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Marion McKeone: Biden’s ‘betrayal’ of rail unions could be Democrats’ undoing

By blocking a massive rail worker strike, the US president averted an immediate economic disaster, but he may have stripped the Democrats of their vital backbone in the next election

Marion McKeone: Last of the young guns battles to win over the Maga zealots

It seems GOP minority leader Kevin McCarthy is willing to do pretty much anything to secure the role of House speaker, one he has coveted for over a decade. And that means backing Freedom Caucus calls for tit-for-tat impeachments, interrogations and investigations

Marion McKeone: Number may be up for Trump as Republicans roll into Las Vegas

For the last six years, the former US president ruled the roost at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s leadership conference, but while the consensus there is that Donald Trump is a busted flush, he is still popular with many Republican voters

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Editorial: Midterm results a personal and political vindication for Biden

Pundits keep writing him off, but ‘too old’ Biden has led the Democrats to one of their best midterm results for an incumbent in 40 years

Lucinda Creighton: Biden confounds his critics while Trump’s comeback plan suffers a blow

With a number of Donald Trump’s picks coming unstuck in the US midterm elections, there are many in the Republican Party who will be hoping that the second coming of Trump has been irreparably damaged

Marion McKeone: Maga brand fails to come up trumps for far-right kingmakers

Predicted historic Republican comeback fails to materialise in midterms

Marion McKeone: Midterm success may give Biden what has most eluded him – respect

Following a tumultuous two years, the veteran Democratic president has pulled off a number of legislative wins and upset all the odds with the best midterm results for a first-term Democratic president since John F Kennedy

Marion McKeone: Republicans hold the upper hand as parties spend a record $10bn on campaigns

All of the seats in the US House of Representatives and about a third of the Senate seats are up for grabs in the elections, but it remains to be seen if the huge spend by Republicans and Democrats will have any effect on voters

Marion McKeone: ‘Trump in a dress’ could lead charge of Maga Republicans back to the White House

Polished, telegenic and unflappable, former news anchor Kari Lake is running for governor in Arizona in the US midterms and may even find herself on a Trump 2024 ticket as his running mate

Marion McKeone: American democracy on the brink, Biden reminds voters ahead of mid-terms

With hundreds of Republican candidates still believing the election was stolen, and the fear that the 2024 election results could be reversed by Republicans in swing states, the cliché that the ‘stakes have never been higher’ rings true this time

Marion McKeone: Tribalism trumps all else in US politics

With just over a week to go, none of the traditional mid-term metrics are adding up, but there is a glint of good news for Democrats in the plummeting support on both sides for near-total bans on abortion

Lucinda Creighton: US midterm elections could signal a bloody rematch of Biden and Trump

Republicans may well win Congress and the Senate, weakening Joe Biden and emboldening Donald Trump to engage in a contest that will be more vicious and rancorous than the last

Marion McKeone: $1bn damages award and still Alex Jones taunts Sandy Hook families

The shock jock who claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, questions whether the families will ever see any of the cash awarded by a Connecticut court. But even if he doesn’t end up paying, his InfoWars social media outlets where he spreads his lies are likely to be hobbled by the award

Marion McKeone: Saudi oil move has Biden over a barrel

Opec+’s decision to slash output guarantees a surge in US petrol prices in the run-up to the midterm elections; it could be a major setback to Biden’s presidency half way through its first term

Marion McKeone: Trump’s latest scandal-hit candidate deepens divisions betweens Republicans

Former NFL star Herschel Walker not only looks unlikely to win over any wavering Democratic voters, but ongoing revelations about his past behaviour have sparked a revolt among local Republican activists

Stormy relations: DeSantis and Biden put mutual loathing aside to deal with hurricane response

Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis, who likes to be known as ‘Trump with a brain’, and the US president know that competence in dealing with natural disasters can win swing voters in the contest to be next US president

Marion McKeone: It’s all talk of persecution and fight as the GOP lurches ever further to the right

The CPAC, once a yearly nostalgia-filled gathering for bow-tied elderly Republicans, has thrown its weight behind a Trump 2024 comeback and, with guests like Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban, stated emphatically that moderates have no place in the Republican Party

Biden’s Build Back Better plans receive a boost as Manchin drops veto

After a summer of losses, humiliations and setbacks, the US president may be facing a slightly easier autumn as petrol prices drop, inflation slows and parts of his ambitious spending package are passed into legislation

An aide’s account lifts lid on Trump’s presidential power grab

Last week’s testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson about the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency could be the smoking gun that leads to a criminal prosecution of him