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Live blog: follow#C4News, Monday, 1 November 2010
Watch Channel 4 News at 7.00 for the latest on the airline bomb plot, Liberal Democrat Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne’s attack on control orders and President Obama’s struggle in the midterm elections.
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Is it Obama or ‘the economy, stupid’?
Congress and to a lesser extent the Senate are up for grabs in tomorrow’s US midterm elections. Jon Snow evaluates Barack Obama’s first two years in office, asking do the electorate really know him?
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Thousands turn out for comedians’ election rally
Tens of thousands of people turned out for the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in Washington, organised by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert ahead of next week’s midterm elections.
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‘Almost any Democrat with a pulse better than Biden’, says former George W Bush adviser
We spoke to Professor Sarah Churchwell, a writer and professor of American culture and humanities from the University of London, and from Blue River, Colorado, the broadcaster Mark McKinnon, who advised President George W Bush and Senator John McCain.
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Voting underway in crucial Georgia senate race
In the United States, voting is underway in the crucial senate race in Georgia. After the midterm elections last month did not result in a clear winner, the contest between former American football star Herschel Walker and incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock moved on to a run-off.
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Return of the Donald: Trump announces presidential bid
Donald Trump has announced that he intends to run for the White House again in 2024.
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Donald Trump says he’ll ‘very probably’ run for president again
There are just four days until ballot boxes close in America’s midterm elections, and the race could hardly be more tight. Latest polls put the Republicans in a strong position, with a chance they could win back control of the House of Representatives. That would be a nightmare for Joe Biden, and a dream for…
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Stars of film ‘Call Jane’ on overturning of Roe v Wade
A new film tells the true story of an underground network that helped women access safe abortions.
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President Biden under pressure after shock Republican win in Virginia
There has been a shock election result in the United States, where the Republicans have won the governorship in Virginia for the first time in more than a decade, while the race in New Jersey is still too close to call.
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Questions over Mueller probe after Trump fires Sessions
Barely have the results of the midterm elections sunk in than a new drama begins for Washington. The future of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion with the Trump election campaign team is in question after the President sacked the man who oversees it all. Reports claim that Special Counsel Mueller has begun writing his final report.…
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Republicans make case to Harlem voters amid Trump accusations
Republican candidates are having to work out what they say about Donald Trump to win votes – Jineea Butler is running for Congress and has to convince constituents in Harlem, New York. There are more than two months away from America’s midterm elections but minds are already beginning to focus on whether Donald Trump’s tumultuous Presidency could usher in a Democrat majority and his possible impeachment. We…
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‘I won’t stand still’: Obama’s State of the Union address
President Barack Obama wants action. And if congress is not going to help him, he will do it by himself, writes Mikayla Bouchard.
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Rahn Emanuel: White House fixer to Chicago mayor
He is a brilliant political strategist, and a Chicago bruiser who moved from Congress to the White House as Obama’s chief of staff – then back to Chicago as mayor. But who is Rahm Emanuel?
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US budget cuts: mass protests and political shenanigans
The battle against budget cuts reaches new levels in the US State of Wisconsin, as thousands of public service workers invade the Senate – and Democratic Senators go on strike.
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US Congresswoman Giffords responding after surgery
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remains in a critical condition but is responding to simple commands after the shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Six other people, including a girl aged nine, were killed.