The Guardian - November 06, 2024

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November 06, 2024

Hope... and fear

Tens of millions of voters went to the polls in America yesterday, seesawing between anxiety and hope, to send one of the closest and most consequential presidential elections hurtling towards an uncertain finish.

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Democrats dare to believe as US votes

HERE THEY WERE AGAIN, going through the dread and the angst for the third time in eight years.

4 mins

Disinformation Trump and Musk peddle falsehoods

Americans went to the polls yesterday against a backdrop of disinformation - much of it suspected of originating in Russia - as the FBI warned of fake videos and non-credible threats of terrorism aimed at disrupting the US presidential election.

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'He's a lunatic!' High anxiety as Americans take to the polls

America had previously always been \"somebody else's country,\" said Christopher La Rose, a health researcher, as he waited just before 7am in Pine Lake, a village too small for postal delivery, outside Atlanta, Georgia.

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Dixville Notch Village in New Hampshire records first result - a tie

The traditional first tally of the 2024 US presidential elections in the tiny village of Dixville Notch, in New Hampshire's northern tip, ended in a deadlock: three votes to Kamala Harris and three for Donald Trump.

1 min

Joe Rogan Podcast host endorses Trump on X

The influential podcast host Joe Rogan has endorsed Donald Trump for president, writing that his choice had been influenced by the \"great and powerful Elon Musk\".

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'This is personal' Election result that will leave America still deeply divided

As the sun rose yesterday, there was something reassuringly familiar about the rituals that election day in America would bring: long queues of voters, candidates casting their own ballots, TV experts tapping their electoral map touchscreens and a steady flow of results from safe blue states and red states.

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Reproductive rights Could abortion prove to be the decisive issue?

Leslie Lemus's top issue in the 2024 election is probably the economy. But she has a close second: \"Them fucking with abortion.\" For the 26-year-old Arizona native, the two issues are one and the same.

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'Worried about crazies' Voters on edge in the bellwether county of Saginaw

They lined up in the dark and rain before the polling stations even opened across Saginaw, the bellwether county in the crucial battleground state of Michigan.

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What stirs swing states Bullying, borders and the price of beef

\"I've grown up a Democrat my whole life. So I suppose I was programmed to do it. That said, the Donald Trump world is something that I find pretty repellent. It feels very bullying-ish to me, and mean spirited.

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Pennsylvania Voters in swing state feel weight of the world on their shoulders

To celebrate his anniversary this year, Phil Haegele joined the back of a long line at a polling station with his wife on a warm autumn afternoon and waited to cast his ballot for Donald Trump.

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'Win big' High hopes for Harris in her Bay home town

s the extremely divisive election over who will next lead the US wrapped up, California's Bay Area was enveloped in a quiet calm. Far from the massive political rallies and the rousing rhetoric that has overtaken battleground states, many voters here are decided; the communities to the east of San Francisco were among the counties that voted most strongly for Joe Biden in 2020, and they will show up again hoping to defeat Donald Trump.

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'I hope we're heard' Sketch interviews with voters in a crucial swing state

LAST WEEK, the artist Lucinda Rogers made a short trip to Pennsylvania from New York to talk to people in the crucial swing state about the election. She addressed people at random and asked them what this year's election meant to them and how they thought the future would look depending on whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris won.

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Capitol control Democrats face uphill struggle to gain edge

Close fights were waged in both houses of the US Congress on election day, with Democrats facing an uphill battle to cling to a one-seat majority in the Senate while Republicans sought to expand their majority in the House of Representatives.

3 mins

Children as young as two treated for obesity in England

Thousands of children as young as two in England are being treated for health complications linked to severe obesity as leading experts warned of an \"escalating public health crisis\".

1 min

Planning rules 'failed to link public transport to new housing'

A decade of planning rules designed to create housing connected to public transport routes has achieved nothing, a report found yesterday, with millions of people in new homes still dependent on cars.

1 min

Otter's bond with Shetland man features in documentary

Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story will be available from 14 November on Disney+ and will air on 15 November on National Geographic

1 min

Welsh train crashed after system designed to grip rails failed

An automated system that helps train wheels to grip the tracks failed on one of the trains that crashed head-on in mid-Wales on 21 October, investigators have said.

2 mins

Badenoch and Jenrick urged to settle differences and end lingering rivalry

Senior Conservatives have urged Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick to rapidly settle any differences after the unveiling of the full shadow cabinet was marred by briefings and concern over lingering rivalries.

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Leader finalises shadow cabinet Who are the MPs completing the lineup?

Chris Philp - shadow home secretary Philp has been rewarded as an enthusiastic backer of Badenoch.

3 mins

Kemi's just gaslighting the country-and having a laugh

Spare a thought for the losers. Not those like James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, Steve Barclay.

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Post Office scandal Compensation delay may force legal action - Bates

Alan Bates has suggested post office operators could take fresh legal action if the government fails to set a deadline for compensating them.

2 mins

China blocks plans to rebuild UK embassy in Beijing

China is blocking requests to rebuild the British embassy in Beijing while the fate of its controversial mega-embassy in east London is being decided, the Guardian can disclose.

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Activity in morning and evening may reduce risk of bowel cancer

Being more active in the morning and evening may reduce the risk of bowel cancer by 11%, according to a study that suggests the timing of your peak activity could play a \"crucial role\" in warding off the disease.

1 min

Art review Leonardo's warriors win battle with gnarly nudes

Art is a serious subject,\" say posters put up by the Royal Academy in London to champion art in schools. But is the Royal Academy itself serious? Its main galleries are now full of vacant paintings by Michael Craig-Martin, RA, while three of the greatest artists who ever lived are crammed into a couple of rooms round the back.

3 mins

UK 'failing to keep up with EU' on regulation of water pollution

The UK is \"falling behind\" on sewage pollution regulation as the EU tightens its rules to clean up Europe's waterways.

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Girl's stepmother was 'villain', says father, denying murder

The father of Sara Sharif denied killing his daughter as he claimed the 10-year-old's stepmother was the \"true villain of the piece\", a court was told yesterday.

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Universities in England could miss out on millions in tuition fee rise

Some universities in England could lose out on millions of pounds from increased tuition fees because their contracts with students may prevent changes to terms and conditions.

1 min

NHS review of prostate screening launched after appeal by Chris Hoy

The health secretary ordered the NHS to review its guidance on testing for prostate cancer yesterday in light of Sir Chris Hoy's \"powerful\" call for men to be screened in their 40s.

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Spiders as big as a human hand are thriving in Britain, says zoo

Thousands of giant spiders that can grow to the size of a human hand are thriving in the UK, thanks to a successful breeding programme from Chester zoo.

1 min

Eurostar adverts for £39 fares ruled misleading by regulator

The cross-Channel train operator Eurostar has been rapped by the advertising watchdog for exaggerating the number of £39 seats on sale.

1 min

People loitering on estate face arrest in first-of-its-kind order

Unwanted visitors have been banned from open spaces at a housing estate, in the first order of its kind designed to \"rescue\" areas from criminals.

2 mins

Government website gets a chatbot helper, but beware of 'hallucinations'

It speaks a bit of Welsh, can recite the building regulations, refuses to say whether Rishi Sunak is better than Keir Starmer and will not explain the corporation tax regime.

1 min

University inquiry into donors reveals Boots links to slavery

The high street chemist Boots' links to the transatlantic slave trade have been revealed in research that shows how the proceeds became entangled with British capitalism.

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Swearing at work? That's just a normal day up north, says judge

As every southerner knows, people from the north of England will not eat chips without gravy, talk to every stranger they meet and often sport a flat cap when walking their whippet. But do they also swear more?

1 min

'Like living in a prison' The village isolated from the rest of the West Bank

In January this year, four-year-old Ruqayya Jahalin, her mother and her five siblings were waiting in a taxi at the checkpoint that is the only way in and out of their home, the occupied West Bank village of Beit Iksa.

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Netanyahu fires defence minister Gallant, seen as brake on far-right policy

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has fired his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, who is widely considered by the country's international allies to be a brake on the far-right elements of the country's coalition government.

3 mins

Man sentenced to death in Iran 'died before his execution'

Iran has claimed that an Iranian-German dual national who had been sentenced to death died last week before his execution could be carried out.

1 min

Kim's troops head to Ukraine Will Russia-North Korea 'blood alliance' change war dynamics?

Depending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in Ukraine, or they are simple cannon fodder, destined for repatriation in body bags.

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'So many tensions' Anger in Spain at response to floods

Everyone in Chiva has their own memories of what happened here a week ago. For some it is the frantic phone calls to loved ones; for others, the disbelief as this small Valencian town, like so many others, was swallowed up by flood waters that bore away cars and trees as if they were paper boats.

2 mins

Fighter Conor McGregor accused of raping woman in Dublin hotel

Conor McGregor allegedly raped a woman in a Dublin hotel, the city's high court has been told.

1 min

Japanese boys waiting longer than ever for first kiss - study

Just one in five boys at senior high school in Japan have had their first kiss, according to the Japanese Association for Sex Education - the lowest figure since the organisation's first survey of sexual behaviour among young people in 1974.

1 min

Pedro Páramo Netflix adapts the revered Mexican novel that inspired García Márquez

Many Mexicans know the first sentence of Juan Rulfo's revered novel, Pedro Páramo, by heart.

2 mins

Dutch secondary school suspends parental access to pupils' marks

A secondary school in the Netherlands is blocking parental access to children's grades for a term in an attempt to reduce the pressure on pupils to perform.

1 min

Trump's tariffs would cut UK growth by half, say experts

UK growth would be halved in the event that Donald Trump wins the US presidential race and imposes the swingeing tariffs he has threatened, a leading thinktank said yesterday.

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High street will carry weight of tax rises, says Primark owner

High street retailers will carry the \"weight of tax rises\", announced in the budget, but overall it will benefit \"the least affluent\" consumers, according to the chief executive of Primark's parent company.

1 min

Tory budget OBR failure 'may have broken law'

Treasury officials may have broken the law when they failed to alert the Office for Budget Responsibility about £9.5bn of spending that should have appeared in the March Tory budget, MPs have been told.

1 min

Boeing workers end strike after winning pay deal

Boeing's US west coast factory workers have accepted a new contract offer, ending a bitter seven-week strike that had halted most jet production and deepened a financial crisis at the aircraft manufacturer.

1 min

Competition Watchdog makes a fair call in backing major tie-up between mobile firms

Compare and contrast. Back in September, the Competition and Markets Authority had a big grumble about Vodafone and Three's plan to merge their UK mobile operations. A combination of the third and fourth largest operators could result in \"a substantial lessening of competition\" and \"tens of millions of mobile customers having to pay more\".

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AstraZeneca value falls after China unit 'linked to insurance fraud'

AstraZeneca shares tumbled yesterday, wiping £14bn off the value of Britain's biggest drug maker, after a report that dozens of executives at its China unit could be implicated in an insurance fraud case in the country's pharmaceutical sector.

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Vodafone-Three merger Does £15bn deal mean customers will see their bills rise?

The competition watchdog has said it could give the proposed £15bn merger between the telecoms companies Vodafone and Three the green light, provided they agree to certain conditions.

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Melbourne Cup taken by 90-1 outsider Knight's Choice

Knight's Choice, a 90-1 outsider ridden by the Ireland-born jockey Robbie Dolan, caused a major upset as the local ride stunned the rest of the field to win the Melbourne Cup in a photo-finish from Warp Speed in second and Okita Soushi in third.

2 mins

ATP Finals to be without big three for first time since 2001

Novak Djokovic has announced his withdrawal from ATP Finals due to an unspecified injury, marking the end of his 2024 season.

1 min

Gauff storms to second career win over Swiatek

At 20, Coco Gauff has achieved a considerable amount. She has established herself as a perennial top-five player, won a grand slam title, and lived up to the hype that followed her since her preteens.

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No plans for Hamilton to skip Las Vegas GP, say Mercedes

Mercedes have said there are no plans for Lewis Hamilton to be absent from the next race in Las Vegas after the seven-time world champion's radio message at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix.

1 min

England must finish strong with new bench

Need to improve in later stages of tight games puts focus on Borthwick and his use of replacements

3 mins

United fans prefer new stadium over redevelopment

A majority of Manchester United fans favour a new stadium rather than the redevelopment of Old Trafford, a survey has found.

1 min

Care's belated whistleblowing reveals toxicity of the silence that underpinned Jones regime

According to Care, Jones's players felt 'like characters in a dystopian novel'

4 mins

Joorabchian connection key to Edu's Arsenal exit

Director's decision to join Marinakis setup has raised eyebrows but the dynamic had changed at the Emirates

3 mins

Emery sets Villa top-eight Champions League target

Unai Emery has challenged his Aston Villa players to cement their surprise status as favourites to automatically qualify for the Champions League last 16.

1 min

Diaz treble dashes Alonso's hopes on return to Anfield

The finest compliment to Xabi Alonso, Arne Slot wrote in his programme notes, \"is to be the best Liverpool that we can possibly be with no quarter asked and no quarter given.\"

3 mins

Gyökeres piles on pain for City and raises the Amorim expectation

When does a blip become a slump? Pre-game, Pep Guardiola was asked this and pointed to Manchester City's supreme run of success.

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Kühn doubles up to spark Celtic triumph

Brendan Rodgers used pre-match media duties to call for Celtic's supporters to refrain from using pyrotechnics during the visit of RB Leipzig.

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Edu's Arsenal exit will not stop progress, insists Arteta

Mikel Arteta has insisted Edu's departure as sporting director will not stop Arsenal's upward trajectory but admitted that losing one of his key allies came as a surprise.

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