Republicans made a final push to avoid a predicted thumping in the US midterm elections, as Democrats seek to win control of Congress. A Democratic-controlled House would impose the first real political constraints on President Donald Trump since he returned to office in 2025. Polls show the Republican to be the most unpopular president in…
Abdul El-Sayed, the doctor vying for a crucial US Senate seat for the Democrats, made his closing pitch to Michigan voters at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit, in one of America’s poorest communities. The left-wing former medical administrator has drawn huge crowds at campaign rallies across Michigan with his promise to make healthcare free for…
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, November 3: We look at reactions and analyses in Poland, where pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk is involved in a standoff with the nationalist president over the composition of the constitutional court. In other news, there’s fresh outrage at big tech, after Google went rogue in Finland and cut down 250,000…
In a state that has long been a Republican stronghold, Democratic candidate for the US Senate, James Talaricois is carrying the hopes of what once seemed unlikely: Texas turning blue. The former schoolteacher and Presbyterian seminarian has been doing well in polls against Republican Ken Paxton, the longtime state attorney general whose legal troubles have…
California could become the first US state to tax the net worth of billionaires Tuesday under a ballot measure that has divided liberal leaders nationally and triggered one of the most expensive ballot fights in state history as the ultra-rich scramble to figure out whether they would pay the tax or flee. Proposition 40 would…
The United States on Monday attacked Iran’s Qeshm Island, the Wall Street Journal reported, even as President Donald Trump signaled progress in negotiations with Tehran to end the eight-month-old conflict. The Journal, citing unnamed US officials, described the strike against Qeshm, the the largest island in the Strait of Hormuz, as the latest of a…
The Asian Football Confederation cited “exceptional circumstances” and travel disruptions in moving the tournament from January 2027 to late December, after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia forced the Dakar Rally and the WTA Finals to be cancelled or relocated.
Tenerife football player Jesus de Miguel has died after an on-field collision in a match on Monday, his club have announced.
Parliament speaker Ghalibaf said “the ball is in America’s court to prevent war” as Iran reached its highest defensive readiness and Iranian outlets reported Tehran had updated its target bank to include US support bases in Europe under a “response without geographical limits”.
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