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Trump's USA Midterm elections
The call to Trump: Declare a state of emergency and take control of the elections

Trump supporters are urging the president to declare a national emergency to gain expanded power over voting during the midterm elections. The Washington Post reports.

A draft of a presidential decree circulating among Trump loyalists claims that China manipulated the 2020 election, when Trump lost, and that this means that the nation is in danger.

- We have a situation where the president knows that a foreign power is interfering in our elections. It is a national emergency and the president must be able to act, lawyer Peter Ticktin told the newspaper.

The decree would give the president the right to introduce the bans on postal voting and requirements for ID documents that he has urged Congress to vote on.

The White House does not want to comment on the proposal, but says that it is in regular contact with grassroots groups and listens to their opinions.

Donald Trump has previously said that if Congress does not vote for his proposal for stricter voting rules, he will act on his own to push through them.

There is no evidence that China manipulated the 2020 election.

Middle East crisis  Reactions
After 20 years: US sympathizes more with Palestinians

The American people as a whole feel more sympathy for Palestinians than for Israelis for the first time, writes AFP.

41 percent of Americans sympathize more with Palestinians and 36 more with Israelis.

70 percent of Republicans, however, say they support Israel first and foremost.

The Gallup pollster has asked the same question for over twenty years, and the American people have always answered in favor of Israel. As recently as last year, Israelis had 46 percent support compared to 33 percent for the Palestinians.
Epstein affair Investigation
Analysis: Clinton's interrogation becomes trouble for Trump

When US President Donald Trump's allies force the Clintons to testify about their connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, they are creating a practice - which could affect Trump himself.

This is what CNN's Stephen Collinson writes in an analysis after Hillary Clinton's and before Bill Clinton's interrogation in the Congressional Oversight Committee on Friday. He calls the interrogations with the couple political theater.

"If the standard for being forced into interrogation is being named in the Epstein documents, why aren't prominent Republicans who are also mentioned called?" Collinson writes.

The interrogations also set a new standard for first wives, according to Annie Karnie's analysis in the New York Times:

"After eight years in the Senate, four as Secretary of State and two presidential candidacies, Hillary Clinton is once again forced into the uncomfortable role of being accountable for her husband's actions," she writes.