The Guardian quits Elon Musk’s ‘toxic’ X after Trump victory

The Guardian is planning to quit Elon Musk’s X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

In an internal email, Guardian staff were told of plans to stop using the social network as it “becomes ever more toxic”.

Reporters are being told they can remain on the app with their personal profiles, multiple sources said. The newspaper joined the social network in 2007, when it was known as Twitter.

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US election bets surge, despite red flags and mixed record

The director of the longest-running election betting market in modern US politics used to work in a relatively sleepy field, presiding over what he called a “connoisseurs’ market”, where bets were capped at $500 (£388) and no-one made much money.

But the world Thomas Gruca, a marketing professor at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, now operates in has changed dramatically.

In the last few weeks, as the US barrels towards a presidential election that most pundits and polls say is too close to call, a new crop of companies has exploded on to the scene.

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Election mania already underway in Arizona where man was filmed taking a machete to a Trump sign

An Arizona man was caught chopping down a Trump-Vance campaign sign with a machete after plowing into them with his car.

Authorities are investigating multiple reports of a person wearing a white T-shirt, pizza patterned pants, white slip-ons and a baseball cap vandalizing political signs in the Fortuna Foothills area.

Witnesses reported a man damaging signs near East 40th Street and South Foothills Boulevard by running them over with a vehicle, kicking them over and slashing them with a machete.

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Trump makes gains as poll figures trigger anxiety for Harris campaign

Tightening poll figures have triggered nervousness and anxiety in Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, with Donald Trump making gains in the states where it matters most as the election race enters its climactic final phase.

Amid a dramatic news cycle that has seen the US hit by two destructive hurricanes and rising fears of all-out war in the Middle East, the Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker showed the vice-president and Democratic nominee with a two-point nationwide lead, 48% to 46%, over her Republican opponent as of 10 October – tellingly, down from a 4% advantage she registered a fortnight ago.

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The report about a ceasefire between Hezbollah, Israel is incorrect, PM’s office says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office dismissed reports that it had accepted the call for a 21-day ceasefire issued overnight by the United States and France.

“The report about a ceasefire is incorrect,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement it issued while Netanyahu was en route to New York to address the high-level session of the United Nations General Assembly.

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