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Massive winter storm Fern moves through US – video
A massive winter storm system brings emergency declarations and nearly 10,000 flight cancellations throughout large parts of the country
Trump’s ‘new normal’ leaves Australia marooned. We can no longer pretend otherwise | Zoe Daniel
The rules-based global order is rapidly disintegrating. It's time for middle powers to stand togetherThe French president Emmanuel Macron borrowed some lines from Hugh Grant about bullies at the World Economic Forum in Davos. His target was Donald Trump, who had leaked a conciliatory text message from Macron who, evidently, was trying to get the US president to the table to shore up the rapidly disintegrating global order.In the love-it-or-hate-it Christmas film, Love Actually, Grant - playing the foppish British prime minister of the day - confronts the US president, saying: A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend, and since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to be much stronger."Zoe Daniel is a three-time ABC foreign correspondent and the former independent member for Goldstein. She is the chair of Mental Health Victoria Continue reading...
Vicha Ratanapakdee’s killing sent fear through San Francisco. Five years on, the case sparks controversy again
A jury in San Francisco found Antoine Watson guilty of manslaughter and assault - rather than murder and elder abuseThe 2021 killing of 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee sent shockwaves through San Francisco and brought national attention to violence against Asian Americans during the pandemic.This month, five years on, the case has returned to the headlines, sparking renewed controversy. Last week, a jury declined to convict the perpetrator in the attack on charges of murder and elder abuse. Instead, Antoine Watson, 24, was found guilty of manslaughter and assault. Continue reading...
‘What the hell happened’ to Tucker Carlson? A new book tries to find out
Hated by All the Right People is the first book to reckon critically with arguably the most dangerous media personality of the Trump ageTucker Carlson, the podcaster and former Fox News host, once told a hostile conservative crowd that rightwing media needed to be more responsible. In a 2009 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, he argued that publications on the right should hold themselves to a higher standard.This is the hard truth," Carlson said. If you create a news organization whose primary objective is not to deliver accurate news, you will fail." Conservatives loved to complain about the New York Times, he added, when what they really needed was their own New York Times. The crowd jeered and booed at him. Continue reading...
‘St Paul has been under siege’: mayor confronts ICE as federal raids roil Twin Cities
Minneapolis protests have transfixed the US, but Kaohly Her's city, home to a large immigrant population, has been targeted by ICE for half a yearKaohly Her has one of the most striking background stories in US politics - a Hmong refugee born in a bamboo hut in the mountains of Laos who came to the US at age three as part of a Vietnam-war era resettlement program.Now, as the newly installed mayor of Saint Paul, the city twinned with Minneapolis, she has emerged as an important figure in Minnesota, the solidly Democratic state targeted by the Trump administration's exercise of controversial immigration policies. Continue reading...
‘We need Target to stand up’: activists in Minneapolis press retailer amid ICE arrests at its stores
Activists say the retailer has met with clergy but not spoken out against ICE or safeguarded employees and customersWhile thousands of protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis yesterday to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave the city, a smaller group of activists set their sights on a specific destination: the downtown headquarters of national retailer Target.Dozens of clergy members and their supporters planted themselves in the atrium of the store. Say it loud and say it clear, immigrants are welcome here," the group chanted. Something 'bout this isn't right - why does Target work for ICE?" Continue reading...
ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’
As Trump-deployed agents pervade the region, students struggle to carry on with lessons while carrying grief and fear that they or their loved ones will be takenIn south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at the door.A second grader started having a panic attack in the middle of art class because agents had arrested his dad. His teacher had to ask a colleague to watch the other students, bring him outside, and hold him for half an hour to help calm him. Continue reading...
Shiffrin returns to giant slalom podium as US stack top eight in Czechia
Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding arrives in US on drug charges – video
Ryan Wedding, a Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of becoming a cocaine smuggling kingpin linked to multiple murders, arrived handcuffed at Ontario international airport in California on Friday.Wedding, escorted by FBI agents, was flown to the US from Mexico to face charges of drug trafficking, conspiracy to murder, witness tampering and money laundering.Kash Patel, the FBI director, said Wedding was arrested on Thursday night in Mexico City after years on the run.Patel said Wedding was the 'largest narco-trafficker in modern times', akin to the drug lords Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman and Pablo Escobar
Australian Open 2026: Ruud sinks Cilic, Djokovic ‘stressed’ despite win, Osaka withdraws – as it happened
Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek were among the winners while Naomi Osaka withdrew on a heat-disrupted dayVan de Zandschulp has only been broken once in the tournament himself, so Djokovic is unlikely to get anything for free there.*Van de Zandschulp 0-1 Djokovic (*denotes next server) Continue reading...
The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE | Moira Donegan
It has become difficult to feel shock at the actions of the Trump administration. But this useless cruelty is shamelessLiam Ramos is five. In photographs of his arrest on Tuesday, released by the school district where he is enrolled as a preschooler, he is wearing a large blue hat with a bunny face and ears. According to the superintendent, Liam had just arrived home from school with his father when ICE agents apprehended the two and arrested them. Allegedly, one of Liam's relatives, who was outside at the time, begged for the little boy to be allowed to stay there in their care; instead, both father and son were captured by the federal agents and quickly transported to a detention camp in Dilley, Texas. Liam's father has no apparent criminal record; he has a pending asylum case. Does it need to be said that the child does not have a criminal record, either? In one picture, a white man's hand clutches, claw-like, on to the back of Liam's Spider-Man backpack. In another, a masked man stands behind Liam, stooping slightly to reach the small child, as the boy stands at the front door of his home. According to school officials, the agent instructed Liam to knock on the door and ask to be let into the house in order to see if anyone else was home - essentially using a five-year-old as bait".Liam is the fourth child from his Minneapolis-area school district to be seized by ICE agents since the surge of federal immigration forces in the city. According to school officials, two 17-year olds were also taken - one snatched alone from their car, another captured at home with her mother. Another child, a 10-year-old girl in the fourth grade, was allegedly also taken by the federal forces - while on her way to school with her mother.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
What else can be done to force Trump’s DoJ to release all the Epstein files? Legal experts weigh in
The deadline for Trump's justice department to release the files came and went, but experts say there are still optionsFor months, the 2025 news cycle was dominated by the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.Public outrage over the continued secrecy surrounding Epstein investigative files - which Donald Trump failed to release fully early in his second term, despite campaign promises - was growing. Continue reading...
‘The invisible man’: Joe Biden has disappeared in almost every way – except in Trump’s daily commentary
The 46th president largely exists as Trump's foil, with his successor blaming him for the country's woesIn bitter cold beneath the US Capitol dome, he walked to a marine helicopter and shared parting words with Donald Trump. Then, arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Joe Biden offered farewell remarks to his loyal staff. We're leaving office," he said, We're not leaving the fight."But, one year later, Washington, and the world, have mostly moved on from the 46th president. Biden, 83, has been writing a lucrative memoir, planning a presidential library and fighting prostate cancer. He was once the most powerful man on the planet, but now Biden's public appearances have been scarce and his influence has palpably diminished. Continue reading...
Brenden Aaronson enters peak form at the right time for Leeds and the US
The Philadelphia Union product has added end product to his trademark hustle - can he keep the good form going?Timing is everything in a World Cup year, and Brenden Aaronson's has been pretty much perfect.Scoring a goal and putting in a top performance against your team's biggest rival is something all players dream of. To do so when your family is watching in the stands and a reporter from your home town newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, is in the press box makes it all the better. Aaronson did all of the above at Elland Road for Leeds United against Manchester United earlier this month. Continue reading...
The EU finally used an economic threat against Trump. But the markets forced his climbdown | Rosa Balfour
While the threat of retaliatory measures to stop the annexation of Greenland worked, it remains to be seen if Europe has the unity to follow throughThe past couple of weeks have seen the most spectacular crisis escalation in the transatlantic relationship, over the US threat to annex Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark. It risked becoming a major conflict among the members of Nato, the most powerful security alliance in world history - until now.On Wednesday, after a meeting with Nato's secretary general, Mark Rutte, the US president, Donald Trump, backtracked on his threats to slap tariffs on countries that got in the way of his annexation project. As European leaders huddled together over dinner for a post-crisis debrief in Brussels on 22 January, they congratulated themselves on their unity and appreciated the intervention of Rutte, or Daddy diplomacy". If these really were the conclusions of the latest debacle in transatlantic relations, they are missing important parts of the story.Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe Continue reading...
‘A long time coming’: table tennis world hails Marty Supreme-fueled boom
Once dismissed as a basement game, table tennis is enjoying an unlikely US revival as the Oscar-tipped biopic Marty Supreme collides with a wave of new playersFor decades in the US, table tennis has lived a double life: one of the most widely played sports in the country, yet still dismissed by many as a basement pursuit. Now, unexpectedly, it is having a cultural moment.The release of Marty Supreme, a film steeped in obsession and myth, and loosely based on postwar American table tennis champion Marty Reisman, has pushed ping-pong into the pop-culture mainstream - just as US Major League Table Tennis sells out matches, clubs report growing interest, and younger players pick up paddles for the first time. Continue reading...
In this Trump era, we need satire more than ever. Just don’t expect it to save democracy | Alexander Hurst
In the US, comedy has long filled the space vacated by partisan news media. Now France is following its leadSometimes the freedom and openness of comedy means it is better able to respond to world events than news media. Take South Park's raucous, unhinged and visually disturbing depictions of Donald Trump - most recently, cheating on Satan (who is carrying his spawn) with JD Vance in the White House. Fair enough: Trey Parker and Matt Stone very much own this terrain.But there's no reason why satirical TV programmes such as The Daily Show should have to take on the role of news provider, investigative journalist and critic. And yet, over the past three decades, the failings of the US corporate media to adequately cover the country's dilapidated politics has pushed people such as Jon Stewart into filling the void.
‘Unfathomable’: Australian veterans disgusted by Trump’s claim allied troops ‘stayed a little back’ from frontline
In casting doubt on Nato's reliability, US president references Afghanistan campaign - which involved 40,000 Australian troops and left 47 dead
Cartoonists Martin Rowson and Ella Baron at work – in pictures
As the two cartoonists set out to draw on the same theme - Trump and a world in turmoil' - to the same deadline, Guardian photographer David Levene visited them in their studios
How we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head | Martin Rowson and Ella Baron
Martin Rowson has been drawing for the Guardian since the 1980s; Ella Baron since 2022. In paint and pixels, each is tasked with capturing the chaos and absurdity of our political momentPhotographs and video by David Levene
Federal prosecutors reportedly blocked from investigating Renee Good’s killing – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States have begun in Abu Dhabi, according to the United Arab Emirates' ministry of foreign affairs.The UAE is hosting a rare set of trilateral talks, bringing together negotiators from Russia, Ukraine, and the US. The talks have started today, and are scheduled to continue over the next two days. Continue reading...
Trump news at a glance: Starmer rebukes Trump for ‘diminishing’ British soldiers who fought and died in Afghanistan
Starmer suggested Trump should apologise for claiming Nato troops stayed a little off the frontlines' - key US politics stories from 23 January at a glanceThe UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of diminishing" the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers, as the US president faced a fierce backlash from UK political leaders and families of veterans over his comments about Nato troops.In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump said: [Nato will] say they sent some troops to Afghanistan ... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines." Continue reading...
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge's orderFederal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis on Thursday and transported them to Texas, according to court records and the family's lawyers.The father, identified in court filings as Elvis Joel TE, and his daughter were stopped and detained by officers around 1pm when they were returning home from the store. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center. Continue reading...
Women arrested for anti-ICE church protest in St Paul freed from detention
Release of third activist, William Kelly, also involved in the demonstrations was also ordered by a judgeNekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen, who were arrested and charged for their role in an anti-ICE demonstration that disrupted Sunday church services in St Paul, Minnesota, have been released.Video of the two women posted online showed them emerging from detention on Friday, raising their fists and embracing their loved ones. Thank you all for being here," Levy Armstrong said. Glory to God!" Continue reading...
Why the Trump administration is detaining immigrant children – and what happens to them next
The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years agoThis week, ICE's detention of a five-year-old boy wearing a Spider Man backpack in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights quickly became a defining image of the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement. Furious critics, including many local politicians, seized on Liam Ramos's ordeal as glaring evidence that Trump's mass deportation campaign has little to do with crime and a lot to do with terrorizing children and their families.A homeland security spokesperson said ICE officers took the boy into custody only after his father fled during an attempted arrest. The superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights said another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied. Continue reading...
US military says it struck vessel in eastern Pacific, killing two people
Since September, military has carried out more than 30 strikes against boats that it alleges smuggle drugsThe US military said on Friday that it carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people.Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the US Southern Command said in a statement. Continue reading...
Monster winter storm threatens half of US with at least 16 states declaring emergencies
Snow, sleet and freezing temperatures are forecast for the south, midwest and east coast over the weekendThe dangerous monster storm threatening half of the US was on Friday bearing down, with 16 states and Washington DC already declaring emergencies and areas typically unused to prolonged Arctic temperatures bracing for power failures and supply shortages.At least 230 million people are likely to be affected by the huge winter weather system as it forms in parts of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and surges across southern and midwestern areas from Friday, blowing up the east coast on Saturday and as far north as Maine by Sunday. Continue reading...
Texas Black man exonerated 70 years after execution in case marked by racial bias
Review of case found problems with statements from police officer who claimed victim had identified her attackerNearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent of the killing of a white woman in Dallas.Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker. Continue reading...
Death of Cuban migrant in Texas facility officially classified as homicide
Autopsy report concluded Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died from asphyxia due to neck and torso compression'The death of a Cuban migrant inside a Texas immigration detention facility has been officially classified as a homicide, according to an El Paso county autopsy report.Wednesday's autopsy report from the El Paso county medical examiner's office concluded that Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died from asphyxia due to neck and torso compression", according to Adam Gonzalez, a deputy medical examiner. Continue reading...
German media likens US border patrol official’s coat to ‘Nazi look’
Gregory Bovino's outwear choice prompts German commentators to compare it to fascist aestheticA greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic.Bovino has been an increasingly recognisable figure during the raids in Minneapolis for the brass-buttoned, calf-length olive green coat, which is unlike the fatigues and body armor worn by many of the federal agents. Continue reading...
Sea lion recovering in LA after marine center found two bullets in his head
Sea lion named Confetti was rescued early January and has really great chance' of being released, marine biologist saysA rescued sea lion is recovering in Los Angeles after a marine care center discovered he had two bullets in his head.The sea lion, named Confetti, was rescued from Ballona creek, a watershed connected to the Santa Monica bay, on 5 January, the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles announced on Thursday. Continue reading...
The Guardian view on Syria’s crisis: Islamic State fighters are not the only concern | Editorial
As a lightning government offensive leaves the Kurdish-dominated SDF reeling, the political horizon needs attention as well as securityIn little more than a fortnight, a dramatic Syrian government offensive appears to have undone over a decade of Kurdish self-rule in the north-east and extended President Ahmed al-Sharaa's control. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) held around a quarter of the country and many critical resources - but were forced out of much of it within days. Though the SDF has effectively agreed to dissolution in principle, it has not shown it will do so in practice: a worrying sign for a fragile truce. A peaceful resolution is in everyone's interests. Forcible integration by Damascus would risk breeding insurgency.The US relied upon the SDF in the battle against Islamic State. But Donald Trump has embraced attractive, tough" Mr Sharaa - a former jihadist who had a $10m US bounty on his head until late 2024. The US administration became increasingly frustrated at the SDF's failure to implement last spring's agreement to integration into the new army, apparently due to internal divisions. Tom Barrack, the US special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey, wrote this week that the rationale for partnership with the SDF had largely expired" because Damascus was ready to take over security responsibilities. Continue reading...
She’s 14 and she’s moved 26 times. The US housing crisis has families like hers ‘running in place’
Outside Atlanta, the Godfreys are caught in a cycle of job loss and eviction. That stress has implications for the kidsAt the end of a long day at school, 14-year-old Na'Kaya Godfrey, and her 12-year-old brother, Junior, returned home to a dark, empty house in Stone Mountain, Georgia, outside Atlanta.On this dreary winter afternoon, she turned on the space heaters that provide the only warmth in the unheated house, the latest in a long succession of homes the family has occupied during her short life. An inspirational sign on her dresser read Home, Sweet Home". But it doesn't mean much to her. Asked how many places her family has lived, Na'Kaya guessed: At least 25." Continue reading...
Trump’s second term has been rife with bizarre moments – here are seven
From derailing meetings by telling fictional stories about serial killers to Davos, the president has left people confused and concernedDonald Trump vowed to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars" during his inauguration speech last year, a bold promise that spoke to otherworldly achievements.But during the first year of his second term, it is on the planet Earth where Trump has sought to plant the US flag. He has deployed troops to US cities, as waves of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents terrorize communities. Trump has ordered the invasion of Venezuela and the capture of its leader, is engaged in ongoing saber-rattling over Greenland, and has threatened historic US allies should they oppose his efforts to seize the autonomous territory of the Danish kingdom. He has amplified online claims that Nato is a bigger threat to the US than historical adversaries China and Russia. Continue reading...
Former Eagles lineman Kevin Johnson killed at LA homeless encampment
As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the goodThe temptation is strong to hope that the storm has passed. To believe that a week that began with a US threat to seize a European territory, whether by force or extortion, has ended with the promise of negotiation and therefore a return to normality. But that is a dangerous delusion. There can be no return to normality. The world we thought we knew has gone. The only question now is what takes its place - a question that will affect us all, that is full of danger and that, perhaps unexpectedly, also carries a whisper of hope.Forget that Donald Trump eventually backed down from his threats to conquer Greenland, re-holstering the economic gun he had put to the head of all those countries who stood in his way, the UK among them. The fact that he made the threat at all confirmed what should have been obvious since he returned to office a year ago: that, under him, the US has become an unreliable ally, if not an actual foe of its one-time friends.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Pentagon contractor indicted over alleged leak tied to raided Washington Post reporter
Worker illegally provided classified information related to national defense' to journalist, justice department saysA federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an outrageous" FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter's home.According to the justice department, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones illegally provided sensitive and secret information related to national defense" to a reporter who it says then wrote and published at least five articles using it. Continue reading...
‘At the table or on the menu’: a turbulent Davos week with Trump’s circus in town
Dissenting voices were few and far between as the US president brought his smash-and-grab politics to the WEFIf we're not at the table, we're on the menu." The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, was the darling of Davos this week as he rallied resistance to Donald Trump's smash and grab politics and his voracious appetite for other countries' wealth and land.Call it what it is," he told delegates. A system of intensifying great power rivalry, where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion". He urged middle powers" to band together or be crushed, and was rewarded with a standing ovation. Continue reading...
Patrick Reed unfazed by fines as he hits the front in Dubai Desert Classic
Indiana quarterback and likely No 1 pick Fernando Mendoza declares for 2026 NFL draft
Maga is funding murals of a slain Ukrainian refugee. Are they weaponizing her memory?
More than $1m has been raised by Elon Musk and others to commission sterile' street art of Iryna Zarutska - whose death has become a rightwing flashpointLike most blocks in Bushwick, New York, Evergreen Street is blanketed in street art and graffiti. But this month, an incongruous new mural appeared, towering over the street corner. Painted on the side of Formosa, a popular Taiwanese dumpling joint, the image of a blond woman stretches across two stories and an entire apartment block, her right eyebrow fractured by bedroom windows.The mural is one of a number that have been painted across the US depicting Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was killed last year while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. Zarutska was traveling home from her job at a local pizzeria when she was stabbed from behind three times. Continue reading...
A knock at the door: fear of ICE is transforming daily life in America | Abdul Wahid Gulrani
Does a society truly become safer when part of its population learns to live in constant fear?On 15 June 2025, the Trump administration issued an official statement directing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin what it described as the largest mass deportation operation in American history". Major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York were identified as primary targets. The stated goal was to keep communities safe and free from illegal alien crime, conflict, and chaos". Federal agents rapidly became a part of many residents' everyday lives.No stable state can protect its borders, public order and the legitimate interests of its citizens without immigration law and effective enforcement mechanisms.Abdul Wahid Gulrani is a political sociologist from Afghanistan, whose work focuses on migration, gender and national security. He is currently engaged in teaching and research at Georgetown University and The George Washington University Continue reading...
Trump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: ‘Our president is a negotiator’
Conservative communities accept president's arguments for why the US needs the Arctic island as genuineOwen Strickland's life as mayor of a town of 568 people between Rocky Mount and Raleigh, North Carolina, is usually small-town politics. But this particular moment has been giving his political science degree - with a concentration in national security policy and international relations - a workout.Donald Trump's call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world. But the president's supporters in conservative communities - to the degree that this issue has their attention at all - are apt to accept his political argument as genuine. Continue reading...
Australian Open 2026: Norrie out, De Minaur and Andreeva advance – as it happened
British hopes in the singles ended with Cameron Norrie's four-set defeat by Alexander Zverev, on a night when Alex De Minaur and Mirra Andreeva won in straight setsNorrie and Zverev are going through the pre-match formalities. The umpire tells the players to smile big for the cameras. Not sure how easy that is for Norrie, given the British No 2, the last Brit standing in the singles, has lost to Zverev in all six of their previous meetings. The last time they played at the Australian Open was in 2024, when Norrie was denied 7-6 in the fifth set. But Norrie will at least take something from the fact he was able to push Zverev all the way then, and the fact that this is a night match, with slightly slower conditions, may help Norrie, because the rallies will be longer and more attritional and that's what he loves.
Democratic lawmakers accuse Trump of letting white-collar criminals ‘off the hook’
Elizabeth Warren and others call for inquiry into Trump for diverting tax evasion resources to immigration crackdownSenator Elizabeth Warren and fellow Democrats have accused Donald Trump of letting white collar criminals off the hook" by diverting crucial resources to his sweeping immigration crackdown.In a letter to federal watchdogs, the Democrats demand an investigation into the US president for shifting more than 25,000 personnel away from investigating fraud, tax evasion and money laundering in favour of his immigration enforcement agenda. Continue reading...
The thrill of covering sports lies in a constant hunt for details | Ella Brockway
I have joined the Guardian today as an assistant sports editor in the United States. This is why I do what I doWhen I was a kid, I was drawn to stories that involved a good treasure hunt.Favorite movie: National Treasure, the 2004 Nicolas Cage classic. Favorite book series: The 39 Clues. Favorite puzzle: a word search. Dream book project: a hunt for a treasure hidden across Olympic host cities - and naturally, a companion series involving World Cup stadiums. (There's still time!)Ella joins the Guardian as part of our ongoing expansion covering soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 World Cup. She arrives alongside two other new hires: soccer correspondents Pablo Iglesias Maurer and Jeff Rueter. She is based in Washington DC. Continue reading...
Above all else, it’s the stories that make soccer so intoxicating | Jeff Rueter
I have joined the Guardian today as a soccer correspondent in the United States. This is why I cover the sportAs the shootout loomed to close the 1999 Women's World Cup, millions of US women's national team fans fought their nerves. But at our family's watch party in central Minnesota, nobody doubted the USWNT's chances.My relatives - all soccer fans - were fixated upon the action as each second passed, as is the nature of a soccer family like mine. As extra time progressed, they reassured me, aged five, that our team was in control. I wasn't exactly locked in to the match - it was summer in Minnesota, and my brother and sister had our own ball to kick around - but I clearly remember my family's confidence in that moment.Jeff joins the Guardian as part of our ongoing expansion covering soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 World Cup. He arrives alongside two other new hires: soccer correspondent Pablo Iglesias Maurer and assistant sports editor Ella Brockway. He is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Continue reading...
American soccer is odd, growing, and endlessly fascinating | Pablo Iglesias Maurer
I have joined the Guardian today as a soccer correspondent in the United States. This is why I cover the sportThere's an old pennant hanging on the wall of my office here in Washington DC, tucked between a poster of indoor soccer legend Steve Zungul and a photo of Pele riding a horse. Soccer," it reads, the sport of the 80s."For a century or so, soccer was always the sport of the next decade. Clear-thinking businesspeople tried everything to sell it to Americans, but soccer was always considered too foreign and exotic, an activity best practiced and consumed by outsiders. Even in the mid-80s, when I started playing, it was still very much othered. It's what drew me to the sport in the first place.Pablo joins the Guardian as part of our ongoing expansion covering soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 World Cup. He arrives alongside two other new hires: soccer correspondent Jeff Rueter and assistant sports editor Ella Brockway. He is based in Washington DC. Continue reading...
‘There are kids not going to school’: fear of ICE is keeping children from classes in Connecticut
In New Haven, where one in six residents is foreign born, children's education suffers as they are afraid to step outThey took her, they took her, they took her."Those were some of the words Cora Munoz, the Wilbur Cross high school assistant principal, could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students. As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Munoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead. Continue reading...
New York nurses continue to strike in frigid weather as Mamdani shows support
New York mayor was joined by Senator Bernie Sanders at a Tuesday rally with nurses as strike entered second weekNew York City may be experiencing some of its coldest weather of the winter, with sub-zero temperatures biting fingers and nipping cheeks, but that hasn't prevented thousands of nurses from taking to the picket line for what is the largest nurses strike in the city's history.Almost 15,000 nurses who work for three separate hospital systems have been on strike since 12 January, holding out for increased staffing, better safety in hospitals, and improved healthcare benefits. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has pointed to the giant pay packages that hospital CEOs have received, at a time when nurses say there are too few of them to adequately care for patients. Continue reading...
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