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How ‘screw Trump’ messaging may help California’s Proposition 50 prevail
Republican opposition to the effort to give House Democrats more safe seats may be no match for the fact that Californians really don’t like TrumpThere are many ways to characterize Proposition 50, the single ballot initiative that Californians will be voting on this election season.You could say it’s about redrawing congressional district lines outside the regular once-a-decade schedule. You could say, more precisely, that it’s about counterbalancing Republican efforts to engineer congressional seats in their favor in Texas and elsewhere with a gerrymander that favors the Democrats. You could, like the measure’s detractors, call it a partisan power grab that risks undermining 15 years of careful work to make California’s congressional elections as fair and competitive as possible. Continue reading...
Met police urge Epping sex offender spotted in London to hand himself in
Former asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu has been missing since being released from prison in errorPolice searching in London for a former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from prison in error have urged him to hand himself in.The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order. Continue reading...
Labour’s new deputy leader says party must pay more heed to its members
Exclusive: Lucy Powell, who was sacked as Commons leader by Starmer in September, says government should stop trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’Labour’s new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said the government must listen to its members instead of being guided by a “narrow group of voices” as it battles to stave off electoral disaster in next May’s local elections.Powell defeated the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, in the deputy leadership contest, which concluded on Saturday. She said she had been given “a clear mandate that members want their voice to be heard at the top of the party”. Continue reading...
"Your Parents Tried Stealing": Trump's Son vs Bill Clinton's Daughter
Chelsea Clinton said Donald Trump's action to demolish the East Wing is an attack on American heritage and democratic values.
This Caribbean Nation Plans To Build Grand Ram Mandir, Become Mini Ayodhya
Trinidad & Tobago is taking major steps to establish itself as a cultural and spiritual center for Hinduism in the Caribbean.
Met police take over search for Epping sex offender after London sighting – as it happened
This live blog is now closed, you can read our full report hereThe accidental release of the asylum seeker was a “mind-blowing” blunder, says the MP for Chelmsford.The Liberal Democrat MP Marie Goldman said on Saturday: “My mind has blown. How this could possibly happen?”He came out of the airlock, and kept saying to the officers there, ‘Where am I going? What am I doing? I don’t know where I’m going and what I’m doing.’He was holding a pack of paperwork in his arms, and his bag of bits …He knew he’d been deported. He came over to me and said, ‘I need you to help me.’ Continue reading...
Oct 25, 2025
Trump says he could compromise with China
Trump's H-1B Visa Reforms Will Have Mixed Effects On MBAs
Anti-immigration organisations and liberal economic groups alike have long attacked H-1B visas as a tool for replacing US employees with lower-paid foreign ones.
China, US Begin Trade Talks In Malaysia Day Before ASEAN Summit
China and the United States began their latest round of trade talks in Malaysia on Saturday, a US Treasury spokesman and Beijing's state media said, ahead of a highly anticipated meeting of their leaders in South Korea next week.
Australia Women’s Cricket World Cup players ‘touched inappropriately’ in India
Two players were walking to a cafe from their Indore hotelA man has been arrested after being identified on CCTVA man has been arrested for approaching two of Australia’s women cricketers and allegedly touching them inappropriately in Indore, Indian police said on Saturday.The incident occurred on Thursday in Indore, a day off for the team after their six-wicket victory over England. Continue reading...
Japanese tourist dies in fall from Pantheon in Rome
The 69-year-old man plunged 7 metres from an outer wall after becoming unwell and losing his balanceA Japanese tourist has died after falling from the outer wall of the Pantheon in Rome.The man, 69, had been sitting on the wall before he plunged 7 metres into the ancient landmark’s moat on Friday night, the Italian news agency, Ansa, reported. Continue reading...
At least four killed in Russian strikes overnight on Ukraine
Attacks come after Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeals to US for long-range missiles and urges allies to expand sanctions on Russian oilRussian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, officials said, and prompted fresh pleas from Ukraine’s president for western air defence systems.In the capital, Kyiv, two people were killed and 13 were wounded in a ballistic missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, Kyiv’s police said. Continue reading...
Argentina goes to polls amid economic crisis and Trump ‘interference’
Poor showing in Sunday’s election would deal hammer blow to country’s radical libertarian president, Javier MileiArgentina’s radical libertarian leader, Javier Milei, is facing a pivotal moment in his presidency with voters set to deliver their verdict on his two-year-old administration on Sunday against a backdrop of political and economic crisis and accusations that his ally Donald Trump is meddling in the country’s affairs.A poor showing in Sunday’s midterm election would be a hammer blow to Milei, who took power in December 2023 pledging to kickstart “a new era of peace and prosperity” by slashing spending and inflation. Continue reading...
