Trump was kept out of reach of critics as he met Britain's king and queen, amid furore back in US over suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! show - key US politics stories from 17 September 2025Donald Trump was treated to royal pomp and pageantry - including processions, gifts and a flypast - during the first day of his second state visit to the UK while thousands of people joined protests against his presence.As protesters voiced their anger in London at a Stop Trump Coalition protest, Trump was escorted by the king and queen through a first day that ended in a state banquet but kept him out of reach of his critics. Continue reading...
FBI director Kash Patel appeared not to recognise the name of the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black congregants at a US church in 2015, during an appearance before the House judiciary committee. At the start of a series of questions on violent extremism coming from both sides of the partisan divide, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Democratic representative from Los Angeles, asked Patel to tell her whether he disagreed with the characterisation that several violent extremists were motivated by rightwing views
Governor says we grieve the loss of life of three precious souls' as two injured in critical condition in hospitalThree police officers were killed and two were injured in a shooting on Wednesday in the southern part of Pennsylvania, state police said.We grieve for the loss of life of three precious souls who served this county, served this commonwealth, served this country," governor Josh Shapiro said. Continue reading...
Susan Monarez spoke alongside ex-chief medical officer Debra Houry about vaccines, Kennedy and threats to US healthTwo former Centers for Disease Control (CDC) leaders testified at a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday - taking aim at Robert F Kennedy Jr's sweeping changes to the agency and the country's public health system.Susan Monarez, the CDC director who was fired after less than a month, and Debra Houry, the chief medical officer who resigned after a decade at the agency, faced lawmakers on the Senate health, education, labor and pensions (Help) committee. Continue reading...
A selection of the best images from the second state visit of President Trump to the UK, from his arrival on Tuesday evening to his visit to Windsor Castle for a ceremonial welcome with the the king and queen. A state banquet with the prime minister is scheduled for Wednesday evening Continue reading...
With US president hidden from public view, media focuses instead on peripheral sideshow of clowns drawn by state visitNever in its long and august history has the No 10 bus from Windsor to Staines (via Datchet and Wraysbury) received a welcome like this. Its passage secured by police escort, its progress followed by the world's media, the orange single-decker trundles regally up Windsor's high street, while onlookers crane to get a glimpse of the single pensioner conveyed within. It's not him," one man mutters, a little superfluously.It was that kind of a day on the banks of the Thames: lots of excitement over very little, a sideshow that felt largely peripheral to the pageantry unfolding within the sealed castle grounds. I'm afraid nothing's going to happen, madam," a police officer informed a woman filming a Facebook Live video from the kerb as he shooed her a safe distance back towards the pavement. Continue reading...
Trail closes after 29-year-old man suffers non-threatening injuries in backcountry encounter with possible grizzlyA Yellowstone national park trail remained closed on Wednesday after a possible grizzly bear attacked a hiker, leaving him with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.The 29-year-old man suffered injuries to his chest and arm in Tuesday's attack on the Turbid lake trail north-east of Yellowstone Lake. Continue reading...
The Javier Mascherano-led side has an outside chance of repeating as Supporters' Shield winners, but MLS Cup remains the ultimate goalMuch about Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale was typical. The weather was sticky and humid. The crowd at Chase Stadium was lively. And on the field, Lionel Messi assisted Jordi Alba, and vice-versa, in a 3-1 win for Inter Miami. That the victory came against the Seattle Sounders, the side that beat Miami in a contentious Leagues Cup final two weeks ago, gave the squad a measure of revenge. But there are bigger factors at play.It was important to regain positive feelings," Miami head coach Javier Mascherano told reporters afterward. Continue reading...
Ex-president says US in dangerous moment', after White House response to killings of Kirk and Melissa HortmanBarack Obama addressed the recent killing of Charlie Kirk and told a crowd in Pennsylvania on Tuesday the country was at an inflection point", but that political violence is not new" and has happened at certain periods" in US history.Obama added that despite history, political violence was anathema to what it means to be a democratic country".This article was amended on 17 September 2025. A previous version misspelled the name of Melissa Hortman. Continue reading...
Xp Lee beats Republican Ruth Bittner for vacant seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in JuneDemocrat Xp Lee won a special election to fill the state house seat of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman, who was killed in June alongside her husband in what officials described as a politically motivated assassination".Lee, a health equity analyst, former Brooklyn Park city council member and a mentee of Hortman's, triumphed over Republican Ruth Bittner, a real estate agent, in a heavily Democratic, suburban district. His victory restored a legislative tie in the state house, with each party controlling 67 seats. Continue reading...
Erika McEntarfer says Americans should be concerned about independence of key economic institutionsThe former chief US economics data statistics who Donald Trump fired last month called her sudden removal dangerous" and said Americans should be concerned about the independence of key economic institutions.Markets have to trust the data are not manipulated," said Erika McEntarfer, former head of the Bureau Labor of Statistics, on Tuesday in her first remarks since her firing. Firing your chief statisticians for releasing data you do not like, it has serious economic consequences." Continue reading...
LAPD report shows use of force, including a day in June, against demonstrators protesting Trump's Ice raidsLos Angeles police officers fired more than 1,000 projectiles at protesters on a single day in June as demonstrators pushed back against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and decision to deploy the national guard to the country's second largest city.The police department released a state-mandated report on Monday on use of force against protesters that included numbers on bean bags, rubber and foam rounds, and tear gas deployed during days of protests in Los Angeles. Continue reading...
Justice department asks judge to shut down superfund' law that requires major polluters to pay for carbon emissionsDonald Trump's justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages.In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy is unlawful on its face" and pushed the court to end Vermont's lawless experiment". Continue reading...
Career experts warn of decades of progress lost as administration fires staff, slashes budgets and buries dataDonald Trump's second presidency has spelled upheaval or worse for multiple spheres of US government. But for science - long a key driver of the US's global preeminence - it has heralded the perfect storm.In public health, climate science, environmental protection and nuclear safety, seasoned career specialists have been left bewildered and often jobless under a ferocious onslaught from the president, apparently aimed at gaining control over a sector about which he has displayed strongly-held views, if frequently flawed understanding. Continue reading...
Governor Abbott called for expulsion, and the university said the video trivializing or promoting violence' was reprehensibleTexas State University has ended the enrollment of a student who appeared to mock the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a campus memorial event earlier this week.A video posted to social media Tuesday morning shows the student in the crowd slapping his neck multiple times, calling himself Charlie Kirk", and imitating Kirk when he was fatally shot in the neck on 10 September at Utah Valley University. Continue reading...
Agency on X also said people who assault officers will face felony prosecution to the fullest extent of the law'US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) warned on Tuesday that assaulting its officers constitutes a federal crime punishable by felony charges.Anyone - regardless of immigration status - who assaults an ICE officer WILL face federal felony assault charges and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law," the agency posted on X. Embedded in the post was an image that read think before you resist" with a clenched fist. Continue reading...
Katie Moon's third world pole vault title, 20-year-old Mattia Furlani wins the men's long jump and Faith Cherotich takes women's steeplechase honoursWomen's 200m: Will we get and American 1-2-3 come the final? Maybe. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the 100m champion, finishes her heat in first in 22.24sec with countrywoman Thelma Davies finishing second and Ivory Coast's Jessika Gbai taking third.Women's 200m: The first heat has US's Anavia Battle, the four-time Diamond League winner and no surprise, she leads the pack, winning with heat with a time of 22.07sec, her season's best. Ivory Coast's Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith and Greece's Polyniki Emmanouilidou qualify alongside Battle. Continue reading...
Letter signed by 95 demands to know how many people protected under Daca have been arrested or deportedA group of 95 members of Congress have written a letter to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, condemning the arrest of protected immigrants known as Dreamers and demanding to know how many have been detained and deported in recent months.In a letter shared with the Guardian and submitted to Noem on Wednesday morning, Democratic representatives denounced the recent rise in the wrongful detention and deportation of immigrants residing in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program. Continue reading...
Study shines light on growing numbers of vulnerable people being placed in solitary confinement in migrant jailsUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) put more than 10,500 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 and May 2025, and use of the practice has quickly increased under Donald Trump's administration, according to new research.A report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the Peeler Immigration Lab, and Harvard Law School experts, published on Wednesday, sheds light on what's happening inside US immigrant detention facilities and how increasing numbers of vulnerable people are being subjected to solitary confinement for longer periods of time. Continue reading...
Donald Henson allegedly drove at high speed toward main entrance gate of Pittsburgh field officeA search is under way for a man with a history of mental health issues who allegedly rammed his car into a metal gate at an FBI field office in Pittsburgh early Wednesday in what the agency said it is treating as an act of terror against the FBI".Donald Henson, of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, allegedly drove at high speed toward the main entrance gate at about 2.40am, said the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, Christopher Giordano. Continue reading...
Half of all US children are covered through Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (Chip), making kids particularly vulnerable under the new Republican budgetJocelyn Smith watched Congress debate Donald Trump's domestic spending bill, the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill" with trepidation this summer - wondering what the bill's passage would mean for her daughter, who receives care for her juvenile epilepsy under Medicaid.I don't know what we're going to do with her medicine, it's so expensive," Smith said. It's a lot of what-ifs." Continue reading...
Supreme court justice warns poor quality of civics education may lead to lack of understandingThe most senior liberal justice on the US supreme court has questioned whether American citizens know the difference between presidents and kings.During a conference on civics education in New York on Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the poor quality of civics education means Americans may not be entirely clear on what makes a president different to a monarch. Continue reading...
The NBA star and actor's marriage didn't even last a year. But their relationship catered for eccentrics, misfits, and outsidersThe internet is frothing. This time, over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement, a spectacle reminding us how celebrities function as wish machines. Us normies ride shotgun, living vicariously through the highest peaks and, at times, the lowest valleys, making up for our own grayscale lives.But, while Taylor and Travis are about as mainstream as you can get, in the 1990s there was a celebrity couple who catered for the eccentrics, misfits, and outsiders. Continue reading...
Benjamin Netanyahu says goals of offensive are defeating the enemy and evacuating the population'. Plus, suspect in Charlie Kirk killing charged with aggravated murder
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Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuseThe Trump administration has aggressively rolled back efforts across the federal government to combat human trafficking, a Guardian investigation has found.The sweeping retreat threatens to negate decades of progress in the drive to prevent sexual slavery, forced labor and child sexual exploitation, according to legal experts, former government officials and anti-trafficking advocates. They say the administration's moves are impeding efforts to prosecute perpetrators and protect survivors in the United States and around the world. Continue reading...
Joel Willett, a Democratic candidate, says he has seen firsthand' how Trump administration is weaponizing the governmentA former CIA officer stripped of his security clearance by the Trump administration has announced he's running for Senate as a Democratic candidate to claim Mitch McConnell's long-held Kentucky seat.Joel Willett launched his candidacy Wednesday, weeks after director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked his clearance as part of a purge targeting 37 current and former intelligence officials. Continue reading...
People across political spectrum, including prominent US conservatives, criticize attorney general's commentsUS attorney general Pam Bondi's pledge that the Trump administration will absolutely target" people who use hate speech" in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has prompted criticism of the idea from across the political spectrum, including from prominent conservatives.Bondi said on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller, the wife of the rightwing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that there is free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society". Continue reading...
As the US president comes to the UK, let's give credit where it's due: he wasn't lying when he said smart people don't like himChannel 4 will be marking Donald Trump's visit to the UK with what it describes as the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television". It will play more than 100 of Trump's lies or misleading statements in a segment called Trump v The Truth. All his greatest hits, from false claims about the price of eggs to disgusting lies about the US spending millions on condoms for Hamas, packaged together.Obviously we've got to be fair and balanced here, though, haven't we? Gotta show both sides. So I think it's only right that Channel 4 also broadcast a 10-second segment covering all of the truthful and astute things the president has said. It's not just lies, lies, lies: occasionally the man can be surprisingly wise. Only this week, for example, a video circulated online of Trump telling attendees of a gala at one of his golf clubs: Smart people don't like me, you know?" He added: And they don't like what we talk about." No lies detected there.Do 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...
Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president's political opponentsIf 2025 was already shaping up to be the worst year of the century for the post-1945 rules-based world order, the past week has been its most destructive week yet. Israel deepened its disregard for international conventions by sending 10 fighter jets to Qatar, bombing a Hamas delegation participating in ceasefire talks in Doha. The last meaningful forum for diplomatic negotiation may now have gone up in smoke.At least 19 Russian drones violated Poland's airspace. For the first time in its history, Nato airpower was engaged against enemy targets inside a Nato country. Whether the incursion was a technical mishap or deliberate probing by Moscow, as western experts believe, this was the closest we have been to open conflict since the second world war," Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, said.David Van Reybrouck is philosopher laureate for the Netherlands and Flanders. His books include Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, and Congo: The Epic History of a PeopleDo 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...
Police chief says here we are again in the aftermath of a mass shooting' after incidents in two separate locationsMinneapolis police have said over a dozen people have been hurt in two separate shootings at homeless encampments across the city on the same day.The first shooting at a transit station wounded five people, and happened in an area that had seen two prior shootings in the past month. Continue reading...
After filing a lawsuit against the New York Times, Trump said the radical left' media would be stoped at each and every level'. Key US politics stories from 16 September 2025After filing a $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times, Donald Trump has vowed to stop the radical left media" from destroying" the nation.Taking to his social media platform Truth Social, the president said that he had received amazing" feedback on his case. Continue reading...
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Tyler Robinson charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm and witness tampering and could face the death penaltyUtah state prosecutors on Tuesday charged Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting the far right activist Charlie Kirk, with aggravated murder - and they say they intend to pursue the death penalty against the 22-year-old if he is convicted.Jeff Gray, the top prosecutor in Utah county, where Kirk was fatally shot on 10 September, said Robinson also ordered his roommate to delete incriminating text messages and stay silent if police questioned him in the aftermath of the Turning Point USA executive director's killing. Continue reading...
Tyler Robinson, the suspect in rightwing activist Charlie Kirk's assassination,made a court appearance via video feed from jail, speaking only once when asked to state his name. Robinson, 22, unshaven and wearing what appeared to be a protective vest, remained expressionless but appeared to be listening attentively as the judge went through the charges and informed him that he could face the death penalty
Still images and videos of Donald Trump and Britain's Prince Andrew with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto the walls of Windsor Castle as Trump visited the United Kingdom. According to media reports, Thames Valley police said four people had been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications
White House using civil rights laws to wage campaign against school system to undermine free speech, says suitThe Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by faculty, staff, student organizations and every labor union representing UC workers.The lawsuit comes weeks after the Trump administration fined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) $1.2bn and froze research funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus and other civil rights violations. It was the first public university to be targeted by a widespread funding freeze. The administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges, including Harvard, Brown and Columbia. Continue reading...
US president arrives on Tuesday ahead of a lavish programme, as Sadiq Khan calls for UK leaders not to shy away from being critical'Donald Trump has landed in the UK ahead of an unprecedented second state visit.The US president and the first lady, Melania Trump, touched down on Tuesday evening at London Stansted onboard Air Force One ahead of a series of events over the next two days, including being hosted by King Charles, military parades and a possible flypast by the Red Arrows alongside British and American F-35 jets. Continue reading...
Tyler Robinson is quoted talking to his partner about having enough of the far-right activist's hatred' in textsEvidence put forth by Utah prosecutors Tuesday offered the clearest indication yet of what they suspect motivated Tyler Robinson to kill far-right provocateur Charlie Kirk.In seized texts reproduced by prosecutors as they charged the 22-year-old with capital murder and other crimes after his arrest, Robinson is quoted talking to his partner - whom they described as transitioning genders" - about having enough of Kirk's hatred". Continue reading...
Cupid recovers from surgery after what officials say is latest in half-dozen attacks on donkeys in semi-rural areasA wild burro dubbed Cupid is recovering from surgery after being shot with an arrow in what officials say is the latest in a series of a half-dozen attacks since June on donkeys that roam semirural areas of inland southern California.The two-year-old female burro was spotted last Wednesday with a blue arrow protruding from her right shoulder as she wandered with a herd in the foothills of Moreno Valley, about 65 miles (104km) east of Los Angeles. Continue reading...
Jeffrey Gray called Kirk's death an American tragedy' - and said the murder suspect had begged his friend to stay quietIt was, Utah county prosecutor Jeffrey Gray said as he opened his address to reporters, an American tragedy".The simple statement gave little indication of the extraordinary 45-minute press conference that was to follow as the veteran attorney laid out in detail how the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was killed, and the text messages his alleged assassin sent in the aftermath of the murder. Continue reading...
Trump appointee insists he is staying in post despite reports of White House doubts over his leadershipA defiant Kash Patel on Tuesday denied Democratic senators' accusations that the firings of top FBI agents were politically motivated and insisted he was staying as the bureau's director despite reports that the White House had grown concerned with his leadership.I'm not going anywhere. If you want to criticize my 16 years of service, please bring it on. Over to you," Patel said at the conclusion of his opening statement to the Senate judiciary committee, where he made his first appearance since being confirmed to lead the bureau in February. Continue reading...
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has been charged with aggravated murder, a prosecutor announced on Tuesday. The charge means Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Kirk last week at Utah Valley University in Orem
Brian Mast changes course on provision to give Rubio power to revoke US passports over terrorism support allegationsThe chair of the House foreign affairs committee moved to cut a contentious provision from legislation that would have granted the secretary of state sweeping powers to revoke US citizens' passports over allegations of supporting terrorism.Representative Brian Mast, a Florida Republican, filed an amendment to eliminate the measure from his department of state policy provisions act, a bill meant to reform the state department in the Trump administration's image, after widespread criticism from civil liberties advocates, according to the Intercept. Continue reading...
At the Eradicate Hate summit, the Pennsylvania governor urged leaders to condemn all political violence, not just attacks on rivalsPennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro said on Tuesday that the arson attack on his home earlier this year had left emotional scars" while calling for leaders to recognize that political violence is not a one-sided problem.Shapiro talked about the arson attack and political violence at this week's Eradicate Hate summit in Pittsburgh, designed to discuss tools and action that can prevent and confront violence. Continue reading...
Last week's incursion into Polish territory by Russian drones was an ominous escalation. But the US president keeps finding reasons not to actBack in January, with Donald Trump's campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours" still fresh in the memory, there was genuine unease in Moscow over the US president's intentions. When MrTrump mused that high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions" on Russia might be necessary, one high-profile and pro-war Moscow commentator wrote: It's better to prepare for the worst. Soon, we'll look back on Biden's term with nostalgia, like a thaw."How wrong can you be? Since then, the US president has repeatedly talked the talk without coming close to walking the walk. In May, when Vladimir Putin rejected a 30-day ceasefire, and peace talks in Turkey went nowhere, a bone-crushing" US sanctions package failed to materialise. An 8 August deadline for Mr Putin to agree to a ceasefire somehow morphed into a red carpet welcome in Alaska, where MrTrump applaudeda leader wanted for war crimes as he disembarked from his plane. The severe consequences" threatened by Mr Trump if the Alaska talks failed to lead to peace never happened.Do 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...
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