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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

Evening Standard

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

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'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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

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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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…

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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

The Guardian - US

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…

Tribune News Service

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.

Chicago Tribune

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

Irish Mirror

Uncomfortable truth about US health care

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

Salon

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…

Los Angeles Times

Art can be a tool to capture this moment in American politics

Art can speak to our hearts. That’s part of its power to provoke thought, emotion, and action. And that is why censorship is often a weapon wielded by those who fear art’s motivating power.

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Horse of a lifetime Hewick walks into a bar for a celebratory Guinness with trainer

Hewick was taken to The Pint Depot in County Carlow, Ireland, by John 'Shark' Hanlon. The chaser, bought for just £800, won connections £140,000 in the American Grand National as his success story continued

The Guardian - UK

Talking Horses: Flightline poised for all-time great status at Breeders’ Cup

America’s multi-million dollar meeting will overshadow the Melbourne Cup and the jumps racing at Aintree this week

Daily Mirror

Who is Liam Payne's 'wild' new girlfriend - and his string of American ex-lovers

Former One Directon star Liam Payne has dated some very famous faces, including Cheryl and Naomi Campbell, but his last few relationships have been with ladies from the US

The Guardian - US

Pseudo-philosopher Kyrie Irving should ‘do his own research’ into antisemitism

The Brooklyn Nets star’s promotion of a documentary that espouses bigoted tropes comes at a time of rising prejudice against Jews in America

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From atheist churches to finding healing in the 'sacred flower of cannabis,' spiritual but not religious Americans are finding new ways of pursuing meaning

According to a recent Pew Center report, American Christianity remains in a nearly three-decade decline. Responding as “none” or “unaffiliated” on religious surveys, people increasingly identify as humanists, atheists, agnostics, or simply spiritual. If current trends continue, by 2070 Christianity may no longer be the dominant expression of American religion.

The New Daily

Nuclear B-52s only the start of sustained US presence on Australian soil

The US' permanent security presence shows Australia binding itself more tightly to a collective security agreement with America.

ABC News

'America doesn't have a stronger, closer ally': US ambassador Caroline Kennedy on her Australian posting

In her first interview as US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy says she's honoured to serve in the role.

Chicago Sun-Times

Americans should ask themselves: Does gun violence matter?

How truly blessed we are to have the fundamental right to let our elected officials know just how we feel about gun violence by voting.

Tribune News Service

Kyrie Irving denies movie shared in tweet was antisemitic: ‘I’m not going to stand down on anything I believe in’

Nets star Kyrie Irving doesn’t believe he did anything wrong by posting “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” on his social media channels — a move that was met with much backlash because of its antisemitic implications, even public backlash from Nets owner Joe Tsai.

The Conversation

The rich, white powerbrokers in A.M. Homes' new novel plot to be kingmakers – in the name of 'democracy'

The website of the America First Secretary of State Coalition (“America First SOS”) doesn’t include the word “democracy” anywhere. It goes hard on “integrity”, mentioning “voter” and “election” integrity four times in about 800 words. But the Coalition isn’t interested in democracy.

The Guardian - UK

Money is the lifeblood of healthcare in the US

Letters: Readers respond to Arwa Mahdawi’s account of navigating America’s healthcare system

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