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President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party's plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risksWe're going to have a good time listening to music," Donald Trump told thousands of supporters in downtown Dallas before handing the mic to an opera singer, because I'm getting a little bit tired of politics now."Millions of Americans seem tired of politics after a decade dominated by Trump. So the US president's decision to close out this week's first ever Republican midterm convention with a plea - treat November's congressional elections as a referendum on Trump himself - was received by his Democratic opponents with glee. Continue reading...

Canadians angry' at Trump for suggesting Canada should become 51st state, says mayor, as US businesses see sales fall amid trade warLike many Canadians, Tom Reid isn't crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut.The woman who cuts his hair lives in International Falls, Minnesota - her sister is married to my wife's cousin", he explained - and so Reid, whose duty free shop in Fort Frances, Ontario, has to travel to her. Continue reading...

The World Cup and its aftermath made clear that Fifa needs independent oversight by governments and NGOs dedicated to preserving the people's gameThe 2026 World Cup was a whirling swirl of scintillating soccer that prompted much-needed conversations about the vitality of diaspora, the fortitude of the underdog, the power of sport. In a world fractured along myriad cultural axes floating in an entertainment system dominated by on-demand content, the tournament provided a moment, perhaps unlike any other event, that brought together people from different backgrounds to simultaneously experience something meaningful.After the tournament concluded, Fifa president Gianni Infantino dropped a political pipebomb into the after-party, proposing to privatize the World Cup by injecting $20bn in private capital, with an assist from JP Morgan and Thrive Capital, the investment vehicle orchestrated by Joshua Kushner, brother to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law. Continue reading...

We look at Enzo Maresca's takeover in Guardiola's shadow, shifting dynamics in women's soccer and Raphinha's incredible form at BarcelonaSquint hard enough and Manchester City still look like Manchester City. They're still playing the same possession-hungry soccer. Erling Haaland is still scoring goals. They even have a new manager with vaguely the same appearance and oeuvre as their old manager. An AI Pep Guardiola in the dugout. Continue reading...

Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend's killingChicago rapper Lil Durk has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022.Prosecutors had accused Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman's life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks's friend, fellow Chicago rap star King Von. Continue reading...

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SF Gate reports bond for Vicky Kyung Mi Kim, 65, set at $10m after man found dead at couple's Palm Desert homeA 65-year-old California woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly fatally wounding her husband with a flagpole, according to SF Gate.On 4 September, Palm Desert sheriff's deputies responded to an unknown trouble call" in The Enclave, a luxury condominium community. Upon arrival, officers located an individual with traumatic injuries" that appeared to be from a physical assault and pronounced them dead. Continue reading...

Police have arrested Jacques Ratliff and ruled the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, as a homocidePolice in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house last month. The state medical examiner on Thursday ruled Fortune's death a homicide.Jackson police chief RaShall Brackney-Wheelock said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for Jacques Ratliff and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the street. Continue reading...

Washington Post report also reveals Jon Husted staffer Stephen Woytek created pro-Rhodesia playlist on SpotifyThe Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo.Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted's political director last month in the senator's knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to part ways" with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division. Continue reading...

Alexander Zverev reached his first grand slam final in a row with a 6-3 7-6 (7) 7-6 (6) victory against Karen Khachanov in New YorkKaren Khachanov emerges from the tunnel first, followed by Alexander Zverev. Apparently the German was a minute or two late because he needed some extra time in the toilet - we've all been there.On Arthur Ashe Stadium, a retired servicewoman sings the American national anthem before the players come out. Flags are flying at half mast around the grounds today on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Arthur Ashe was also lit up blue from dusk until dawn this morning. Continue reading...

Teen was rescued from a capsized fishing vessel on 10 September, days after the boat overturned and his older brother and cousin drowned. The group had last been seen been leaving Alaska's St Lawrence Island in an 18ft fishing vessel on 4 September, and were expected back early on Sunday but failed to return, the coast guard said in a statement Continue reading...

Democratic attorney general seeks damages and penalties in legal action that echoes thousands of similar suitsArizona has sued L'Oreal that the French cosmetics company hid evidence that its hair relaxer products could cause cancer in women - echoing thousands of similar lawsuits from users and their families.Arizona attorney general Kristin Mayes, a Democrat, filed the lawsuit late on Thursday in state court. The lawsuit makes Arizona the first state to sue over alleged cancer risks linked to hair relaxers. It also alleges that L'Oreal is violating state consumer protection laws by marketing the hair relaxer products that are used predominantly by African American women without warning consumers about the alleged risks of ovarian and uterine cancers. Continue reading...

Leaky aqueducts and mega-projects for the wealthy exacerbate a water crisis in the US island territoryDhara Rivera de Jesus keeps at least 30 large water containers in her home at all times. After more than a year without consistent service in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she fills them whenever water returns, which sometimes only happens for a handful of hours every few days. Going without reliable water to bathe, flush toilets or cook has affected her ability to work and stick to a usual routine - a catch-22, now that she has to spend more money and time buying water and prepared food.This summer, water levels in the island's key dams fell below the thresholds needed to supply about half a million residents, leading to a severe drought that prompted Puerto Rico's governor, Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, to declare a state of emergency. But residents of San Juan, including Rivera, had already spent months grappling with water insecurity as the archipelago's ageing and deteriorating infrastructure continued to fail amid government mismanagement. Continue reading...

The 25th anniversary of 9/11, Russian strikes in Kyiv, wildfires in Indonesia and Sabalenka at the US Open - the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalistsWarning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

25 years on from the terror attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York City, Washington DC and Pennsylvania, the dark legacy of September 11 continues to unfold in the US and across the world. A throughline can be drawn from that day in 2001 to much of the geopolitics and conflicts of today.Annie Kelly speaks to the Guardian's international security correspondent, Jason Burke, about how 9/11 changed the world Continue reading...

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Thousands gather in New York City and across the country to honor the memory of the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks Continue reading...

Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions dependIf there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warningwas all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic, the trillion-dollar AI companybehind the Claude chatbot. The dangers ofAI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real. Countries need not agree on democracy or trade policy to accept this.The US and China will hold, reportedly, their first bilateral AI-safety talks before a planned White House summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Despite their tech rivalry, neither Washington nor Beijing can make the most advanced AI safe on their own. A US-China settlement won't be able to say how AI works everywhere. Countries deploying AI must help write the global rulebook. The odds on an extinction event are shortening. This week Anthropic said that it identified five cases in which attempts were made using its models to support biological weapons development. It banned the accounts. In one case, a platform sent requests rejected by Claude to a rival with weaker safeguards. AI safety, clearly, cannot be that of the least responsible model.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...

Price for the crop dropped dramatically this summer after the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wiltAt the Republicans' midterm convention held earlier this week, Donald Trump said that food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down". Fresh inflation data on Friday told a different story - but in one specific case, costs have been chopped.The price of lettuce dropped dramatically this summer after the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wilt, with prices dropping even further in August, according to new data released Friday. Continue reading...

Over the past quarter-century, the US supreme court has repeatedly failed to protect first amendment rights. We are suffering the consequencesCongress ratified the first amendment in 1791 but the supreme court didn't breathe life into it until after the first world war, when prosecutions of antiwar protesters led the justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis - and then, fortunately, other justices as well - to realize that US democracy would be undermined, not strengthened, by allowing the government to suppress disfavored political opinions.Repression during the cold war led the court to better protect the freedom of association, and government efforts to cover up official ineptitude and criminality during the Vietnam war spurred the court to better protect the freedom of the press. It took time, but in each of these instances the court responded to wartime repression by developing new legal doctrine that more robustly protected first amendment freedoms. Continue reading...

Memorials and remembrances mark the 25 years since the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 on 11 September 2001

The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years agoThe first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists.The 23ft-long trackway - consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right - was first identified in the south-west of the state, in the dinosaur fossil area known as Hell Creek Formation, last year by researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Continue reading...

Matthew Klimow recalls the day a hijacked airliner crashed into the headquarters of the US defence department in Arlington, VirginiaAll day I had been a good soldier: stolid, resolute, unemotional, rational, and dispassionate," writes Matthew Klimow, recalling the wave of emotion that overwhelmed him as he arrived home from the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. There was sadness for the lives lost. But there was another emotion, too: humiliation.We, as a nation, had been humbled," writes the retired army colonel, who remained at the Pentagon even after it was struck by a hijacked airliner, killing all 64 people onboard and 125 inside the building. The fighting force of which I was part had been impotent, unable to protect our fellow citizens. The darkness I felt matched the darkness inside my house as I opened the door." Continue reading...

The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violenceIf George W Bush's abusive response to the September 11 attacks had been prosecuted rather than swept under the rug, Donald Trump would be less able to pursue his lawless policies. We can't rewind history, but we can learn from our historic failure.Twenty-five years ago, on a clear and crisp morning, I was sitting in the Human Rights Watch office in the Empire State Building with an unobstructed view of the World Trade Center towers as al-Qaeda operatives flew two commercial jets into them. The horror of the attack required a response, but Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, chose to react by throwing out the rulebook. They deployed torture and endless detention without trial in Guantanamo. Continue reading...

Annualized inflation rate was 3.4%, same as July, and core inflation, which omits energy and food prices, was up to 2.4%US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as the end of the ceasefire between the US and Iran pushed energy prices up, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday.The annualized inflation rate was 3.4%, the same as it was in July. The most recent peak was seen in May, when the inflation rate hit a three-year high at 4.2%. Core inflation, which strips out volatile energy and food prices, increased 0.3% from the month before and 2.4% annually. Continue reading...

The Trump administration wants a feel-good version of American history. That is not a feature of a democratic systemOn Tuesday, Lonnie G Bunch III announced he would step down as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian.Bunch was the first historian to lead the august institution, as well as the first African American. His retirement comes as the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to adopt its agenda of patriotic" education. Continue reading...

Guardian readers share stories of the friends, colleagues and mentors whose lives they continue to honor decades after the attacksThe September 11, 2001 attacks killed 2,977 people, resulting in the largest loss of life caused by a foreign attack on American soil. Twenty-five years later, Guardian readers who lost friends and loved ones are continuing to honor their memories through stories about their lives, relationships and the moments they shared.Christopher Allen, 69, a retired estate manager from Niantic, Connecticut, remembers Jeremy Caz" Carrington. Continue reading...

The US president is ever more wayward - and has little interest in defending Europe. The constitution may hold him to account, but we can't waitIf Americans vote for a Republican majority in both houses of Congress in November, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000." But they must not spend it in Canada or China or anywhere else outside the US. So said Donald Trump in Texas on Wednesday in advance of the forthcoming midterm elections. He further told voters to Pretend that I'm on the ballot". It was a climactic moment in an almost two-hour rant.Trump does not have the required trillion dollars in his pocket, and it would be illegal to disperse such a sum without congressional approval. In any case, JD Vance now appears to have rowed back on the promise.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Commemoration ceremonies to be held around the world for the nearly 3,000 killed in 2001 terror attack on US. Plus, JD Vance sets out his stall as heir to Donald TrumpGood morning. It is a sombre day for the nation as people gather to mourn and remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the attacks on September 11 2001, when 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four airliners, slamming two of the planes into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.We have comprehensive coverage of the anniversary, which will be marked by ceremonies around the world. There are stories of the day from people who were there. Stanley Praimnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the south tower, and they spoke to our Washington bureau chief David Smith. Anna Sweeney Rossman was five when her mother, Amy Sweeney, a flight attendant, was killed onboard American Airlines flight 11, and she spoke to Ramon Antonio Vargas about how the events of that day have cast a shadow on her life.Donald Trump's promise of a $5,000 Trump dividend" for every US citizen if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November's midterm elections has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery.With his approval rating at a historic low, Trump brought down the curtain on the Republicans' first ever midterm convention by pleading with supporters to do him the biggest favor" and pretend" they are voting for him in November's US elections.JD Vance, meanwhile, made a clear pitch that he should be the heir to Trump with a blistering speech that featured exaggerated claims of success, criticism of the Democrats as lunatics" and an aggressive dismissal of a protester waving a Mexican flag.A US appeals court has rejected Trump's attempt to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting before November's high-stakes midterm elections, dealing a fresh blow to the president's attempted crackdown.Anthropic has detailed efforts by bad actors to misuse its AI for the production of bioweapons. More researchers and staff members at the AI startup have posted their own dire warnings about the safety of the technology, but Elon Musk called the chorus of concerns a setup" and a psyop".California has adopted what Gavin Newsom described as nation-leading" legislation that bans addictive social media features for young users, regulates companion chatbots and implements new safeguards around AI.Sales of previously occupied US homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Continue reading...

The president's chaotic schemes of aggrandizement, from Venezuela to Iran, have no larger rationaleTrumpism is the lowest stage of imperialism. We're not going to invade Greenland. We're going to buy it," Donald Trump reportedly told the annual black-tie dinner on 1 February of the private Alfalfa Club, an assemblage of prominent Washington figures, a number of whom he had publicly humiliated, and others he was investigating or suing. It's never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state. Greenland will be the 52nd state. Venezuela can be 53rd." The room greeted several of his remarks with dead silence. His cosplay as the Pirate King was not received as a good-humored takeoff from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. He went on. So many people in the room I hate," he said in a display of honesty. Most of you I like," he claimed. Then, at his peak euphoria, he flew off to Mar-a-Lago to plan his attack on Iran, which took place 27 days later.Trump's imperialism of piracy and plunder is less of a system even than that of the earliest imperialism of 17th century privateers raiding the Spanish Main, the divine right of kings, and monarchs dividing up the spoils as favors to create their lords and earls. His schemes of aggrandizement operating by threat and force are justified by no larger rationale, nothing as exalted as the white man's burden", marauding wherever and however he can to seize resources. Continue reading...

Anti-Muslim sentiment is used as a political weapon. Meanwhile, Muslim American leaders are making a difference for allIt's been 25 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, and during this time Muslim Americans have learned how to live in that dangerous space between other Americans' fears and their ignorance.The fear was clear from the beginning. Immediately following 9/11, Muslim Americans faced what Human Rights Watch called a severe wave of backlash violence". A tide of hate rose up against ordinary Muslims and those who appeared to be Muslim, including at least three murders in the immediate backlash after the attacks. The federal government, for its part, began targeting Muslim immigrants in a massive surge of repression that legal experts soon compared with the Palmer Raids of the 1920s. Continue reading...

Paul Roberts, who was employed by UPS for 44 years, was working at a customer care center when he was struckA longtime United Parcel Service (UPS) employee less than two weeks away from retiring was struck and killed by one of the company's vehicles while he was at work in St Louis, triggering a federal labor investigation along with an intense outpouring of grief from his family and colleagues.Paul Roberts, 63, was on duty at the UPS customer care center in Earth City, Missouri, on the night of 4 September when a company vehicle hit him, authorities said. Continue reading...

The US manager's relationship with the international job has changed with a full World Cup cycle beginningI hope, in this lifetime, you find someone who loves you the way Mauricio Pochettino loves Tottenham Hotspur. The grip Spurs have on his heart seems the stuff of a literary classic: his imperfect partner who called things off at the first sign of trouble must merely check in on him occasionally to rekindle hopes of a reunion.Perhaps a bit extreme, but this week's revelation - that he'd return to Tottenham even if they were relegated and chalking his absence up to imperfect timing, not the part about handing the club a decade-old title - has implicity laid out the terms of his return as United States manager. Others may always have interest in his services, and a certain North London suitor will never get the door slammed in their face outright. Continue reading...

Rugby's Greatest Rivalry' will culminate on US soil on Saturday, a staging post on the road to America hosting the World Cup in 2031When New Zealand and South Africa kick off at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday, there will be more at stake than victory in Rugby's Greatest Rivalry", the four-Test series the Springboks lead 2-1. For World Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin, the game is a key staging post on the road to the 2031 World Cup, which the US will host - a journey that could include Six Nations games on American soil.We've been in a long process with venues and cities, over the last two years," Gilpin said, of the build to World Cup kick-off. We've still got 25-plus cities involved in that process, which is fantastic in terms of engagement and enthusiasm. Continue reading...

Five-set matches are physically punishing, occasionally absurd and increasingly under threat. They also produce much of what makes grand slam tennis greatTuesday night's quarter-final match between Ben Shelton and Carlos Alcaraz had everything a US Open spectacle could ask for: huge stakes, knife-edge drama, top-shelf competition and an American hero who comes through in the end. The only fault to find was really the matter of time. The first ball wasn't struck until 11.05 in the evening, and Shelton's clinching ace didn't come until 3.33 in the morning - marking, after a total of 4hr 28min on court, the latest-ending US Open match by a whopping 43 minutes.Somewhat predictably, the discourse among media and fans following the late-night match has swiftly moved on from the USTA's misadventures in scheduling to a referendum on the five-set match and whether it should be put out to pasture. For the record: that would be a colossal unforced error. Continue reading...

The world's most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own - around the world, and at homeAs clear as that cloudless September morning, Jenna Jacobs McPartland remembers the moment everything changed. I was cleaning the bathroom and watching the Today show in the background and nine months pregnant," the 52-year-old recalls by phone. I think they were showing Today throws a wedding' when the news broke in."A plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. McPartland did not know that her husband, Ariel Jacobs, was attending a conference at its Windows on the World restaurant. I called his office to say, Hey, turn on the TV. Do you guys know what's going on?' His assistant said, Oh my God, Jenna, he's there.' The whole world disappeared and there was this sort of hollow collapsing feeling." Continue reading...

The president demonised Democrats in an attempt to wangle votes in midterms despite backlash over Iran warWith his approval rating at a historic low, Donald Trump has brought down the curtain on the Republicans' first ever midterm convention by pleading with supporters to do him the biggest favour" and pretend" they are voting for him in November's US elections.The president is facing a growing backlash over rising prices and the war in Iran. Sweeping losses for the Republican party could effectively turn Trump into a lame duck for his final two years in the White House. Continue reading...

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Vice-president dog-whistled, exaggerated claims of success and echoed Trump talking points to excited audienceJD Vance made a clear pitch that he should be the heir to Donald Trump on Thursday night, closing out the Republicans' midterm convention with a blistering speech that featured exaggerated claims of success, criticism of Democrats as lunatics" and an aggressive dismissal of a protester waving a Mexican flag.Speaking in Dallas, the vice-president showed he could channel the basest instincts of his boss, filling his remarks with dog whistles and echoing Trump's false claims that Democrats cheered" the 7 October massacre of Israelis. Continue reading...