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    • Gramado Targets Next-Gen Talent as Permanent Growth Engine (EXCLUSIVE)

      The Gramado Film Festival in Brazil has confirmed that its inaugural Residency for Young Filmmakers, which concluded on 19 August 2026, will become a permanent fixture of the festival, with a second edition planned for 2027. Organisers say the initiative is designed to nurture emerging Brazilian filmmaking talent, with Gramadotur president Rosa Helena Volk describing…

    • Trump urged to stop targeting fellow Republicans as GOP fights to keep majority

      Some Senate Republicans are privately urging President Donald Trump to focus his political attacks on Democrats rather than fellow Republicans, warning that his current approach risks undermining the party’s efforts to hold its Senate majority in November’s midterm elections. With only a handful of primary contests remaining before the general election, GOP senators are concerned…

    • Ex-Zambian minister killed in security raid on opposition

      A former Zambian government minister, Mutotwe Kafwaya, has been confirmed killed during a security force raid on a house linked to opposition leader Brian Mundubile, carried out the day after last week’s presidential election. Police say Kafwaya died in an exchange of gunfire during the operation, while authorities have accused Mundubile’s party of insurgency and…

    • The Memo: Angie Nixon’s shock Florida win gives fresh boost — and a new test — for the left

      The left of the Democratic Party scored its biggest upset of the year on Tuesday — and it did so in Florida, a state that is usually inhospitable territory for anything adjacent to socialism. State Rep. Angie Nixon (D) beat Alexander Vindman handily in the Democrats’ U.S. Senate primary. Nixon, a progressive lawmaker and organizer…

    • Bond markets rattle economy, forcing controversial buyback ‘Band-Aid’

      The U.S. bond market is raising alarm bells for the economy, forcing the Trump administration to take emergency measures to ease the immediate impact on American pocketbooks. Long-term borrowing costs hit their highest levels across the world on Tuesday, with the cost for the U.S. government to borrow money reaching its highest rate in nearly…

    • Rubio outperforms Vance in hypothetical 2028 matchups: Poll

      Secretary of State Marco Rubio performed slightly better than Vice President Vance in multiple hypothetical 2028 presidential matchups against Democratic candidates, according to a new poll. The Emerson College and The Hill survey found that in five matchups against Democrats, Rubio outperformed Vance in all but one — with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg holding…

    • GOP trails Democrats by 8 points on congressional ballot in new poll

      Republicans are trailing Democrats by about 8 points on a generic congressional ballot, according to a new poll from Emerson College and The Hill. In the survey, 50.7 percent said that they would back a Democrat if the midterm elections were that day and 43 percent said that they would back a Republican, with 6.3…

    • Young Democrats eye Congress with affordability at the top of their agenda

      A new generation of young progressive Democrats could enter Congress next year with a deeply personal connection to the economic issues at the center of their campaigns — and a desire to make those policy items a bigger part of the party’s agenda. For many of these potential lawmakers, the inability to afford a house…

    • Minister defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women

      The government has defended a new Home Office guidance document that explicitly tells asylum seekers that rape, sex with someone under 16 and domestic abuse are serious crimes in the UK, after school standards minister Georgia Gould warned against making “full generalisations” about migrants’ attitudes towards women. The nine-page booklet, “Understanding behaviours and expectations in…

    • Mahmood backs wider distribution of asylum seekers in wealthier areas

      Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has confirmed her backing for a “fair spread” of asylum seekers across the UK, endorsing a call originally made by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to place more migrants in wealthier, middle-class areas rather than concentrating them in deprived communities. The move signals that the government intends to treat Burnham’s proposal…