Good morning. Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, has endorsed his Republican rival in an extraordinary rebuke of her partyâs nominee on the eve of the midterm elections.
Tensions between El-Sayed and Stevens had already led to him asking her to stay away from his campaign events, and her endorsement of Mike Rogers comes as the US president unleashed a racist tirade against El-Sayed in Iowa. What did Stevens do?
Her endorsement came in a video posted to X after she attended an event with Rogers at the predominantly Black Perfecting church in Detroit on Sunday. Stevensâs endorsement was the culmination of an escalating feud between the former primary rivals â primarily over support for Israel â that has roiled one of the most fiercely contested Senate contests of the cycle.
What did Trump say? The president bashed El-Sayed, a practicing Muslim, in brazenly racist terms, saying that Congress would have to âget a special metal detector for Abdulâ if he were elected. âIf you vote for this jihadist lunatic that wants to destroy you, youâre crazy.
Mike Rodgers is apple pie. And you know what this country needs?
A little apple pie. We donât need the communists or jihadists, the Muslim Brotherhood.
We need apple pie.â Judge dismisses Trump attempt to block Alaska Senate race results if Republican losesUS senator Dan Sullivan. Photograph: Kerry Tasker/ReutersA judge has dismissed the Donald Trump-backed lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaskaâs US Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.
The justice department argued in its lawsuit, filed less than two weeks before election day, that there could be âvoter confusionâ over the presence of two candidates named Dan Sullivan on the November ballot. The justice department said it planned to appeal Sundayâs ruling.According to a recent New York Times investigation, aides from Democrat Mary Peltolaâs campaign recruited another man who shared Sullivanâs name to join the race in a ploy to peel away votes from the Republican incumbent.
Peltola has continued to deny any knowledge of such a scheme.Investors pull billions in funds from Binance after record $6.3bn hackBitcoin and the Binance platform logo. Photograph: Romain Doucelin/NurPhoto/ShutterstockInvestors have pulled $3.6bn in funds from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as it recovers from a record hack in which billions were stolen from customer accounts.The platform was hit by a $6.3bn theft on Thursday, which has since been described as the biggest heist in history.
Experts identified North Korea as the probable culprit. Binance initially froze withdrawals as it investigated the breach but on Sunday announced it had begun a phased reopening.Israel has âhistoricâ opportunity to change direction, says leader of Arab coalitionYousef Jabareen, leader of Israelâs Arab-led Joint List political alliance.
Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty ImagesThe leader of Israelâs main Palestinian coalition, which holds the balance of power after Tuesdayâs elections, has said the country is facing a historic opportunity to change direction. Yousef Jabareen said he was ready to join forces with the Change bloc to oust Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition, and to wrest control of the Knesset.Israelâs president, Isaac Herzog, is due to summon political leaders as early as Wednesday to canvass their recommendations on who should be given the first chance to form the next government.
Netanyahuâs coalition lost its majority. The Change bloc of Zionist parties led by the retired general Gadi Eisenkot has ruled out forming a unity government with Netanyahu, but also put conditions on any potential coalition with Arab parties.
What are the latest diplomatic efforts over the US-Iran war? Officials from the Gulf states are âbraced for the worstâ as they wait for Washingtonâs response to an Iranian proposal that could reopen the strait of Hormuz before the US midterm elections on Tuesday.
Indirect talks in Doha ran into a third day on Sunday. The United Arab Emirates envoy Anwar Gargash said another round of escalation was not in the interests of Iran or any of its neighbours.
In other news âŚMercedesâ Italian driver Kimi Antonelli. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images Italian Kimi Antonelli has become the youngest ever F1 world champion after securing third place in the Mexican GP.
Giles Richards explains here how he did it. Connecticut senator Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after a stroke.
Murphy, 53, started feeling numbness in his arm while attending his sonâs hockey game. All nine people onboard a business jet that crashed in Florida have died.
The aircraft had departed Austin-Bergstrom international airport and was headed to the Bahamas when it crashed. The parents of a woman who died of a seizure after ChatGPT misguidance are suing OpenAI.
The chatbot had allegedly provided her with a tapering schedule to reduce her anti-seizure medication dosage. Juan Atkins, pioneer of the Detroit techno sound, has died aged 64.
The US artist known as Model 500 and as one half of the duo Cybotron had a huge influence on dance music worldwide. The Grangemouth oil refinery.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianThe worldâs biggest oil companies are on track for profits of more than $95bn (ÂŁ71bn) in the third quarter as the war in the Middle East drives up the price of fossil fuels. The windfall war profits have sparked calls for oil corporations to pay for environmental damage and help the world transition towards renewable energy.Building Power: US attorneys are freeing children from Trumpâs âdeportation machineâ with a new strategyIllustration for âdeportation machineâ article Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/Handouts from The DoorIn this exclusive report, Alexandra Villarreal in New York finds that immigration advocates are securing early release of minors by filing habeas corpus petitions amid a harsh crackdown.Donât miss this: How a small Wisconsin city scuttled a secretive $1.6bn datacenter projectMenomonie, Wisconsin, where the proposed 380 acre datacenter would be built.
Photograph: Eric Ruby/The GuardianResidents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus in the city as national resistance to the AI boom grows.⌠or this: âTraitors in every familyâ â Hungary to unmask communist-era informants and confront pastAn artwork showing the toppling of a statue of Stalin. Photograph: Marton Kovacs/EPAFrom 1945 to 1989 security police relied on tens of thousands of spies to suppress dissent in the Eastern European Soviet satellite state.
To rebuild trust, their files will finally be made public.Climate check: Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warnA hiker dwarfed by the fracture zone of a glacier on the Greenland ice sheet. Photograph: Jason Edwards/Getty ImagesThe planet has heated by 1.3C since pre-industrial times and failures to curb greenhouse gas emissions and protect nature have led scientists to conclude that some level of overshoot is inevitable as they fight to keep end-of-century warming to 1.5C.
The UN report also found that Earthâs icy regions face such dangerous melting that global heating should be brought back below 1C after an inevitable period of overshooting global temperature targets.Last Thing: Australian man catches fish worth $700,000Matthew Maurice, winner of the Million Dollar Fish competition. Photograph: Supplied by the Northern Territory government.Matthew Maurice landed a 80cm (2ft 7in) barramundi as part of a competition in Australiaâs Northern Territory, and found it was tagged with the top prize of $1m Australian dollars, the equivalent of $700,000. âIâm just happy to catch fish.
I canât believe I caught a million dollarsâ worth of fish,â Maurice said during a press conference.Sign upSign up for the US morning briefingFirst Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday. If youâre not already signed up, subscribe now.Get in touchIf you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@theguardian.com

