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Authorities say suspect among dead in house after standoff with police in Erie and there is no ongoing threatNine people, including children, died in a mass murder on Friday in Erie, Pennsylvania, after a gun-wielding attacker opened fire outside a home and then entered the property, according to authorities.The suspected attacker was also found among the dead as police responded to the deadly violence, which triggered a standoff involving Erie police officers and tactical teams. Continue reading...

The tourist attraction just unveiled an elaborate, full-scale overhaul to match Trump's second-term aestheticSitting behind a replica Resolute Desk, nine-year-old Sydney Wright posed for the camera like a future US president. I love it," she smiled. And what about the dazzling gold appliques, gold leaf and gold trim surrounding her? It's cool."Sydney was among a steady stream of visitors on Thursday to The People's House: A White House Experience, an interactive museum - with an orientation film narrated by The West Wing star Martin Sheen - at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, just 150 yards from the real thing. Continue reading...

Ukrainian president says money from fuel sales will intensify war as European leaders reiterate support for KyivRussia launched deadly strikes on civilians in Ukraine as thanks" for a deal cut by Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin to buy large quantities of Russian diesel, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, accusing Washington of helping fund Moscow's war.The Ukrainian president has expressed outrage at the agreement announced by Trump on Friday, which the US president said was needed to reduce diesel prices, and comes ahead of November's midterm elections in which fuel costs are a key voter issue. Continue reading...

EMS workers, who make life-or-death decisions in emergencies, are the lowest paid first respondersAfter 31 years in New York City's emergency medical services, Oren Barzilay has started giving young New Yorkers advice he never imagined giving when he began his EMS career. Don't come here," he tells them. You are only going to hurt yourself."It is a striking reversal for Barzilay, the recently retired president of FDNY EMS Local 2507. What changed for Barzilay was not his view of work or the value of service. It was what he believes is the New York City failure to pay the people who put their lives at risk to save the lives of others. Continue reading...

Fain was dogged by investigation but still decisively beat challenger Rich Boyer, who received just 13% of voteThe president of the United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, has easily won his re-election bid after an campaign period marred by accusations of corruption and election interference.The union's election of leadership for a four-year term began with mail-in ballots being sent out in late August 2026, with vote tabulating commencing on 6 October. Continue reading...

Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without failIf she really was raped, why didn't she speak up earlier? Why did she get drunk? Why was she wearing such a short skirt? Why did she walk home by herself?God, it's exhausting, isn't it? Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without fail. People accuse the woman of asking for it. They question her motives; they scrutinize her looks; they attack her character. And without fail, she is punished for speaking up. Continue reading...

The sports-mad city has embraced its new superstar, even as he choppers in from Manhattan and makes no secret of the fact that Philly was never his first choicePhiladelphia has always had an instinctive affinity with athletes who embrace the grind over the glamour. In a place where sports mean a little too much, commitment has traditionally counted for more than celebrity. What it demands above all, sometimes unreasonably, is the sense that they have bought in, that the city and its fortunes matter to them as much as they do to the people who devote their lives to backing its teams.Few embodied that ethic more completely than Lane Johnson, the Eagles' revered right tackle and best player for more than a decade, who abruptly announced his retirement Tuesday after 14 seasons, two Super Bowl titles and a career spent neutralizing some of the most freakish physical specimens to walk the earth. Johnson's quotidian greatness on the offensive line was almost perversely workmanlike. According to Pro Football Focus, he allowed just 10 sacks across close to 7,000 pass-blocking snaps in the last 13 years, going entire seasons without letting his man bring down the quarterback. The Eagles won nearly two-thirds of their games when he played and lost nearly two-thirds when he didn't. Continue reading...

While most of the crowd at a Stop Sexual Violence rally in New York City was mostly women, men of all ages were in attendance tooTens of thousands of protesters gathered at city halls and college campuses across the country on Thursday to demand an end to sexual violence. The nationwide rallies followed weeks of public outcry over the mishandling of campus sexual assault cases at Cornell University and Louisiana State University.The protest organizers - including Women's March, Feminist Generation and Me Too International - demanded justice for Jane Doe, who said she was drugged and gang-raped by seven students at a Cornell frat party; Kendall Francis, who said she was raped by an LSU football player; and all survivors harmed from the frat house to the White House". They also called for reform of Title IX, a set of protections for sexual misconduct victims and LGBTQ+ students that the Trump administration has slowly stripped away. Continue reading...

US president says agreement needed to lower American fuel prices, but move likely to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato alliesDonald Trump was on a fresh collision course with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European allies after a stunning agreement to buy Russian diesel, upending years of US and western pressure on the Kremlin to end its four-and-a-half year war against Ukraine.Zelenskyy reacted furiously to Trump's announcement of the deal with Vladimir Putin, calling it absolutely terrible" and not fair and not honest". Continue reading...

The first league of its kind in 70 years brought players from all around the world to Illinois for eight weeks, writing a new chapter in the history of women's sportsOn the morning of 14 September, Rocky Henley sat at her rental home's dining room table amid scattered rulebooks, colorful markers and graph paper. The New York Heights manager drew a chart on a large poster - her method of sketching plays for the evening's playoff game. Her assistant manager, Jackson, trudged in from the kitchen in flannel pajama pants and a Heights hoodie and watched her work. He also happens to be her son. Continue reading...

First US memorial for suicide victims dedicated by Chicago archdiocese earlier this year at Queen of Heaven cemeteryThe Chicago archdiocese has recognized the Rev Charles Rubey's work supporting families whose loved ones died by suicide this year by dedicating in his honor a memorial to the lives lost to suicide and the victims' surviving families.In 1979 Rubey founded the Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide, a counseling and support program run by Catholic Charities of the archdiocese of Chicago. Continue reading...

After years of mockery and doubts about her game, Reese has helped carry Atlanta to the WNBA's biggest stage. Her critics might want to start forming an apology queueA lot of folks owe Angel Reese an apology after Friday night. They should probably form an orderly queue.Not that the bad-faith take merchants who have spent three years gleefully circulating her missed layups, likening her occasionally awkward footwork to Bambi on ice" and marveling at the supposed comic genius of mebounds" are likely to join it. The right-wing culture warriors who turned one of the WNBA's most naturally gifted rebounders into a punchline were never particularly interested in an honest assessment of her basketball abilities. But after Friday the punch line has never worn thinner. Continue reading...

Dozens of CIA officers have been afflicted by debilitating symptoms over the past decade. Are they the result of mass hysteria'? Or are they from attacks with an energy weapon and, if so, who is responsible? And has there been a cover-up?Shortly after 1am one night in April 2019, a CIA officer on a work trip to London was jolted awake in his hotel room by the most intense head pain he had ever experienced. His body was soaked with sweat and he felt like his eyes were spinning in their sockets. He manoeuvred his way out of bed, hoping to make it to the bathroom to vomit, but found his sense of balance had deserted him. Eventually, he fell back into a fitful, shallow sleep.The next day, arriving at the work meeting he had travelled for, the officer found he could not remember the names of colleagues in the room, people he knew well. As the meeting got under way, he could barely follow the discussion. Initially, he chalked it up to a terrible - if rather odd - case of food poisoning. But over subsequent weeks, worrying symptoms persisted: brain fog, loss of balance and increasingly harsh tinnitus. Continue reading...

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President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: We will not forget, Norway'Donald Trump complained Friday about not winning the Nobel peace prize for 2026, a year in which he started a war with Iran.At what was supposed to be a rally for other Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York, the US president devoted a long portion of his speech airing his grievances with the Nobel committee. Continue reading...

Motorist, reportedly trying to beat a traffic light, barrels through busy intersection and slams into pedestriansAt least one person was killed and nine injured in New York City's eastern Bronx when a motorist barreled through a busy intersection, slammed into pedestrians and triggered a chain-reaction crash involving several vehicles, according to authorities and media reports.The horrifying collision happened shortly after 2pm in the Bronx's Allerton neighborhood, with the driver at the center of the crash reportedly saying he was trying to beat a traffic light. Continue reading...

Zacharia will replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the role at the end of August after giving birth to her second childDonald Trump on Friday announced that he had picked Katie Zacharia to be the next White House press secretary, lining up a conservative commentator he called a devoted fan" to be his most prominent spokesperson.Zacharia will replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the role at the end of August after the birth to her second child. Continue reading...

Locals also express fear after man shot in the neck while his child was in the back of his carResidents of Manhattan's Marble Hill neighborhood were furious at federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday but also scared after an officer shot their neighbor who had his child in the back of his car.Orlando Perez had parked his car on the corner of 225th St and Marble Hill Avenue on Thursday night and witnessed ICE arresting Oscar Belgal, 28, after he had been shot in the neck, apparently with an assault-style rifle. Continue reading...

Immigration officer shot man in car where five-year-old child was sitting, sparking fierce protestsLeading New York Democrats expressed anger and demanded curbs on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence after a federal officer shot a man driving a car in which his five-year-old son was sitting, sparking fierce protests.At least seven shots were reportedly fired and the man was hit in the neck late on Thursday afternoon as children were coming home from school in the busy Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City. Marble Hill is considered part of Manhattan, but is physically located in the Bronx. Continue reading...

Manhattan prosecutors say murder case over 2024 killing can proceed under exception' to state double jeopardy lawManhattan prosecutors filed paperwork on Friday opposing Luigi Mangione's arguments for dismissing his state-level case in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson.Mangione on 14 August pleaded guilty to federal charges in Thompson's 4 December 2024 killing outside a Midtown hotel - weeks before his scheduled 8 September New York state murder and weapons trial. The killing prompted an intense manhunt but also sparked an outpouring of rage against the practices of the for-profit US healthcare industry. Continue reading...

Judge says justice department policy of checking state voter rolls against a federal immigration database is unlawfulA federal judge ruled on Friday that the US justice department's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls to check them against a federal immigration database is unlawful.The ruling, by the US district judge Sparkle Sooknanan, was a setback for Donald Trump, who has pushed his administration to ramp up investigations into non-citizen voting ahead of the November midterm elections, with control of Congress at stake. Continue reading...

It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by TehranPete Hegseth's plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game.Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime on the battlefield, the self-styled secretary of war" now proposes to mirror its notorious practice of enforcing the death penalty as a grand public spectacle. Continue reading...

A ICE officer shot and injured a man in New York during an enforcement operation, federal officials said. The man was conscious and hospitalized, authorities said, and the shooting quickly sparked angry protests from local residents and elected officials in the neighborhood. Early reports indicated that agents had surrounded the man and a five-year-old child in his car on a busy street before firing multiple rounds, the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, said in a statement. Continue reading...

Multiple hospitalized after Avianca flight from Medellin to New York had to divert to Miami due to strong turbulenceAt least eight people were injured when an Avianca flight encountered severe turbulence and had to make an emergency landing in Miami early on Friday.Miami-Dade fire rescue said one person was rushed to a trauma center with severe injuries while seven others were taken to area hospitals in ambulances. Continue reading...

Mike Ditka, the fiery former NFL player and coach who led the Chicago Bears to their lone Super Bowl title and became one of the most recognizable figures in American sports, has died aged 86

Dr Annie Andrews voices opposition to biological men ... in women's sports' in response to Republican attacksDr Annie Andrews, a Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina, has responded to persistent efforts by Republicans to make trans athletes in women's sports a wedge issue in the race.In a restrained direct-to-camera statement, Andrews - a pediatrician - outlined her opposition to biological men playing in women's sports", as her party pushes back against Republican attacks. Continue reading...

Warning follows Pete Hegseth announcement that firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer will be public US politics - latest updatesLivestreaming an execution could cause post-traumatic stress disorder in the viewing public, mental health experts have said, after the US confirmed plans to broadcast the death by firing squad of a man who shot dead 13 unarmed soldiers.The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said on Thursday that Nidal Hasan, a former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be executed by firing squad on 3 December. Officials later confirmed it would be livestreamed. It is believed it will be the first public execution in the US in almost a century. Continue reading...

Control of Congress after the 2026 midterm elections would give Democrats power to subpoena documents and testimonyIn August, Jamie Raskin renewed his demand that Jared Kushner hand over documents about the overlap between his informal role advising Donald Trump on foreign policy and the private equity firm he runs after an earlier request was ignored.Five of the 11 companies that Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden wrote to about Donald Trump's IRS settlement - including the Trump Organization and World Liberty Financial - never answered at all. Continue reading...

Political parties vie for Jewish support based on false assumptions about a single issue: IsraelEverybody wants the Jewish vote. As if there were one. Jews are educated, generally liberal. Although they comprise only about 2% of the electorate, they vote in high numbers, overwhelmingly for Democrats. In 2024, 79% chose Kamala Harris. They are also assumed to be steadfast friends of Israel, no matter what it does. Republicans, waging a fake war on antisemitism while courting white supremacists, consider Jews increasingly up for grabs.Nationally, Jewish Americans are concentrated in a few bright blue spots. A 2020 map from the Jewish Electorate Institute showed a third of Jews living in 20 congressional districts - out of 435 - most of them in New York, New Jersey, California and (purple) Florida. Of these, only one sent a Republican to Washington. Continue reading...

In Florida, Kansas, Iowa and Texas, Democratic candidates are outperforming the predictions, but both parties may struggle to consolidate gains

New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034Elderly Americans can expect to lose an average of $2,152 in annual social security benefits each, a projected 8.6% reduction in their retirement payments, by 2034 and every year after as a direct consequence of the economic fallout from the Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign, if that carries on, according to a new report shared exclusively with the Guardian.Already, US food prices are up, housing permits to build new homes are down - and even native-born Americans are losing out on potential jobs after the sudden exodus of 1.2 million foreign-born workers over the last two years as a result of Donald Trump's policies, the report finds. Continue reading...

Recent death of the student in Mississippi is just the latest in a long string of unsettling deaths of young Black peopleOn Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of students gathered on the Jackson State University (JSU) campus for a rally to call for transparency in the mysterious death of young Black people and to encourage student engagement in politics and the fight for voting rights.As the sun began to set, the students, many of whom wore black, marched through the historically Black university's plaza chanting: Nolan Wells, Trey Reed, Tasia Fortune, Kohen Wiley, Jaylen Lewis - Black Lives Matter!" All five were young Black Mississippians - the youngest, Wiley, was one-year-old while the eldest, Fortune, was 29 - who either died under suspicious circumstances or were killed by police. Continue reading...

On Kauai, neighbors repair each other's roofs, teens deliver meals and locals use their own equipment to clear roadsIt was a few hours after the sun rose over the verdant valleys and clear waters of Hena on Kauai's North Shore. Michael Olanolan was already in his excavator, clearing the main highway where a wall of fallen trees had blocked access. Other neighbors joined him, moving debris so electric crews could reach utility poles downed by Hurricane Lowell.The 76-year-old father of nine and grandfather of 26 did this every day for weeks after Lowell hit the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Niihau on 7 September. His generational home lost part of its roof to Lowell's winds, but family and friends helped him repair it, freeing him up to also help his community. Clearing out roadways became his full-time job while residents were getting back on their feet. Continue reading...

Skits and parodies making fun of the trillion-dollar industry have taken over social media, racking up millions of viewsJohnny Hilbrant Partridge kept getting stuck next to the same kind of finance guy at weddings - the one bragging about his family's full-time nanny and lavish vacations while name-dropping elite club memberships and private schools.To Partridge, a former fitness instructor, their shameless knack for self-promotion felt ripe for comedy. Using a filter that puts an exaggerated sneer on his face, Partridge donned a puffer vest and created The PE Guy", a caricature of the men who work in the private equity industry. Continue reading...

US president says US will not attack Iran before midterms, while defense secretary says Nidal Hasan will face a firing squad next month. Plus, Sofia Coppola looks back on her glittering directorial careerGood morning. The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad will be livestreamed next month, in a radical departure from the previous norm. Hegseth said: We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand there's serious consequences for these types of things."Hasan opened fire at a medical processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, on 5 November 2009, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. A military jury sentenced him to death in 2013 and he has been held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas ever since. The last known case of a military firing squad in the US was in November 1945.Why is Hegseth being criticised over the Iran war? The Democratic senator Chris Murphy said Hegseth was determined to hide the cost and the consequences of this war from the American public". Murphy claimed the Pentagon blocked him from visiting a military base in Qatar and that an Iranian strike on the US embassy in Riyadh was far worse than the public were led to believe.What has Donald Trump said about the US war on Iran? The US president has promised not to attack Iran before November's US midterm elections, outlining a pause on the protracted war he has struggled to end after almost eight months. A Reuters/Ipsos survey from late September found that only about a third of Americans approved of the strikes on Iran.Why are some voters calling Missouri's elections dizzying and embarrassing'? Thanks to a protracted legal battle over an effort by Republicans to redraw the state's congressional map, some voters are no longer sure which congressional district they live in or who will be on their ballot paper for the midterms.What happened in last night's crucial midterm debates? Rachel Leingang, George Chidi and Auzzy Byrdsell have rounded up the key takeaways from debates in the battleground states of Michigan, Georgia and Maine. Continue reading...

From cost of living to the Iran war, these are the issues that matter most to US voters across the political spectrumUS voters are about to deliver their first national verdict on the second presidency of Donald Trump. On 3 November, millions of Americans will vote in midterm elections to decide control of the House of Representatives and Senate, as well as the governorships in 36 states. The results could have a huge impact on Trump's final two years in office.Today, the Guardian launches its 2026 midterm voter panel. Our reporters have interviewed nine voters across the country and the political spectrum about the issues that matter to them, from the cost of living, immigration and healthcare to the war in Iran and whether they trust their political leaders. Continue reading...

Lethal injection was a way for us to deny the reality of capital punishment. Pike's experience shows us what it isChrista Pike had asked to be hanged. In the weeks before her botched execution by lethal injection on 30 September, in which she survived two lethal doses of barbiturate pentobarbital and had to be hospitalized, Pike and her legal team had challenged Tennessee's execution protocol.The state's lethal injection regimen had failed before. In May, Tony Carruthers was also sent to Tennessee's death chamber, only to leave alive after prison officials struggled to find a vein.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Pete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event when the sentence is carried out later this year. A defence department official later confirmed the execution would be livestreamed. In an interview with the rightwing channel Real America's Voice, the defence secretary said the firing squad would carry out the sentence at Fort Hood, Texas on 3 December. It would be the first US military execution in more than 60 years

Crystal Palace's American import had never lived anywhere but Utah before moving to London. Now, he's aiming for more Premier League minutesMuch has changed in Zavier Gozo's life since May.Back then, Gozo was a day removed from learning that he wasn't among Mauricio Pochettino's 26 selections for the World Cup, having just made what proved to be his third-to-last appearance with boyhood club Real Salt Lake. Continue reading...

Candidates traded personal attacks and clashed over a range of issues in closely watched US Senate debates on Thursday, with control of Congress at stakeWith just weeks left in the contentious midterm election campaign, candidates in a trio of highly-competitive Senate races debated Thursday night, clashing over the economy, tariffs, the Iran war and abortion rights, with control of the upper chamber at stake.In Georgia, incumbent Democratic senator Jon Ossoff faced GOP representative Mike Collins. In Michigan, Democrat Abdul Al-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers debated over the state's open Senate seat. And in Maine, longtime senator Susan Collins met Democratic challenger Troy Jackson. Democrats need to flip four Republican-held Senate seats to win the majority. Continue reading...

Pentagon chief joins Trump in attempt to use deadly shooting at Texas base to attack former Democratic president

Police say man taken to hospital and mayor says child physically unharmed as he condemns unconscionable' actA US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and injured a man in New York City on Thursday afternoon during an enforcement operation, federal officials said.The man was conscious and hospitalized, authorities said, and the shooting quickly sparked angry protests from local residents and elected officials in the neighborhood. Continue reading...

Residents in areas from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Florida urged to evacuate if told to do so'Millions of people from Louisiana to Florida were under hurricane warnings on Thursday as Hurricane Isaias heads toward the US Gulf coast, with weather officials warning of dangerous storm surge, hurricane-force winds, heavy rainfall and flooding.Isaias intensified from a tropical storm into the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season on Wednesday night, and has prompted state of emergency declarations in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, as well as evacuation orders and school closures in several Florida counties as officials urge residents to prepare for its arrival. Continue reading...

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration's complete moral vacuityMore fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America's Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer.Then I woke to today's news that one of the Trump cabinet's bigger boofheads - the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and secretary of war" Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan.Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 DecemberPete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event when the sentence is carried out later this year. A defense department official later confirmed the execution will be livestreamed.In an interview with Real America's Voice, the Pentagon secretary said the firing squad will carry out the sentence at Fort Hood, Texas, at 1pm on Thursday, 3 December. This would be the first US military execution in more than 60 years. Continue reading...

Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his convictionCurtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56.Flowers' family confirmed that he died on Wednesday at his home in Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told the Associated Press on Thursday. Continue reading...

Military families admit mixed emotions' as aircraft carrier finally returns to San Diego after fraught stretch at sea that took severe toll

Production of Pawn Shop allowed to go on despite concern about disruption and portrayal of immigration crackdownA Daily Wire film production that appears to re-enact elements of Renee Good's killing has been allowed to continue filming in a rural Montana town.Production of Pawn Shop, the conservative media company's upcoming movie, was temporarily halted earlier this month after residents of Livingston complained about inconvenient road closures, as well as the film's portrayal of the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown. Continue reading...