US news | The Guardian

Kick-off time: 7.30pm EDT/12.30am BST/9.30am AEST

Kick-off time: 7.30pm EDT/12.30am BST/9.30am AEST

Next250's Declaration of Interdependence, a new art gallery that features Americans' collective values and hopes for the future, will open in McPherson SquareMore than a thousand people gathered on a block away from the White House on Saturday to unveil their vision for the US's future, organizers said, with thousands more attending other events around the country.At the Next250 All of US rally, held a week before the 250th anniversary of the country's founding, organizers launched their Declaration of Interdependence, an art installation featuring the collective values they believe should define the next 250 years of America's story. The pledge - a take on the declaration of independence, the country's founding text - aims to build a country where everyone can earn a living wage, have access to green spaces and feel safe in their communities, activists said. Continue reading...

Reaction from day 17 at the World Cup as we built up to the final group games and covered news from France, Iran, Spain and beyondAmid all the joy, there's the treatment of Iran. They were denied permission to stay in Seattle after their draw against Egypt, reports Ben Fisher.We've got to have another look at Cape Verde's celebrations. Continue reading...

Locals and visitors of the Golden Heart City have a plethora of food choices to choose from - Thai, Chinese, Korean and even Moldovan cuisineCharlie Boonprasert and Tutu Navachai arrived in Fairbanks in the 1980s, when their friend offered them jobs mining and cooking at a gold lease. The pair, originally from northern Thailand, soon realized there was almost no south-east Asian food available in Alaska's remote interior.But they did find a small Thai population in Fairbanks yearning for a taste of home, and a chance to meet up and gossip. Continue reading...

As tech firms make huge profits and investors fear losing out, both are doing their best to hold off the day of reckoning

Candidates who believe Israel has committed genocide won big in New York - will it push the party to move their way?Regardless of which party wins control of Congress in November, New York City voters have all but ensured that next year a vocal bloc of new House Democrats will arrive on Capitol Hill, elected, in large part, because they believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza.That is an upshot of the primary elections held Tuesday in New York, where voters ousted two incumbent House Democrats and replaced a third who is retiring with progressives championed by Zohran Mamdani. Continue reading...

Decision leaves in place Biden-era standard on pollution from coal-fired plants, factories and other industrial sourcesA federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution.The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel is a setback for the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda and its repeated efforts to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source. Continue reading...

Cleanup under way after week-long fire at a Boyle Heights facility spoiled tens of millions of pounds of frozen foodSomething is rotten in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights.For a week, thick black smoke filled the air while a massive warehouse burned near downtown Los Angeles, prompting a state of emergency and evacuation orders in the immediate area as air quality worsened. Firefighters finally extinguished the flames on Wednesday, but not before half the warehouse's 85m lbs of frozen food were lost in the fire - leaving roughly 40m lbs of food to rot. Continue reading...

Mauricio Pochettino's team won their group after some impressive performances. But they'd probably need to beat some of the world's best to claim the titleFootball Unites the World ... in wishing it had paid more attention in applied mathematics class. Or so the Fifa slogan could have been expanded to say, given the mind-warping that arose from the formula for slicing the newly expanded 48-team tournament down to 32 sides for the first knockout round.After all, why do a random draw when you can build a matrix with 495 possible scenarios in order to assign the fixtures for the eight best third-placers? Anyway, what matters is that Mauricio Pochettino's team will face Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32, and no new format is going to stop us from - in time-honored fashion - speculating wildly about what may happen next while we still have the chance, with the potential for American wins rated using one of the mantra-loving manager's motivational rallying cries of choice. Continue reading...

Clearly, the former first lady should have been flattered by the remark at the White House cage matchMichelle Obama should feel honoured, apparently.Do you know what the greatest compliment you can give a woman is? It's not telling her she's smart or kind or funny. No, it's calling her a man. After all, what could be better than being a man?Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Editor-in-chief has developed network of UK thinkers she believes reject what she regards as overly woke' consensusIn the six years since she very publicly resigned from the New York Times, and in her tumultuous eight months as editor-in-chief of one of the US's most prestigious television networks, Bari Weiss has become renowned as a media disruptor and challenger of what she regards as an overly woke" journalistic consensus.As Weiss continues to face bitter internal and external opposition to her leadership of CBS News, she has been turning to figures from UK journalism in her attempts to tackle what she sees as US newsroom groupthink". Continue reading...

After outrageous insults from Donald Trump, Haitians have helped to revive Springfield - now their future is uncertainThe embattled Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio is among many groups reeling after this week's ruling from the supreme court that strips the legal immigration status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians living and working in the US - and could be a threat to more than a million.The Springfield community in particular had worked hard to remain resilient beyond the outrageous besmirching by Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign and further insults about Haiti delivered after he became the US president again. Continue reading...

The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is a painful metaphor for the state of our unionWhen you hear the word pool" in these sun-baked days of summer, you might think of taking a cheeky dip in the water to cool off the skin that is conspicuously peeling off your haggard body. Everyone (except me) loves a pool. Donald Trump really loves a pool, but not the kind you can swim in. Or stand too close to. Or enjoy at all, really.The state of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool rehabilitation effort has become the primary crisis affecting the United States. That is, if you ask the current administration. Limiting the right to vote is running a close second in the World Cup of Political Football, but it's the reflecting pool that is attracting the most fervent attention. As emergencies go, it's as thrilling as watching a really large body of still water in the middle of a park. The paint is peeling and it's full of green algae.Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist Continue reading...

US president says levy would be imposed immediately and supersede pre-existing trade deals with the countryDonald Trump has threatened to place a 100% import tariff on any European country that imposes a tax on digital services from US companies.Writing on Truth Social on Friday, the US president said that numerous European countries" had been discussing putting a digital services tax on American companies and that some of these countries are close to actually doing this". Continue reading...

World Cup StubHub ticket mess shows how weak consumer protections are in the US, but there are steps fans can takeA growing number of World Cup fans who thought they had bought tickets to matches on the ticket reseller StubHub were notified with just days or hours to spare that their tickets did not exist.Horror stories about stranded families, ruined once-in-a-lifetime trips, thousands of dollars squandered, and hang-ups on StubHub's customer service line are flooding social media and local news. Continue reading...

The 2026 World Cup has become a rebuke to Trump's homogeneous vision of America, revealing a tournament - and a US team - shaped by migration and diversityFollowing the Department of Homeland Security on social media is a bit like wandering through a casino at 4am. Sooner or later, you'll see something that makes you go: How did we get here?There was one of those moments earlier this month. Days after the US opened their World Cup campaign with a 4-1 romp over Paraguay, DHS marked the occasion by posting an image of Chris Richards, Sergino Dest and Folarin Balogun exulting beneath the headline DEFEND THE HOMELAND" and the caption OUR SOIL". Continue reading...

Team Melli must wait for the final group games to decide their fate after a wild finish in SeattleSo that means Cape Verde are through to face Argentina in the round of 32, in what is shaping as a kind bracket for the defending champions.Tiny Cape Verde are into the round of 32! Continue reading...

Leandro Trossard hit a double as Belgium booked their place in the last 32 with an emphatic victory that sent New Zealand outNew Zealand, meanwhile, will be kicking themselves for not taking more from their ultimate 3-1 loss against Egypt. An excellent headed goal to Finn Surman in the 15th minute epitomised the All Whites' dominant first-half display, staying compact and disciplined in defence and charging forward with direct long balls and overlaps in attack.But Egypt, led by their talismanic captain Mohamed Salah, came roaring back in the second half, coming from behind to score three unanswered goals and rocket to the top of the group as a result.It's frustrating," Bazeley said after the Egypt match. We played so well in the first half. We scored a great goal, created lots of chances, felt like we were dominating possession a lot of the time in the first half, and we were comfortable. We weren't really getting hurt.We talked well at half-time, looked at some things we can do a little bit better, we went out second half and we just weren't able to recreate the tempo and quality that we showed in the first half."Their record at major tournaments now reads two wins from their past nine matches, one from their past six, against Romania at Euro 2024. They have had a total of 38 shots in their opening two games in the US without scoring themselves, their sole goal coming courtesy of the Egypt defender Mohamed Hany. They missed the energy of Jeremy Doku, who was absent through illness, while Romelu Lukaku, making his first start for club or country for more than 12 months, huffed and puffed in attack.Sometimes when you have to win, sometimes that's the best situation. Obviously we had wished to start better. But, just like cyclists, we have to keep pedalling on and on and show we deserve to move on to the round of 32. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed.

Republican strategists believe rise of Mamdani could present opportunity to tag Democrats with most extreme views of the left - key US politics stories from Friday 26 JuneDonald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as godless communists" who pose an existential threat to the nation.The US president, who was a child during the red scare", seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians. Continue reading...

Self-proclaimed prophet Samuel Bateman already serving 50-year prison sentence over child sexual abuseA polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating sex involving children was convicted Friday on state child abuse charges after girls were found in an unventilated trailer he was hauling through Arizona.Someone alerted authorities about the trailer in 2022 after seeing small fingers reaching through gaps in the doors. Police stopped Samuel Bateman's vehicle as he was driving through Flagstaff and found three girls inside, who were ages 11 to 14 at the time. The trailer was enclosed with a makeshift toilet, a sofa and camping chairs. Continue reading...

California governor calls for national tax on super-wealthy and suggests the US should own a stake in AI companies

Governor also announced state of emergency and banned personal fireworks in state until after Fourth of JulySalt Lake City's National Weather Service declared a particularly dangerous situation red flag warning", the first in the service's history, according to a social media post.THIS IS EXTREMELY RARE ... Wind gusts of 40-50+ mph, combined with hot temperatures and extremely dry air, could cause explosive wildfire growth. Any new fire that starts could spread rapidly and become difficult to control," said Chase Thomason, a meteorologist for KUTV, Utah's CBS affiliate. Continue reading...

Police say anonymous tip was unsubstantiated after what Buttigieg calls deeply distressing' day apart from childrenPete Buttigieg, the former US transportation secretary, said on Friday an anonymous and - police say - meritless accusation led Child Protective Services to investigate his family.In a Substack post published on Friday, Buttigieg described the incident - which resulted in him being separated from his four-year-old twins - as among the darkest hours of my life" and likened the accusation to swatting", the practice of calling police with a false report of an emergency to trigger a law enforcement response. Continue reading...

Judge rebukes Christopher Ballard for talking to media but declines defense's request to take death penalty off tableA Utah judge held a prosecutor in contempt on Friday for speaking to the media about the murder case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, but did not grant the defense attorney's request to bar the death penalty as punishment in the case.Defense attorneys for Tyler James Robinson, the Utah man who allegedly shot Kirk, a conservative political activist, last September, argued in a March court filing that deputy Utah county attorney Christopher Ballard had violated a pre-trial media gag order. Continue reading...

The earthquake in Venezuela, a brutal heatwave in Europe, the resignation of Keir Starmer and the World Cup - the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalistsWarning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

Our writers reacted to the latest news from the tournament before the blockbuster Group I match between France and NorwayKylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland will go head-to-head later on as France take on Norway and they have both scored the same amount of goals so far this tournament with four. They could go top of the Golden Boot standings this evening but who is currently there? Have a look:Ecuador fans' nerves will be eased for now but that is not the case for all the nations yet as all of the knockout spots have not been allocated. Here is how the third-place spots are shaking out: Continue reading...

Jurors in California deliberated for over 13 hours, before announcing that they were deadlockedA federal judge declared a mistrial in the arson case against the 29-year-old man accused of sparking the deadly 2025 Palisades fire in Los Angeles, after the jury said it could not agree on a verdict.Jurors deliberated for over 13 hours on Thursday on whether to convict Jonathan Rinderknecht on three federal charges, before announcing that they were deadlocked. Continue reading...

Sarah B Rogers speech at conference in London included far-right memes and conspiracy theories about Da Yookay'Claims by a senior official in the Trump administration that British police were making thousands of freedom of speech" arrests have been rejected by the UK government.Sarah B Rogers, who has become the public face of the US state department's hostility to European liberal democracies, was accused by MPs of echoing far-right memes and conspiracy theories during a speech at an international rightwing conference in London. She also referenced the death of the British teenager Henry Nowak and a recent incident in which a child was thrown into a zoo's crocodile pit. Continue reading...

City's mayor has consistently argued that rising housing costs have made it increasingly unaffordableA New York City housing board has voted to freeze rent for approximately 1m apartments.In a major victory for Zohran Mamdani, the mayor who campaigned on a pledge to freeze rent, the Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 on Thursday to freeze increases on one- and two-year leases. The decision will provide relief to tenants in more than 1m rent-stabilized apartments, representing over 40% of the city's rental housing. Continue reading...

Ex-national security adviser turned Trump critic could face prison for sharing classified information with relatives

Scrutiny of Black's association with Epstein has intensified after DoJ released millions of files last year and this yearThe billionaire financier Leon Black is scheduled to appear before the House committee on oversight and reform on Friday morning as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.The interview will be conducted behind closed doors, though the committee is expected to release a transcript at a later date, as it has done with previous interviews. Continue reading...

Two of boxing's ascendant stars have been tabbed for greatness since they were teenagers. On Saturday night at Barclays Center, one will claim the signature win both have been chasingIt is the type of fight boxing routinely claims to want and too rarely delivers. When Jaron Boots" Ennis and Xander Zayas step into the ring at the Barclays Center on Saturday night, they will be putting more on the line than their undefeated records. They will be risking the carefully cultivated aura of inevitability that has surrounded both men since they were teenagers.In an era when promising fighters are routinely steered around danger rather than toward it, Ennis and Zayas have chosen a different road. The result is one of the year's most compelling fights: a showdown between two undefeated champions tabbed for stardom since adolescence whose reputations still outpace their resumes. Continue reading...

Her motivations for returning may be hard to gauge but there is no doubt the returning former champion will steal the early spotlight at SW19At the southernmost point of the All England Lawn Tennis Club's vast grounds, Serena Williams was starting another day of training as the clock ticked down to her first singles match after four years of retirement. Her training partner for the morning, Marta Kostyuk, soon joined her on court 10 in Aorangi Park, the quaint practice area reserved only for players.Kostyuk is one of the more extroverted players on the tour and she is widely known for speaking her mind under all circumstances, but when Williams greeted Kostyuk and thanked her for the training session, for once the Ukrainian looked at a loss for words: No, thank you for playing with me," she responded. Continue reading...

The Trevor Project non-profit that helped pioneer LGBTQ+ press 3' option for 988 hotline is being shut out as it restartsThe Trump administration is moving to restart the specialized LGBTQ+ option for youth who contact the 988 crisis intervention hotline - but the group that helped pioneer the idea is being shut out.The Trevor Project, the New York-based leading non-profit for suicide prevention in LGBTQ+ young people in the US, may not be allowed to offer the service it had helped develop for the 988 Lifeline just a few years ago. Continue reading...

The US were on the verge of an encouraging draw in a meaningless game, but they insist that losing to Turkey changes nothing about what's to comeThroughout the week preceding the United States' final group game, the matchup with Turkey was discussed as something of a formality. The new World Cup format made it impossible to begin speculation on a possible opponent until the third wave of matches kicked off on Wednesday, but the co-hosts' place in the round of 32 was already secure.There were ample questions about how much Mauricio Pochettino would (and should) rotate. Christian Pulisic's every movement, including whether or not he was donning a sleeve on his calf, was closely scrutinized. The atmosphere around training was light and jovial, a rare eye of the hurricane" moment where the intensity seemed to wane and positivity permeated every corner of the team's camp in Irvine. Continue reading...

Stores over-stock their shelves, then toss out what they don't sell. Meanwhile, workers struggle to make ends meetTo most grocery shoppers, rotisserie chickens look like a mouth-watering and easy option for dinner. But whenever I pass by the rotisserie case in a supermarket, I see chicken carcasses piled up in the trash, their once glistening juices congealing into a slimy jelly.

Research finds immune systems still responding to toxic chemical exposures' related to East Palestine derailmentIn the weeks after the East Palestine train wreck culminated in a towering fireball and chemical release in the small Ohio town, Jessica Boersma was seriously exposed to the stew of compounds emitted from the derailment site.Boersma lives less than a quarter mile away, and, as a city council member, she had to spend significant time at the site coordinating with first responders. Continue reading...

Spanning a six-lane highway and located in a public park, this crossing is part of a larger restoration of endangered Texas prairie land

Critics say the government is creating a boogeyman' in its drive to use the antifa' label to frame protesters as terroristsThe federal US government is sweeping up protesters against Cop City, a police training center outside Atlanta, in its push to prosecute what it calls antifa" - even as state attempts to prosecute activists over the same incident failed for the second time this week.The case offers insight into the Trump administration's drive to link the idea of anti-fascism to terrorism, drawn into focus by the decades-long sentences given to protesters against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Prairieland trial in Texas, also this week. Continue reading...

Sarah Steele spoke of degrading' experience under US military justice after assault in England. Plus, why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movieGood morning.A UK justice minister has described the case of a British woman strangled by a US fighter pilot on UK soil as really serious" and said the Ministry of Justice would examine it.Why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England? Technically, the UK authorities should have primary jurisdiction to prosecute crimes allegedly perpetrated by US service members off duty and off base. But the Wulfson case is one of several uncovered by the Guardian in which UK police and prosecutors appear to be ceding responsibility to their US military counterparts.What is temporary protected status (TPS), and why is it under threat? People with TPS have permission to live and work in the US because the Department of Homeland Security deemed their home countries to be unsafe. The Trump administration has attempted to slash the program for various countries in its anti-immigrant crusade. Continue reading...

Committee will meet in July to discuss peptides now sold in gray market despite limited evidence of safety and efficacyAdvisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon hold a meeting about whether to ease restrictions on access to some research peptides, a group of drugs with a zealous following and thin evidence to support them.If restrictions are eased, US compounding pharmacies would be able to produce and fill prescriptions for Americans - a change that would effectively legalize a thriving gray market. Continue reading...

First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually longThe decades-long prison sentences for a group of Texas activists convicted of terrorism and other charges in connection to a Fourth of July protest last year has caused widespread alarm, given their unusually punitive length and for the apparent harsh criminalization of protest activity under Donald Trump's justice department.Eight people who participated in a protest at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, were sentenced on Tuesday to between 50 and 100 years in prison. A ninth person, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, the husband of one of the demonstrators, did not participate in the protest, but was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of moving boxes containing leftwing zines and other materials after a prison phone call from his wife. Continue reading...

Disillusioned America firsters, like Carson and Greene, are angry at Trump's foreign interventions, may sit out the midterm electionsFormer Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene - once among Donald Trump's most prominent champions - announced recently that they have left the Republican party.Both rightwing superstars had feuded with the president throughout his second term, but their split was provoked by Trump's war with Iran and what they viewed as his elevation of foreign affairs over domestic concerns like inflation and high gas prices. Although both have said that they will not support Democrats, their defection points to serious divisions within the Republican party that could weaken its prospects in the midterm elections and beyond.Geoffrey Kabaservice is the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center in Washington, as well as the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party Continue reading...

Berhalter was USA's pass master, McKennie led the side well but back line struggled against Turkish attacksMatt Turner In a surprise start, Turner was unable to stop the three shots he faced on his net, which will do little for the nearly extinguished case for him to start over Matt Freese. Then again, there were a couple of timely sweeper actions and he is now part of a select group of US goalkeepers to start in multiple World Cups. 4 Continue reading...