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Alaska Democrat says she ‘knew nothing’ about effort to put two Dan Sullivans on ballot <p>Senate candidate Mary Peltola speaks out as US justice department escalates criminal investigation </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/alaska-senate-race-ballot-stacking-allegation-explained">Alaska Senate race: what to know about Democrats’ alleged ballot-stacking effort</a></p></li></ul><p>Mary Peltola, a Democratic Senate candidate, has denied that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent, as the US justice department escalated a criminal investigation this week with new grand jury subpoenas.</p><p>“I just want to clear the air,” Peltola said Thursday at the top of a speech in a downtown bar in Juneau, Alaska’s capital. “I knew nothing about any other candidate on the ballot except for me and the incumbent. That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/30/alaska-democrat-senate-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan">Continue reading...</a>
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ExxonMobil and Chevron top estimates for Q3 as Americans feel gas price pain <p>Business is booming for two biggest US oil companies, with both benefiting from higher prices and record production</p><p>ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported better than expected quarterly results on Friday as the oil majors benefited from higher prices and record production.</p><p>The boon for oil companies has simultaneously been a major pain point for consumers, who say the higher cost of living, especially gas prices, will affect how they vote in the upcoming midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/30/exxonmobil-chevron-q3-results">Continue reading...</a>
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Police watchdog to investigate Met’s handling of Meghan warning letter <p>IOPC launches independent investigation after referral by Scotland Yard over 2019 letter about Thomas Markle</p><p>Scotland Yard faces an independent investigation into its failure in 2019 to pass claims alleging wrongdoing by Thomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, to law enforcement agencies overseas.</p><p>The force had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/29/metropolitan-police-refers-itself-to-watchdog-over-meghan-warning-letter">referred itself</a> to the Independent Office for Police Conduct over its handling of a letter written by Markle’s former wife, Roslyn Loveless. Markle, 82, is now facing claims of child sexual abuse in the Philippines, which he denies, and is under investigation by authorities there.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/30/iopc-watchdog-investigate-met-police-meghan-warning-letter">Continue reading...</a>
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