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Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
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Former US president Obama has condemned the recent raid on the Washington home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar less than a month before the midterm elections. Obama, who tends to keep out of day-to-day politics, said the raid should provoke outrage.
The whole world was set to be able to watch as a convicted murderer was executed. Now Trump has announced a U-turn and the event will not be shown live on the internet.
Elon Musk's representatives have disclosed the donation of unprecedented sums to the Republican cause three weeks before the US midterms. The information was provided to the New York Times before a deadline later this week.
US Democrats are in uproar over the search of Minneapolis Congresswoman Omar's home just three weeks ahead of the midterms. Media reports say immigration fraud is at the centre of the probe. Omar has often come under attack from President Trump.
The Trump administration sees solidarity among US media outlets facing a White House ban on some of them as a breach of antitrust laws. US justice officials are probing the major broadcasters that operate a press pool bringing White House news to the US and the world.
US Vice President Vance has now cast doubt on whether Nidal Malik Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people and wounding 32 others, will be executed by soldiers with rifles at Fort Hood, Texas, on December 3.
Christa Pike, who survived a botched lethal injection, is now conscious. The news came as Texas prepared to execute a man for a 2000 murder - also by lethal injection - and as the army said it would execute a man for the 2009 Fort Hood rampage by firing squad in December.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has halted executions after Christa Gail Pike, condemned to die for a 1995 murder, survived two lethal injections. The procedure went ahead after court rulings initially halting it and then allowing it. The case has drawn international attention.
he Supreme Court has cleared the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own while the justices prepare to decide whether the policy violates federal law and constitutional due process protections.
Christa Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to death on Wednesday after her request for clemency was denied by Tennessee’s governor, Bill Lee.
Hundreds of partisan sites masquerading as local news outlets are targetting voters in battleground state ahead of the midterm elections in the US come November. Many of them are secretly backed by partisan groups, throwing further oil on the polarising fire.
For the first time since 2002 there possibly won't be international election observers present as Americans head to the polling stations for the midterm elections in November, drawing criticism from the OSCE.
US media Politico, AP, CNN and MS Now have their access to the White House temporarily restored by a federal judge, in the latest installment of the row between President Trump and media outlets whose coverage he disliked.
As the row about press freedom between US President Trump and major media outlets continues to escalate, the White House now offers its own alternative with the online streaming channel "Trump TV"
