Pete Hoekstra, controversial US ambassador to Canada, has also accused Canadian officials of interfering in US elections
The US ambassador Pete Hoekstra has suggested Canada could be blamed if Republicans perform poorly in next week’s midterm elections, the latest intervention from a controversial figure who has been accused of inflaming a bitter dispute that has angered and baffled residents of both countries.
On Wednesday, CTV news reported that Hoekstra told business leaders at a closed door meeting that if a number of swing races – including Maine and Michigan – go to the Democrats, it could make things harder for Canada because Donald Trump might try to blame the loss on it.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/canada-ambassador-republicans-midterms", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:15:07 GMT" } }, { "id": "0b13117ce3abbd86438598775e47594165933378", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Education secretary Linda McMahon plans to spend nearly $43,000 on office furniture", "summary": "Trump ally, who is seeking to shutter the department, had said office relocation would save taxpayers $4.8m annuallyThe Trump administration has insisted its controversial education cuts are saving “millions of dollars” after it was reported that Linda McMahon, secretary of education, is planning to spend roughly $43,000 on new furniture for her office.McMahon’s office told Congress that the secretary’s current furniture is worn out and “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated into the agency’s new office space”, according to non-public records seen by the New York Times. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/education-secretary-mcmahon-office-furniture", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T20:15:01+00:00", "score": 92.64, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Education secretary Linda McMahon plans to spend nearly $43,000 on office furniture", "summary": "Trump ally, who is seeking to shutter the department, had said office relocation would save taxpayers $4.8m annually
The Trump administration has insisted its controversial education cuts are saving “millions of dollars” after it was reported that Linda McMahon, secretary of education, is planning to spend roughly $43,000 on new furniture for her office.
McMahon’s office told Congress that the secretary’s current furniture is worn out and “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated into the agency’s new office space”, according to non-public records seen by the New York Times.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/education-secretary-mcmahon-office-furniture", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:15:01 GMT" } }, { "id": "9d2e69f5d872e1fb2e31d657f2c6cc4d724db21c", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Trump rages at Alaska Democrat who reportedly recruited man with same name as Republican opponent – live", "summary": "Trump, citing New York Times report, says Mary Peltola’s actions to recruit a second Dan Sullivan ‘illegal’ and calls for her disqualification from US Senate race Peltola’s campaign reportedly recruited second Dan Sullivan in Alaska Senate raceSign up for the Breaking News US emailFor months, Mary Peltola’s campaign for Alaska’s Senate seat has denied any connection to a separate campaign launched by a man who, coincidentally, shares the exact same name as Peltola’s Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan.New reporting from the New York Times undercuts that claim. The outlet reported, based on interviews, obtained text messages and legal filings, that the Peltola campaign had not only recruited Mr Sullivan (not the Republican), but had sought out a number of Dan Sullivans across the state for potential candidacy, as well as others who could peel votes away from Peltola’s main opponent. Contin…", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/28/trump-administration-bill-essayli-republicans-flavio-bolsonaro-us-news-latest", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T19:59:41+00:00", "score": 92.51, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Trump rages at Alaska Democrat who reportedly recruited man with same name as Republican opponent – live", "summary": "Trump, citing New York Times report, says Mary Peltola’s actions to recruit a second Dan Sullivan ‘illegal’ and calls for her disqualification from US Senate race
For months, Mary Peltola’s campaign for Alaska’s Senate seat has denied any connection to a separate campaign launched by a man who, coincidentally, shares the exact same name as Peltola’s Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan.
New reporting from the New York Times undercuts that claim. The outlet reported, based on interviews, obtained text messages and legal filings, that the Peltola campaign had not only recruited Mr Sullivan (not the Republican), but had sought out a number of Dan Sullivans across the state for potential candidacy, as well as others who could peel votes away from Peltola’s main opponent.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/28/trump-administration-bill-essayli-republicans-flavio-bolsonaro-us-news-latest", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:59:41 GMT" } }, { "id": "7c54de8939a20d19633107801e6ea4ecf7c94f2a", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign reportedly recruited second Dan Sullivan in Alaska Senate race", "summary": "Republicans have condemned the presence of two Dan Sullivans on the ballot, calling it a ploy to split votesAlaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign was behind an effort to recruit a challenger with almost the exact same name as the Republican US senator Dan Sullivan, both of whom will appear on the ballot in next week’s midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.Republicans have condemned the presence in the race of two candidates named Dan Sullivan – one the two-term US senator, the second a retiree living in south-eastern Alaska with scant political experience – calling the newcomer a ploy by Democrats to cost the incumbent re-election by splitting his supporters. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/mary-peltola-dan-sullivan-alaska-senate", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T19:48:44+00:00", "score": 92.43, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign reportedly recruited second Dan Sullivan in Alaska Senate race", "summary": "Republicans have condemned the presence of two Dan Sullivans on the ballot, calling it a ploy to split votes
Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign was behind an effort to recruit a challenger with almost the exact same name as the Republican US senator Dan Sullivan, both of whom will appear on the ballot in next week’s midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Republicans have condemned the presence in the race of two candidates named Dan Sullivan – one the two-term US senator, the second a retiree living in south-eastern Alaska with scant political experience – calling the newcomer a ploy by Democrats to cost the incumbent re-election by splitting his supporters.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/mary-peltola-dan-sullivan-alaska-senate", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:48:44 GMT" } }, { "id": "c2b8dbfdfac60fa98385f26e39b4fca77394b4d1", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘A revolution in slow motion’: is Arizona’s wealthiest district finally done with Trump?", "summary": "Circumstances are ripe for change in this onetime Republican stronghold given the current dissatisfaction with Trump agenda, experts sayDonald Trump has repeatedly asked voters to pretend that he is on the ballot in November’s crucial midterm elections. And in the comfortable confines of Arizona’s most affluent and fiercely contested congressional district, Trump is definitely on voters’ minds.But whether that helps or hurts the warring congressional candidates in this sun-drenched swath of suburbia, where Teslas and walled-in luxury homes dominate, depends on who you ask. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/arizona-house-midterms-race", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T19:33:53+00:00", "score": 92.31, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "‘A revolution in slow motion’: is Arizona’s wealthiest district finally done with Trump?", "summary": "Circumstances are ripe for change in this onetime Republican stronghold given the current dissatisfaction with Trump agenda, experts say
Donald Trump has repeatedly asked voters to pretend that he is on the ballot in November’s crucial midterm elections. And in the comfortable confines of Arizona’s most affluent and fiercely contested congressional district, Trump is definitely on voters’ minds.
But whether that helps or hurts the warring congressional candidates in this sun-drenched swath of suburbia, where Teslas and walled-in luxury homes dominate, depends on who you ask.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/arizona-house-midterms-race", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:33:53 GMT" } }, { "id": "8ec724b31fb7d16c21dc4b0a2122947fa22fa96e", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Fed holds interest rates steady in last decision before midterms", "summary": "Fed chair Kevin Warsh said politics played no role in pause of interest rate hikes, despite inflation remaining above 3%The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday during its last board meeting before the midterm elections, keeping rates at one of the highest pre-election levels seen in over 20 years.Two out of 12 board members voted against the pause, preferring to raise rates by a quarter point this meeting, the Fed board said in a statement. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/28/fed-interest-rates-midterms", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T19:26:41+00:00", "score": 92.25, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Fed holds interest rates steady in last decision before midterms", "summary": "Fed chair Kevin Warsh said politics played no role in pause of interest rate hikes, despite inflation remaining above 3%
The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday during its last board meeting before the midterm elections, keeping rates at one of the highest pre-election levels seen in over 20 years.
Two out of 12 board members voted against the pause, preferring to raise rates by a quarter point this meeting, the Fed board said in a statement.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/28/fed-interest-rates-midterms", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:26:41 GMT" } }, { "id": "b4f89d42942e5fb605f9cc49c9472dd25564c24e", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "FDA scientists opposed Trump administration’s move to ease peptide access", "summary": "Effort to loosen rules on unproven peptide drugs, favored by RFK Jr, faced fierce pushback from agency scientistsA plan to give people in the United States easier access to unproven peptide drugs favored by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, was opposed by most Food and Drug Administration scientific staff members, who had limited input in drafting the policy, according to six people familiar with its development.The document posted online on Wednesday by Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) covers a handful of injectable peptides promoted within the wellness industry for building muscle, healing injuries and boosting energy. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/peptides-fda-health-human-services-department", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T18:35:40+00:00", "score": 91.83, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "FDA scientists opposed Trump administration’s move to ease peptide access", "summary": "Effort to loosen rules on unproven peptide drugs, favored by RFK Jr, faced fierce pushback from agency scientists
A plan to give people in the United States easier access to unproven peptide drugs favored by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, was opposed by most Food and Drug Administration scientific staff members, who had limited input in drafting the policy, according to six people familiar with its development.
The document posted online on Wednesday by Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) covers a handful of injectable peptides promoted within the wellness industry for building muscle, healing injuries and boosting energy.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/peptides-fda-health-human-services-department", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:35:40 GMT" } }, { "id": "44b17f27551146f99b9307f22165484da6d449af", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Conservative influencers charged with unlawful voting after ‘Muslim garb’ election stunt", "summary": "James O’Keefe and Cam Higby were trying to show vulnerabilities in allowing a voter to vouch for anotherTwo rightwing influencers have been charged with felonies in Minneapolis over attempts in the state’s election primary to disguise themselves in what they called “Muslim garb” and claim they were local voters.James O’Keefe and Cam Higby went to polling places in Minnesota during the state’s August primary in an attempt to show vulnerabilities in the practice of “vouching”, where a registered voter from the same precinct can vouch for another voter’s eligibility. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/voting-felony-disguise-minneapolis", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T18:07:14+00:00", "score": 91.6, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Conservative influencers charged with unlawful voting after ‘Muslim garb’ election stunt", "summary": "James O’Keefe and Cam Higby were trying to show vulnerabilities in allowing a voter to vouch for another
Two rightwing influencers have been charged with felonies in Minneapolis over attempts in the state’s election primary to disguise themselves in what they called “Muslim garb” and claim they were local voters.
James O’Keefe and Cam Higby went to polling places in Minnesota during the state’s August primary in an attempt to show vulnerabilities in the practice of “vouching”, where a registered voter from the same precinct can vouch for another voter’s eligibility.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/voting-felony-disguise-minneapolis", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:07:14 GMT" } }, { "id": "b90c3ac6db7fd7a056c513f180195e4c7b5c93b8", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "New study estimates 75% of deceased ex-NFL players had brain disease CTE", "summary": "Research looked at prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2,362 players who died in 2008-2023A new study published on Wednesday estimates that about 75% of former NFL players who died over a 15-year period had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).The research, published in Jama Network Open and conducted by a Boston-based team, examined the estimated prevalence of the degenerative brain disease among NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023. Researchers found that the estimated rate of CTE among these players was substantially higher than the rates observed in brain samples collected from the general population. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/cte-nfl-brain-disease-research", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T18:04:14+00:00", "score": 91.58, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "New study estimates 75% of deceased ex-NFL players had brain disease CTE", "summary": "Research looked at prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2,362 players who died in 2008-2023
A new study published on Wednesday estimates that about 75% of former NFL players who died over a 15-year period had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The research, published in Jama Network Open and conducted by a Boston-based team, examined the estimated prevalence of the degenerative brain disease among NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023. Researchers found that the estimated rate of CTE among these players was substantially higher than the rates observed in brain samples collected from the general population.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/cte-nfl-brain-disease-research", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:04:14 GMT" } }, { "id": "fe6dff74da96740a30f37c2fee17fc4a9a7da981", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "‘Like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory’: how did the restaurant end up in a Maga fight over ‘elitism’?", "summary": "Obama has been accused of ‘snobbery’ over his Trump diss, as people rush to defend the restaurant chain’s ‘affordable opulence’Around lunchtime on Tuesday, a Rolls-Royce stopped at the intersection of Beverly Drive and Dayton Way in Beverly Hills, California. Local people in athleisure walked past Balenciaga, Dior and Prada boutiques, as visitors on Hollywood bus tours ogled nearby Rodeo Drive, where Burberry and Louis Vuitton shops meet at a celebrated street corner.Up the street, across from the upmarket Erewhon grocery store – home to $21 smoothies – a few diners sat outside an American landmark: the Cheesecake Factory. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/cheesecake-factory-obama-trump", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T17:41:49+00:00", "score": 91.4, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "‘Like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory’: how did the restaurant end up in a Maga fight over ‘elitism’?", "summary": "Obama has been accused of ‘snobbery’ over his Trump diss, as people rush to defend the restaurant chain’s ‘affordable opulence’
Around lunchtime on Tuesday, a Rolls-Royce stopped at the intersection of Beverly Drive and Dayton Way in Beverly Hills, California. Local people in athleisure walked past Balenciaga, Dior and Prada boutiques, as visitors on Hollywood bus tours ogled nearby Rodeo Drive, where Burberry and Louis Vuitton shops meet at a celebrated street corner.
Up the street, across from the upmarket Erewhon grocery store – home to $21 smoothies – a few diners sat outside an American landmark: the Cheesecake Factory.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/cheesecake-factory-obama-trump", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:41:49 GMT" } }, { "id": "d1c1f7b22a3fe1785bba398547c7ede1e5a25a28", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "The bottomless depths of Donald Trump’s midterm rally bigotry", "summary": "Both Obama and Trump are on the campaign trail, but only one of them appears to be descending into madnessThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.Barack Obama versus Donald Trump. It is the presidential election that never happened but has come to define an era of US politics.Obama is back on the campaign trail for the midterms, still electrifying crowds, earning shouts of “We love you!” and skewering his successor. “What’s up with the gold?” he asked a crowd in Detroit. “I mean, he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” This has, predictably, set off a mini culture war involving questions of elitism and the tastefulness of chain restaurants. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/trump-obama-rally-midterms-analysis", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T17:11:04+00:00", "score": 91.15, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "The bottomless depths of Donald Trump’s midterm rally bigotry", "summary": "Both Obama and Trump are on the campaign trail, but only one of them appears to be descending into madness
This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.
Barack Obama versus Donald Trump. It is the presidential election that never happened but has come to define an era of US politics.
Obama is back on the campaign trail for the midterms, still electrifying crowds, earning shouts of “We love you!” and skewering his successor. “What’s up with the gold?” he asked a crowd in Detroit. “I mean, he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” This has, predictably, set off a mini culture war involving questions of elitism and the tastefulness of chain restaurants.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/trump-obama-rally-midterms-analysis", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:11:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "c0f2d96072499b4d2e1d2cde8e81c19f1516b765", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "RFK Jr assailed over ‘wildly racist tirade’ about Arabs at Michigan campaign stop", "summary": "US health secretary falsely claims at Mike Rogers rally that Arabs have never won major prizes in science or literature Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday for a “wildly racist tirade” during a campaign stop in Michigan in which he falsely asserted that Arabs never won leading awards in science or literature.Kennedy was speaking at the Monday night event in Grand Rapids in support of Mike Rogers, the Republican US Senate candidate trailing his Democratic midterms opponent Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim, in polling. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/rfk-jr-michigan-arabs-comment", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T13:17:00+00:00", "score": 89.25, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "RFK Jr assailed over ‘wildly racist tirade’ about Arabs at Michigan campaign stop", "summary": "US health secretary falsely claims at Mike Rogers rally that Arabs have never won major prizes in science or literature
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday for a “wildly racist tirade” during a campaign stop in Michigan in which he falsely asserted that Arabs never won leading awards in science or literature.
Kennedy was speaking at the Monday night event in Grand Rapids in support of Mike Rogers, the Republican US Senate candidate trailing his Democratic midterms opponent Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim, in polling.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/rfk-jr-michigan-arabs-comment", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:17:00 GMT" } }, { "id": "2728e382d3f1c64503b123656f7dd1a85a23a53e", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while consolidating power at home | Shiri Pasternak", "summary": "The Canadian prime minister’s reckoning with Trumpism in Davos clashes with his attacks on environmental, Indigenous and labour rightsThe Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda.Shiri Pasternak is an associate professor in criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism research team, a collaboration between critical scholars and Indigenous land defenders across North America Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/mark-carney-trump-davos", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T13:00:04+00:00", "score": 89.11, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while consolidating power at home | Shiri Pasternak", "summary": "The Canadian prime minister’s reckoning with Trumpism in Davos clashes with his attacks on environmental, Indigenous and labour rights
The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.
But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda.
Shiri Pasternak is an associate professor in criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism research team, a collaboration between critical scholars and Indigenous land defenders across North America
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/mark-carney-trump-davos", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:00:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "c41b1183f04e6d49cc90b03165c9502f46caae35", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither | Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks", "summary": "Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against themA summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying we may reach 3C by 2050 – could it possibly be any worse?How about throwing AI extinction in the mix? Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/ai-climate-crisis-humanity", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T12:00:04+00:00", "score": 88.63, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither | Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks", "summary": "Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them
A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying we may reach 3C by 2050 – could it possibly be any worse?
How about throwing AI extinction in the mix?
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/ai-climate-crisis-humanity", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:04 GMT" } }, { "id": "9a9def6b593a5bbdebd0c82b3566bb592a5b547f", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "Dementia cases in US projected to rise dramatically by 2050, study finds", "summary": "Increase will add strain on healthcare system already struggling amid cuts by Trump administration, experts sayThe number of people with dementia in the United States is projected to increase dramatically over the next 25 years, which will place increasing strain on a healthcare system already struggling to help them amid cuts by the Trump administration, experts say.According to a new study in Jama Neurology, the annual incidence of new dementia cases globally will more than double, from 11.4m in 2023 to 24.7m in 2050. In the United States, the number of adults diagnosed with dementia each year will increase from 514,000 in 2020 to 1m by 2060, according to a Jama study published in 2024. Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/dementia-cases-increase", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T12:00:03+00:00", "score": 88.63, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "Dementia cases in US projected to rise dramatically by 2050, study finds", "summary": "Increase will add strain on healthcare system already struggling amid cuts by Trump administration, experts say
The number of people with dementia in the United States is projected to increase dramatically over the next 25 years, which will place increasing strain on a healthcare system already struggling to help them amid cuts by the Trump administration, experts say.
According to a new study in Jama Neurology, the annual incidence of new dementia cases globally will more than double, from 11.4m in 2023 to 24.7m in 2050. In the United States, the number of adults diagnosed with dementia each year will increase from 514,000 in 2020 to 1m by 2060, according to a Jama study published in 2024.
Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/dementia-cases-increase", "image": "", "published": "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:03 GMT" } }, { "id": "55cfa56183c3afb3ec1f98d6ebe23e7ada726854", "source_id": "guardian_us", "source": "The Guardian — US", "category": "news", "engine": "rss", "title": "We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)", "summary": "Psychopatriarchy is jet fuel to racism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalismFor those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot.The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy.V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls Continue reading...", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/psychopatriarchy-politics-opinion", "image": "", "published": "2026-10-28T10:00:03+00:00", "score": 87.66, "color": "#4be3ff", "raw": { "title": "We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)", "summary": "Psychopatriarchy is jet fuel to racism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism
For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot.
The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls
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On Monday the NFL named Jay-Z as the headliner for this season’s Super Bowl half-time show. His company, Roc Nation, produces the show under a 2019 deal reportedly worth $5m a year, and the agreement was extended for another five years in 2024. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said his one request when the partnership began was that Jay-Z “take the stage himself one day“.
Goodell’s wish makes total sense: Jay-Z is the perfect choice for the half-time show, and that’s not a compliment. The NFL wants a shill who can still pass for a rebel, and nobody in American music plays that part better than Jay-Z.
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As another Iran catastrophe looms, one question matters more than any other: how to stop it before it’s too late? Whatever the eventual outcome of Israel’s election and next week’s US midterm polls, Donald Trump, playing the Lone Ranger, and Benjamin Netanyahu, his badass Tonto, appear hell-bent on resuming the illegal war of choice they began in June last year and expanded in February. Like a Shakespearean tragedy moving inexorably to a bloody denouement, the worst is yet to come. And yet three things seem certain: the US and Israel will again fail to totally destroy Iran’s largely hypothetical nuclear capabilities; its regime will survive; and millions of ordinary people, there and around the world, will pay the price for this unjustified, reckless aggression.
Ducking and weaving, Trump is desperate to dodge the blame for the Republicans’ anticipated midterm meltdown, largely triggered by war-related fuel and consumer price inflation. He claimed Ukraine’s attacks on Russian refineries were responsible, but that didn’t wash. He cut a treacherous diesel deal with Vladimir Putin but, as usual, Russia’s smirking mafioso conned him. He urged US allies to tap their strategic reserves but, unsurprisingly, vilified and sidelined European leaders, who view his war as an unmitigated disaster and declined to bail him out. Trump also reportedly rebuffed last-gasp, electorally driven pressure from Netanyahu to hit Iran this month, fearful it would unleash a Democratic tsunami.
Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator
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Following the Brexit referendum in 2016, Marine Le Pen was in a predictably celebratory mood. Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, she told one interviewer, was the first breach in the “Brussels Wall”. Ms Le Pen’s Front National party was at that point committed to taking France down the same path, given the chance. But as the UK’s self-inflicted economic wounds became a cautionary tale for the rest of Europe, the notion of Frexit was put on ice.
Instead, Ms Le Pen now hopes to lead far-right allies in hollowing out the EU from within. This month, both she and the leader of Alternative für Deutschland, Alice Weidel, outlined their visions of a “Europe of nations” in which EU institutions would be stripped of both cash and power. Ms Weidel’s “new deal for Europe” would abolish elections to the European parliament, and seek German opt-outs in areas such as migration, defence and common borrowing. Ms Le Pen’s party, now called National Rally, proposes slashing French contributions to the EU budget by 60% over a five-year presidential term, and ending the role of Brussels in proposing common policies for the 27 member states.
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Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit wrote about the GOP’s alignment with the tech overlords. Today’s edition was written by Katie Phang, an independent journalist, trial lawyer and political analyst. Sign up for future editions here.
When Americans go to the polls a week from now, accountability will be front and center.
Instead of enforcing the law, the attorney general of the United States has been busy subverting it
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