Shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez comes months after increased federal immigration enforcement in AustinThe Venezuelan man who was shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas on Sunday spoke out from detention on Monday afternoon when he was able to call his lawyer, in the middle of a press conference, and plead for better medical care.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was taken from a hospital in Austin into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, even though he apparently still has a bullet lodged near his spine and is in much discomfort. Continue reading...
Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fightA long-running legal fight over Missouri's congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by Donald Trump, even though the US supreme court has blocked those districts from being used in the November election.A three-judge panel of the 8th US circuit court of appeals said Missouri should use the new Republican-drawn US House districts in the November election, just as the state did in its August primary. To revert to its prior districts for the general election would violate the US constitution, the appeals judges said. Continue reading...
by Tobi Thomas health and inequalities correspondent on (#78HVQ)
Accra Reset's report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacleThe United States' withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South under growing strain" a new report warns.The report says the Trump administration's cuts to programs such as US Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs of living globally have brought new urgency" for the need to reform healthcare in the region. Continue reading...
Holdout juror in Clancy's case, Michael Desronvil, sided with the prosecutors, arguing that Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three young childrenLawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children.In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyers asked the court to question the juror about his alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire that prospective jurors filled out before the trial began and his truthfulness when jurors were questioned by the judge a day before the trial ended. Continue reading...
Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid AhmedThe last time she gathered with fellow Democrats for a pre-election national convention, Georgia state representative Ruwa Romman got an unspoken message from the party establishment: on their biggest stage, she said, There's room for an anti-choice Republican but not for Palestinians". Democratic officials gave speaking slots to an architect of Georgia's strict abortion ban and other conservatives critical of Donald Trump, but they denied a speech from Romman or other Palestinian Americans.In Democratic primaries this year, voters rejected many of the party establishment's choices, including a 15-term congresswoman in Colorado and the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The unlikely winners in all those races emphasized empathy and accountability for Palestinian losses in Gaza; Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Senate primary, made opposition to the ardently pro-Israel group Aipac central to his candidacy. With 60% of potential Democratic voters in a May poll sympathizing more with Palestinians than Israelis and 48% saying the party has been too supportive of Israel, the base is eager for Democratic leaders to rethink unfettered US-Israel solidarity. Continue reading...
A helicopter assisting in fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite national park crashed on Sunday afternoonTwo helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon.The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres since it ignited last week, when their helicopter crashed around 3pm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Continue reading...
James Eaton, 51, faces life in prison after jury rejects insanity defense rooted in claims he was acting on orders from US and Israeli intelligenceA jury has convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad.Jason Eaton, 51, faces up to life in prison over the November 2023 attack near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, which left Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the waist down and wounded his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid. Continue reading...
California man charged with misdemeanor battery in Burbank over incident sending three patrons to hospitalA 34-year-old man from California has been arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying a person at a movie theater who was using his cellphone during the film, according to authorities.Police arrested Matthew Ware on 15 September after purportedly pepper spraying a patron at the AMC Burbank 16 who was using his cellphone, while two other moviegoers nearby also experienced irritation from the pepper spray, according to the Burbank police department. All three people were treated at a local hospital. Continue reading...
President to meet Ukrainian counterpart in New York as Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian energy sectorDonald Trump is expected to press Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on an energy ceasefire during a face-to-face meeting this week during United Nations high-level week, as world diesel prices have soared due to the war in Iran, as well as Russia's war in Ukraine.Ukraine stepped up its attacks on Russia's energy sector over the weekend, launching its largest reported strike yet on the Moscow region in a barrage that struck a major Moscow oil refinery and killed three people. Continue reading...
States including California and New York sued over concerns of extinguishing competition' with $81bn mergerParamount has reached a settlement with California and several other states that sued over a proposed $81bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), the California attorney general announced Monday, clearing the way to consolidate some of Hollywood's most recognizable TV networks and studios under one owner.Though the merger was approved by the justice department in June, a coalition of 12 states, led by California, had sued over concerns that combining two of the five last legacy studios in Hollywood would extinguish competition" and lead to fewer movies in theaters and on streaming platforms. Continue reading...
Gilbert's family says he died peacefully in his sleep' months after My Friends Over You musician shared stage four cancer diagnosisGuitarist Chad Gilbert - a founding member of the US rock band New Found Glory that doled out the early 2000s anthem My Friends Over You - has died aged 45.Gilbert's family announced his death on Sunday, saying that he passed away peacefully in his sleep" and left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by his side, just as he wished". Continue reading...
The Canadian prime minister's remarks before the European parliament outlined a vision of the west without its most powerful memberThe speeches keep coming, each building on the previous one, as the Canadian prime minister builds a case for a new world order that has strikingly little to do with the United States of America, the country that has led the west since the second world war.On 20 January, in Davos, Mark Carney proposed that the world's middle powers do more to support each other, in light of a rupture" in the global order. That was clearly a reference to the destabilizing policies of Donald Trump, who had been inaugurated exactly one year earlier, and had spent most of that year insulting the US's allies. Continue reading...
by Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent on (#78HK9)
Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe" that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean constituted crimes against humanity".The boat strikes, carried out since September 2025 on the stated grounds of stopping drugs being trafficked by sea to the US, have killed more than 230 people. The latest, on Saturday, killed four people in the Caribbean. Continue reading...
CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately call last week's sudden lockout a direct assault on the first amendment'. That's rightOn Monday, the three news organizations that had been kicked out of the White House because of Donald Trump's latest fit of pique sued the president and three top advisers.An accompanying statement by CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately calls last week's sudden lockout a direct assault on the first amendment". Continue reading...
As the White House doles out threats and insults, it would be easy to hold out for better times. Mark Carney is right to court the EU insteadThe absurdities of the Trump administration and its hangers-on could be written off as a distraction if the stakes weren't so high. People might be used to banal trolling on social media platforms, but the global hegemon has forced this petulance onto hundreds of millions of people who are worried about their future and the future of the world. That makes the trolling something worse than distracting.The White House's online personality is at once extremely disconcerting and extremely juvenile. It's easy to be stunned by the scale and brazenness of it. During a trade dispute with Canada, and feeling insulted by the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, the president of the United States decides to rename Lake Ontario Lake America, and then proceeds to share memes showcasing the renamed body of water - which remains Lake Ontario outside US borders (and inside it, for some states, such as New York). Not to be outdone, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, posted an attack against a Canadian cadet and her instructor, mocking them and the Canadian armed forces. Continue reading...
Three news outlets will file lawsuit in attempt to regain access to the White House after having badges disabledIn what will be one of the largest battles yet between the press and Donald Trump's administration, three news organizations - CNN, MS Now (formerly MSNBC) and Politico - that have been denied access to the White House are suing to regain their ability to enter the building, accusing the president of violating the US constitution.The suit will be filed Monday morning in the US district court for Washington DC. Continue reading...
Doula stopped to assist couple with birth while first responders were also stuck in traffic and arrived on footA woman stuck in heavy traffic in San Francisco went into labor and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, local authorities have said.The San Francisco fire department said in a statement that a couple had been snarled in heavy congestion near the city's Golden Gate Park when they were forced to pull over due to the imminent birth. Continue reading...
Walter Moorhead, 74, jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after allegedly shooting a woman while hunting in DelawareA Maryland hunter was recently jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after he allegedly fatally shot a woman whom he mistook for a deer, according to authorities in Delaware.Walter Moorhead, 74, was hunting from a ground blind in a field near Ellendale, Delaware, at about 7.40pm on Friday when he believed he saw a deer and fired his rifle, state police said in a statement. Yet it was actually a woman whom Moorhead fired at and struck as she walked across the field with two children, the statement added. Continue reading...
Police responded to altercation and found injured man and another person who identified himself as a federal agentAuthorities in Illinois are investigating a case on Sunday in which a US citizen was detained by federal immigration agents before ending up at a hospital with injuries.It came the same day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and seriously wounded a man in Austin, Texas. Continue reading...
The court's decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emergeLast week's supreme court decision upholding the district court's restraining order on USPS's mail-in ballot restrictions is being hailed as a victory for electoral integrity by politicians, political commentators and voting rights advocates alike. The senator Chuck Schumer, for example, called the decision one of the most important cases to protect voting rights before the supreme court". But the unsigned, three-sentence opinion, with only a brief concurrence and a lengthy dissent, is no such thing.The court based its brief opinion entirely on the timing of the roll-out of the new rules, which became effective on 21 August, just weeks away from the midterm elections and only days before several states were scheduled to begin mailing out their ballots. California's submission to the court, joined by twenty-two states and the district of Columbia, asking the court to leave the injunction against the rule change in place, made clear that compliance with the rules in advance of the midterms would not only be difficult; it would be impossible without disenfranchising thousands of voters. And that, of course, is the point. Continue reading...
Legislation proposed by House Democrats aims to address survivors' financial and medical burdensDanielle Bensky wants a typical life.I would just love to own a house one day and have a dog," said Bensky, who is among the Jeffrey Epstein survivors advocating for accountability. I think that's the dream - literally just to have a normal existence where we're not trying to fight the government and constantly be facing our own abuse." Continue reading...
Today's wealth gap is much bigger, and the country's richest have much more power than they once did. It's an Age of OligarchyFor many, the era of US history that most resembles contemporary America is easy to identify: the Gilded Age.It is, in certain ways, an apt comparison. Like modern America, the Gilded Age saw a small number of men tower over US politics and industry alike. Rising atop a swell of wealth inequality, figures like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller mixed private interests with public policy, opening doors in Washington and beyond with ease. Their model is a clear precedent for figures such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and more. Continue reading...
Trump's mess has rekindled Yemen's civil war and a years-long conflict between the Houthis and Saudi ArabiaWhen the US and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in late February, Tehran's allies in the Middle East jumped into the fray. Lebanon's Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel, while Shia militias in Iraq attacked US bases and diplomatic outposts. But the Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, mostly stayed on the sidelines.Over the past few weeks, however, the Houthis have changed their tactics and have entered the conflict in full force. They led a rapid advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast, seizing a strategic port city and several islands that gave the militia control over the Bab al-Mandab strait, a vital waterway for energy shipments and other global trade. Thanks to Donald Trump's war, Iran and its allies now dominate the Middle East's two major regional energy chokepoints: Bab al-Mandab and the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...
by Emiliano Tahui Gomez in Austin and agency on (#78H2P)
Anti-ICE protesters gather and demand transparency at site where 28-year-old was shot in torsoA US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man on Sunday afternoon in Texas's capital city, Austin, prompting demonstrations at the scene against the Trump administration's hardline anti-immigration campaign.The man, identified by relatives and his lawyer as 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, was taken to a hospital in Austin in a serious but stable condition, officials said, before being taken into custody. He was shot once in the torso on the city's north side, Austin's police chief, Lisa Davis, said at a news conference with the mayor and other city officials. Continue reading...
Our photographer, Tom Jenkins, captures the colour and razzmatazz as college football arrived in the capital, hot on the heels of successful NFL outings in recent yearsRarely has Wembley Way seen or heard such a commotion. The famous 500-yard long concourse leading to the national (association) football stadium in London played host to a sea of raucous American football fans on Saturday, as they gathered to mark the first ever top-tier college football game on British turf.Pundits from Fox's Big Noon Kickoff Show were broadcasting live from outside the venue - a curious spectacle in which the hosts even ate fish and chips on a temporary set that included a fake Grenadier guard and an old red phone box - as thousands of supporters around them waved placards and chanted college anthems. It fuelled a tailgate party atmosphere that wouldn't have felt out of place in the States.Above: Pundits for the Fox Big Noon Kickoff Show discuss the game with both head coaches in a temporary studio built on Wembley Way. Below: Brady Quinn, Mark Ingram II, Matt Leinart and Urban Meyer eating fish and chips as they present the show, while fans wave placards. Continue reading...
The Chargers star is huge, can run and has a golden right arm. But he has never quite reached the heights many expected for himJustin Herbert is one of the most promising quarterbacks in the NFL. In fact, Justin Herbert has forever been one of the most promising quarterbacks in the NFL. That adjective, promising," continued to be load-bearing on Sunday, as Herbert and his Chargers turned in an underwhelming performance in a 26-14 loss to the Raiders. Los Angeles are now 0-2 on the year, with those losses coming to the team that just picked No 1 in the draft and a moribund Arizona who picked No 3. Stockholders in Herbert's growth were taking a beating in after-hours trading. But, as ever, there's plenty of reason to debate whether Herbert underachieved or whether his team let him down.Herbert is 6ft 6in, can run, has a golden right arm and is capable of making astonishing throws. NFL decision-makers view him as roughly the sixth-best QB in the league but also say things like, He should have more accolades at this point." Certainly, he should have more wins this season, but on Sunday the 28-year-old found himself outdueled by one of the league's senior citizens in Vegas quarterback Kirk Cousins, who is 10 years his senior. Herbert completed 15 of 27 passes for a touchdown and two interceptions, and he also took three sacks. Cousins threw a pick and took two sacks but was much more efficient from down to down (8.7 yards per attempt to Herbert's 7.1), and the Chargers offense mostly sputtered. In 13 possessions, Los Angeles put together two long touchdown drives and otherwise didn't march more than 30 yards in a series. Continue reading...
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the show of force' costing American taxpayers millionsNo one would tell the shackled detainees onboard the US immigration plane where they were going. The officers in charge would taunt them when they asked, they said. It was only when the seat-back video screens finally showed a map that the 18 migrants worked it out. Continue reading...
While world leaders prepare for annual UN gathering, shifts in the global order continue in the face of a disruptive American presidentIn the event of a midterms election battering, it is possible that a deflated Donald Trump, constrained by a Democrat-controlled Congress, will gradually have to face up to the indignity of irrelevance.While continuing to sign off Truth Social posts with his usual, Thank you for your attention to this matter", no one will actually be paying much attention. His meandering press conferences will no longer be carried live by TV networks. The Republican party will move on to the question of his successor. Trump could announce he had changed the name of the Champs-Elysees to Sunset Boulevard and even Google Maps will stifle a yawn. He would become that most pitied of political animals, the lame duck. Continue reading...
In a 60 Minutes interview, ex-husband describes moments leading to the 2023 killingsIn his first televised interview, Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, described the moments leading up to the 2023 killings of their children and how he coped in the aftermath.Patrick Clancy responded to online criticism and conspiracy theories from people who supported Lindsay Clancy and believed he did not provide enough care to his wife at the time. Continue reading...
The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four monthsRecently, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, quit his job over concerns that AI was on a collision course with humanity. A flurry of headlines put the spotlight on the current crisis: unregulated competition between technology companies and between the US and China is putting our global infrastructure at risk at the very least, and threatening human existence at worst.One's mind fills with pictures of robot armies or systematic blackmail. Continue reading...
President's latest order expected to bring NIH funding under control of Trump administration to align with agendaDonald Trump's latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president's agenda.The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico, was discussed in a meeting on Friday where senior administration officials accused the NIH of funding woke" initiatives that went against Trump's political priorities. Continue reading...
Chicago were held to three points as Caleb Williams was carted off, while New Orleans fought back to upset BaltimoreBengals 0-0 Texans 13:20, 1st quarterIt is ruled as not a catch so the Bengals punt it away. Cincy bring up a quick 3rd down on the Texans. CJ Stroud backpedals finds his receiver but the ball is juggled and the Texans have a punt of their own.Will Reichard 35 yard field goal Continue reading...
PM hopes to be firmer with US leader than his predecessor without provoking diplomatic warfare, as the Iran war weighs on the UK economyNo international relationship has more power to determine the success of Andy Burnham's premiership. So you might imagine the stakes for the prime minister's first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday would be high.Yet Burnham may prove to be a lucky general. The balance of risk has shifted. Trump is unpopular at home, where inflation remains high, and is mired in an intractable conflict in Iran that has the potential to sink his midterm dreams. Continue reading...
Florida's Maria Elvira Salazar warns Trump that advisers are compromising his legacy' and not showing whole picture'Maria Elvira Salazar, the Republican congresswoman who has accused the president of going too far on immigration enforcement, doubled down on her criticism of the administration on Sunday, warning Donald Trump that some of his advisers were compromising his legacy".In an interview with CBS News's Face the Nation, the Florida representative who is locked in a tight race for re-election pleaded with the US president not to squander" his relationship with Hispanic voters. Though she couched her remarks as criticism of top administration advisers, it was clear that her focus was on Trump's much-vaunted ambition to carry out the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history. Continue reading...
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI - putting the White House out of step with its own partyAs lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump. He's called the perceived dangers of the technology a hoax" and a scam", arguing that the government already has tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies".It's a starkly different stance from those of his former adviser Steve Bannon, the Republican Texas senator Ted Cruz and even the heads of the world's leading AI companies. But it's directly in line with the opinion of David Sacks - a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and Trump's onetime AI and crypto czar, who has pushed back publicly and forcefully against recent claims of an impending AI apocalypse. Continue reading...
People are increasingly crossing paths with the wild animals as homes ring the outskirts of forests, sparking a new era of coexistenceEvery year, as summer draws to a close and fall begins, California's bears get hungry.Black bears have long roamed the state, hunting for acorns, ants and pine nuts by the bucketload to pack on calories before hibernation. But increasingly, for every berry and root, there's an even greater temptation: our trash and the detritus of human existence. Continue reading...
The senator proposed a federal overtime rule mandate, but incentives can better spur employers to reshape the workweekBernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, recently proposed new legislation that would change federal overtime rules. The new law, if passed, would require employers to pay a minimum 1.5 hours of overtime for each hour worked past 32 hours in a week. Currently, overtime kicks in at 40 hours per week. The requirement would phase in over a few years.Sounds great. Who wouldn't want that? There's just one problem: somebody has to pay for it. For business owners, this isn't an ideological argument. It's math. Continue reading...
As the organisation meets this week, it remains the best hope for restoring order. But it relies on goodwill from the US president - and that is lackingIf all goes to plan, at some stage in the coming weeks 15 diplomats will emerge from a small sound-proofed room deep in the bowels of the United Nations headquarters in New York and announce the organisation's next secretary-general.The person they choose will face a combination of challenges unlike any that their predecessors have had to deal with. Two of the security council's permanent members, the US and Russia, are engaged in wars of choice that have no end in sight. A UN commission of inquiry has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, but the UN has effectively been reduced to the role of bystander, pushed out by Donald Trump's Board of Peace. The climate crisis is creating a cascade of new humanitarian disasters, while every day now seems to bring a new security threat caused by the unregulated rise of AI.Steve Bloomfield is the former international editor of the Observer and a previous winner of the Orwell prize Continue reading...
US president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the strong request' of the US militaryDonald Trump is proffering a new argument for building his triumphal arch in Washington DC: it will be converted into a top grade military complex" replete with drone and ammunition storage space and customised sniper facilities on the roof and plaza.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday morning, Trump claimed that his new plan came at the strong request" of the US military. He said the 250ft structure would be able to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage". Continue reading...
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