“We underscore the gravity of targeting specific communities with violence intended to intimidate or terrorize,” she said. “This charge sends a clear message.”
The Guardian US writer Chris McGreal reports from his time in Saginaw, Michigan – the county that has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008 – to find out which way America might vote on 5 November
Saginaw in Michigan is a bellwether county. It has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008, voting for Barack Obama twice, for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton and, by a sliver, for Joe Biden over Trump last time round.
It was once, like the rest of Michigan, safe Democrat territory – part of a “blue wall” stretching into neighbouring Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But decades of industrial decline – car factories closing and job losses in their thousands – have worn away some of that support.
Just two days after Joe Biden smeared 250 million Americans as garbage, Kamala Harris’ top ally Mark Cuban said “no strong, intelligent women” support Trump, smearing tens of millions of women across America.
Donald Trump has announced that, if elected, he will ask tech billionaire Elon Musk to lead a “government efficiency commission” that will conduct “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”
A poor batting display proved fatal to England’s chances of starting their latest white-ball regeneration with a win, as the tourists lost their final six wickets for 44 runs to be bowled out for 209.
Nerves are particularly stretched in Maricopa county, which will likely decide which way the state swings in the polls
Pearl Hubbard picked up some yard signs for Kamala Harris at the vice-president’s speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday afternoon, but wasn’t yet sure whether she’d risk displaying them outside her home in a city that sits in some of the most hotly contested political territory in the country.
“I’m scared to put them up,” Hubbard said. “As I drive … I only saw one place that had a [Harris] sign. Just don’t see them. I think people are scared to put them up.”
Former President Trump was joined onstage in Nevada by the family of Nicholas QUets, a Marine veteran recently killed by cartel violence while traveling in Mexico.
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