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The BBC's Sarah Smith followed Trump and Obama as both parties hope their biggest names can drive midterm turnout.
The BBC's Sarah Smith followed Trump and Obama as both parties hope their biggest names can drive midterm turnout.
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Israel’s Joint Arab List party celebrated as exit polls projected as many as 18 parliamentary seats for the Arab-bloc.
Celebrations erupted in Lod, Kafr Manda and Tayibe after Israeli media exit polls projected a combined 18 Knesset seats
<p>Cassidy Hutchinson had implicated Donald Trump in US Capitol attack during testimony before House committee</p><p>The justice department on Tuesday failed to secure a grand jury indictment against a former White House staffer who provided dramatic but disputed testimony against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> before a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives">House</a> committee investigating the 6 January 2021 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-capitol-breach">US Capitol insurrection</a>, according to two people familiar with the matter.</p><p>A grand jury in Washington rejected prosecutors’ request to return an indictment charging Cassidy Hutchinson, said the people, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case. It’s the latest setback in the justice department’s efforts to charge perceived adversaries of the Republican president.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/cassidy-hutchinson-doj-indictment-trump">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research finds</p><p>AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.</p><p>Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/27/ai-bots-flooded-2023-uk-government-consultation-disposable-vapes-ban">Continue reading...</a>