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  • A Hawaii beach with a surfer walking.

    Shark bites off surfer’s leg in Hawaii

    A 61-year-old man was surfing on Friday morning when a shark bit him, completely severing his leg
  • Donald Trump during a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    Live
    US election live: ‘improbably tight’ polls questioned by experts as race enters final days

  • A composite of Kamala Harris

    Harris pitches self as a unifier with a ‘to-do list’ – is it enough for knife-edge race?

  • FILE - Grandparents of victim Libby German, Becky Patty, left, and her husband Mike Patty, speak during a news conference for the latest updates on the investigation of the double homicide of Liberty German and Abigail Williams on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi, Ind. (J. Kyle Keener/The Pharos-Tribune via AP, File)

    Indiana prosecutors claim man confessed to killing two teens on hiking trail in 2017

  • Elon Musk in Maga cap.

    Elon Musk’s canvassing operation sued in California for alleged labor law violations

  • 2024-11-02-trail

    2024 US presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages

  • Man who fatally shot NFL player Joe McKnight in 2016 released from prison

  • ‘Take these attacks seriously’: journalist Imara Jones on the dangerous rise of anti-trans political ads

  • Microsoft workers fired over Gaza vigil say company ‘crumbled under pressure’

  • Political violence has marked the 2024 race – but risks rise after election day

  • Bomb threats, ballot-box arson: a timeline of US election violence

  • If Trump wins the election, he could seize control of America’s courts

  • Did Bidenomics work? How the US economy fared over the last four years

  • ‘There are images no leader ever wants to be seen’: 33 pivotal US presidential moments captured on camera

Opinion

  • a man standing over a women

    When Trump says he’s going to ‘protect’ women, we know he means ‘control’

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • US-VOTE-POLITICS-HARRIS<br>Women sit under a US flag as they gather at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center to hear US Vice-President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin on October 30, 2024. According to the research Center for American Women and Politics from Rutgers University women are registered to vote in the US at higher rates than men. In recent years, the number of women registered to vote in the US has typically been about 10 million more than the number of men registered to vote. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

    This tight race is, in part, about sexist backlash. But feminists can lash back, too

    Moira Donegan
    Trump is right that resentment will be a winning message for some male voters. But women should not be underestimated
  • Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, New York, 27 October 2024.

    Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights?

    George Monbiot
    A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. He’ll have even greater power than the US president, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • US vice president Kamala Harris speaks with healthcare providers on 26 October in Portage, Michigan.

    It’s not the economy, stupid, that could deliver a win for Kamala Harris

    Phillip Inman
    Anger over the cost of living is Trump’s biggest weapon, but health and education should be winning cards for the Democrats
    • Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visits an ammunition plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

      Ukrainians ask what I’m hearing about our country on the US campaign trail. The truth? We’re all but forgotten

      Nataliya Gumenyuk
    • A street in Valencia clogged by vehicles and debris after the deadly floods

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on climate-linked disasters: Spain’s tragedy will not be the last

    • Illustration by R Fresson

      Here’s how the winner of the 2024 US presidential election did it

      Jonathan Freedland
    • Rebecca Solnit

      Some Maga men seem to think women don’t have rights – starting with their wives

      Rebecca Solnit

US sports

  • Perry Baker poses for a portrait ahead of the Paris Olympics.

    Perry Baker might be the best American rugby player of all time – right now, he just needs a job

  • A runner pauses on the median while crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge shortly after the start of the New York City Marathon in New York, U.S., November 5, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

    From an Olympian to a 45-race veteran: the hopes of New York Marathon runners

  • Lake Victoria (right) on the way to victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf in Del Mar.

    Lake Victoria stays unbeaten with Juvenile Fillies’ Turf win at Breeders’ Cup

  • Fans crowd for the start of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball World Series championship parade Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    Dodger fans swamp downtown Los Angeles for World Series victory parade – in pictures

US politics

  • Donald Trump arrives for his campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Donald Trump repeats anti-immigrant threats at Milwaukee rally

  • Man on stage dances

    Harris and Trump tour key swing states as end of campaign draws close

  • A man points at his Make America Great Again hat while speaking into a microphone

    US judge returns lawsuit against Elon Musk’s $1m voter scheme to state court

  • storefronts along a main street of a small town

    Halloween parade float depicts shackled Harris being dragged

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US business

  • People carry Boeing strike signs as they walk past parked Boeing 737 planes in Seattle, Washington, on 15 October.

    US economy added only 12,000 jobs in October in shock pre-election drop – as it happened

  • A woman stands at a podium wearing a purple jacket in front of the US flag

    Shock US jobs data could not have come at worse time for Kamala Harris

    • US Labor Department reports slowdown in American job market<br>epa11520796 A hiring sign is posted outside a convenience store in Los Angeles, California, USA, 02 August 2024. The US Labor Department reported that the American job market significantly slowed in July. This slowdown raised the unemployment rate to 4.3 percent, the highest level seen since October 2021. EPA/ALLISON DINNER

      US adds only 12,000 jobs in October in final report before election

    • people outside holding signs in front of white Boeing sign

      Union urges striking Boeing workers to back improved pay offer

    • A list of Halloween candy prices.

      US inflation falls to 2.1%, almost hitting Federal Reserve target

Pictures & video

  • 'Our pain matters': Jennifer Lopez endorses Harris at Las Vegas rally – video

  • Speaking at a rally in Arizona, Kamala Harris said Donald Trump doesn't believe women should 'make decisions over their own bodies'

    1:42

    Harris criticizes Trump over comment on protecting women 'whether they like it or not' – video

    Speaking at a rally in Arizona, Kamala Harris said Donald Trump doesn't believe women should 'make decisions over their own bodies'
  • Donald Trump appeared at his Wisconsin rally dressed as a sanitation worker in reference to a comment made by Joe Biden calling his supporters 'garbage'

    1:58

    Donald Trump stages garbage truck stunt in bid to turn tables over Puerto Rico backlash – video

    Donald Trump appeared at his Wisconsin rally dressed as a sanitation worker in reference to a comment made by Joe Biden calling his supporters 'garbage'

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