Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC's Kristen Welker in interview airing on SundayBill Gates has called on the US's federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause a billion deaths" and no one thinks self-regulation is enough".You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like," the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said to Kristen Welker, the NBC Meet the Press host. And that has to be a required thing." Continue reading...
US president doubles down on criticism of CNN and MS Now as Akayla Gardner questions attempted White House banA day after the White House barred CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One to provide pool television coverage of the president's trip to Tennessee, Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of that broadcaster and another, MS Now, he has attempted to ban over coverage of him he calls overly negative.As he left the White House early on Saturday, Trump was asked by MS Now White House correspondent Akayla Gardner: Do you only want outlets that support you to be a part of the press pool?" Continue reading...
Preparation begins for extreme conditions as Nolo bears down on areas still recovering from previous stormsHeavy rain and powerful winds are expected to bring flash floods and extreme surf to the Hawaiian islands over the weekend as Hurricane Nolo bears down on areas still recovering from previous storms.Nolo was churning slowly south of Hawaii's Big Island on Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 105mph (165km/h). The storm's center was about 145 miles (235km) south of Hawaii's southern-most point and could strengthen into a potentially life-threatening and catastrophic storm through the weekend. Continue reading...
Residents across New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware and New York without electricity as storm hitsA slow-moving, powerful storm known as a nor'easter crept along the coast of the US north-east on Saturday, producing high winds that knocked out electricity to thousands of people while whipping up big waves and heavy rains that created dangerous conditions in some places.Tens of millions of people were in the path of the storm, which was forecast to affect the mid-Atlantic area and New England throughout the weekend. About 100,000 customers in the region were without electricity Saturday. Continue reading...
Sullenberger landed a disabled passenger plane safely in the Hudson River in 2009 without any loss of lifeCapt Chesley Sully" Sullenberger III - the pilot known for safely landing a US Airways flight in New York City's Hudson River during a 2009 emergency - has been inducted into the US's National Aviation Hall of Fame, two months after he went public with an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.Sullenberger, 75, received the honor during a ceremony held in Washington DC on Thursday, 17 years after he engineered what has become widely known as the Miracle on the Hudson. Continue reading...
Suspect, charged with felony assault, under investigation for making racist and homophobic comments before attackA Seattle woman will need surgery for a gnarly wound, after a stranger, who called her an inferior race", took a bite of flesh from her forehead in a surprise attack.The incident occurred in broad daylight on 18 September when Diana Gonzalez, 36, was walking to a local convenience store and the alleged assailant, identified by prosecutors as Kamilia Chadli, threw a food wrapper at her, the victim told Seattle police. Continue reading...
How will the USA and Peru fare today? Here is what to know, including kick-off time, TV channels and live stream optionsThe 2026 World Cup and the abrupt exit to Belgium in the last 16 is behind the US men's national team, with Mauricio Pochettino naming several uncapped youngsters on his roster as a new cycle begins.Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Folarin Balogun and a few other established figures have been left off the roster. The USMNT will use matches against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada to set a new direction for the future. Continue reading...
Authorities discovered a body hidden in a home's crawlspace in 2020, 13 years after Jill Maiorca disappearedA man was recently charged in California with the killing of his ex-wife six years after her remains were discovered in a crawlspace beneath a home - and about two decades after when she went missing, according to investigators.Jeff Maiorca, 53, faces a charge of murder in the death of Jill Maiorca, who was 29 when she was killed, authorities said in discussing what could be one of the latest cases in the US to be solved with modern DNA techniques. Continue reading...
173 people hospitalized and four deaths in state so far, with less than 1% of those infected having been vaccinatedThe Pennsylvania department of health (DOH) announced on Friday that 55 new measles cases had been reported in the state since Wednesday, with officials continuing efforts to contain an outbreak of the disease that has spread across dozens of counties.In a news release, the DOH said that 890 measles cases had been confirmed across 39 counties in the state so far for the year. The outbreak had resulted in 173 hospitalizations in the state and four measles-associated deaths, the statement added. Continue reading...
Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, is drawing on her reporting experience to win Virginia voters in a longtime Republican districtVirginia's sixth congressional district has been in Republican hands for over 33 years, but Beth Macy, a longtime reporter with the Roanoke Times and author of Dopesick, a powerful account of the opioid crisis that swept through Appalachia two decades ago, has a plan to change that.The plan, drawing on her experience as a reporter, is to canvass the district in the mountainous west of the state, knocking on doors, going to food pantries, meeting with veterans. It's what any political hopeful might do, but with a twist: Macy carries her reporter's notebook and jots down the good stories she's been told. Continue reading...
A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemicA marvel of engineering and a model of sustainable public transportation, the San Francisco Bay Area's transit system, financially distressed after years of declined ridership, is now staring down a fiscal cliff - and a potential death spiral that would have massive repercussions for everyone in the globally influential metropolis.As soon as early 2027, Bay Area Rapid Transit could be forced to close as many as 15 stations, reduce frequency of service by 63%, increase the cost of rides and parking fees by 30% and end all service at 9pm. If service becomes less frequent and more expensive, there will be fewer commuters, less fare revenue and a downward cascade of financial austerity with ripple effects for all Bay Area residents, not just those who use public transit regularly. Continue reading...
As she mulls another presidential run, the former VP is building bridges with progressive and Arab American leadersDoes Donald Trump secretly want Republicans to get annihilated in the midterms? Because he's certainly acting that way. He continues to brush off concerns about the cost of living, saying last week that high gas prices are a very inexpensive price to pay" for the war on Iran.And, of course, the president seems to have no plans to end that disastrous war, apart from making vague threats about blowing the entire country up. Trust me, he keeps saying, everything will get better after the midterms. But by the looks of his dismal polling numbers, not many people are swallowing his empty promises anymore.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The idea of 16-year-olds like Cavan Sullivan playing for the USMNT was once unfathomable - until Mike Slivinski, Mark Jonas and Nelson Vargas appeared in a 1991 friendlyIf 16-year-old Cavan Sullivan takes the field for the US men's national team in the coming days, he will join a list of youngest-ever US players that has no shortage of recognizable names.At the top is onetime phenom (turned cautionary tale) Freddy Adu, still the youngest player to ever appear for the US men. Names in the top 20 like Eddie Gaven and Bobby Convey will feel familiar to longtime US fans; Christian Pulisic, Yunus Musah and Gio Reyna are all still very much in the picture and may well prove to be Sullivan's future partners in attack. Continue reading...
President's tariffs have hurt fishers, loggers and others in a state with deep bonds to Canada - will voters show their displeasure in the midterms?It was an ideal summer to cut trees.The weather in Maine's Penobscot county - one of the most heavily forested counties in a state dense with trees - was warm and dry. Yet even as the county's wood had grown to an ideal size to harvest, the machines Molly London typically uses sat idle. Continue reading...
Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agricultureA remarkably prescient letter written by Thomas Jefferson, the third US president, advising how the newly created country could prosper, has been put up for sale by a private collector. The handwritten document from 1787 warns specifically against many of the missteps Donald Trump has taken to drag down his own second term of office.Written in Paris, where Jefferson was the fledgling government's minister to France, the note to David Rittenhouse, a friend and fellow member of the American Philosophical Society, muses on the priorities and principles he believed future presidents should follow. Continue reading...
Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidatesThe debate over artificial intelligence development, how to regulate it and the construction of datacenters that power the technology has become a buzzy topic for potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates.Already, concerns were mounting over the environmental and energy impact of datacenters, which consume vast amounts of resources to power AI. But worries about the rapid development of AI came to a head in mid-September when tech executives issued a flurry of dire warnings that the technology could harm humans. Continue reading...
Ten years ago, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem. He was accused of disrespecting the flag, the game, and America. In a rare interview, he talks about inspiring a global gesture of civil rightsColin Kaepernick still gets up at 4.30am every morning to train. Strength training, speed training, position training - still do all of the same type of workouts I did while I was playing," he says cheerily. And then go about the rest of my day." It is almost 10 years since Kaepernick last played a game of top-flight football. His career was abruptly and cruelly cut short just as it was peaking, after the National Football League (NFL) effectively closed ranks and shut him out for being too political. Now, at 38 years old, he is well aware that his chances of a return are dwindling by the day, but he remains as game-ready as ever. I stay relentless at it," he continues in his easy drawl. I look at it from the perspective of, What are the things that I can control?' And what I know I can control is being prepared for when opportunity knocks, and to also continue knocking, on my end, looking for ways and opportunities ... just staying resilient and focused and disciplined - that is what's gotten me to this point in my life."Kaepernick's story is defined by the events of late 2016, when he repeatedly refused to stand for the pre-match national anthem - resulting in a chorus of booing on the pitch, insults and outrage off it, and exclusion from the sport he still loves. He was one of the biggest names in the game at the time; quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, a national celebrity, sponsored by major brands, and looking back, his actions fed into so much that has happened since: the rise of Donald Trump, the Black Lives Matter protests and a global reckoning with racism, then the backlash against what is now being called Woke 1.0", and the resurgence of a white nationalism that the US complacently assumed was in the past. Continue reading...
The US's oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implementedDonald Trump has long coveted the oilfields of other nations and declared an agreement with Venezuela to be the biggest oil deal in world history". But the deal, reached after the US seized Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, is almost certainly doomed to collapse amid a wide array of legal and logistical issues, a Guardian investigation has found.The US president first mused about taking oil from Iran in 1987, when he told ABC's Barbara Walters that Iranian attacks on American shipping during the Iran-Iraq war required an extreme response. Why couldn't we go in and take over some of their oil, which is along the sea?" he asked. Over the ensuing years, he has returned frequently to the idea that America should seize oil from other countries after military conflict, from Libya to Iraq. Continue reading...
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Aminata Seck's detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precariousEarlier this week, news broke for the first time that Senegalese Division II Kentucky State women's basketball player Aminata Seck was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Louisville's Muhammad Ali International Airport on 7 August during a trip to attend the HBCU All-Star game in New York. Seck is listed as a Kentucky State senior and last year started 20 of 26 games, earning third-team all-conference honors and an SIAC Elite 16 award for academic achievement. According to a lawyer involved with her case, Sadiqa Reynolds, Seck has been moved through four different ICE facilities since her initial apprehension: Clay County, Chicago, Clark County and Grayson County. Reynolds noted that the reason for Seck's imprisonment was a missed student visa deadline - what she characterized as a paperwork situation" - due to back surgery. Reynolds also said that Seck has been suffering from an ACL injury while detained and has received only ibuprofen but no proper medical care.ICE arrests in Kentucky have risen by 70% this year.Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick and co-host of The End of Sport podcast.Simran Kaur Sethi is Assistant Professor of Sport Leadership at the University of Kentucky where she studies equity and inclusion for international college athletes.Derek Silva is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King's University College at Western University and co-host of The End of Sport podcast. Continue reading...
The French president's resolve seems to have rubbed off on the leaders of other middle powers'On the first day of the United Nations general assembly this week, two world leaders outlined competing visions for the future. Donald Trump's speech was disturbingly familiar to those he's given before: a litany of false boasts and odd tangents, peppered with grim military threats against a variety of nation states. Discussing his seven-month war with Iran, he mused over whether to annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly".In Trump's eyes, the world is there to be ruled - and ruled only by the US, whose economy is the envy of the world" and military is the most powerful on Earth".Steve Bloomfield is the former international editor of the Observer Continue reading...
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners'Lonnie Bunch, the outgoing secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has defended the organisation against political interference, insisting that telling the unvarnished and complex truths of history is an act of great love" for the country.Speaking on Friday at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Bunch received a standing ovation from hundreds of audience members and rejected claims that the institution's staff or exhibitions were unpatriotic. Continue reading...
President using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant servicesDonald Trump is canceling nearly $1bn in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.Trump's office of management and budget described the funding cut as focused on the most harmful government spending". Continue reading...
Some Democrats say taxpayer-funded ad could be illegal government propaganda aimed at influencing votersThe White House on Friday defended its decision to use taxpayer funds to buy airtime on Fox News for a White House-produced, pro-Trump ad that some Democrats said could be illegal government propaganda aimed at influencing voters in the upcoming midterm elections.In a lengthy statement sent to news outlets, the White House press office insisted that versions of the ad, which feature audio of Trump urging voters to help him defeat communism" and a whirlwind video review of his second term, were simply routine public service announcements" like those produced by previous administrations. Continue reading...
Kevin Rodriguez and Samuel Reveron were booked after reports of mole people' emerging from sewers across cityTwo people have been arrested for allegedly emerging from manholes across New York City.Police reportedly suspect them of searching for valuables that had been washed into the storm drains and sewer system. Continue reading...
Court puts end to long-running legal dispute as it rules Republican-friendly map cannot be used in NovemberThe supreme court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is under way in the midterm elections.The justices halted a federal appeals court ruling that would have revived the Republican-friendly map for the November elections, which will determine control of Congress. There were no noted dissents. Continue reading...
Jane Smith reportedly used ChatGPT to edit photo to show name Trump ordered US agencies to use for Lake Ontario amid trade war with CanadaThe CEO of a Michigan credit union is no longer employed there, according to the organization, after she posted on social media what appeared to be an AI-generated image of her and her family wearing sweaters emblazoned with the Donald Trump-associated words Lake America".In the statement recently announcing that Jane Smith would no longer be its CEO, Family First Credit Union also apologized for the concern, disappointment and pain this situation has caused". Continue reading...
Alleigha Botner tells court Caleb Flynn, charged with murder of wife Ashley Flynn, sent her AI love songsThe Ohio former pastor and American Idol contestant accused of fatally shooting his wife fantasized to his then lover about killing his spouse and sent her AI-generated love songs, according to evidence presented at trial this week.Caleb Flynn, 40, is on trial for aggravated murder in connection with the 16 February shooting death of Ashley Flynn. He also is charged with two counts of felonious assault and three counts of tampering with evidence, according to a March indictment. Flynn has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Continue reading...
According to report, school staff recommended event move to a more secure location weeks before Kirk was fatally shotA new report says that Turning Point USA insisted the conservative political group's leader Charlie Kirk speak outdoors at Utah Valley University - where he was ultimately assassinated - despite security concerns raised with his team by the school's leaders and its police chief.The independent report with those findings was commissioned by UVU and released on Friday. The report examined security procedures leading up to the 31-year-old's fatal shooting on 10 September 2025 during a talk at the university's campus in Orem, Utah.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...
State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizensThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada's voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.In July, Donald Trump gave a speech saying DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters to each of those states weakened the claim, saying there only could be as many as 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls, including up to 15,903 in Nevada. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois and Alex Padilla of California seek to prevent unlawful arrestsUS senators have introduced legislation aimed at cutting down warrantless or specious ICE arrests, and curbing the agency's ability to indefinitely detain immigrants who do not pose any danger to their communities.The new legislation, shared exclusively with the Guardian, would require immigration officers to obtain an administrative warrant from a supervisor outlining a probable cause for detaining someone. Such a warrant must also be presented to each person who is detained, the bill says, alongside notice of when the detainee must appear in immigration court. Continue reading...
Russian strikes in Kyiv, Netanyahu in New York, floods in Japan and the Asian Games - the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists Continue reading...
Forecasters say storm will cause heavy rains and large waves along the coast, near communities still recovering from extreme weatherHurricane Nolo is expected to bring potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding to Hawaii on Friday, affecting communities that are still recovering from devastating storms earlier this summer.The state activated more than 230 Hawaii national guard members and closed schools ahead of the storm. Nolo is expected to move west on Saturday and not directly hit the islands, but forecasters say it will still cause heavy rainfall, as much as 25in, as well as large and damaging waves along the coast. Continue reading...
The Chinese leader's visit to Washington appears to have done nothing to shift the stalemate in bilateral relationsWithin days, two high-profile Chinese visitors will arrive in the US - envoys of friendship, as Xi Jinping described them when he met Donald Trump at the White House this week. The giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will be hosted at Atlanta zoo. Beijing dispatched the first panda pair to the US in 1972 following President Richard Nixon's landmark visit to China. It uses the animals toindicate satisfaction or displeasure with other nations. But it also charges heftily for their lease: reportedly, around $1m a year per pair. Americans' views of China have warmed from a pandemic nadir, but are unlikely to be shifted much by two animals, however charming.These days they are more of a token gesturethan a striking symbol.It is telling that the announcement was one of the main takeaways of Mr Xi's visit to Washington. Expectations were low after May's stalemate summit in Beijing, but this meeting still struggled to meet them. The US president gave Mr Xi a lavish welcome -unusually, travelling to meet the strong, vibrant andfit" Chinese leader off the plane. He insisted that they had never gotten along better". Continue reading...
The justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest requestUS supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged serious concerns about her colleagues' handling of emergency requests, the method Donald Trump often uses to seek approval from the court.Jackson, one of the three liberal members of the supreme court, criticized the justices' willingness to issue rulings via the shadow docket", saying it undermines the public's faith in the judicial system. Continue reading...
Trump's media ban resulted in an effective TV blackout of coverage of the president during the UN general assemblyThe primary White House television pool has resumed filming administration events after a court ruling temporarily overturned a Trump administration ban on CNN a day earlier.In an unprecedented move, the pool - which also includes NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News - ceased recording and transmitting White House footage on Monday, in solidarity with CNN, MS Now and Politico, which had been banned by Trump from the building over what he said was their constant reporting' FAKE NEWS." Continue reading...
Iran's seven-day timetable would restart nuclear talks, but will the US be willing to deliver on terms that include reining in Israel in Lebanon?Iran's seven-day timetable to reopen the strait of Hormuz and start talks on its nuclear programme has been pitched as a deal that could rapidly extricate Donald Trump from a political crisis but requires the US president to make difficult concessions.In the five days left before the proposed reopening of the strait, which is expected to relieve pressure on global energy markets, Trump would need to lift Iranian asset freezes, permit Iran to export its oil and, probably most difficult of all, order Benjamin Netanyahu to end Israel's attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, thus achieving the ceasefire on all fronts". Continue reading...
Greg Steube's Flafo Act would require federal agencies to obtain warrants before accessing or sharing data from networked license plate readersA Florida Republican has introduced a bill that would bar US federal agencies from using Flock Safety's licence plate cameras and similar systems without a warrant, amid a nationwide backlash against the surveillance company.Greg Steube's Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations (Flafo) Act, introduced on Friday, would require a judicial warrant before federal agencies could buy, operate, access or share data with networked licence plate readers. It would also make US Department of Justice grants to local police conditional on their adopting similar rules. Continue reading...
Like many other families coping with a loved one's detention, Alma Ramirez and her children have faced financial struggles and mental health tollsA version of this story was originally published in La Opinion. Read the story in Spanish here.Every night, for months, as they settled into bed at their home in Watts, California, seven-year-old Jose, named after his father, would look over to his mother, Alma Ramirez, and ask her one question: Continue reading...
Forecasters say up to 40 million people in multiple US states could be affected by the early season northeasterly stormHigh winds and heavy rain were beginning to batter New England on Friday as a significant" nor'easter, the first such storm of the fall, threatened to disrupt weekend plans for millions.In the Pacific Ocean, meanwhile, three separate hurricanes, one threatening catastrophic flooding", including life-threatening flash floods, in Hawaii, were churning as a record-setting El Nino continued to amplify severe weather events on a global scale. Continue reading...
Messaging very telling', says Crump after grand jury said it found no evidence of criminal conduct in teen's deathCivil rights attorney Ben Crump released information from a forensic examination of Nolan Wells' cellphone as well as details of the official autopsy on Thursday, just days after a Mississippi grand jury said it found no evidence of criminal conduct in the teen's death.Attorneys representing the 18-year-old Black college student's family have called for transparency, asking that the grand jury investigative materials and the official autopsy report be publicly released. Continue reading...
Federal agencies told to prioritize recreational fishing and to reconsider scientific standards as well as regulationsDonald Trump's latest fishing order is raising new concerns about US marine protections, as it directs federal agencies to prioritize recreational fishing while reconsidering the scientific standards and environmental regulations that govern American fisheries.The National Marine Fisheries Service hailed last Thursday's order, Restoring American Saltwater Angling and Recreation, telling the Guardian: By addressing long-standing flaws in federal data collection, streamlining permitting, and expanding marine habitats, this action delivers long-overdue stability to America's $1.2tn outdoor recreation economy." Continue reading...
Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is hereIn recent weeks, concerns about AI have forged unlikely alliances in the tech and policy worlds. Tech moguls such as Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis joined Dario Amodei, Satya Nadella and Bill Gates in sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI and called for a slowdown of the technology's development despite years of racing for dominance. The senator Bernie Sanders teamed up with Steve Bannon to urge Congress to regulate AI, which has become one of the very few issues to unite Americans across the political spectrum.The latest moves were sparked in part by the AI researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings on Twitter/X that AI companies are gambling with our lives" and believe that the technology could kill us all by the end of the decade". Continue reading...
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