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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. 

Barclays boss Jes Staley has quit over the initial findings of an invesitgation by the City watchdog into the extent of his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 

President Biden is preparing for his visit to Europe before the COP26 summit in Glasgow, amid warnings from his political allies that he’s running out of time to push through his ambitious climate agenda. 

Pulling in greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be crucial in the fight against climate change.

The actor Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director on his film set and was allegedly told it was safe to use, before cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot. 

Today US Vice-President Kamala Harris is travelling to Lake Mead in Nevada to talk up the President’s climate agenda. It’s the biggest reservoir in the US, but it’s drying up because of the twin effects of the heat and the drought, both of which are exacerbated by climate change. 

In the US, President’s Biden’s climate agenda is under renewed threat from inside his party. 

We spoke to General David Petraeus, a former United States army general, who was in New York.

Colin Powell, the first Black person to become America’s Secretary of State, has died at 84, from Covid-related complications.

Now to the United States, the world’s second biggest emitter after China, where an embattled President Biden is under pressure as his climate agenda is in jeopardy ahead of attending COP 26.

“Left alone, Facebook will continue to make choices against the common good.” Frances Haugen, a former product manager at the social media giant turned whistleblower, has testified before the US Senate, claiming that Facebook knows about the harm it is causing to many young people, but has done nothing about it.

Facebook has been accused of putting profit before the public good, by a whistleblower who’s now gone public. 

Protesters have been gathering in Washington DC ahead of a women’s march tomorrow against the law passed in Texas that bans abortion after six weeks. 

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a Mississippi case that could overturn Roe v Wade.

In Washington, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top Pentagon officials are testifying at a Senate hearing into the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.