufferfish washes up on Dorset beach
The fish is believed to have been blown here in storms
Five teenage boys stabbed by 'unknown group' during Eastleigh Halloween party
Police are asking for information about an ‘unknown group’ involved in the incident
Green Party at 'crossroads', says former co-leader
Adrian Ramsay suggested the party needs to focus on its "core values", including environmental issues.
‘There’s a lot of hate’: rightwing racism stirs south Asian mobilization in Texas
In state that become ‘ground zero’ for discrimination against south Asians, experts say they are seeing voters motivated to fight back Last winter, while Pooja Sethi was canvassing to become the Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives, she received a text from a staff member alerting her to a post on X. The Turning Point USA influencer Savanah Hernandez – a Trump supporter…
Former NSW Liberal leads overhaul of One Nation candidate selection process
Exclusive: Mark Jones, once on track for one of the Liberal party’s most powerful roles, is now instrumental in One Nation’s expansion Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast In 2023, a young and ambitious Liberal moderate was on the brink of securing one of the most powerful roles in the party: state director of the New South Wales branch. Three years later, he is playing a…
Spirit of 1676: remembering the Native American cataclysm of King Philip’s war
The conflict that tore through New England 350 years ago was the bloodiest per capita in colonial or US history Massachusetts is proud of its ties to the American Revolution. From Paul Revere’s Ride to the siege of Boston, the past year-plus has been devoted to celebrating 250 years of US independence. Yet during this time, the state, and New England in general, has given far less attention to an…
Reform and Farage ‘don’t do defence’ in parliament, new analysis shows
Analysis of debates in parliament show that Nigel Farage only appeared in less than 5 per cent in defence debates in parliament despite being Reform’s defence spokesman
Police investigate pig heads left in park in ‘disturbing and disgusting’ display
Families were warned to stay away from the park in Rostrevor, County Down, following the discovery
Healey insists welfare bill will come down under Labour but warns: ‘We never set a timetable for savings’
The Chancellor delayed major changes to welfare until 2027 in his first Budget this week
Chancellor fails to guarantee minimum wage pledge for younger workers
Manifesto promise to equalise rates before next election is now ‘a question of when’, John Healey tells BBC Labour looks less likely to meet its manifesto pledge to equalise the minimum wage for younger workers before the next election, after the chancellor failed to guarantee the rise within that timeframe. John Healey said on Sunday the government was still committed to the increase but failed…