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Other measures include Washington lifting sanctions on Tehran's oil exports and reopening the strait of Hormuz

Appeals court had ruled Pedro Hernandez, 64, was wrongly convicted over 1979 disappearance of New York six-year-oldThe US supreme court has reinstated a murder conviction in the long winding case of Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance at age six from New York City garnered national headlines.In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the supreme court agreed with New York prosecutors in their request to reverse a lower court ruling that had thrown out the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez, 64, in the Patz case. Continue reading...

American economist and long-serving head of the Federal Reserve widely praised for the US boom whose reputation was re-evaluated in the wake of the 2008 crashFor his work chairing the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, who has died aged 100, was regularly hailed by financiers, politicians and journalists for his handling of the economy. He was variously dubbed the Oracle, the Wizard and the Maestro.As head of the central bank of the US from 1987 to 2006, tasked with setting interest rates and supervising and regulating banks and other financial institutions, he easily ranked as one of the most powerful individuals in the world. He served under four presidents: Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton - even though Greenspan was a lifelong Republican - and George W Bush. Continue reading...

Monday's news included reaction to Cape Verde's draw with Uruguay and weather warnings across the US east coastBeiranvand, by the way, holds the world record for the longest throw in a competitive match - 61.0026m - and for the longest drop-kick, 78.014m. Not bad for someone who was once sleeping rough.But let's return to Iran for a moment. Their goalie, Alireza Beiranvand - or The Wall of Persia" as he's known - had to run away from home to become a footballer, his old fella less than enchanted by the ruse and cutting up his gloves. I wonder how he feels now his boy has been player of the match at a World Cup. Continue reading...

Trump's pre-Fourth of July renovation project has endured problems with algae, peeling paint and an inflating price tagDonald Trump's rush to repaint the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, an iconic symbol of Washington DC, has hit roadblock after roadblock as the country's 250th anniversary nears.The public has been gripped by the ill-fated $14m bid to renovate the reflecting pool, which the US president vowed to make beautiful" in time for this summer's birthday celebrations at the capital. Continue reading...

Death of Kohen Wiley is latest in series of troubling police encounters that have outraged community membersThe recent fatal shooting of a one-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi.The death of Kohen Wiley is the latest in a series of troubling encounters with police that have outraged community members in recent years. It has led to protests and calls for greater police accountability in the town of 8,000, with some civil rights activists pointing to Kohen's death as another example of a Black life lost over something of nominal value. In this case, it was an allegation of stolen diapers, which the boy's family has denied. Continue reading...

Unidentified man fell into vault toilet at Camp Edison while trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, officials sayAn unhappy camper spent about 15 minutes submerged in sewage in the putrid tank of a California campground's vault toilet after falling in trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, according to officials.The latest entry into the annals of bizarre US campground mishaps took place on Saturday at Shaver Lake's Camp Edison, about 50 miles north-east of downtown Fresno. A spokesperson for the Fresno county sheriff's office said specialist rescue crews from Cal Fire were required to extricate the unidentified man from the confined tank beneath the waterless, non-flushing toilet. Continue reading...

Alberto Carvalho put on leave after news of warrants but officials have not provided details of nature of investigationThe superintendent of Los Angeles public schools has resigned five months after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the LA Unified school district headquarters.Alberto Carvalho had been put on leave after news of the federal investigation. He denied any wrongdoing earlier this year and had asked to be reinstated as head of the nation's second-largest district. Continue reading...

Original organizers, joined by new wave, are demanding the government not undo four decades of progressOn a warm evening in June, hundreds of people holding candles marched toward the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of the US LGBTQ+ rights movement. Once they arrived, they all dropped to the ground - on the sidewalk and in the roadway - and put their backs against the pavement. The Aids rally, marking 45 years since the first reported cases, ended the way many have since the 1980s: with a die-in, dozens of bodies lying still for a long moment of silence.The Aids crisis has killed more than 700,000 Americans and an estimated 40 million people worldwide since it was first named in 1981. But the marchers at Stonewall earlier this month were not only mourning the past. They came to protest a wave of federal policy moves to restrict Medicaid, slash international funding and shrink the National Institutes of Health's research budget. The original generation of HIV and Aids activists, joined by a new wave of organizers, were there to demand that the government not undo four decades of progress with catastrophic funding cuts. Continue reading...

The major winner has rebuilt both his swing and confidence and learned to function without the approval of the massesOn the evening before he won the US Open for a second time in four years, Wyndham Clark marched up the 18th fairway at Shinnecock Hills to put the finishing touches on a third round that would leave him six shots clear of the field. He had spent the past three days patiently defanging one of the crown jewels of American golf, building the third-largest 54-hole advantage held by a US Open leader since the second world war. The title was his to lose.Yet when Clark arrived at the final green on Saturday bathed in golden-hour light, one thing was conspicuously absent: the crowd. Most of the spectators had left or were leaving and the grandstands around the green were only thinly populated. It was a remarkably muted backdrop for America's once-and-future champion golfer as he stood on the doorstep of a rare wire-to-wire US Open victory. Continue reading...

At the same time, 29% of small-business owners also report having open positions they can't fillAmid rising fuel prices and inflation across the US, confidence among small-business owners has declined in recent weeks as many continue to grapple with higher costs and economic uncertainty.According to the National Federation of Independent Business, its Small Business Optimism Index fell by 0.6 points to 95.3 in May. At the same time, 29% of small-business owners reported having open positions they could not fill - the lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading...

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Voters are upset that Trump has failed to deliver on his economic promises. That's bad news for Republicans in NovemberIf any demographic group was key to Donald Trump's election victories in 2016 and 2024, it was white, blue-collar voters. But in perhaps perilous news for Republicans, Trump's support from that group has plummeted - as many white, working-class voters have grown upset about everything from increased inflation and gas prices to Trump's war against Iran. These glaring cracks in Trump's blue-collar base point to big trouble for Republicans in this November's midterm elections.In 2024, Trump won 66% of white voters without a college degree, but a new CBS News poll found that 54% of that demographic disapprove of his performance. That was up from 45% disapproval in February (before Trump began bombing Iran) and up sharply from 32% in February 2025. Continue reading...

Darializa Avila Chevalier is running on universal healthcare, campaign finance reform and abolishing ICEA progressive Democrat challenging a veteran congressman to represent the party in a closely watched New York race for US Congress has claimed the city has deteriorated on his watch.Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of three allies that New York City's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has endorsed in competitive congressional Democratic primaries in the city on Tuesday, is seeking to unseat incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the state's 13th congressional district. Continue reading...

White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%Consulting is a delicate contract: endure two challenging, formative years - and in return, get a golden ticket to anywhere. Firms like McKinsey tout themselves as the CEO factory", and boast they're not surprised" to be consistently named the best place for future leaders.The skills they promise to build - synthesis, sharp analysis, crisp communication, client-readiness, hypothesis-driven thinking - have enticed every generation's top graduates. Get an offer from a place like this, and everything else will fall into place: about as clear a guarantee of future success as you could get fresh out of a bachelors. These firms spent decades marketing themselves as production houses of excellence, and until recently, they were.Alice Lassman is an economist who writes The Intimacy Economy, a Substack and forthcoming book on the economics of connection, care and relationships Continue reading...

European players had long been dismissed as a risk by NBA teams. But two picks by the Portland Trail Blazers helped usher in the league's international eraNBA commissioner David Stern walked to the podium at the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden on 17 June 1986. For the last pick of the first round of the NBA draft ... America's game," Stern said with a hint of a smile, the Portland Trail Blazers select Arvydas Sabonis of the Soviet Union."Boos rained down from the crowd. TBS hosts Bob Neal and Larry Donald burst into laughter. One Portland journalist said if Sabonis ever played in the NBA he'd jump off the Broadway Bridge. (Sabonis had actually been drafted by the Atlanta Hawks the previous year but it was voided because he was not yet 21.) Portland doubled down two rounds later, selecting Draen Petrovi from another communist country, Yugoslavia. Continue reading...

Tournament could hold up a useful hand mirror to the isolationism and divisiveness of Trump's joint-host nationOne of the best parts of following football across the world is theway it drags you into special places, local shrines, objects of profound cultural connection. The US, of course, has these holyspaces too.The queue of pilgrims in Philadelphia on Thursday morning stretched down the sun-blasted steps to the plaza at the bottom. Edging forward, the people in their ritual colours approached the figure at the top, arms outstretched in supplication, in a state of hushed deference. Called finally for his moment of communion, the man at the front of this line straightened his Ronaldinho shirt, clenched his fists above his head for the ceremonial Insta pic and shouted: Adrian! I did it." Continue reading...

Trump warning that Iran won't have a country' if it closes strait of Hormuz contrasts with vice-president's tone seeking to turn over new leaf' with Tehran - key US politics stories from Sunday 21 JuneDonald Trump threatened to resume war with Iran even as his vice-president JD Vance met Iranian officials to begin peace talks in Switzerland.Also overshadowing negotiations in Burgenstock was Tehran's announcement it had again closed the strait of Hormuz, a threat made because of ongoing Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. Continue reading...

Newsom declares state of emergency as crews continue to fight stubborn Boyle Heights fire that has raged for daysCalifornia's governor has declared a state of emergency for the city of Los Angeles, as firefighters struggle to contain a stubborn warehouse blaze that has raged for days and blanketed parts of the city in smoke.Gavin Newsom announced he was directing state agencies to provide additional assistance and resources" to help battle the fire, located in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights in east Los Angeles. Continue reading...

Wyndham Clark survived a wobble to win his second US Open by one shot

Mayor says violence has no place in our city' as president criticizes governor for not accepting national guard troopsAt least seven people have been killed and dozens injured in several shootings in Chicago since Friday, police said, with Donald Trump once again calling for military intervention in the midwestern city.In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned why Illinois's governor, JB Pritzker, had not welcomed military deployment. Continue reading...

FAA investigating incident involving Delta and American jets that forced Delta plane to abort landing attemptA Delta jet was roughly 300ft (90 meters) from an American Airlines plane during a close call at Boston's airport that forced the Delta aircraft to abort a weekend landing attempt, an aviation expert said on Sunday.The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating the incident between two commercial flights that happened Saturday at Boston Logan international airport. Continue reading...

Objections comes as Trump threatens to renew attacks on Iran if it doesn't rein in its proxy in LebanonUS political figures from left and right voiced fresh objections on Sunday to Donald Trump's provisional deal with Iran - even as the US president made new threats while Vice-President JD Vance hailed progress during the first round of direct peace talks in Switzerland.Negotiations in Lucerne between the US and Iran have already run into difficulties, after Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!" Continue reading...

Algae blooms and peeling paint mar $14.2m renovation as president claims pool has been seriously vandalized'Repair work will begin immediately" at the troubled Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC, Donald Trump said on Sunday, after suggesting the pool would need to be drained and blaming alleged vandals" for the disruption.The reflecting pool has been plagued by algae blooms and peeling paint following the controversial recent renovation efforts for America's 250th anniversary celebrations next month. Continue reading...

Town of Eureka evacuated due to risk from Iron fire as officials forecast more hot weather in week aheadExtreme heat and dry, windy conditions are fueling multiple wildfires across the US west, including a massive blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town, with hot weather in the forecast raising the risk of more blazes in the week ahead.The Iron fire in Utah's Juab county was first detected on Saturday and has so far blackened more than 2,000 acres. The fire, about 70 miles (113km) south-west of Salt Lake City, forced the evacuation of Eureka, population 1,000, and people at a nearby ranch. Continue reading...

Officers find man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicating a fall from an elevated position'A 51-year-old man fell to his death during a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night, police said.Officers responding to a 911 emergency call at about 9.51pm found the man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicating a fall from an elevated position", New York police said in a statement. Continue reading...

Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removalsOne morning early last July, Micha Bitsinnie arrived at work to an onslaught of messages from confused families.New Mexico's governor Michelle Lujan Grisham had just issued a directive mandating the state's child welfare department seek custody of all newborns who had been exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero. Some parents wondered whether medications that they were taking for addiction recovery, such as methadone, would flag their cases. Healthcare providers wondered whether the fentanyl in an epidural counted as a drug exposure. Continue reading...

After the US said seeking affordable medical care for their son would not impede their re-entry, Tamila Vashchuk and her 10-year-old were issued removal ordersTamila Vashchuk and her husband, Mykola, are minor celebrities in this corner of Ohio.The Ukrainian couple have appeared on the cover of local magazines and been invited onto morning television shows. En route to building a successful pierogi food business, they've met with the governor. A recent law graduate from Cleveland State University, Mykola is hoping to do his bar exams someday. Most Sundays, they volunteer at the local church. Continue reading...

Father's Day event aims to help strengthen connections between parents and children and soothe mental healthMore than a hundred eager families poured into a prison visiting room on 13 June, having just endured a security search after hours of travel on a bus. But the energy shifted once their incarcerated loved ones walked through the door for an early Father's Day celebration.Hearts became full, tears filled eyes and arms embraced. Young children ran and jumped on their fathers, and mothers waited patiently for their turns to say hello. Continue reading...

Mauricio Pochettino's players have got off to a scorching start to the tournament. Going all the way will require the team reaching a whole new levelThe United States can win the World Cup. The US players say so. So does Zlatan Ibrahimovi. Because you are a smart Guardian reader, you know that, theoretically, any team who are not yet eliminated can win the World Cup. And you know that this US team have won their opening two World Cup games convincingly, securing the top spot in Group D and a place in the knockout round with a game to spare. Making the World Cup final, and winning it, is in the realm of possibility.But can they? Within the team, there has been belief they can go all the way for some time. US head coach Mauricio Pochettino laid down the marker in his introductory press conference, and has stuck to his belief. His players have followed suit. But now, even famous pundits with outsized egos are saying the US can shock the world and capture the men's World Cup for the first time on home soil. Continue reading...

New College of Florida to acquire USF Sarasota-Manatee in deal that leading Democratic lawmaker says reeks of grift'A liberal arts college seized by Florida's hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, and transformed into a model for conservative higher education is to triple in size after state Republicans engineered a hostile takeover of a rival university's campus.New College of Florida, which is controlled by DeSantis's hand-picked board of trustees, will acquire the Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida (USF) next month in a deal described by a leading Florida Democrat as a grift". Continue reading...

Less than a third are likely to be registered in November. We must work to ensure they have a voiceAbout 4 million Americans will turn 18 in 2026, but if past trends continue, under a third of them will be registered to vote in the November elections. Automatically registering every American when they come of age would be the fairest, most effective way to protect US democracy, yet we have built an electoral system that does the opposite.Every year, millions of 18-year-old Americans go unregistered and excluded from the electoral process. In a typical midterm year, US census data shows fewer than 30% are registered to vote, compared with nearly 75% of those aged 45 and up. Because they are outside of state voter files, candidates, campaigns and pollsters ignore them. Their voices and energy go untapped; their policy and programmatic needs go unfunded. Continue reading...

Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket operating in areas with limited resources for people with gambling problemsPublic health resources across the US are failing to keep pace with the rapid growth of online gambling, problem health advocates warned, after Donald Trump endorsed the controversial nationwide surge of prediction markets.Prediction market platforms, where users can wager on everything from Tony Award winners to World Cup goals, have pushed betting even further into American life. Continue reading...

Fox's broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winnerWe all know someone like Alexi Lalas. He's the ranter whose rants never actually say anything, the life of the party at the party no one enjoys attending, the big personality" who's always misjudging the size of the room. He's corporate America's idea of a fun guy, the type of workplace character" whose business trip hangover never stops him from being first at the hotel breakfast buffet, hair wet, Untuckit shirt untucked. He would absolutely dominate karaoke night at a conference on infrastructure finance. If only this were the limit of Alexi Lalas's actual impact on the world, our culture would live in blessed ignorance of his existence. But in the real world Alexi Lalas is not a small-time menace working the floor at an infrastructure conference. In the real world Alexi Lalas is American soccer's brightest media star, and he is everywhere this World Cup.When Lalas's Roger Ramjet jaw thrust into frame on Fox at the start of this tournament, it's fair to assume that many viewers felt a sense of dread similar to that expressed in the Grand Theft Auto meme: Ah shit, here we go again." Lalas's ubiquitousness every World Cup is American TV's answer to the Iran war: no one wants it, everyone hates it, and as it drags on, it inevitably becomes a face-saving exercise in damage limitation. But there was also a glimmer of hope: for this tournament Fox has enlisted a pair of elite European strikers, Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimovi, to terrorize Lalas and shake proceedings up. Steered by Rebecca Lowe, this new-look panel has promised a slightly more sophisticated approach to covering the tournament than the yahooing belligerence that was Fox's stock in trade at the last two World Cups. Continue reading...

A small but dedicated band is keeping tabs on taskforce agents - here's what the activist monitors have to sayNine months after Donald Trump ordered an anti-crime taskforce onto the streets of Memphis, a small band of dedicated observers is attempting to monitor its actions.They have alleged widespread intimidation by agents, who stand accused in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee of having tailed cars, surveilled homes and even falsely arrested" one community observer. Continue reading...

Elon Musk is a beneficiary of America's lopsided prosperity - does the country have any appetite for redistribution?As Barack Obama's presidency was coming to a close, Jason Furman, then chairman of the president's council of economic advisers, laid out the strides his administration had made to curb the nation's exorbitant income inequality in the largest investments in reducing inequality since the Great Society".Indeed, by the end of 2016, taxes and transfers cut the share of income accruing to the richest 1% of households by just over a fifth, according to estimates from the congressional budget office (CBO), more than under any government since at least Jimmy Carter's. They raised the slice of income going to the poorest fifth from 3.9% to 7.9%, the highest share since at least 1979.Eduardo Porter is a journalist focused on economics and politics. He writes the newsletter Being There on Substack Continue reading...

Herve Renard's Eagles of Carthage have been sent packing from the World Cup thanks to a masterclass from the Samurai BlueChanges for Japan too with Tomiyasu and Itakura stiffening the back three, and Ito and Tanaka coming into the front three. Kubo misses out through injury and the lively playmaker is a big loss to a side already missing Minamino and Mitoma.Expect the same 3-4-3 structure that has served Moriyasu well in recent months as he has built Japan from a side capable of dominating Asia to one equipped to handle the rest of the world. Continue reading...

My dad gives smart advice, but it always leads me down paths that didn't feel like me'. When, and how, can we stop listening to our dads?When I was a kid, my dad told me to pick a sport, practice a lot and stick with it. That way, in high school, I'd join the team and have built-in friends. Later, you can aim for a college scholarship," he said with a wide, confident smile.I knew this was good advice. It was bold, financially minded and forward-thinking. The only problem? I was terrible at sports. Continue reading...

What has the Israeli PM's whirlwind of violence achieved? His closest ally now turning against him - and an emboldened IranBenjamin Netanyahu, the biggest loser in last week's preliminary deal to halt the US-Israel-Iran war, will be remembered - and reviled - as the man who put the Middle East to the sword. Whether the problem" was Hamas in Gaza, illegal West Bank land seizures, supposed Israeli-Arab fifth columnists, peace campaigners' aid flotillas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, hostile militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, or Tehran's hardline Islamic regime, the Israeli leader's solution" was always the same: extreme, often lawless violence that invariably made matters worse.The unprovoked, illegal war against Iran was the ultimate expression of the Netanyahu doctrine - the disproportionate application of brute force. Predictably, it too, has failed. Donald Trump is desperately arguing that the ceasefire memorandum he signed in Versailles (of all places!) is not the lame capitulation it so self-evidently is. But while the US president may survive this humiliation - despite global scepticism and mockery - the likely consequences of the debacle for Netanyahu, his brother-in-harms, are career-ending serious. In many respects, Israel's longest-serving prime minister is already yesterday's man.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentatorDo 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...

Paint seen peeling off in the water at pool site; investigation finds ICE agents disproportionately target people from Latin America - key US politics stories from Saturday 20 June at a glanceDonald Trump, without offering evidence, blamed vandalism" for real problems" at Washington's reflecting pool after an algae bloom in the wake of a $14.2m renovation of the site that he declared would turn it American flag" blue. Paint has been seen peeling off in the water. He also made claims that vandals had been arrested.Days after his administration claimed the pool was actually crystal clear", despite an unmistakably green hue, the US president acknowledged issues - and claimed there had been foul play. Continue reading...

Clark builds a huge lead on Moving Day at Shinnecock

After Jameson the dog, wearing a blue Knicks jersey, walked out into the hallway, an officer fired his pistol four timesThe Los Angeles police department has released footage of the moment when officers shot and killed a woman's dog in the hallway outside her apartment in the Canoga Park neighborhood.Police had responded to reports of a woman screaming on 13 June, which turned out to be cheering, the night that the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA finals. Continue reading...

Temperatures could top 111F on Monday and Tuesday, after several recent deaths in park raise concerns over heatExtreme heat is set to hit lower parts of the Grand Canyon from Monday, the US National Weather Service (NWS) warned, with temperatures projected to exceed 100F (37.7C).An alert published on Saturday will be in effect from 10am local time on Monday through 7pm on Tuesday. Continue reading...