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Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on abortion and other tough questions

Life, death, crime and taxes will be on ballots for voters to decide this fall.

More than 140 measures are going before voters in 41 states during the general election alongside choices for president and other top offices. The ballot questions will give voters a…[Read more]

Viral US TikToker’s mission to prove British food isn’t bland after all

A TikTok star from a small city in Tennessee has made it his mission to show the world British food is not all that bad.
Food reviewer Kalani Smith, who goes by Kalani Ghost Hunter (KGH) online, racks up millions of views posting his reviews on social media – from Welsh cakes…[Read more]

Kamala Harris campaign is light on policy – but that’s helped her transform the race

The month since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign has been a largely unprecedented spell in American politics: never has a modern general election campaign gone from a standstill to a full sprint so quickly.
In that time Democrats pulled together a…[Read more]

Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking

Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since World War II has laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines.

Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion keeps crossing President Vladimir Putin’s red lines.

Kyiv’s lightning incursion into Kursk in…[Read more]

A different kind of Trump goes on display

The pork sausage was a sign that this was going to be different. Or at least, that it was meant to be.
Like a grocery store employee in front of a concession stand, Donald Trump stood framed by the everyday items of an American shopping basket.
Breakfast oats. Bread. Butter. The sausage.
In a…[Read more]

Five charged over Matthew Perry’s death

Five people have been charged in the drug-related death of Matthew Perry last year, police say, including two doctors and the actor’s personal assistant.
Police said on Thursday that their investigation, launched in May, uncovered a “broad underground criminal network” of drug suppliers who distributed…[Read more]

Five charged over Matthew Perry’s death

Five people have been charged in the drug-related death of Matthew Perry last year, police say, including two doctors and the actor’s personal assistant.
Police said on Thursday that their investigation, launched in May, uncovered a “broad underground criminal network” of drug suppliers who distributed…[Read more]

Ukraine’s surprise advance into Russia a dilemma for Biden

Washington is absorbing the impact of Ukraine’s lightning assault into Russia’s Kursk region as the scale of President Zelensky’s bold gamble emerges.

US officials are assessing how the incursion might reshape the political and military dynamics of the war, as well as the impli…[Read more]

Can Kamala Harris help Democrats regain lost Black votes?

Some Black voters have gravitated away from the Democrats in recent years, but will Kamala Harris be able to pull them back?

Barely a week after President Joe Biden dropped out of the United States presidential race, his deputy Kamala Harris emerged as his replacement atop the Democratic…[Read more]

Harris tells pro-Palestine protesters ‘now is time for ceasefire’ in Gaza

People chanted ‘free, free Palestine’ during Democratic presidential candidate’s speech at Arizona rally.

United States Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has told pro-Palestine protesters who interrupted her campaign rally in Arizona that now is the time for…[Read more]

Olympics: USA rack up relay golds; Barshim bows out with high jump bronze

USA win both 4x400m relay and men’s 100m hurdles finals for their 14 athletics medal at Paris Olympics 2024.

The United States have won their eighth consecutive Olympic women’s 4×400-metre relay crown to clinch the country’s 14th track and field gold medal of the Paris…[Read more]