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Meet Samelys López, the ex-homeless candidate running for New York’s most contested seat She is backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and represents a voice much needed in the south Bronx – but can López beat the nine others vying for the seat? Samelys López. Photograph: Gabriela Bhaskar/The Guardian The first time Samelys López stood up for […] More
Twenty years after the disputed election, cyberhacking, disinformation and coronavirus are new threats – and some experts fear the president will sow doubt Ron Wyden: ‘We already know that Donald Trump is going to say the election has been stolen from him, no matter what.’ Photograph: REX/Shutterstock Ron Klein survived the trench warfare of one […] More
US president’s much hyped return turned to humiliation when he failed to fill arena in Republican stronghold of Oklahoma Play Video 1:07 Trump calls coronavirus ‘kung flu’ and says he slowed testing – video Donald Trump declared “the silent majority is stronger than ever before” at his comeback rally on Saturday, but thousands of empty seats […] More
Don’t call it a comeback: Trump’s Tulsa rally was just another sad farce Richard Wolffe Campaign officials should be ready for firings and fury after a pathetic event made worse by wretched attempted excuses The upper section is seen partially empty as Donald Trump speaks at the BOK Center in Tulsa. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images […] More
Ted Kaufman has recruited six people to a team that will expand Kaufman: no one will have faced such obstacles since FDR Joe Biden will be ready to begin work on the country’s daunting problems ‘the day he is sworn in as president’, according to his transition chief, Ted Kaufman. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters A close […] More
Presumptive Democratic nominee Biden has said he will support study of reparations, representing a sea change on the issue In the weeks after George Floyd died, an embodiment of the violent oppression black Americans have endured makes supporters of reparations newly hopeful. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images As the American civil war reached its bloody end […] More
President warns ‘protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes’ will be treated more harshly than they have been in liberal-run cities What is Juneteenth – and should it be a federal holiday? ‘In 1921, a white mob burned “Black Wall Street” down. We still feel that legacy today’ Juneteenth: activists inherit historic battle for racial justice […] More
Oklahoma Tulsa still haunted by memory of white supremacist massacre on eve of Trump visit The president prepares to hold a rally in a city where, in 1921, up to 300 people were murdered in one of the most horrific acts of racist violence in US history A mural in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in 1921 […] More
