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Biden warns that election deniers will lead the US down a ‘path to chaos’

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden issued a stark warning Wednesday about threats to American democracy, using a prime-time speech to highlight the stakes in next week’s midterm election.

Los Angeles Times

Biden invokes Pelosi attack and Trump’s election lies as he warns of ‘chaos’ if GOP reject midterm results

‘This intimidation, this violence against Democrats, Republicans and nonpartisan officials just doing their jobs, are the consequence of lies told for power and profit’

The Independent UK

Obama sounds warning about threat of political violence: ‘More people are going to get hurt’

Obama warned that in a post-January 6 America, democracy is under the constant threat of the “erosion of basic civility.”

The Independent UK

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Iran Official Says Netanyahu Return Would Create New Challenge for US, Israel

An adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guards' chief commander said on Wednesday that a return of Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to power would create a new challenge for the United States and Israel, said the semi-official Ilna news agency. "Netanyahu's return to power will weaken the democratic government in America and will…

Asharq Al-Awsat

105 years ago, a savvy candy company created the most divisive holiday dish ever

In 1917, a marshmallow company commissioned one of the first food influencers to write a cookbook that would fundamentally alter American holiday traditions.

Inverse

Heavy drinking accounts for a fifth of deaths in Americans aged 20 to 49, study shows

The causes of death considered in the study included liver disease, vehicular accidents and alcohol poisoning

The Independent UK

These midterm elections have enormous stakes for poor and low-income Americans

Our country faces a material and moral crisis – and Republicans are offering only resentment and false solutions

The Guardian - US

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Talk of 'Christian nationalism' is getting a lot louder – but what does the term really mean?

According to a May 2022 poll from the University of Maryland, 61% of Republicans favor declaring the United States a Christian nation – even though 57% recognized that it would be unconstitutional. Meanwhile, 31% of all Americans and 49% of Republicans believe “God intended America to be a new promised…

The Conversation

Former math teacher explains why some students are 'good' at math and others lag behind

When Frances E. Anderson saw the latest math scores for America’s fourth- and eighth-graders, she was hardly surprised that they had dropped. Until recently – including the period of remote instruction during the pandemic – Anderson taught high school math to students at all levels.“ Now she is a researcher…

The Conversation

Beth Macy searches for solutions to the opioid crisis in ’Raising Lazarus’

"Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis" by Beth Macy; Little, Brown (373 pages, $30)

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Republican leaders invoke imagery of violence, then express shock at its use

The violent attack on the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with an alleged threat to kidnap the third most powerful elected official in America, is absolutely the result of escalating violent rhetoric by Republican politicians. They will deny it, but the cause-and-effect evidence is simply too abundant to ignore.…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rich Hall: ‘America is on the edge of the apocalypse – Britain is a shuffling of weird ghoulish political figures’

The standup and author on American-British rants, why Saturday Night Live wouldn’t work in the UK and the joy of offending Winnebago owners

The Guardian - UK

Migrants arriving in Chicago are more than just a number. Here are some of their stories

CHICAGO — The buses filled with migrants from the Texas border continue to arrive in Chicago, but it’s easy to forget that people are on those buses, people with stories often overshadowed by politics and conversation around the flawed immigration system in America, or by the desperate need to find…

Chicago Tribune

How this week’s US mid-term elections became a bitter battle for the soul of America

Millions of Americans go to the polls today. With lingering questions about Joe Biden’s fitness for office and Trump-supporting candidates gaining ground in key states, the Democrats have a real fight on their hands, says Sarah Baxter

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Birmingham Post

Children’s publisher plans to crack America with backing from Dragons' Den star Sara Davies

Willsow created world’s first plantable children’s books with seeds impregnated in the pages

Daily Mirror

'Why are Brits copying an American Halloween that's more trick than treat?'

Baby showers, gender reveals, proms and Black Friday... none of these pastimes Brits are picking up from Americans are as good as apple bobbing, says columnist Polly Hudson

The Independent UK

The future of abortion care is on the ballot in these five states

Americans will vote in a historic sweep of reproductive healthcare referendums after the Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to care, Alex Woodward reports

WEKU

Author reminds Americans that Samuel Adams was a revolutionary before he was a beer

Adams' historical importance is often overlooked because he didn't keep copies of his own letters. Stacy Schiff's superb new biography explores his crucial role in inciting the American Revolution.

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The Conversation

Vigilantes at the polls were a threat in the 19th century, too, but the laws put in place then may not work in 2022

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre fiction, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him. They forced him to vote, then abandoned him near death. Details are murky, but we do know Poe died in…

The Guardian - US

Ray Hudson: ‘I was in love with America before I even came to the United States’

The magisterial football commentator opens up about his long, strange American trip and the steady rise of soccer in the United States

Chicago Tribune

After a tumultuous first term, Gov. J.B. Pritzker spends big and plays it safe in reelection bid

In late August, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, billionaire scion of one of America’s wealthiest families, sat at a folding table at City Hall in Christopher, a town of fewer than 3,000 people 300 miles south of his Gold Coast mansion.

Tribune News Service

Congress looks to states for Highway Trust Fund revenue solution

WASHINGTON — As electric vehicles appear more and more to be the future of transportation in America, the decades-old method of funding the nation’s roads and bridges with gasoline taxes will soon be a relic of its past. Yet, the last time Congress addressed declining revenues in the federal Highway…

Irish Mirror

Tommy Fury says he is still banned from US over brother Tyson's alleged links to Daniel Kinahan

Kinahan has been named as a senior figure in organised crime in the High Court, and in April this year the US Treasury imposed sanctions on him

Salon

Uncomfortable truth about US health care

Racism, not just poverty and access to care, makes Americans sicker

Los Angeles Times

Review: Ken Burns issues a chilling warning with ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the latest big PBS documentary from Ken Burns, is a different sort of film for him in that — unlike “Baseball” or “Jazz” or “Benjamin Franklin” — it seems very much a response to current events, made not just as a commemoration but as a…

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