A Dallas-area Christian megachurch has removed four of its elders after an internal investigation into how the institution handled revelations of child sexual abuse by its founder, a former spiritual adviser to Donald Trump. An official at Gateway church announced during a service on Saturday that the ousted leaders either knew that Robert Morris molested … Read more
Good morning. Tens of millions of voters will cast their ballots on Tuesday in one of the tightest and most divided presidential elections in modern US history, with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a dead heat. Recent polling has failed to identify a clear advantage for either candidate across the battleground states, but … Read more
On Tuesday, residents in Alabama’s newly redrawn congressional district two will vote for the first time. A June 2023 ruling by the supreme court created the new district in the Black belt, which spans from the state’s Choctaw county, on its western border, to Russell county, in the east, where Black people make up 48.7% … Read more
The final six public polls that have been released pretty much tell the same story as each other and the previous polls in October. The race to become the 47th president of the United States is on a razor-thin margin. Three of those last six polls were actual ties; one has Kamala Harris ahead by … Read more
Well … we finally got to 5 November. Of course, you know the story. Once upon a time, there was a bad guy who wanted to set fire to a country’s political system. Metaphorically, but also literally. I mean, he wasn’t subtle, this guy. This Guy, I should say, because his name was Guy Fawkes. … Read more
The way the US counts votes is unique. In fact, there is no one central vote-counting system but rather tens of thousands of them in local precincts all across the country. To help determine who has won where, the Guardian and many other newsrooms rely on the Associated Press, which has been calling US elections … Read more
“The fact has become very clear to us this year that, economically, hockey just does not work in this market,” Larry H Miller told a press conference in March 1994, announcing that he’d sold the minor league Salt Lake Golden Eagles to a group in Detroit headed by the then-owner of the NBA’s Detroit Pistons. … Read more
1. The challengers The hard-right Florida governor Ron DeSantis was widely seen as the Republican most likely to prevent former president Donald Trump from becoming the party’s nominee for a third consecutive election. However, in January, despite being backed by the tycoon Rupert Murdoch, DeSantis ends his flailing campaign – and eventually endorses Trump, whose … Read more
By late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday, we may know who is going to be the next president of the United States. Or we may know that we don’t yet know. Or we may know who’s been projected as the winner but be bracing ourselves for weeks of legal action and protest. It’s going … Read more
Election day has arrived in America, with tens of millions of voters set to head to the polls on Tuesday in one of the closest and most consequential contests in modern US history. The Democrat Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, appear locked in a knife-edge contest with hardly any daylight between the … Read more