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Survey finds 58% backing restricting armed forces to external threats amid Trump deployments to US citiesUS politics – live updatesMore than half of Americans believe that the US government should only deploy armed troops in the event of external threats, according to a new survey.The Reuters/Ipsos survey released on Wednesday found that 58% of Americans believe that the president should only send in armed forces to areas with external threats. Meanwhile, 25% said that they believed the US military could be used for other purposes and 18% said that they were not sure. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/08/military-external-threats-survey-trump Author

Qatari PM and US’s Witkoff and Kushner join Hamas and Israeli negotiators working on Trump’s Gaza planAs part of the Guardian’s Israel-Gaza: two years on series marking the second anniversary of the Hamas attack into Israel and the war in Gaza, the below has been published:The children’s names appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed

Former FBI director expected to plead not guilty in case that has amplified concerns that the department is being used to pursue Trump’s enemiesEx-FBI director to appear in court on lying to Congress chargeA series of “violent” texts sent by a Democrat seeking to become Virginia’s attorney general has shaken up the state’s governor’s race, with Republican candidate Winsome Earle-Sears seizing on the controversy to try to reverse her opponent’s double-digit polling lead.Earle-Sears has released new campaign advertisements condemning Democratic former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, her opponenent in the governor’s race, for continuing to support Jay Jones, whose private texts three