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By Ali Harb

Published On 24 Oct 202424 Oct 2024

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• With 12 days to go until the US presidential election, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are making their last pitches to voters.
• Trump is heading to the western US for rallies in Arizona and Nevada. Harris will hold a rally in Georgia, where Trump was yesterday, with former President Obama and musician Bruce Springsteen.

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• 5m ago (20:30 GMT)Trump says he speaks to Netanyahu oftenTrump was asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt during a friendly interview today if the US needs to organise its allies to “get rid” of Iran’s regime.Trump punted on the question, saying he didn’t know if this was the right course of action, but did say that he frequently speaks to the Israeli prime minister.“Fortunately, you know, Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] calls me quite a bit, and we have a lot of talks. But I always say, make up your own mind. But Bibi has his own opinions”, Trump said.“Had Bibi listened to Biden, he would right now be waiting for a nuclear bomb to drop on his head, OK? And now, the opposite. He put them in a very good negotiating position. I think he could survive this. You want to know? I think he’s in position where he can fight them or he can make a deal, and a good deal, a real deal”, he added.Click here to share on social media
• 20m ago (20:15 GMT)Trump says Democrats hate him because he winsSpeaking to conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt, the former president says Democrats hate him because he defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 when he “wasn’t supposed to”.“I have a tendency to win. It’s a nice thing, and that bothers people. Sometimes, I play a little bit rough, but they play rough. They are rough and vicious people. They are vicious people. They’re dirty people,” Trump said.“They’ve weaponised [the] government. They’ve weaponised everything,” he added, referring to the criminal cases against him.Trump gestures at a campaign event in North Las Vegas, Nevada, October 12 [John Locher/AP Photo]Click here to share on social media
• 35m ago (20:00 GMT)Photos: Trump supporters gather outside Las Vegas, NV rallyA supporter arrives at a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump, sponsored by conservative group Turning Point USA, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, October 24, 2024 [Eloisa Lopez/Reuters][Eloisa Lopez/Reuters][Eloisa Lopez/Reuters][Eloisa Lopez/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
• 50m ago (19:45 GMT)Trump ‘took a bullet for democracy’: Republican US congressmanRudy Yakym, who represents a district in Indiana, pushes back against Harris’s argument that Trump is a fascist and a threat to US democracy, citing the assassination attempt when the former president was wounded in the ear.“President Trump is the one who actually got shot and took a bullet for democracy,” Yakym wrote in a social media post. “Americans see through her desperate lies.”Click here to share on social media
• 1h ago (19:30 GMT)When it comes to Israel, Harris sticks to the script – literallyIt is not uncommon for politicians to rehearse arguments to address certain issues. But when it comes to Israel and the war on Gaza, Harris takes sticking to the script literally, often repeating verbatim variations of the same lines.Below are a few examples of her past statements:
  • October 23: “I do believe we have an opportunity to end this war, bring the hostages home, bring relief to the Palestinian people and work toward a two-state solution where Israel and the Palestinians, with equal measure, have security, where the Palestinian people have dignity, self-determination and the safety that they so rightly deserve.”
  • October 17: “This moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza, and it must end such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.”
  • August 22: “President Biden and I are working to end this war such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination.”
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• 1h ago (19:15 GMT)WATCH: Americans left vulnerable while tax money funds military aid abroadWith the campaign season in full swing. Many Americans feel that their government is not looking after their needs, while it spends billions of dollars on military aid to countries like Israel and Ukraine.Watch this episode of Al Jazeera’s The Stream discussing the issue below:https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.674.1_en.html#goog_1758042217Play VideoVideo Duration 25 minutes 00 seconds25:00Americans left vulnerable while tax money funds military aid abroadClick here to share on social media
• 1h ago (19:00 GMT)Twenty-three Nobel Prize winners back Harris on economyAn open letter signed by the Nobel laureates affirms their belief that Harris would be a “better steward” of the US economy than Trump.“The details of the presidential candidates’ economic programs are not fully laid out yet, but what they’ve said, combined with what they’ve done in the past, gives us a clear picture of alternative economic visions, policies, and practices”, the letter reads.The signatories make up more than half of the living recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics in the US.“High tariffs even on goods from our friends and allies and regressive tax cuts for corporations and individuals, will lead to higher prices, larger deficits, and greater inequality”, the letter says of policies promised by Trump that would be negative for the US economy.It also cites Trump as a threat to the rule of law in the country.Click here to share on social mediaAdvertisement
• 1h ago (18:45 GMT)Liberal pro-Israel group backs Harris’s call for ending Gaza warJ Street, a lobby group that describes itself as pro-Israel and pro-peace, urges Biden to “rein in Netanyahu” and pull the Middle East from the brink of an all-out regional war.“We agree with Vice President Harris that – with Hamas decimated and its leadership eliminated – now must be the moment to seal a deal that brings the remaining hostages home, halts the catastrophic war, surges humanitarian aid into Gaza, and de-escalates regional tensions,” the group said in a statement.“It is essential that tactical wins be leveraged to conclude the war and pursue a plan that ends the intolerable suffering in Gaza and delivers Israelis and Palestinians the long-term safety, freedom and self-determination they deserve.”J Street says it opposes Israeli abuses against Palestinians, but it offered support for the Israeli offensive in Gaza and only called for a “negotiated stop to the fighting” in January, after more than 25,000 Palestinians had been killed.The group announced last week that it raised more than $6m for Harris, who has promised to continue the unconditional US military support to Israel.The site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people n Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, October 24 [Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters]Click here to share on social media

• Harris welcomes new Republican endorsementsThe Democratic candidate pays a nod to two Republicans who have endorsed her campaign recently – Shawn Reilly, the mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin, and Fred Upton, a former US congressman who represented a district in Michigan.“This continues to be – I think – evidence of the fact that people who have been leaders in our country, regardless of their political party, understand what’s at stake,” Harris told reporters.“And they are weighing in courageously, in many cases, in support of what we need to have, which is a president of the United States who understands the obligation of both the Constitution of the United States and our democracy.”Several Republicans, including many neoconservative foreign policy hawks, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, have backed Harris over Trump.Click here to share on social media
• 2h ago (18:15 GMT)What are the polls saying in Arizona and Nevada?Donald Trump is campaigning today in the two Western states, where the margin remains tight and indecisive.Just one point separates Trump and Kamala Harris among Arizona likely voters, according to a recent Marist poll of the state. Trump is polling at 50 percent there, with Harris right behind at 49.Harris has widened her advantage against Trump among independent voters statewide, building upon the support President Joe Biden received among these voters four years ago. But Trump now leads Harris among Latino voters in the state.In Nevada, where Trump also leads Harris by one percentage point, 47 to 46 percent.Click here to share on social media
• 2h ago (18:00 GMT)Want to know who will win the US election? Take a look at the stock market
  • John Power
  The performance of US stocks has an uncanny track record of predicting the outcome of presidential elections.Since 1928, the S&P 500 – which tracks the performance of 500 of the largest firms listed in the US – has pointed to the winner in 20 out of 24 elections, according to an analysis by financial services company LPL Financial.It is not a bad track record as forecasting models go.To learn what the market may hold for this year’s election, read more here.Click here to share on social media
• 2h ago (17:45 GMT)National Urban League chief says he doesn’t believe Black men are moving to Trump“I believe Black men are making a choice between whether to vote or to participate,” said Marc Morial, one of the speakers during the “Wheels Of Justice” Get Out the Vote tour organised by the Michigan National Action Network, an activism organisation founded by civil rights leader and longtime Democratic stalwart Al Sharpton.“I’m confident that overwhelming numbers of African American men will not vote for a person who denigrated them, a person who has disparaged them,” Morial, who’s also a former New Orleans mayor, told The Associated Press on Thursday.“Donald Trump has talked about Black men, the Exonerated Five, Black athletes, Black-led cities like dogs. When you do that, you don’t earn my vote. You’ve earned my contempt and my opposition.”Two members of what was known as the Central Park Five, who are currently suing Donald Trump, also spoke at the event.In the 1980s, Trump bought a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty after five Black and Latino teenagers were accused of raping and beating a white female jogger in New York City.The five said they confessed to the crimes under duress, later recanted, and pleaded not guilty. They were convicted after jury trials, but the convictions were vacated in 2002 after another person confessed to the crime. The five men now are known as the Exonerated Five.Click here to share on social mediaAdvertisement
• 3h ago (17:30 GMT)Beyonce to appear with Harris at Houston rally: ReportThe pop icon Beyonce is set to appear at a campaign rally for Kamala Harris in her hometown of Houston, Texas on Friday, according to sources who spoke to the Associated Press and The New York Times.Beyonce’s long-awaited endorsement follows that of other superstars who have backed Harris, including Taylor Swift, Eminem, and Bruce Springsteen.Beyonce’s song Freedom, from the 2016 album Lemonade, has become an unofficial anthem for the Harris campaign, which often plays it as the vice president arrives at rallies.Harris is speaking in Houston to highlight Texas’s extreme abortion restrictions.Click here to share on social media
• 3h ago (17:20 GMT)US Postal Service says it can handle election mail after hurricanesThe US Postal Service has reopened all of its mail processing centres in areas of Florida and North Carolina hit by recent hurricanes.A top official with the service sought to reassure voters and election officials that the agency is ready to handle mail ballots.“We have the capacity to handle a high volume of election mail in the final weeks of the election,” Steven Monteith, a Postal Service executive vice president and its chief marketing officer, said at a Wednesday briefing with reporters.The reassurance came six weeks after state and local election officials warned that problems with mail service threatened to disenfranchise voters. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy later said that the Postal Service makes “heroic efforts” to get even ballots mailed late to election offices on time.Even after Hurricane Helene in late September and Hurricane Milton this month, 99.9 percent of the nation’s election-related mail was delivered within seven days, the Postal Service reported Wednesday. It said 99.7 percent of the election-related mail was delivered within three days for the last presidential election in 2020.https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.674.1_en.html#goog_1758042219Play VideoVideo Duration 02 minutes 44 seconds02:44Hurricane relief funding sparks political tensions in Western North Carolina ahead of US electionClick here to share on social media
• 3h ago (17:10 GMT)AFL-CIO chief says signs are positive for HarrisPresident Liz Shuler of the large US labour organisation, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, says she’s noticed additional momentum for the Democratic candidate over the past two weeks.In comments carried by The Associated Press, Shuler says she expects to pull in more volunteers for outreach as the election nears.Shuler said the unions have been keeping track of their conversations with members, saying that as of now, 64 percent of those they’ve spoken to will back Harris and 19 percent will back Republican Donald Trump.Those numbers leave some room for voters who might support the former president but declined to say so, as well as undecided voters who might ultimately support Harris.Democrats have traditionally enjoyed the lion’s share of support from organised labour and union members in past elections.Click here to share on social media
• 3h ago (17:00 GMT)Civil rights group: Project 2025 an ‘assault on Black communities’A leading US civil rights group has warned that Project 2025, an ultra-conservative blueprint for how a second Trump presidency might reshape the federal government, poses a “deliberate threat to the civil rights and progress of Black communities”.The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), a racial justice organisation, issued a report warning that the conservative-backed plan would reverse hard-won civil rights protections, including by eliminating key safeguards that protect Black workers, by barring federal agencies from collecting racial demographic data, and by making it harder to enforce anti-discrimination laws and combat racial inequities.“Our democracy stands at a crossroads: a path of infinite promise towards a more inclusive, equitable, and durable democracy on the one hand, and one of immeasurable and, potentially, irretrievable demise on the other,” LDF President Janai Nelson said in a statement. “The assault on Black communities envisioned by Project 2025 will almost certainly condemn us to demise.”https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.674.1_en.html#goog_1758042218Play VideoVideo Duration 02 minutes 18 seconds02:18Winning the African American vote: Republicans & Democrats spent millions in Wisconsin Click here to share on social media
• 3h ago (16:50 GMT)Georgia officials say attempt to crash state election website thwartedGeorgia election officials acted quickly earlier this month to thwart an attempt to flood the state’s absentee voter portal in an apparent attempt to crash the site, the Office of the Secretary of State said according to The Associated Press.The attack was limited to that part of the state’s website, which voters use to request an absentee ballot. Users may have experienced a brief slowdown, but the site never crashed and no data was compromised, said Gabriel Sterling, a top official at the agency.He said it wasn’t clear where the attack originated. There has been no public indication that similar systems in any other state were subject to the same kind of attack.Click here to share on social mediaAdvertisement
• 3h ago (16:40 GMT)Can foreign policy tip the US presidential election?
  • Alice Speri
  It is usually said in United States elections that “bread and butter” issues are what drive people to vote and shape their choices, with concerns about economic factors like inflation and the cost of living regularly topping the lists of voters’ priorities.Further-from-home issues like foreign policy, the wisdom goes, do not decide elections. As one adviser put it in the lead-up to Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.” At the time, then-President George HW Bush had just pushed Iraqi forces from Kuwait, a foreign policy “win” that did not secure Bush victory at the polls.The notion has since become a staple of election cycles — but historians and analysts warn it is only partially true.With a protracted war in Ukraine and a widening one in the Middle East, both of which the US has spent heavily on and is growing more embroiled in, as well as foreign policy-related concerns like immigration and climate change that are at the top of many voters’ priorities, it’s clear that the economy won’t be the lone factor determining how Americans vote next month.Read more here.Click here to share on social media
• 4h ago (16:30 GMT)Biden to pitch Harris to labour leaders in PennsylvaniaPresident Joe Biden will meet with local leaders of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Union President Brent Booker will be joining him.Biden, who likes to call himself the most pro-union US president in history, walked the picket line with the United Auto Workers last year and his administration worked most recently to prevent a dock workers strike.Biden has been calling local union workers in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state, to push for continued mobilisation on behalf of his vice president, the Democratic nominee.Click here to share on social media
• 4h ago (16:20 GMT)War on Lebanon deepens Harris’s woes with Michigan’s Arab voters
  • Ali Harb
  The Democrats have been already losing ground with the Arab American community due to their unconditional support for Israel amid the war in Gaza.As the US ally launched a devastating bombing campaign and ground invasion in Lebanon last month, that anger only intensified.The key swing state of Michigan is home to tens of thousands of Lebanese American voters, many of whom hail from the southern part of the country that is being decimated by US-backed Israeli bombardment.Harris has pledged to continue to provide weapons to Israel unconditionally. In September, she hailed and celebrated the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by Israel, which intensified the conflict in Lebanon.The vice president has also voiced support for the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon that has displaced more than 1.2 million people and turned some parts of the country into rubble, saying that she backs Israel’s “right to defend itself” against Hezbollah.In a close race, as the election in Michigan is expected to be, Arab voters’ frustration over the war in Gaza and Lebanon could cost Harris the state and possibly the presidency altogether.“Kamala Harris has no soul. She is evil, and she is no better than those she’s protecting and enabling,” Michigan-based Lebanese American advocate Suehaila Amen told Al Jazeera last month.A vigil for the victims of Israel’s attacks in Lebanon on September 20 at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan [File: Rebecca Cook/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
• 4h ago (16:10 GMT)Harris campaign makes plea for donations to help reach undecided votersIn a text message soliciting money from supporters, the Democratic candidate says funds will be crucial to pay for ads and organisers in the final stretch of the campaign.“We are spending every moment of the next 12 days reaching people who may be unsure where they can vote or who may be on the fence about voting at all,” the text message said.“Our final efforts directly depend on grassroots donors like you.”Click here to share on social media
• 4h ago (16:00 GMT)Tim Walz to campaign in North CarolinaAs Harris campaigns with Atlanta, Georgia, her running mate, Minnesota Governor Walz, will head to Wilmington, North Carolina.Musician James Taylor, a North Carolina native, will perform at the rally.Democrats have not won the state during a presidential election since 2008. But they are making a hard push to reclaim North Carolina this year, with polls suggesting that the race between Harris and Trump will be close there.Walz at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 22 [Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
• 4h ago (15:50 GMT)What are the swing states?US presidential elections are not won by the national popular vote. Rather, candidates compete in individual states to win Electoral College votes.It’s akin to a point system in which each state is worth a number of points proportionate to the size of its population. In all but two states – Maine and Nebraska – the winner takes all the Electoral College votes.Most states are almost certain to go to one party. For example, a Democratic win in California and Vermont is often projected as soon as the polls close while states like Oklahoma and Alabama are Republican strongholds.That leaves a handful of states where there are close, competitive elections. These are known as swing states. This year, all eyes are on seven: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.Harris at a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit, Michigan, on October 19, 2024 [Rebecca Cook/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
• 4h ago (15:40 GMT)Trump narrowly leading in Pennsylvania, poll suggestsA new poll by Franklin and Marshall College suggests that Trump is 1 percentage point ahead of Harris in the crucial swing state – 50 to 49 percent.The result is based on the responses of 794 registered Pennsylvania voters.Click here to share on social media
• 5h ago (15:30 GMT)Harris campaign calls out Trump for confusing Biden and ObamaThe campaign posted a soundbite from a Trump interview, where he apparently misspeaks and blames former President Obama – rather than President Joe Biden – for mishandling the crisis in the Middle East.“Trump confuses who is currently president, forcing Fox host to correct him: ‘You mean President Biden,’” the Harris campaign said in a social media post.Biden, 81, dropped out of the race over concerns about his age after a disastrous debate performance earlier this year.The Harris campaign has been underscoring Trump’s rambles and gaffes to raise concerns about the 78-year-old former president’s age.Click here to share on social media
• 5h ago (15:20 GMT)JD Vance to campaign in MichiganTrump’s running mate is heading to the Detroit area, where he will hold a rally in the suburb of Waterford.Vance, a senator from neighbouring Ohio, has been campaigning frequently in Michigan – a key battleground state where Trump and Harris are locked in a tight race, according to public opinion polls.Trump and Harris visited Michigan last week.The Republican candidate made a short stop in Hamtramck, near Detroit, on Friday, where called the endorsement of the city’s Yemeni-American mayor an “honour”.Senator JD Vance at the International Association of Fire Fighters Convention in Boston, August 29 [Josh Reynolds/AP Photo]Click here to share on social media
• 5h ago (15:10 GMT)WATCH: Harris calls Trump ‘unhinged’ after alleged comments about HitlerThe Democratic candidate did not hold back when slamming her Republican rivals after it was reported that he had said that Hitler did some “good things”.Harris called Trump “unhinged and unstable”.Watch her remarks below:https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.674.1_en.html#goog_1758042220Play VideoVideo Duration 00 minutes 48 seconds00:48Harris calls Trump ‘unhinged’ after reported comments about HitlerClick here to share on social mediaAdvertisement
• 5h ago (15:00 GMT)Trump says he’d fire Special Counsel Jack Smith if elected presidentThe Republican presidential candidate says he’ll fire the federal prosecutor investigating whether he tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat if he succeeds in the November vote.Former President Donald Trump, when asked during an interview whether he would pardon himself or fire Special Counsel Jack Smith, said, “It’s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds.”“No I don’t think they would impeach me if I fired Jack Smith,” he added, in a conversation with conservative podcast host Hugh Hewitt.Click here to share on social media
• 5h ago (14:50 GMT)Arizona man accused of shooting DNC office had arsenal in home, officials sayYesterday, we brought you news of the arrest of a man in suburban Phoenix who is accused of shooting an office of the Democratic National Committee several times.An Arizona prosecutor said the man had more than 120 guns and more than 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.Scopes, body armour and silencers were also found, said Maricopa County prosecutor Neha Bhatia. A machinegun was discovered in the car he was driving.Police allege Jeffrey Kelly, 60, fired BB pellets and then gunshots at the glass front door and a window of the Arizona Democrats’ field office in Tempe. Police found three .22-calibre bullet casings while searching Kelly’s rubbish, according to court documents.Click here to share on social media
• 5h ago (14:40 GMT)Republican legislator accuses Harris of inciting violence against TrumpCongressman Eli Crane hits out at the Democratic candidate for calling the former president fascist, noting that Trump survived two assassination attempts this year.“Kamala Harris continues to desperately deploy toxic rhetoric and appalling historical comparisons that will incite more hate and violence. All for power,” Crane said in a statement.“This is reckless and needs to stop.”Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents after shooting at a campaign rally, in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13 [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]Click here to share on social media
• 6h ago (14:30 GMT)What is a fascist?For years, political commentators in the US have questioned whether Trump is a fascist – a debate that intensified this week after former General John Kelly said the former president fits the definition of fascism.So what is fascism exactly?The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fascism as a populist ideology “associated with a centralised autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader”.It adds that fascism is “characterised by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition”.Now considered a dirty word, fascism rose to prominence in Europe after World War I, most notably with Benito Mussolini in Italy and Francisco Franco in Spain.The Encyclopedia Britannica defines fascism as “a way of organising a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government”.Click here to share on social media
• 6h ago (14:25 GMT)Yesterday’s drama surrounding Trump’s comments on Adolf HitlerThe news cycle yesterday was dominated by Republican Donald Trump’s alleged affinity for the Nazi leader.In remarks published in The New York Times late on Tuesday, Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, General John Kelly, said that he witnessed the former president speak positively of Hitler.“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly told The New York Times.Democrat Harris pounced on the opportunity to hit her opponent, calling the reports a “window into who Donald Trump really is”.“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable,” she told reporters outside the White House on Wednesday.Trump fired back at Kelly, calling him a “total degenerate” who “made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred!” in a post on his Truth Social platform.“John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”, Trump continued.John Kelly leans in to talk with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, June 27, 2018 [Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo]Click here to share on social mediaAdvertisement
• 6h ago (14:20 GMT)Trump pledges to protect ‘birthright’ to live in ‘richest’ nationAt a rally in Georgia yesterday, Trump emphasised his push to present himself as a defender of American exceptionalism.“I will never apologise for defending America. I’m not going to do it,” Trump said. “And I will protect the birthright of our children to live in the richest and most powerful nation on the face of the earth.”A pile of hats showing support for Trump in advance of a campaign stop in Zebulon, Georgia, October 23 [Megan Varner/Reuters]Click here to share on social media
• 6h ago (14:13 GMT)Harris says Sinwar’s death ‘opportunity’ to end Gaza war The vice president says the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could help bring an end to the war on Gaza.“I do believe we have an opportunity to end this war, bring the hostages home, bring relief to the Palestinian people and work toward a two-state solution where Israel and the Palestinians, with equal measure, have security, where the Palestinian people have dignity, self-determination and the safety that they so rightly deserve,” she said at the CNN town hall yesterday.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that he is not interested in a ceasefire after the killing of Sinwar, promising to continue the war in Gaza and Lebanon.Harris has faced mounting criticism for her pledge to continue arming Israel despite the US ally’s well-documented, continuing abuses.For more on the situation in Gaza and Lebanon, see our live page here.Click here to share on social media
• 6h ago (14:10 GMT)WATCH: Candidates rake in funds from big and small donorsPresidential campaigns in the US cost hundreds of millions of dollars.Harris and Trump are relying on small donations, as well as multimillion-dollar spending by wealthy individuals, to fund their candidacy.Watch our report below:https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.674.1_en.html#goog_1758042221Play VideoVideo Duration 02 minutes 32 seconds02:32US presidential campaign cash: Candidates rake in funds from big and small donorsClick here to share on social media
• 6h ago (14:07 GMT)Twelve days until Election DayAmericans will choose their next president a dozen days from today. Candidates and their surrogates are hitting the campaign trail today with focus on swing states.Harris will be campaigning with former President Barack Obama in Atlanta, Georgia, a state the Democrats narrowly won in 2020.Singer Bruce Springsteen and Actor Tyler Perry will also join the rally – keeping up with the trend of Democratic events featuring celebrities.Trump will hold a rally in Tempe, Arizona – near Phoenix – before heading to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he will attend an event titled “United for Change Rally” with the right-wing group Turning Point Action.Arizona and Nevada are the two main battleground states in the western US.Click here to share on social media
• 6h ago (14:04 GMT)Here’s a recap of yesterday’s events
  • During a Pennsylvania town hall, Harris rebuked Trump, calling him “unfit” to serve another term as president.
  • At two campaign events in Georgia, Trump promised to crack down on immigration and tackle inflation if re-elected on November 5.
  • The Republican candidate faced a wave of attacks from Democrats after his former top aide John Kelly claimed that the ex-president praised Adolf Hitler.
  • Trump hit back at Harris, saying she is unfit for office and “losing badly” – comments that echoed her criticism of him.
  • Harris promised a “bipartisan” approach to fix the immigration system and “​​secure” the border.
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• 6h ago (14:00 GMT)Welcome to our live coverageThank you for joining us for our live coverage of the United States presidential election.With 12 days left to go until Election Day, we have a close race in several battleground states. Candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and their surrogates are hitting the campaign trail in full force.Meanwhile, early voting is already under way in several states.You can find all the updates from October 23 here.Follow this live page for more news.Click here to share on social media

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