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Received — 16 October 2026 ⏭

Is JD Vance campaigning for the midterms – or 2028? | Politics Weekly America

✇The Guardian
By: Presented by Jonathan Freedland with Arwa Mahdawi · produced by Nada Smiljanic and Danielle Stephens
16 October 2026 at 07:00

The US vice-president is following the Donald Trump playbook, attacking the Democrats, attempting to make jokes and even swearing more. Jonathan Freedland talks to Arwa Mahdawi about why Vance is making such an effort to court voters

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© Photograph: Reuters

© Photograph: Reuters

© Photograph: Reuters

Received — 14 October 2026 ⏭

How Top Trump Officials Stoked Fears of a Nuke That Could Fry the Power Grid

✇NYT: Science
By: William J. Broad
14 October 2026 at 12:59
For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay waste to the country — a claim that built fervor for war with Iran.

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The test detonation in 1962 of a hydrogen bomb lit up the night sky over Honolulu and knocked out some of the city’s electrical systems. Experts linked the unanticipated damage to what they came to call the electromagnetic pulse.
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