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‘Coming here is a necessity’: demand for food aid soars in US amid job losses
Nationwide the need for aid at food banks and pantries has surged amid worst unemployment rate in modern times More
The fight to vote
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Documents obtained by Guardian shows evidence sorely lacking
Campaign complained of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania More
Pennsylvania
President Trump’s re-election plan had relied on bringing jobs back to cities like Erie, Pennsylvania, which has had its hopes of economic resurgence rocked by the pandemic
This is the third of three pieces by Capital and Main on regions of the country that never fully recovered from the Great Recession and that are located in critical battleground states More
The fight to vote US elections 2020 Seven states and the District of Columbia are holding elections Tuesday in the most widespread trial yet of whether it can be done safely George Floyd killing – latest US updates See all our George Floyd coverage Voter Brian Taylor prepares to cast his ballot in the Democratic […] More
Swing states become partisan battlegrounds in America’s fight against Covid-19 States such as Michigan and Wisconsin helped bring Donald Trump to power in 2016. How they handle the pandemic may well be crucial this November too Armed protesters have become a familiar site at state capitols in recent weeks. Photograph: Mark Makela/Getty Images They were […] More
President and chief of staff were only ones without covering Trump vows to replenish federal stockpile Donald Trump tours Owens & Minor Inc, a medical supply company, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump traveled to a medical equipment distribution facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, to tout a plan to replenish […] More
The Democrat’s rust-belt background is key to his case to become the nominee. Local residents welcome the prospect The Scranton store where a young Joe Biden used to buy his candy is still in operation today, a stone’s throw from the wood-slatted house where the presidential candidate grew up. It’s called Hank’s Hoagies now, in […] More
What’s left, America? US politics In the third part of our series on the American left we examine how Hillary Clinton’s defeat radicalised women in a way that her campaign did not ‘I had nothing to lose. What were they going to take away from me?’ Illustration: Guardian Design/The Guardian En route from Chicago to […] More
