Officials praise unarmed employee from nearby store for engaging 24-year-old gunman who later killed himselfPolice released video on Friday of a mass shooting that killed three people at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger restaurant last weekend, and praised an unarmed employee from a nearby store who engaged the gunman outdoors, slowing him down and possibly preventing more deaths as authorities were catching up.The video released by the police also showed at least three people confronted the gunman with their own weapons during the incident. Continue reading...
Will Rosenzweig's defunct blog was publicized online by conservative pundit who tagged senior DoJ officialsA federal prosecutor fired last year over critical comments he had written as a private citizen about Donald Trump sued the justice department on Friday, saying his termination violated his first amendment rights.Will Rosenzweig was two weeks away from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when a blog he had written years earlier covering a broad range of topics was publicized online by a conservative political commentator who also included a screenshot of Rosenzweig's LinkedIn account and tagged senior justice department officials for their awareness. Continue reading...
Chad Eberle of Texas charged over deadly shooting in Saltillo that officials say stemmed from custody disputeA Texas police officer has been arrested in Mexico after authorities there accused him of killing three people and critically injuring the mother of his child in what investigators say stemmed from a dispute over the custody of the minor.The Coahuila attorney general's office said 35-year-old Chad Eberle was arrested on Wednesday at the border on a warrant accusing him of femicide and qualified homicide, according to La Razon de Mexico, a newspaper based in Mexico City. Under Mexican law, femicide refers to the intentional killing of a woman or girl because of her gender. Continue reading...
Late senator spent final days of his life working to advance bill that will now head to the House after 86-11 Senate voteBy a large, bipartisan margin, the US Senate on Friday approved a bill intended to punish Russia and countries that buy its petroleum exports over the invasion of Ukraine, capping a legislative push that was spurred by the death of its champion, the Republican senator Lindsey Graham.The measure, renamed the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia Act in honor of the late senator's work on the issue, was approved by an 86-11 vote. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the sole Republican to oppose the legislation, together with 10 Democrats. Continue reading...
Police arrested Herbert Wayne Smith, 65, in connection with the Gann fire, which has burned more than 15 sq miles in Calaveras countyAt least one person has died in a wildfire burning in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range that officials believed was sparked by a man using a chainsaw.Police arrested Herbert Wayne Smith, 65, in connection with the Gann fire, which has destroyed seven buildings, scorched more than 15 sq miles in Calaveras county and killed a well-known dog breeder in the town of Angels Camp. Continue reading...
White House continues to target Cook despite decision from justices that upheld Federal Reserve's independenceDonald Trump is attempting once again to oust the US Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud, despite a recent US supreme court decision that upheld the central bank's independence.Cook reportedly received a letter from the White House this week that provided notice, in accordance to the supreme court's June ruling, that Trump was considering removing" her from her Fed position over the same claims of mortgage fraud that he levied against her last summer. Continue reading...
Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi pleads guilty to killing Rebecca Marodi, decorated fire captain who fought Eaton blazeA California woman this week admitted to killing her wife, a decorated fire captain who fought the deadly 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, by stabbing her - the same fate she previously delivered to her husband and had served a decade in prison for.Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi, 54, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to second-degree murder after killing her wife, Rebecca Becky" Marodi, 49, a California fire captain, at their home in February 2025, just a month after Becky, as she was known, battled the Eaton blaze that killed 19. Continue reading...
Wildfires in the US and Europe, Russian strikes in Kyiv, beekeepers in Gaza and the European Aquatics Championships - the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists Continue reading...
Judge finds probable cause to believe the MyPillow founder violated campaign law by handing out free pillows at eventAn administrative law judge in Minnesota has found probable cause to believe Mike Lindell, candidate for Minnesota governor and the MyPillow founder, violated campaign finance law by handing out free pillows at a public event last month.In a four-page ruling issued on Thursday, Judge Nicholas Lienesch found that a complaint against Lindell had enough to move on to an evidentiary hearing in front of a three-judge administrative panel. Continue reading...
Much-delayed devices to be deployed by end of month after immigration agents involved in deaths or serious injuriesOfficers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month, it was reported on Friday. But experts have questioned the transparency of a policy that allows the ICE director to restrict the public release of footage unless it is in the best interests of the agency".Pressure has mounted on the Trump administration to provide body cameras after people caught up in encounters with federal immigration personnel suffered death or serious injuries. Continue reading...
The AFL could borrow some of the gumption from a North American ice hockey league to grow Australian rules football's elite women's competitionIn Australia, it is called the Matildas effect. Elsewhere, it has increasingly become known by a different name: business as usual.The Professional Women's Hockey League is one of several North American competitions making a habit of not only attracting spectacular women's sports crowds, but doing so at a domestic level. Just three years into its existence, the ice hockey league is doing a mighty fine job of it too, with last season's attendance up 71% on their inaugural campaign. Continue reading...
Robyn Cory says daughter Kristen was not protected, amid questions about why it took six years to identify remainsThe family of Kristen Galvan, a 15-year-old Houston girl who was sex trafficked and murdered, says law enforcement failed her twice by not protecting her after she gave forensic interviews about her traffickers, and later by taking more than six years to identify her remains.The Texas attorney general's office announced on 28 July that Kristen's remains had been positively identified using advanced DNA testing conducted over the past year. Parts of her skull, clothing and an earring were found beneath a bridge beside a jogging trail in Missouri City, about 10 miles outside Houston. Continue reading...
Domestic flights cost 26.5% more than last year, data shows, amid demand for travel and reduced oil refining capacityEven if a lasting ceasefire between the US and Iran lowers oil prices, travelers hoping to snag cheaper airfare should buckle their seatbelts and expect continued turbulence.US domestic airfares are 26.5% higher than a year ago, according to June's consumer price index data, and analysts say prices globally are up 25-30% compared with 2025. Continue reading...
Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump's policies raise costs for Americans. Plus, the masterpiece that was left lying in museum storageDon't already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning. Donald Trump's statement that oil companies have made too much money" from the Iran war has angered environmentalists, who say his policies were designed to benefit those very corporations.Americans have paid more than $78bn more at the pump since the start of the Iran war, according to a Brown University tracker. A recent analysis from the environmental advocacy group Climate Power and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal thinktank, found that Trump's policies had cost the average American family $285 more when filling up their cars.What policies has Trump enacted to help the oil industry? Since re-entering the White House last year, he has eased dozens of restrictions and regulations on fossil fuel expansion, exempted fossil fuel producers from environmental rules, and signed an executive order last year directing the attorney general to prioritize blocking climate lawsuits targeting oil majors. Trump has also personally invested in major oil companies.What did the supreme court previously rule? In the court's June decision, the chief justice, John Roberts, said Trump's first order violated the 14th amendment of the US constitution. Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights - to freely participate in our political community," he wrote. The framers of the 14th amendment extended that promise to every free-born person in this land'. We keep that promise today." Continue reading...
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Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes themJenny McBurney was among hundreds of people around the world who sprang into action last year when the Trump administration started deleting government datasets and webpages because they included information about gender ideology", environmental justice or diversity, equity and inclusion.McBurney, a government publications librarian at the University of Minnesota, joined the Data Rescue Project, a group that mobilizes volunteers to archive critical government datasets that are at risk of deletion by the Trump administration. Continue reading...
Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollarsWhen I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great veins of the critically ill, became infected, and some of those patients died. We recorded the deaths as complications. Almost no one thought of them as preventable, because no one had yet done the slow work of proving they were.That work got done, and federal money paid for it. Beginning in 2008, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a small arm of the health department, funded a national effort in more than a thousand adult intensive care units: a checklist, a sterile insertion protocol, and a unit culture in which a nurse could stop a surgeon. Central-line bloodstream infections fell by 41%, from 1.915 to 1.133 per 1,000 catheter days. The agency estimates that effort alone averted between 290 and 605 deaths. Across its wider work on hospital-acquired harm, AHRQ's own accounting credits 20,500 deaths prevented and $7.7bn saved in the four years from 2014 to 2017. Hardly any of my patients have heard of the agency. That was always rather the point.Robert B Shpiner is an internist and clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has practiced and taught intensive care medicine for more than 40 years Continue reading...
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Donald Trump's second term is unlike his first. The politicians who challenged him are gone. The lawyers who once pushed back now choose their battles. What remains is an imperial president with almost no internal checks - using executive power to reshape everything from the economy to immigration and even the presidency itself.Few journalists have covered Trump as closely as the New York Times's Jonathan Swan. He speaks to Jonathan Freedland about how the president has consolidated such enormous power and what it could mean for America - and the world.Regime Change by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman https://guardianbookshop.com/regime-change-9781398567597/ Continue reading...
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Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes'There seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today's politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan.I would say it's kind of the far left and the far right ran into each other and had a hug," said Frank Scott Jr, mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. But they come at it from different perspectives." Continue reading...
The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progressThe Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning. While plenty of countries have harmed universities by imposing neoliberal logics on academia - creating artificial markets in the name of spurring professors to be more productive - the Trumpist subjugation of all science to political imperatives has no equivalent in a democracy; if anything, it is reminiscent of Stalin's Soviet Union. The assault now also targets foreign students and any kind of international collaboration - a major blow to US soft power. Why are Trumpists engaging in what can only be described as an act of wanton self-injury?Project 2025's Russell Vought, the director of the office of management and budget, initiated the rule change that would make any federal grant subject to review by political appointees - including funds for science that so far have been allocated through judgment by first-rate fellow scientists. This measure would furnish Trumpists with a new weapon to threaten universities along the lines of: Nice medical school you have there - pity if something were to happen to it because your administration had failed to come into alignment with the president's priorities."Jan-Werner Muller is a Guardian US columnist and a professor of politics at Princeton University Continue reading...
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Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump's bid to retain slim Republican majorityTennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump's plan to try to hold on to a slim Republican majority in the midterm congressional elections.Republicans chose state senator Brent Taylor, who was endorsed by Trump, to be their nominee in the revamped 9th congressional district. Democrats picked state representative Justin Pearson, who gained national prominence three years ago when he was expelled from the Tennessee House for protesting in support of gun control measures. Continue reading...
For more than a decade, president has been fixated on trying to undermine a key constitutional rightWith a pair of executive orders on Thursday, Donald Trump has tried - once again - to undermine the guarantee of birthright citizenship, a right enshrined in the US constitution and reaffirmed by the supreme court just five weeks ago.The orders attempt to broaden the categories of children who would be ineligible for automatic US citizenship and ban so-called birth tourism", which the president claimed is practiced by hundreds of thousands" of people. Continue reading...
Orders come after supreme court rejected president's first bid to restrict guarantee enshrined in US constitutionDonald Trump has made a second attempt to restrict the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, just weeks after the US supreme court rejected his initial, more sweeping bid to deny automatic citizenship to the children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents.Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that seek to broaden the categories of children ineligible for automatic US citizenship and ban so-called birth tourism". The directives are expected to face legal challenges. Continue reading...
While officials say proposed revisions to Head Start program will encourage more enrollment, advocates say it will undermine the programThe Trump administration has said it plans to overhaul Head Start, tossing out many of the regulations that are the hallmark of the early education program for the nation's neediest children.Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the federally funded preschool program, said on Thursday the proposed changes would encourage more local decision-making, but the proposal has sparked alarm across the Head Start community, where advocates say it threatens the backbone of the antipoverty initiative. Continue reading...
Settlement ends years-long legal battle over collapse of 18-story hotel that was under construction in New OrleansA judge approved a $106m settlement on Thursday that ends a years-long legal battle over the deadly 2019 collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans.The 18-story hotel project partially collapsed in October 2019 , killing three people and damaging nearby property. A grand jury ultimately decided against indicting anyone in the deadly collapse, but lawsuits were filed, including one brought by the city of New Orleans in August 2020 naming the building owners, their partners and contractors. Continue reading...
President attacks terrible mistake' of US attorney, who said in court filing damage stemmed from botched renovationDonald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Jeanine Pirro after the US attorney for the District of Columbia publicly challenged his claims that vandals had damaged the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.She said there was no vandalism. There was tremendous vandalism," Trump told NBC News on Thursday. So, she made a terrible mistake. I don't understand why she did such a stupid thing." Continue reading...
Expansion of immigration enforcement at US airports puts employees at odds with agents seeking 2,000 daily arrestsA dramatic increase in immigration enforcement at US airports has reportedly placed the airline industry at odds with the Trump administration as workers decline to help federal officials arrest their targets - many of whom have pending applications for visas, asylum or green cards.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - both part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - have expanded their collaboration to make as many as three dozen daily arrests at US airports last month, the Wall Street Journal reported. Continue reading...
Shift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the deviceThe US is tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants through GPS-enabled ankle monitors as part of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) electronic surveillance program, according to private prison corporation The Geo Group. Early last year, just 17,000 immigrants were wearing the devices..The Geo Group owns BI Inc, the company that runs ICE's intensive supervision appearance program (ISAP), and reported the numbers in its earnings call on Thursday. Continue reading...
Court documents allege Aaron Farinacci, who faces slew of arson charges, set 25 fires in Spokane area over past yearThe 37-year-old man accused of sparking a devastating fire in Washington allegedly studied how to maximize the blaze's destruction and was responsible for setting 25 other fires in the Spokane area over the past year, according to a court affidavit.Aaron Farinacci, who faces a slew of arson charges, is accused of starting the Old Trails fire, which began on 1 August and is still burning - one of three Spokane complex" fires that have scorched hundreds of homes and displaced thousands of residents. Continue reading...
Astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, preparing the installment of new rollout solar arrays which will provide extra energy to support the station, according to Nasa Continue reading...
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projectsThe German energy company RWE has reached a $1.22bn deal with the US government to relinquish its offshore wind leases and instead redirect funds towards fossil fuel investments.The agreement marks the fifth deal the Donald Trump administration has struck with energy companies, offering payouts in exchange for abandoning renewable energy projects and redirecting investment towards fossil fuels. Continue reading...
The creator documented her battle with rare bile duct cancer, inspiring more than a million followers onlineSydney Towle, a TikTok creator who shared her battle with stage 4 cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer, with over a million online followers, has died at age 26, her family announced on Thursday.Towle gained fame for her posts about her life as a spirited young woman who encouraged her TikTok followers to rethink how a cancer patient might look and live. Continue reading...
Judge issues temporary pause while he considers Trump's request to revise his libel lawsuit against BBCA federal judge has temporarily halted an order requiring Donald Trump to turn over detailed financial information about his business empire to the BBC as part of an ongoing libel lawsuit.US district judge Roy Altman issued the temporary pause while he considers Trump's request to revise and narrow parts of his lawsuit against the BBC over a 2024 documentary that aired in the UK. Continue reading...
The 2-1 vote along party lines repealed national cap' that served as a key check on consolidation of the TV industryIn a historic vote on Thursday morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines to overturn a key check against the consolidation of the television industry, throwing out a rule that prevented any one company from owning stations that collectively reach more than 39% of all US TV households.The vote is a win for television conglomerates that aim to expand their reach across the country, particularly conservative-leaning companies like Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar. Continue reading...
State department informs Congress of planned closures in Canada, Grenada, Japan, Indonesia and CameroonThe US state department is to shut five foreign consulates and missions across Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, drawing criticism that it is leaving a diplomatic vacuum at risk of being filled by China.The US Congress has been served notice of the impending closures, which are being justified on cost grounds and follow a reassessment of the US's bilateral relationships with a range of countries since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. Continue reading...
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she will not intervene in 85bn deal after securing guarantees on Channel 5The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she will not intervene in Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, removing one of the remaining obstacles to the blockbuster deal.However, Paramount has made significant concessions to secure the UK government's backing for the $110bn (85bn) takeover, which will create a global media powerhouse and effectively bolster the influence of Paramount's chief executive, David Ellison. Continue reading...
Half of border agents are Latino, and they are part of a long history of Hispanic support for - and enforcement of - harsh immigration policiesSince Trump's return to power, more than 60 people have died at the hands of or in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including two Latino immigrants in one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Maine. Many Latinos have come to feel that their brown skin makes them targets, and they are not wrong.But there is another dimension of this story that we often fail to consider: many of those in charge of anti-immigrant operations also have brown skin, Hispanic names and links to the communities they terrorize. When the identities of the agents who killed Alex Pretti in January were revealed as those of two Hispanic men, many people reacted with shock. The irony seemed obvious, but it reflected a mistaken assumption: that Latinos are naturally opposed to restrictionist immigration policies. History suggests otherwise. Continue reading...
The mFlusiva vaccine for older people is first made with mRNA platform key to ending coronavirus pandemicThe Food and Drug Administration has approved a new kind of flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the Covid-19 pandemic, Moderna, the manufacturer, said.The shot, named mFlusiva, is intended for adults aged 50 or older. Other brands of flu shots already have begun arriving in pharmacies ahead of fall vaccination season, and Moderna said late on Wednesday that it expected some of its new version to be available soon at select retailers. Continue reading...
First runner-up, Myla Hadley, will represent the state at the Miss USA pageant after Brittany Boltinhouse's removalA pageant queen recently crowned Miss North Carolina USA has been stripped of her title after a string of alleged racist posts resurfaced.Brittany Boltinhouse, 27, was formally dethroned on Wednesday by pageant organizers A Blaize Productions after what it said was a thorough review of recently surfaced information". Continue reading...
Voters in the red district are concerned with congressman's alleged behavior and political future ahead of the midtermsDavid Griffith was a registered Republican for years.But on Sunday evening, he watched the Ohio congressman Max Miller stumble through an 18-minute statement in which the lawmaker attempted to defend himself against allegations of domestic abuse against his ex-wife and infant child. Continue reading...
We're seeing America wake up to the tyranny that's engulfed usWith the victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed over representative Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic primary, prepare yourself to hear enormous quantities of bullshit about the Democratic party now being taken over" by the left" or by democratic socialists".Or as the reliably establishment New York Times put it: Can an insurgent candidate, with unabashedly liberal positions, win a general election in a moderate state?" Continue reading...
The left is increasingly winning within the Democratic party. But it still needs to prove that it can build general-election coalitions capable of beating RepublicansThe ideological struggle within the Democratic party continued on Tuesday night with primaries in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington. The results showed an increasingly intense conflict within the party, with high Democratic primary turnout and bruising ideological battles up and down the ballot.The Democratic electorate is shifting, becoming more progressive and more willing to challenge party leadership, but not as quickly or uniformly as many assumed. Continue reading...
Republicans are trying to scapegoat the infectious disease expert, even as they have gutted healthcare amid outbreaks of measles, cyclosporiasis and EbolaKatie Miller, an erstwhile Trump administration official and wife of Stephen Miller, once relied on Dr Anthony Fauci to get through Covid. Now, she's calling for his imprisonment - a reversal that illuminates the politicization of Fauci and of public health writ large, a trend that could have major repercussions for America's preparedness for future crises.A US Senate committee will vote on Thursday morning over whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after the physician and former public health official invoked his fifth amendment rights during a Senate hearing last week focused on Fauci's actions during the Covid pandemic. Continue reading...
Jeanine John Taele faces new weapons charges as details of suspicious' behavior ahead of president's visit emergeA California man who was arrested at Donald Trump's Los Angeles-area golf course ahead of a presidential visit is facing more charges, as authorities released new details about the investigation.Authorities say federal agents first observed 38-year-old Jeanine John Taele near the golf grounds in Rancho Palos Verdes on 31 July, wearing an earpiece and capturing photographs and videos of security agents assessing the property. Continue reading...
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