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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Shrai Popat

    Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’ (opens the original)

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    Pentagon head hails military with ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in anti-DEI rant Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterms The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has confirmed plans to cut 20% of generals and admirals and declared “no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps” would be tolerated inside the country’s military. Delivering his latest extraordinary attack on diversity, and dismissing reports of low m

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Shrai Popat

    What Democrats are getting right – and wrong – in run-up to midterms: ‘We can’t just be anti-Trump’ (opens the original)

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    Grassroots organizer Yasmin Radjy on the Democratic ground game leading into the midterm elections In the run-up to the US midterm elections, Swing Left – a grassroots political group focused on electing Democrats to office – has spent time canvassing in dozens of districts across the country to hear from hundreds of thousands of voters. Now, with fewer than 40 days until the US midterm elections, the group’s executive director, Yasmin Radjy, sets out what she feels Democrats have been get

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Shrai Popat

    Reader Q&A: how united are the Democrats ahead of the midterms? Post your questions now (opens the original)

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    We’re less than two months from the midterm elections that could have an outsized impact on the future of the United States. With the primaries wrapped, our reporting team is fanned out across the country to tell the stories behind the horse race, from Washington to the Midwest and along the West Coast. One of the key questions is, with the Democrats poised to take the House and perhaps even the Senate, what the rise of the party’s progressive left means for the broader Democrat coalition. How w

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Shrai Popat

    Trump and Hegseth use 9/11 memorial remarks at Pentagon to defend war on Iran (opens the original)

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    President and defense secretary try to link worst terrorist attack in US history to current unpopular war Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth used remarks at the memorial ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to defend the US-Israel war on Iran – and suggest the controversial conflict was part of the legacy of the worst terrorist attack in US history. While such ceremonies on September 11 typically focus on the victims of the 2001 attacks, the US president and his defense secretary each pointe

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Shrai Popat

    Democrat John Fetterman makes surprise appearance at Republican convention (opens the original)

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    Senator praises ‘great friend’ Dave McCormick and says he will help him and Trump to support steel in Pennsylvania The Democratic senator John Fetterman made a surprise virtual appearance at the Republican midterm convention, delivering a video address supporting Dave McCormick, a Republican senator in Pennsylvania. Fetterman, who has increasingly broken with his party since his election in 2022, said in the video that he would always reject “extremes and socialism”, repeating an oft-used Republ

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