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    Trump says he will have spent $400m to support Republicans in midterms – as it happened

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    This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailSend us your questions about immigration and the midtermsA new survey reveals a widening “empathy gap” between Republicans and white evangelicals and the rest of the American public.On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute released its annual American Values Survey. The survey found that white evangelical Protestants are the only religious group in which a majority does not agree that empathy is foundational moral value (42%). Instead, a majority (54%) say empathy can be dangerous when it leads people away from a society guided by God’s truth, PRRI said. Continue reading… More

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      Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s new press secretary: ‘attorney in the way George Santos was volleyball champion’

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      Late-night host discussed Trump’s falling poll numbers and concerns over his new press secretary, Katie ZachariaTrump’s new press secretary says it’s ‘unknown’ how much she’ll deal with mediaWith other hosts still on holiday, Jimmy Kimmel checked in on Donald Trump’s record-low poll numbers and beleaguered new press secretary, Katie Zacharia. Continue reading… More

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      If the US livestreams an execution, it will be an act of terror | Brief letters

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      Pete Hegseth | Pre-loved | Marlborough man | Canterbury tale | Newt kids on the blockPete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, has authorised the livestreaming of an execution by firing squad (Report, 9 October). Morally this is no different from a terrorist group posting a video of a beheading. It marks yet another step in the brutalising of American society under the second Trump administration. Britain stopped holding public executions in 1868.John BoalerCalne, Wiltshire• I find nearly all the “pre-” expressions irritating, but the term pre-loved (Letters, 7 October) is, in this one instance, justifiable. Items that have been passed on due to the owner’s lack of affection are exactly in a state of “pre‑lovedness”, waiting for the buyer who will truly cherish them.Paola McClureDundee Continue reading… More

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      I saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait

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      It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by TehranPete Hegseth’s plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game.Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime on the battlefield, the self-styled “secretary of war” now proposes to mirror its notorious practice of enforcing the death penalty as a grand public spectacle. Continue reading… More

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      ‘Barbaric’ firing squad livestream ordered by Pete Hegseth – The Latest

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      The execution of a former US army psychiatrist by firing squad is to be livestreamed after Pete Hegseth said it would be a public event. Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death after killing 13 people at a military base in Texas in 2009. There has been widespread condemnation of the decision, including from the UN which said it would ‘amount to torture’. Lucy Hough speaks to US academic and capital punishment specialist Austin Sarat, the author of Life After Death: Surviving Execution Continue reading… More

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      Hegseth falsely claims Obama called 2009 Fort Hood attack ‘workplace violence’ – US politics live

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      Pentagon chief joins Trump in attempt to use deadly shooting at Texas base to attack former Democratic presidentThousands turn out to welcome weary USS Lincoln sailorsSign up for the US Breaking News emailDonald Trump has urged James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in the US Senate race in Texas, to debate Ken Paxton – Republican attorney general that the president has endorsed in the election.On Truth Social, Trump described Paxton as “ready, willing, and able” to take on Talarico – the 37-year-old state representative who has been leading in several polls.In Georgia, Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent will face off against Mike Collins – a congressman and the Trump-backed Republican nominee at 7pm ET.At the same time in Michigan, progressive insurgent Abdul El-Sayed, will debate Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee also endorsed by the president.Finally, it’s the second debate in Maine in as many days. Susan Collins, the five-term Republican incumbent will spar (again) with the Democratic nominee, Troy Jackson, at 8pm ET. Continue reading… More

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      Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley

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      A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuityMore fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer.Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan.Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading… More

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      ‘It’s been hard’: families await the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln

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      After reports of suicide attempts and food shortages, the aircraft carrier is expected to dock in San Diego this week following a record-breaking 250-plus days at seaA mother in San Diego is counting down the days until her son comes home.“I had a big sign made, welcoming him back,” she said. “I can’t wait to see him.” Continue reading… More