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Judge allows Fulton county election offices to be open Saturday and Sunday for mail-in ballots to be dropped offA Georgia judge on Saturday rejected a Republican lawsuit trying to block counties from opening election offices on Saturday and Sunday to let voters hand in their mail ballots in person.The lawsuit only named Fulton county, a Democratic stronghold that includes most of the city of Atlanta and is home to 11% of the state’s voters. But at least five other populous counties that tend to vote for Democrats also announced election offices would open over the weekend to allow hand return

Pedro Sánchez orders largest peacetime troop deployment to deal with flooding that has killed 211 peopleSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has ordered the country’s largest peacetime military deployment, announcing that 10,000 troops and police officers will be drafted in to help deal with the aftermath of this week’s devastating floods, which have killed at least 211 people in eastern, southern and central regions.Speaking after chairing a meeting of the flood crisis committee, Sánchez said the government was mobilising all the resources at its disposal to deal with the “terrible tragedy”, which stuck hardest in the eastern region of Valencia. He

The PM is expected to outline the details of the change at a campaign rally in Adelaide on Sunday. Follow today’s news live.And welcome to another Sunday morning Guardian live blog.Anthony Albanese has announced a plan to wipe a fifth of all student debt if his government his re-elected. The PM is expected to outline the details of the change at a campaign rally in Adelaide on Sunday, will wipe $16bn worth of debt as part of the government’s cost-of-living measures. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/nov/03/australia-news-live-albanese-student-debt-plan-re-elected-two-men-arrested-grass-fire-south-australia-nsw-victoria-weather-cost-of-living-business Author : Royce Kurmelovs Publish date : 2024-11-02 21:44:24 Copyright for syndicated content

Brooklyn detention center holding 1,200 has been under scrutiny since two fatal stabbings this summerFederal authorities have confirmed that they seized drugs, homemade weapons and electronic devices during a sweep of the jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held on sex trafficking conspiracy charges ahead of a trial next year.The Bureau of Prisons, which headed up the interagency sweep of the Metropolitan detention center (MDC) in Brooklyn that began on Monday, said the action was not related to Combs’s detention but was “preplanned and coordinated to ensure the safety and security” of staff and inmates. Continue reading... Source link

Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster likely to make at least £50m from leasing land to services such as NHS and schools, according to investigation King Charles and Prince William’s property empires are taking millions of pounds from cash-strapped charities and public services including the NHS, state schools and prisons, according to a new investigation.The reports claim the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, which are exempt from business taxes and used to fund the royals’ lifestyles and philanthropic work, are set to make at least £50m from leasing land to public services. The two duchies hold a total of more than

Ten-year-old’s stepmother says ‘I think you’re looking for us’ in bodycam footage played to jurors during trialFootage of the moment police boarded a plane to arrest the alleged killers of Sara Sharif has been shown to jurors, showing the 10-year-old’s stepmother saying to officers: “I think you’re looking for us.”The exchange was captured on cameras worn by officers and played in court during their trial. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/02/footage-shows-arrest-of-sara-sharifs-alleged-killers-on-plane-from-pakistan Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2024-11-02 19:10:58 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Spike Lee, 2 Chainz, Monica, Victoria Monét and Pastor Troy warmed up the crowd of enthusiastic Harris votersKamala Harris struck a contrast between her work as a prosecutor and a Donald Trump campaign “obsessed with revenge and consumed with grievance” on Saturday in Atlanta, three days before election day.“In less than 90 days it’s either going to be him or me in the Oval Office,” Harris said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/harris-rally-atlanta Author : George Chidi in Atlanta Publish date : 2024-11-02 18:29:51 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Police called to home in Malton where girl suffered serious injuries and died at the sceneA 10-year-old girl has died after she was bitten by her family’s dog, police have said.North Yorkshire police were called at 4.15pm on Friday to the incident that happened inside the family’s home in the Malton area. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/02/girl-10-dies-after-being-bitten-by-family-dog-in-malton-north-yorkshire Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-11-02 17:22:42 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Increasingly violent siege of north raises suspicions about Netanyahu’s war aimsIsrael has tightened its siege of northern Gaza in the face of warnings from the UN and other aid agencies that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives at are risk, raising questions over whether the Netanyahu government’s ultimate war aims include territorial expansion.The IDF says it is hunting Hamas militants but suspicions are growing that Israel is putting into practice a blueprint it had officially distanced itself from, known as the “generals’ plan”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/02/fears-grow-israel-plans-seize-land-gaza-siege-netanyahu-war-aims Author : Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger in

The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look awayMove on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse.If past experience is any guide, the world’s reaction to the floods in Spain last week will be similar to that of motorway drivers at a crash scene: slow down, take in the horror, outwardly express sympathy, inwardly give thanks that fate picked someone else – and foot on the accelerator. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/02/spain-apocalyptic-floods-climate-crisis-worse-big-oil-cop29 Author : Jonathan Watts Publish date : 2024-11-02 15:44:47 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Canvassers urge residents to vote for Democratic nominee despite opposition to administration’s support for IsraelMany Arab and Muslim Americans across the country are making a final push to get ballots cast for Kamala Harris for president – despite other members of their communities being strongly opposed to a Harris administration given the White House’s support for Israel.Haitham Wahab, a resident of Dearborn, Michigan, and a Lebanese American who has been canvassing for the Harris-Walz campaign, said one of the best ways to effect change is “from the inside, through coalition-building”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/arab-muslim-americans-vote-harris Author : Erum Salam

Terrorist Callum Parslow was previously jailed for sending 10 women sexually explicit and misogynistic messages, and targeted a former GB News presenterA neo-Nazi terrorist who was found guilty last month of the attempted murder of an asylum seeker is a prolific online stalker who had previously been jailed and referred to the Prevent counter-terrorism scheme, the Observer can reveal.Callum Parslow was convicted on 25 October of attempted murder after stabbing an asylum seeker at a hotel in April. It can now be revealed he was jailed in 2018 for targeting 10 women and girls with messages describing sexually motivated murder,

Thousands lined streets of Irish capital waiting for falsely advertised Mácnas parade after website’s ‘human error’A Pakistan-based company has issued an embarrassed apology to Dubliners after a “human error” on its events website led to thousands of people turning up on the Irish capital’s main thoroughfare for a nonexistent Halloween parade.Footage on Thursday night showed throngs of people lining both sides of O’Connell Street waiting for a supposed procession of giant Halloween puppets made by one of Ireland’s best known theatre groups, the Galway performance company Mácnas. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/02/pakistan-firm-apologises-for-directing-dubliners-to-nonexistent-halloween-event Author : Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin Publish

Conservative party announces Badenoch has beaten rival Robert Jenrick in ballot of party membersUK politics live – latest updatesFive things to know about Kemi BadenochKemi Badenoch is the new Conservative party leader after defeating Robert Jenrick in a members’ vote, becoming the first Black leader of a major UK party and the fourth woman to lead the Tories.Baden took just over 56% of the 95,000 votes, in a poll that had a 73% turnout of eligible members. This amounts to the narrowest win of the four since the party changed its rules to allow party members the final say in

Godley, whose comedy drew upon her Glasgow upbringing, died ‘surrounded by her loved ones’, her management saysJaney Godley: a remarkable comic who built a career on her own termsJaney Godley, the Scottish comedian and author whose quick wit led her to swap pint-pulling in Glasgow for international standup tours, has died aged 63.She died in a hospice “surrounded by her loved ones”, her management said on Saturday. Godley had announced she was receiving palliative care in September after her terminal cancer spread. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/nov/02/scottish-comedian-janey-godley-dies Author : Rachael Healy Publish date : 2024-11-02 11:40:05 Copyright for syndicated

Pollsters may be wary of findings indicating unusually large leads for one candidate and introducing corrective weighting, experts sayThe US presidential election campaign enters its final weekend with polls showing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in seemingly permanent deadlock and few clues as to which of them will prevail on Tuesday.At the end of another unruly week that began with Trump’s racially charged rally in New York’s Madison Square Guardian and was punctuated by celebrity endorsements, misogynistic comments and insults about “garbage” being levelled left and right, the Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker showed little change from seven days earlier,

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against IsraelIraqi pro-Iran groups say they have carried out a drone attack on Israel’s Eilat, according to a breaking news line by Agence France-Presse (AFP).More details soon … Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/nov/02/middle-east-latest-iran-israel-gaza-lebanon-hamas-hezbollah Author : Amy Sedghi Publish date : 2024-11-02 09:58:20 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

New Conservative party leader will be announced shortly – but James Cleverly says he won’t serve in either’s shadow cabinetThis is what my colleague Eleni Courea posted on social media last night about what she has heard about the results of the contest.NEW - I hear the turnout in the Tory leadership contest was above 70% and that the winner has a decent margin of victory... Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/nov/02/tory-leadership-election-results-live-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-new-conservative-leader Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2024-11-02 08:54:50 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The ICO has written to the party after a complaint was made about an online tax calculator tool that also appeared to collect voter dataThe Conservative party has been told to improve its data handling by the information watchdog after it released a “tax calculator” that also appeared to be collecting voter data.The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wrote to the party telling it to take steps to ensure it complies with data protection legislation after a complaint by the Good Law Project (GLP) about privacy safeguards. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/02/conservatives-ordered-to-improve-data-handling Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date

Women tell us how they feel about safety after the actor’s remark on using a phone as a weapon went viralSaoirse Ronan’s comment about women’s safety on The Graham Norton Show has gone viral after she said using a phone as a weapon is something “girls have to think about all the time”. Ronan later said the reaction has been “wild” and that the moment was “opening a conversation”.Here, six women tell us what they think about the comments and how they feel about women’s safety. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/02/will-anything-change-six-women-react-saoirse-ronans-viral-comment Author : Rachel Obordo Publish date : 2024-11-02

Exclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to riseThe introduction of UK austerity policies has been associated with a striking increase in the number of babies in Scotland being born smaller or earlier than expected, data suggests.Researchers believe cuts to social security benefits and services are key to understanding these trends, which have hit families living in the poorest neighbourhoods the hardest. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/02/uk-austerity-policies-premature-low-birth-weight-babies-scotland Author : Linda Geddes Publish date : 2024-11-02 06:01:06 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Israel targets north-eastern Lebanon and Beirut, while bombardment of Gaza raises fears of worsening humanitarian conditions for civiliansIsraeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 52 people and wounded scores more, the Lebanese health ministry said, while rockets fired from Lebanon fell on Israel on Saturday.Israeli police said 19 people were injured before dawn on Saturday in the central town of Tira. Three projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon, Israel’s military said, and some were intercepted. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/02/israeli-airstrikes-on-lebanon-and-gaza-kill-dozens-as-rockets-are-fired-into-israel Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2024-11-02 05:09:26 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Brett Hankison is first Louisiana police officer at scene of raid that killed Taylor to be convictedA federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead.The 12-member jury returned the late-night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor’s neighbors. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/breonna-taylor-brett-hankison-conviction Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2024-11-02 02:45:21 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

A ‘typhoon day’ has come to mean one thing for many – a chance to indulge their favourite pastimeThe winds of typhoon Kong-rey howled through the streets of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, inside a brick and glass building people similarly wailed down the corridors of a branch of the Partyworld karaoke chain.Through the poorly soundproofed door of one room voices warbled a song by the Taiwanese rock band Mayday, and through another came the sounds of a song by Coldplay. In room 330, someone made an exasperated search through the song list – “where is Kylie?

Victoria police say a man was found with fatal gunshot wound on Langford Street in North Melbourne at about 3.15amGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA large-scale homicide investigation is under way after a man was fatally shot, triggering “horribly emotional” scenes in a busy nightlife area in inner Melbourne on Saturday morning.Victoria police said emergency services were called to Langford Street in North Melbourne at about 3.15am after a man was found with a gunshot wound.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/02/police-search-for-attacker-after-man-shot-dead-in-busy-nightlife-area-in-melbourne Author : Daisy Dumas Publish date