How much does it cost to become president? A mind-boggling amount, that’s how much.  The amount of money spent on presidential elections has dramatically increased in recent cycles, and the 2024 election is slated to be the most costly in history ...

 

 

Strike called after negotiations between the guild and Times management failed to yield a contract agreement

Prosecutors had called sweepstakes a scam that violates state election law and asked for it to be shut down

 

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Two previous pay offers were voted down in a strike that halted most jet production and deepened a financial crisis at the troubled planemaker

Kamala Harris is joined by Oprah and Lady Gaga in Philadelphia, while Trump celebrates an endorsement from podcaster Joe Rogan hours before polls open on 5 November

 

 

In September, Bush’s office announced that he would not endorse Trump – nor his Democratic rival Harris

Have your say: Can Kamala Harris break barriers as the first female president of the United States? Or will we see the unprecedented return of Donald Trump to the White House, even after his conviction

As tensions with Canada deepen, violent clashes outside temple in Brampton prompt calls for justice

Banners wishing Harris luck for US elections have sprung up in idyllic rural haven in Tamil Nadu

Jones shared his view on the former president after ‘hanging out with him’

 

The DWP confirms that draconian ‘savings’ are coming down the track. Are we a nation that will repair hospitals, but not help a nurse with long Covid, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Kim Jong-un has called his army the ‘strongest in the world’ but they are vulnerable to malnutrition, and none have seen combat or know the terrain in Russia’s war

Reports of vomit streaming down windows as more than 100 University of Canterbury students fall ill, with cause of stomach bug being investigated