Though president's order is legally questionable, advocates worry community could be targeted for immigration raidsIn the days since the president said he would be ending a legal immigration status program for Somalis in Minnesota, local elected officials and community members said they will fight back.On Truth Social on Friday, Trump wrote that he would be terminating, effective immediately" temporary protected status for Somalis in Minnesota. Trump wrote that Minnesota was a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity". Send them back to where they came from. It's OVER!" he wrote. Continue reading...
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservationThe interior department announced today new America-first" entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026" including Trump's birthday.Starting next year, entrance fees for international visitors will more than triple. Continue reading...
Trump's defense secretary orders US Navy secretary to investigate potentially unlawful comments' made by Kelly - key US politics stories from 25 November 2025The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, escalated attacks by Trump administration chiefs on Arizona senator Mark Kelly on Tuesday by ordering the secretary of the US navy to investigate potentially unlawful comments" made by Kelly in a social media video with other lawmakers.Hegseth's order came in the form of a memorandum to John Phelan asking the Navy secretary to review Kelly and a group of fellow Democrats' comments in the video last week that sought to remind serving soldiers and intelligence officers that they have the right to refuse unlawful orders. Continue reading...
District judge in California says detainees who were already living in the US are legally entitled to a bond hearingA federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump's administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by US immigration authorities without first giving them an opportunity to seek release on bond.US district judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California, certified a nationwide class of individuals who were already living in the United States when they were detained and are legally entitled to a hearing to determine whether they can be released on bond while their deportation cases proceed. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they're to stop US overdose deathsThe Trump administration is framing its boat strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean in part as a collective self-defense effort on behalf of US allies in the region, according to three people directly familiar with the administration's internal legal argument.The legal analysis rests on a premise - for which there is no immediate public evidence - that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies like Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments. Continue reading...
Defense secretary escalates attacks by Trump administration on Arizona senator by ordering reviewThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, escalated attacks by Trump administration chiefs on Arizona senator Mark Kelly on Tuesday by ordering the secretary of the US navy to investigate potentially unlawful comments" made by Kelly in a social media video with other lawmakers.Hegseth's order came in the form of a memorandum to John Phelan asking the Navy secretary to review Kelly and a group of fellow Democrats' comments in the video last week that sought to remind serving soldiers and intelligence officers that they have the right to refuse unlawful orders. Continue reading...
Fuel from the pipeline, operated by BP, was first spotted in a ditch near an Everett, Washington, blueberry farmInvestigators have identified the source of a leak in the Olympic pipeline two weeks after fuel was first spotted in a ditch near an Everett, Washington, blueberry farm.Oil and gas company BP, the operator of the pipeline, shared in a statement that it had determined the leak occurred in a 20in pipeline and not a neighboring 16in pipeline, allowing that pipeline to be restarted. Continue reading...
The US president made jokes at the annual turkey pardoning ceremony. It went as well as you would expectDon't give up the day job. On Tuesday, Donald Trump came to the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House ready to serve up some political satire. It went about as well as you would expect.Like a startled turkey flapping in zigzags, the US president's speech ricocheted bafflingly from topic to topic. He told jokes in the worst possible taste and watched them arc through the Rose Garden sky before landing with a thud. And on a day intended for charity and good cheer, he described a state governor as a big, fat slob". Continue reading...
Ralph Abraham appointed deputy director as RFK Jr continues to reshape US federal health leadershipRalph Abraham, a top Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination policies and once described Covid-19 vaccines as dangerous", has been appointed deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was revealed on Tuesday.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not formally announced Abraham's appointment, but the center's internal database now lists Abraham as the federal agency's principal deputy director, effective this week. Abraham's appointment was confirmed to the Washington Post by an HHS spokesperson. Continue reading...
Chad Charley' Mecca says Morgan Geyser ran away out of fear that the two would no longer be able to visit each otherA companion of Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser who temporarily escaped from her Wisconsin group home says Geyser fled the facility out of fear that the two would no longer be able to visit each other.She ran because of me," Chad Charley" Mecca - a transgender woman who was detained alongside Geyser at a truck stop just outside Chicago on Sunday night - said in a phone call to Wisconsin news outlet WKOW. Continue reading...
Executive Martin Bally put on leave after alleged remarks were purportedly recorded and attributed to him in lawsuitA Campbell's Soup Company executive has been put on temporary leave after he allegedly referred to the firm's offerings as shit for fucking poor people" - a remark purportedly caught on an audio recording and attributed to him in a former employee's wrongful termination lawsuit.The lawsuit was filed last Thursday in Wayne county circuit court in Michigan by Robert Garza, who had joined Campbell's New Jersey headquarters remotely in September 2024 as a security analyst. Garza alleges he was fired in January after he raised concerns about comments made by Martin Bally, Campbell's vice-president of information technology - including referring to one of the company's ingredients as bioengineered meat" while going off on a racist tirade. Continue reading...
Senator hits back at Trump administration after Pentagon launches investigation for possible breaches of military lawSenator Mark Kelly said it was non-controversial" for him and other congressional Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey illegal orders" from the Trump administration - hitting back at accusations of serious allegations of misconduct" leveled against him by the Pentagon.I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial - and that was that members of the military should follow the law," the Arizona Democrat senator, a former US navy officer and astronaut who flew on four separate space shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011, told MS Now on Monday night. Continue reading...
Gramma came to San Diego Zoo from Bronx Zoo in 1928 or 1931 and lived through 20 US presidentsAfter more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. She died on 20 November. Continue reading...
The VP wouldn't be where he is today without the patronage of the Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. But with voters becoming more and more concerned about the firm's surveillance tech, could that relationship affect his chances?The US is the land of the free and the home of the world's most expensive, and most excruciatingly drawn-out, elections. In most democracies, the election cycle lasts just a few weeks or months. In most democracies there are strict laws regulating how long politicians can campaign, and how much money political parties can accept. But the US is not most democracies. Continue reading...
Pei Chung allegedly ate at multiple fancy restaurants around New York City and then skipped out on payingA would-be food influencer known online as the dine-and-dash diva" has been jailed in Brooklyn, New York, after multiple previous arrests for allegedly skipping out on the bill at high-end restaurants.Pei Chung, 34, is said to have developed a habit of going to fancy restaurants around New York City, ordering extensively off the menu - and then trying to get out of paying. Continue reading...
Lawsuit filed in West Virginia claimed Justice and his wife received notice of the funds due since 2009 but didn't payJim Justice, the Republican US senator, and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5m that the couple owes in back taxes shortly after they were sued over the 16-year-old debt by the federal government.The lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in their home state of West Virginia, maintained that the Justices had received notice from the US treasury department of the funds due since 2009 but had neglected or refused to make full payment of those assessments". Continue reading...
National spotlight, after video of violent fight went viral, has led residents to question just how safe their city is or isn't - and who is responsible for sparking the debateIt took only a few days for footage of a violent brawl in downtown Cincinnati in July to catch the attention of some of the country's most high-profile figures.The fight, which saw a white woman punched in the face from behind by an African American man, among other incidents, took place when around 150,000 people were attending events in the city's urban core. Continue reading...
CBP press release calls seized drugs and lettuce a salad unfit for this year's Thanksgiving table'Officials at Texas's border with Mexico seized roughly $10.3m worth of methamphetamine hidden in a lettuce shipment on Friday, according to US Customs and Border Protection.A press release from CBP officials called the seized drugs and lettuce a salad unfit for this year's Thanksgiving table", adding that the 500 packages of meth in question weighed about 1,153lbs. Continue reading...
Designation of groups from Italy, Germany and Greece labelled ridiculous' as experts say no active threat posedExperts have told the Guardian the same anti-fascist groups the US state department recently named as foreign terrorist organizations and accused of conspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization" barely qualify as groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat to Americans.The whole thing is a bit ridiculous," said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which tracks extremist movements worldwide, because the groups designated by the administration barely exist and certainly aren't terrorists." Continue reading...
A judge tossed indictments against two of the president's political enemies, standing against politicized prosecutionsYesterday brought good news for two of Donald Trump's most hated enemies: the former FBI director James Comey, and the New York state attorney general, Letitia James. A federal judge dismissed the sham indictments the administration had obtained against them.Judge Cameron McGowan Currie reminded the president and his attorney general of the great lessons of a society governed by the rule of law: how things are done matters as much as what is done. Without fair procedures, no one can be safe from the arbitrary exercise of government power. Continue reading...
The US health secretary's digital affair' with Olivia Nuzzi doesn't need sombre analysis. Take it from this Brit: sometimes laughter is the only optionLiterally nothing on this earth takes itself as seriously as American journalism. There are rogue-state dictators it's more permissible to laugh at than the endlessly hilarious pretensions of newsmen and newswomen in the United States. The crucial difference between the British press and US press is that at least we in the British press know we're in the gutter. The Americans have always imagined - and so loudly - that they are involved in some kind of higher calling. Guys, I love you and stuff, but get over it, because you're missing one of the great jokes of the century. Yourselves.I don't deny that everything's bigger in America. Our former health secretary had a knee-trembler up against his office door in the pandemic; their current one apparently wrote felching ... poetry, is it ... felching poetry? ... to a superstar journalist who was worrying about his brainworm, yet the story is being written up like it's Dante, instead of X-rated Italian brainrot.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
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State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and YaleMore than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices.Last week, the Guardian obtained an internal memo and spreadsheet showing that the state department is moving to exclude 38 institutions from the Diplomacy Lab program, which pairs university researchers with state department policy offices on foreign policy projects. The suspensions would take effect on 1 January, and because the list is not finalized, the school's have not yet been informed. Continue reading...
Maybe. Let's hope it is not too late for Democrats to win back the working class and WashingtonSince the Democrats' sweeping victories on 4 November, a strange thing has happened among the party factions: a semblance of unity has emerged.At first, affordability" became the slogan of rapprochement. Moderates, populists and socialists agreed Democrats must campaign around the cost-of-living crisis and hang the broken economy around Donald Trump's neck. Continue reading...
Twenty years after the league introduced its controversial policy, many players see it as helping them develop self-expressionLonzo Ball's froze in confusion. The question - What do you think about the NBA dress code?" - hung in the air for a second before he cracked a sheepish grin.There's a dress code?" he said, smiling. Continue reading...
Players are being worn down by a cluttered calendar and lack of unity over their welfare from governing bodiesElina Svitolina simply could not go on. Her hopeful start to the 2025 season had given way to despair as the mental and emotional strain of constant competition, travelling and stress left its mark. The 31-year-old understood that competing would only make things worse and, in September, Svitolina decided to prematurely end her season, citing burnout.The world No 14 is not alone in feeling suffocated by her sport. This has been another year filled with incredible performances and gripping matches, but the past 11 months have also been defined by the physical and mental ailments endured by many of the sport's stars. Continue reading...
Research shows 70% disapprove of job US president - who won backing of nearly half of Latino voters in 2024 - is doingA majority of Latinos disapprove of Donald Trump and his economic and immigration policies, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.After receiving support from nearly half of Latino voters in the 2024 election, Trump had lost the backing of a majority surveyed in October. Pew found that 70% of Latinos disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president", while 65% disapprove of his administration's approach to immigration and 61% believe his economic policies have worsened economic conditions. Continue reading...
Federal judge calls justice department's actions unlawful exercises of executive power' because prosecutor was unlawfully appointed - key US politics stories from Monday 24 November at a glanceA federal judge threw out the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday, concluding that the prosecutor handling the case was unlawfully appointed.Lindsey Halligan, who Trump named the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia in September, had no lawful authority to present the indictment" against the former FBI director and New York attorney general, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, wrote in her opinion. Continue reading...
Fletcher spent years pushing for justice after deadly racial attack on thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111.Her grandson Ike Howard said on Monday that she died surrounded by family at a Tulsa hospital. Sustained by a strong faith, she raised three children, worked as a welder in a shipyard during the second world war and spent decades caring for families as a housekeeper. Continue reading...
President signs executive order for Rubio and Bessent to submit report on chapters in Lebanon, Egypt and JordanDonald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move that would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world's oldest and most influential Islamist movements.Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and treasury secretary Scott Bessent to submit a report on whether to designate any Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, according to a White House fact sheet. It orders the secretaries to move forward with any designations within 45 days of the report. Continue reading...
DoJ argues that congressional action last week to release the Epstein files permits unsealing of court recordsThe justice department has renewed its request to unseal grand jury materials from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation that led to the disgraced financier's federal indictment on sex-trafficking charges in 2019.The submission, signed by US attorney Jay Clayton for the southern district in New York, says that Congress made clear in approving the release of investigative materials last week that the court records should be released. Continue reading...
Members of rightwing base disorientated by cordial Oval Office meeting - but not all Trump supporters downcastA flurry of social media posts from Maga influencers have laid bare the disorientation felt by members of Trump's base at the spectacle of Friday's cordial Oval Office meeting with Mamdani, who the president previously painted as a communist lunatic".Wild to allow a jihadist communist to stand behind the president's desk in the Oval Office. Sad to see," wrote far-right activist Laura Loomer, one of Trump's most fervent online backers. Continue reading...
The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump's inaugurationDonald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian US, using data published every two weeks by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is tracking the number of people the administration has arrested, detained and deported. Continue reading...
Stephanie Hockridge and her husband falsified details to obtain PPP loans guaranteed by US small business agencyA former Phoenix news anchor has been sentenced to 10 years after being found guilty of participating in a fraudulent $63m Covid-19 relief scheme alongside her husband.Stephanie Hockridge's sentence on Friday came after a jury convicted her in June. Meanwhile, her husband, Nathan Reis, pleaded guilty in August. Continue reading...
Anna Kepner, 18, from Titusville, was found dead of asphyxiation under a bed on a Carnival cruise shipThe grandparents of a high school senior found dead on a cruise ship earlier in November say they fear they have lost two grandchildren after her stepbrother has emerged as a suspect in the case.No matter what we find out, no matter what they tell us, it's not going to bring either one of these children back," Barbara Kepner, the grandmother of the late 18-year-old cheerleader Anna Kepner told ABC News on Monday. Continue reading...
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Investigation of Mark Kelly after Trump accused Democrats in video of seditious behavior, punishable by death'The Pentagon says it is investigating the Arizona senator Mark Kelly for possible breaches of military law after the federal lawmaker joined a handful of other Democrats in a video calling for US troops to refuse unlawful orders.It is extraordinary for the Pentagon to directly threaten a sitting member of Congress with investigation. Until Donald Trump's second presidency, the institution in charge of the US military had usually strived to appear apolitical. Continue reading...
The 28-point plan outlined last week by the US would have delivered peace on Putin's terms. EU leaders must help Kyiv resist the bullyingThere was a grim familiarity to the unveiling of Donald Trump's latest peace proposals for Ukraine last week. As in August, when the US president invitedVladimirPutin to a summit in Alaska, Kyiv andits European allies were excluded from discussionsthat ended up echoing Kremlin talking points. Yet again, Mr Trump publicly scolded Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not being more grateful for his ongoing mediation efforts. And as in the summer, Mr Zelenskyy and blindsided European leaders strove to stay polite while scrambling to limit the damage.The salvage operation appears to have been relatively successful, following Sunday's meeting in Geneva between the US secretary of state, MarcoRubio, and a Ukrainian delegation. The 28-point plan reportedly drafted by Mr Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Kremlin adviser, Kirill Dmitriev, was in effect a repackaging of Mr Putin's maximalist demands. A deal premised on the handing over of new territory in the Donbas region to Russia, restrictions on Ukraine's sovereignty, and drastic limits on the size of its future army, could never be acceptable to Kyiv. Mr Rubio, suggesting a more refined" framework wasnow being developed, seemed to at least acknowledge thisfundamental difficulty.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
President's comment implies hostility to Venezuela may be based on unfounded election-rigging conspiracy theoryDonald Trump on Sunday appeared to endorse the discredited conspiracy theory that Venezuela's leadership controls electronic voting software worldwide and caused his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.White House officials have previously said that Trump's increasingly bellicose policy toward Venezuela is driven by concerns about migration and the drug trade. But the president's new comment, made on Truth Social, hints that his hostility to Venezuela may also be based on an outlandish, implausible theory ruled to be false by a judge in 2023. Continue reading...
Police had issued alert after Morgan Geyser cut off monitoring bracelet, and was reportedly located at a truck stopThe Wisconsin woman who admitted to repeatedly stabbing a sixth-grade classmate to delight the fictional online horror character Slender Man in 2014 has been caught after authorities said she cut off a monitoring bracelet and left her group home.Morgan Geyser, 23, was found in Posen, Illinois, on Sunday evening, authorities said. Police in Madison, Wisconsin, had issued an alert for Geyser earlier in the day, saying she had last been seen with an adult acquaintance on Saturday evening.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...
Following criticism, the president accused Ukraine of ingratitude but also added the plan was not my final offer'. Which parts of it will survive?The US president, Donald Trump, has said something good just may be happening" at the talks in Switzerland intended to end the war in Ukraine. European and Ukrainian negotiators have been attempting to rework" the 28-point peace plan that the president put forward last week into one more favourable to Ukraine. Trump keeps signalling that he is willing to compromise, but his original plan put Ukraine in a very tough starting position, handing Vladimir Putin concessions that Russia has so far failed to gain on the battlefield.It is true Russia has made recent advances - especially around Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in Donetsk province, and in parts of Zaporizhzhia. And Ukraine lacks the troops and firepower to retake all the territory lost since 2022, let alone Crimea. But the Ukrainian army isn't about to unravel, and neither is Putin close to fulfilling his original objective: conquering the four Ukrainian provinces of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Russia fully controls only Luhansk. This war could drag on until the summer. By then, Putin's forces will have fought Ukraine for as long as Stalin's fought Nazi Germany. Continue reading...
A sweet-toothed group of 50 embarked on seven-hour pastry crawl, where they fueled up at local bakeriesIrene Chang had spent the last week praying that it wouldn't rain.On Saturday, the 25 year-old, born-and-bred Angeleno hosted Los Angeles's first-ever bakery half-marathon walk - which took place after the city had been experiencing uncharacteristically stormy weather the past several days. Luckily, with some positive manifestation, Chang woke up on Saturday morning to crisp, clear skies and felt immediate relief. Continue reading...
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