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Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers' union in the 1960s, the main US agricultural workers' defense organization, died on Wednesday, October 28, at the age of 96.
A history teacher, a single African-American mother and a young Republican voter review the impact of 21 months since Donald Trump's return to the White House. The wounds of the anti-immigration offensive, the abhorrence of an economic situation that has not improved and the doubts about a war against Iran that not all understand weigh in the face of midterms. These are the challenges that political decisions have imposed on the daily lives of Americans.
The mid-term legislative elections in the United States will measure the support of the Republican Party two years after Donald Trump's convulsive presidency. While increasing the cost of living threatens to punish the Government in the polls, immigration control is one of the most popular policies of the White House, which can mobilize the voter base of the MAGA movement.
The Trump Administration's Justice Department seeks to charge former FBI Chief James Comey with the alleged disclosure of sensitive information to 'The New York Times' in 2016, a decade after the events. The defence maintains that the charge is legally invalid because the Government did not, within the legal time limit, submit the type of charge required by federal law, and has requested a judge to dismiss the case.
A bipartisan group asked US President Donald Trump to reverse the agreement to import Russian diesel and warned that the plan announced with Vladimir Putin could violate American law. Two days after that pact, the Republican president announced on October 11 an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine that was supported by the United Kingdom and Canada, while Kiev has asked for more information and Moscow has not spoken out.
One man killed eight people, including a pregnant woman and two children, before taking his life on Friday, October 9, in a house in Erie, Pennsylvania State. The attacker was familiar with seven of the victims and the local police are still trying to determine the reason for the massacre.
Christa Pike's lawyers stated on Saturday, October 10, that the 50-year-old convicted killer has been discharged and returned to prison. Pike was transferred to the hospital in critical state on September 30, after surviving Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her for the murder of a classmate when she was a teenager.
Isaiah left at least two dead and 853,000 customers without electric power in the states of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, after touching ground as category 2 hurricane. It weakened on Saturday to become a post-tropical cyclone, although the risk of heavy rains and floods persists. The United States approved emergency declarations for both states.
In recent days, the US President has dusted his usual rhetoric of denouncing, always without evidence, alleged irregularities in the U.S. electoral system, targeting the post vote or the speed of counting. In the face of an unfavourable picture of the mid-term elections, Trump calls for a well-known strategy, either to mobilize its bases or to question a defeat, but experts say it may not give it results.
U.S. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth announced his intention to broadcast live the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the author of the shooting at the Fort Hood military base in 2009. The decision has been criticized by all sides in the United States, even among Republicans, but it fits Donald Trump's political strategy. However, the measure raises doubts about its legality.
The powerful hurricane Isaiah touched land near Destin, Florida, on the night of Friday, October 9, as a category 2 cyclone, with winds of 168 kilometres per hour. Isaiah, who reached category 3, began to hit hours before northwest Florida. More than 20 million people are in areas under threat from the cyclone, while Florida, Alabama and Georgia have already declared a state of emergency.
Hurricane Isaiah was strengthened on Thursday, October 8, and reached category 2, with winds up to 165 km per hour, while heading towards the United States coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
The former Major of the Nidal Hasan Army, sentenced to death for murdering 13 people in an attack at the Fort Hood base, Texas, in 2009, will be the first military to be executed by a firing squad since World War II. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the execution, scheduled for December 3, will be public; and a Pentagon official confirmed that it will be broadcast live.
Humanitarian organizations, activists and international courts are among the most suitable to receive the most important distinctive on peace, according to the predictive markets. American President Donald Trump claims that he should be awarded, as, in his view, he avoided "the total destruction of the world" with the open war in Iran.
Voters who supported Kamala Harris in 2024 now show more enthusiasm for participating in midterms than those who supported Donald Trump, according to a Reuters / Ipsos survey. The data is a warning signal for Republicans less than a month away for elections that will decide on the control of the U.S. Congress.
The woman sentenced to death for murder, who survived despite receiving two lethal pentobarbital injections on September 30, regained knowledge and speech capacity, although she was expected to have "long recovery," according to her legal defense. The lawyers also request that the Tennessee Correctional Department preserve the evidence of the case and provide more information on the failed execution.
The separatist Québec Party won the provincial elections on Monday, but it was only a few seats away from reaching the necessary majority to rule alone in Quebec, the French-speaking province of Canada. The victory comes just two weeks before a vote in Alberta, one of the country's economic engines, about whether it wants to start the process of separating from Canada.
The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, declared on Monday, October 5, a state of emergency throughout the territory due to an outbreak of measles spread by rural communities with low vaccination rates, with 108 cases reported this year. The order extends the number of people authorized to administer the triple viral vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) and occurs as the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania fights an outbreak that has caused the death of five people.
New recordings and messages provide details of what happened after the alleged group rape of a student in 2024 at Cornell University, while the sanctions received by the reported young people are known. On Monday, October 5, a crowd protested on campus and the main administrative building appeared with broken and painted glass against the American educational establishment.
More than 50 shots were fired from at least two points to a welcome party for former students of a local high school attended by about 1,000 people. The reasons for the shooting are not yet known and the episode adds to another similar event at a birthday party in Macon, also in Georgia (USA), a week earlier.
