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Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, KohenOn Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother's lap was justified". The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi.On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby's mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a friend, had stolen a pack of diapers. Neither woman has been charged with a crime. Officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting. Continue reading...

Catherine Breed began unprecedented journey at northern end of state, swimming 10 miles a day to reach other end in less than four monthsA 33-year-old ultra-endurance athlete has completed an unprecedented swim down the entire coast of California, finishing the 900-mile journey in less than four months.Catherine Breed will celebrate the end of her swim at San Diego's Coronado beach on Monday afternoon, 111 days since she began her journey on 1 July at the northern border of California. Continue reading...

How will the Commanders and 49ers fare today? Here is what to know, including kick-off time, TV channels and live stream optionsThe Commanders' first task on Monday night against the 49ers will be to keep track of the clock. A week after frittering away a simple game-winning field goal opportunity in overtime against the Giants, Washington's reward is a trip out west on Monday Night Football to face one of the best teams in the NFL. The 1-3-1 Commanders entered the week with the second-worst point differential in the NFC at minus-34, and it'll take a herculean road effort for them to avoid falling out of the mix in the mediocre East.The Niners, meanwhile, are on Easy Street. Their 5-0 start has afforded them a shocking degree of cushion in an NFC West that was expected to be the best division in football but so far looks like San Francisco and everyone else. The defending champion Seahawks and MVP Matthew Stafford's Rams each dropped three games in the season's first six weeks. Those included a pair of losses to Kyle Shanahan's team, meaning the Niners have not just a huge advantage in the loss column but (for now) a head-to-head tiebreaker as well. San Fran could hardly have enjoyed a dreamier start. Continue reading...

Florida governor has consistently opposed any legislation to curb planet-heating emissions, calling it a radical climate agenda'A life-sized statue of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, was unveiled and promptly began melting in front of an audience in Tallahassee in a symbolic protest at his rejection of action on the climate crisis.The silvery statue, revealed to an audience of onlookers last week, melted away to show a skull under DeSantis's face. The structure was cast from solid gallium, a metal that melts at 85.6F (29.8C), which is below summertime high temperatures frequently reached in Tallahassee, Florida's capital. Continue reading...

Ricardo Gonzalez, a US citizen, was detained and injured by ICE officers while being arrested in Long Beach, California, on 17 October, officials said. The Department of Homeland Security has not commented publicly on why Gonzalez was detained. The Long Beach police department said in a statement that officers arrived to find 'a large group disturbance' involving the federal agents. The police later removed the handcuffs on Gonzalez and transported him to the hospital for treatment

Police said Shawn Oliver was arrested on suspicion of operating under influence of alcohol after a car crashThe Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts announced the suspension of his campaign on Sunday hours after he was arrested in a suspected drunk-driving crash.Shawn Oliver, a city councilor in New Bedford and a corrections officer, said in a post on X he was ending his campaign because the election is too important to be overshadowed by personal matters".Guardian staff contributed Continue reading...

Russia wants America and China to decide Ukraine's future without Kyiv. Europe must challenge this dangerous return to diplomacy of the strong for the strongDoes Vladimir Putin know exactly how to play DonaldTrump? The history of chummy phone calls, high-profile meetings and attempts to bring Russia in from the cold certainly suggests that Moscow's thuggish ruler has a hold on this American president. If MrTrump agrees to negotiate Ukraine's future with MrPutin and China's Xi Jinping without Ukraine at thetable, he will have handed the Russian leader a victory before talks begin. The message will be that strongmen are ruling the world and determining the fate of weaker nations.Ukraine has the right to determine its future. That right cannot be waved away by a self-serving Russian proposal, however much it indulges Mr Trump's belief that world affairs should be settled by powerful men. The scales are falling from European eyes. Trumpian America is raising doubts about whether it will help deter aggression or even honour its Nato commitments. If Washington now rewards Moscow and pressures Ukraine to accept a raw deal, it would be a betrayal. European governments would wonder where America might be inthe future when their own security is threatened.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...

Poll finds 66% of Americans think Trump is using position for monetary gain as his approval rating hits a new lowMost Americans think Donald Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself, according to a new poll, as the US president's approval rating falls to a new low ahead of November's midterm elections.A new Washington Post-ABC poll put Trump's approval rating at 33% as he continues to crisscross the country as part of his campaign blitz for embattled Republicans. Continue reading...

A boy, six, and woman, 35, were killed and 10 were injured after a woman drove on to the field at a youth soccer gameNew details have emerged about two people - including a child - killed when a woman drove a vehicle through a youth soccer game in Kansas, as officials on Monday continued to investigate the cause of the tragedy.Chris Adrian, a middle school soccer coach, said his family was heartbroken over losing his six-year-old son, Cole, who died after the incident at Wichita's Stryker Sports Complex in which 10 others were hurt, some seriously. Continue reading...

Agreement would have spared Mohammed risk of execution in exchange for guilty plea and life in prisonThe supreme court on Monday rejected an effort to revive a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks on 11 September 2001.The agreement would have spared Mohammed the risk of execution in exchange for his guilty plea and a sentence of life in prison without parole. Continue reading...

Thomas Teepell, who worked for Republican senator, demanded El-Sayed disavow Muslim BrotherhoodA man who heckledthe Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed and demanded he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a Michigan town hall is a former aide to the Republican senator Josh Hawley, according to congressional staff records.At the event on Saturday, an attender who gave his name only as Tommy" shouted from the crowd, asking whether El-Sayed would disavow the movement. El-Sayed answered: Sure, yeah, absolutely," then turned the question around, asking whether the man assumed he wouldn't. Continue reading...

Downing Street emphasises sacrifices of UK troops and reasserts unwavering' support for Ukraine amid softening US policy towards Russia

Opposition to US-led quarantine center in Kenya follows sweeping funding cuts and withdrawal from WHOAn eighth person in Kenya has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the country's first-ever cluster of cases of the virus, as the second-largest outbreak in history kills more than 4,300 and sickens more than 9,000 people in the region.It highlights the diminished role the US has played in the worsening Ebola outbreak by building a controversial quarantine center in Kenya, pulling back health support globally, and banning travelers from certain countries. All of this has also reduced the ability to identify and respond to the outbreak and exacerbated mistrust. Continue reading...

Ricardo Gonzalez was injured and taken to hospital after confrontation in Long Beach, according to officialsFederal immigration agents broke the arm of a US citizen in what a Democratic congressman said was a brutal attack" during a confrontation with protesters in California.Video of Saturday's encounter in Long Beach shows Ricardo Gonzalez, identified as a former city employee, handcuffed and face down in a gutter, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers kneeling on his back. Continue reading...

US military says Tech Sgt Ian Patterson was killed after he fell from rafters at University of Texas at San Antonio gameThe US military has identified the air force officer who died after he fell from the rafters of the Alamodome during a rappelling demonstration before the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)'s home game against Navy on Saturday.He was Tech Sgt Ian Patterson, a tactical air control party instructor assigned to the sixth combat training squadron, detachment two, at Joint Base San Antonio. Continue reading...

Mike Huckabee condemns attack on Washington Post photojournalist that has drawn lukewarm response from Israeli authorities. Plus, Japan is attempting to boldly go where no space mission has gone before

Los Angeles were tipped as a Super Bowl contender after assembling a star studded lineup. Now they've lost three of their last four gamesThe Rams were supposed to be the closest thing the NFL had seen to a superteam in some time. Instead, they're 2-4, have lost three of their last four games and are last in the NFC West. So much has gone awry, so quickly.Sunday was rock bottom (for now). The Rams lost to the division's ugly stepchild, the Cardinals - a team they had beaten in 16 of their last 19 meetings - on a day when Arizona didn't manage to score a touchdown. They didn't need to, because Arizona kicker Chad Ryland connected on six field goal attempts, the last one a 43-yarder as time expired. The game was a tale of two kickers, in that the Cardinals had a superb one and the Rams didn't have one at all. Days after releasing Harrison Mevis following a league-worst four misses in the season's first five weeks, the Rams came into this game with Blake Grupe, whom they'd plucked off the Jets practice squad. Grupe got hurt covering a kickoff return in the first quarter, leaving the Rams literally kickerless for the duration. (Mevis, a big fella whose nickname is the Thick Kicker, or Thiccer," has about 80lbs on the 5ft 7in Grupe.) Continue reading...

After Houthis escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, the US turned down calls from MBS for helpFor years, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, cultivated a close relationship with Donald Trump and his son-in-law and former top adviser, Jared Kushner. The prince understood the president's transactional approach to power: he signed deals to buy billions of dollars' worth of US weapons and invested billions more in American companies.Days after Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, Prince Mohammed pledged to expand investment and trade with the US by $600bn over four years. He later promised to increase that investment to nearly $1tn, although it wasn't entirely clear how Saudi Arabia would manage to plough a sum close to the kingdom's entire annual GDP into a foreign economy over a few years.Mohamad Bazzi is a Guardian US columnist. He is also director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and a journalism professor at New York University Continue reading...

The meal kit delivery service denies the allegations, saying it found claims to be entirely without merit'Workers at a HelloFresh facility in Newark, New Jersey have claimed in court documents that they were verbally and physically abused and denied regular bathroom breaks, with one former worker telling the Guardian he experienced incontinence issues as a result.The newly proposed amended complaint comes in a class action lawsuit first filed in August 2024 against the food prep service giant and staffing agencies. A New Jersey state court judge is expected to review the amended complaint in a hearing scheduled for 23 October. Continue reading...

Republicans delay major action on abortion until after midterm elections, and Democrats focus on affordabilityExactly 1,255 volunteers fanned out across Idaho's rural 35 legislative districts to collect signatures, knocking on 66,000 doors and ultimately gathering more than 110,000. Not a single one was paid - a rarity in today's politics.This effort was in service of Proposition 1, which asks voters a single question: Should abortion be legal in Idaho? A yes" vote would lift one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the nation. Continue reading...

Anthony Constantino wants to fill Elise Stefanik's seat in New York. But his lead in the formerly Trump-loving district is narrowingThe boss of a New York-based sticker company, whose staunch support for Donald Trump prompted him to record a Maga-themed rap album and call for an extension of Mount Rushmore to add the president's face, is running for Congress.Anthony Constantino, who began a brief pro boxing career at age 40, is the Republican candidate for GOP congresswoman Elise Stefanik's seat in New York's 21st district. Continue reading...

Will California stand with the working class or the oligarchs in the vote this November?The Democratic party has a choice to make. Are we going to be New Deal Democrats or corporate Democrats? Are we standing with the working class or the tech oligarchs?Proposition 40, California's billionaire tax, is the most important ballot initiative in America and a fight for the soul of our party.Rohit Khanna is aUS congressman and attorney serving as the US representative from California's 17th congressional district

The last long-term federal recovery funds allocated for a major disaster were for Hurricane Milton, which hit in late 2024Survivors of extreme weather disasters across the US are facing long waits for government assistance funds to rebuild their lives, with the last long-term recovery funds allocated for Hurricane Milton that hit Florida two years ago. Government officials estimate more than $10bn is needed in long-term disaster recovery funding to rebuild affected communities in Los Angeles county and St Louis, Missouri, alone.Demetrice Davis's home in north St Louis still has damage from the EF3 tornado that tore through the area in May 2025. The insurance didn't cover much of anything. And the Fema just kind of backed you up for a little while, but didn't get you back on track," he said. The government agencies are not really doing what they're supposed to do." Continue reading...

Ukrainian president accuses Washington of denial of reality' in ongoing row with Trump over apparent support for MoscowUkraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence in order to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow.Yuri Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, said on television on Monday morning that Ukraine had not received a warning before a Russian missile barrage hit power plants in Kyiv at around 11pm. Earlier, a Ukrainian government official had told the Guardian the US had not warned the capital about the impending missile strike. Continue reading...

A goal against PSG is proof on the scoresheet of what can be seen on the teamsheet: At long last, Reyna is getting consistent minutes.For an entire four-year cycle, to write about Gio Reyna was to write about his potential - especially the nagging feeling that it was going unfulfilled. Once hyped as possibly the greatest prospect in US men's history, a series of injuries kept him from simply taking the field, much less making his mark on it.Since his emergent 2020-21 season, when he logged nearly 2,000 Bundesliga minutes running alongside Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham, and Jadon Sancho, Reyna finished each of the ensuing five seasons without even cresting 630 league minutes. Rotational" became a generous descriptor for his role at Nottingham Forest on loan, and then last season with Borussia Monchengladbach. Still, Gregg Berhalter and Mauricio Pochettino kept involving Reyna with the US squad based on that pesky potential - betting that, on his day, he still had the raw talent to do what few compatriots could. Continue reading...

The reunion between one of the best players of his generation and the team he helped make an NBA champion is an opportunity to change narrativesWhen Kawhi Leonard became a Toronto Raptor for the first time in the summer of 2018, he looked shellshocked. There's just more questions you have to ask me in order for me to tell you about myself," he said, introducing himself to an organization and city he reportedly had no interest in joining.Leonard had fallen out with his former team, the San Antonio Spurs - one of the most respected franchises in professional sports - due to differences in opinion about an injury that had limited him to just nine games in the 2017-18 season. The Los Angeles native had hoped to end up in southern California, but instead the Raptors risked it all by swapping franchise cornerstone DeMar DeRozan for one year of an injured, malcontent Leonard. It worked: Leonard led the Raptors to their maiden championship on the back of a historic playoff run, averaging 30.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.7 steals en route. Leonard won his second finals MVP to go alongside the one he had claimed with the Spurs when he helped them to the title in 2014. Continue reading...

Expedition was drawn to Nikumaroro after spotting what was described as a metallic glint in waters off uninhabited islandA US expedition that voyaged to a remote Pacific island in the hope of solving the mystery of what happened to pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart has said an object they suspected to be her plane was a clump of washed-up trees.Unfortunately, we weren't able to find that smoking gun," said Steve Schultz of Purdue University, standing on the sand in front of a blue lagoon on the atoll of Nikumaroro, about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. Continue reading...

Meta owes us an explanation,' group says as organizers fear censorship after account goes dark for several hoursThe coalition leaders behind nationwide pro-democracy protests that have drawn millions of Americans to the streets in recent years were frustrated when its Instagram account was temporarily shut down during its latest demonstration on Saturday.The No Kings movement's account went dark for several hours while protests focused on increasing early voter turnout were underway, sparking censorship fears. Continue reading...

Ex-president urges Americans to defend congresswoman, saying there's no reason to believe it will stop with her'Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald Trump's border czar" that the Republican presidential administration could of course" strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her.Obama wrote Sunday morning, on X, that the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president." Continue reading...

Report reveals that a shady mobster-turned-informant may have been involved in helping cover up murderAn in-depth investigation by the New York Times is raising further questions about the high-profile OJ Simpson case, in which the former football player was accused in the 1990s of killing his ex-wife - and whether a shady mobster-turned-informant may have been involved in helping cover up the murder.The Times's investigation revealed that California prosecutors were unable to fully investigate whether Simpson, who was accused but not convicted of his ex-wife's murder, may have had an accomplice at the scene of the crime. Continue reading...

Judge orders government to notify her by 8pm ET Sunday whether its position changed from Friday's court filingDonald Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that restoration work will begin" on 15 November to a historic public golf course in Washington DC despite a federal judge's court order to pause his plans over environmental and historic preservation concerns.US district judge Ana Reyes had ruled earlier this year that the federal government must give notice before any substantive construction work on the East Potomac golf course could proceed, and last week issued an order halting the removal of trees at the site, which she called inexcusable". Continue reading...

Jan Crawford had praised man who asked Democratic candidate whether he would disavow Muslim BrotherhoodCBS's chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has apologized for and deleted a social media post praising a man who questioned Democratic Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood during a town hall on Saturday.On Sunday, Crawford, who initially joined CBS in 2009, wrote on X: Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall. I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize." Continue reading...

How will the Dallas and Green Bay fare today? Here is what to know, including kick-off time, TV channels and live stream optionsThe Cowboys are trying to get off a treadmill on Sunday, having sequenced a loss, a win, a loss,a win, and then another loss through their first five games. Dallas's magnetic attraction to staying within a game of .500 has so far not crushed them in the NFC East, where no team has more than three wins and the presumptive-favorite Eagles are floundering in the early season. It may well not take more than nine wins to claim the East this year, but the Cowboys have to start stacking them at some point.Their task Sunday in Green Bay will be a tough one. The Packers have had substantial injury problems but looked rejuvenated in putting a 31-7 beating on the Bears last week. While Chicago playing backup QBs Tyson Bagent and Case Keenum might explain their low point total, the Green Bay offense looked like a revelation. Now the Pack get to face a Dallas defense that lost to a rookie QB 10 days ago and has yet to keep an opponent under 20 points. Can the Cowboys show some mettle on the road? Continue reading...

From the attorney general stumping for Republican candidates to federal agents raiding the home of a Democratic congresswoman up for re-election, the department is violating longstanding normsDonald Trump's justice department has aggressively inserted itself into the midterm elections in the contest's final weeks, shattering the department's longstanding practice of political neutrality and leaving little doubt about the department's willingness to help should the president attempt to subvert elections where his party is forecasted to lose seats and ultimately control of Congress.In the last few weeks, federal agents have raided the home of a Democratic congresswoman up for re-election. It has touted criminal charges and arrests of non-citizens charged with voter fraud. The attorney general has hit the campaign trail to stump for Republican candidates. And the department gave California election officials 48 hours to investigate the citizenship of 20,000 people, and then sued the state when it refused to comply. The FBI also recently published a video criticizing Michigan senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and other Democrats, drawing an immediate rebuke from one watchdog, who said the video has no place in a democratic society". Continue reading...

Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in IsraelThe US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a despicable act of terror" and called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible.Levine, 63, an award-winning journalist who lives in Israel, was set upon last Friday by masked Israeli settlers who used clubs and other weapons to attack Palestinian people attempting to harvest their olives in occupied West Bank towns. Continue reading...

Two people killed and at least 17 injured as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade strikes on power infrastructureVolodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday thanked the Trump administration for resuming intelligence sharing between the two countries, but maintained the US had intentionally throttled its Starlink satellite internet access so that Donald Trump could send a message" in his ongoing feud with the Ukrainian president.In an interview on NBC, Zelenskyy said the US had unblocked" intelligence on impending Russian ballistic missile strikes, which have pounded the country's energy infrastructure as winter draws in. Continue reading...

Protesters held rallies across the US as part of the 'No Kings' movement, voicing opposition to the Trump administration and calling for early voting ahead of November's midterm elections. The rallies coincide with heightened legal battles surrounding voting rules, including a recent federal lawsuit filed against California regarding mail-in ballots and warnings from the justice department concerning ballot processing. Current opinion polls suggest Democrats will win the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterms, while the Senate remains too close to call Continue reading...

States like Missouri and Iowa are choosing to not take up exemption designed to help low-income people keep coverage during hardshipSome conservative states that have rejected hardship exemptions for the new Medicaid requirements may be choosing not to due to political reasons, experts say.New federal work requirements for Medicaid, slated to come into effect on 1 January, mean that adults enrolled through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion will have to work, attend school, volunteer, or take part in another qualifying activity at least 80 hours a month to maintain their coverage. Continue reading...

Overall, economic sentiment for Trump is poor, but small businesses seem fairly confident, according to several surveysThere are 34m small businesses in the United States. They employ approximately half of the country's workers and generate about half of the country's GDP. They're an important voting block. So how are they feeling about the economy as we head into November's midterm elections? Overall, economic sentiment for Donald Trump is poor but small business - admittedly a diverse demographic that's hard to poll - seems fairly confident. A number of recently published surveys and reports can help understand their mood.Confidence is generally stable. Continue reading...

Rapid coastal erosion threatens coastal homes and economies, and as Super El Nino rounds the corner, a town is reckoning with the reality of climate crisisSan Clemente is one of southern California's most picture-perfect beach towns - a capital of American surf culture since the 1950s. In two years, 2028 Olympic surfers will compete at Lower Trestles, a world-class surfing beach.But the town's longtime cultural and economic driver, its beaches, are now under threat. As pounding waves driven by late-summer storms in the Pacific devour chunks of the California coastline, some of San Clemente's beaches are growing narrower, the sand increasingly eaten away. Continue reading...

In attempting to turn a public space in DC into an enclave for elites, Trump is moving the US capital closer to GracelandWhen is a tree not a tree? When it's an obstacle to a par-3. If a tree falls in the middle of a golf course, does it make a sound? Yeah, probably. I wasn't there, but I have to assume, based on my limited knowledge of the laws of physics.What I do know is that Donald Trump's crusade to clear more than 400 trees for the purposes of redeveloping East Potomac Golf Links into a championship-level course isn't happening. For now.Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist Continue reading...

The Republican state attorney general appears uniquely ill-chosen as a candidate - but he is a political survivor who could yet frustrate Democratic dreamsDepending how you look at the situation, it is either predictable that Ken Paxton, Texas's attorney general and Republican candidate for US Senate, is struggling in the polls - or impressive that he is not doing worse. Beloved by hardcore Maga voters and regarded with skepticism by the broader voting public, Paxton is also puzzlingly bland. Recently, Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that the 63-year-old Paxton may not dress right, he may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I've ever seen". The president was endorsing him.Yet it is Paxton's ability to attract - and somehow scrape through - scandal that makes him a less charismatic, perhaps, but still kindred spirit of Teflon Don": nothing sticks. He has survived state prosecution (on securities-related charges that he settled without admitting guilt), impeachment by the Republican-led Texas legislature (on abuse-of-office charges of which he was later acquitted), and so many controversies that it can be difficult to pin down the most outrageous. Continue reading...