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Larry Pickett Sr and his son, a US army cadet, pulled David Denton from vehicle fire in upstate New York in 2025A North Carolina man who helped his son - a player for the US army academy college football team - pull a wrecked car's driver out of the vehicle moments before it burst into flames has earned the highest honor for civilian heroism in the United States and Canada.Larry Pickett Sr earned the Carnegie medal for heroism for a daring rescue alongside his son, Larry Pickett Jr, on 31 August 2025 outside Fort Montgomery, New York, that was captured in headline-grabbing cellphone video, according to a recent announcement from the non-profit organization that administers the award. Continue reading...

On 23 September 1926, two of the best heavyweights in American history met in front of 120,000 fans in Philadelphia. The fight drew in a nationThe two fights between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney rank with boxing's most-storied championship bouts and are among the greatest sports spectacles ever seen in America. Wednesday marks the one hundredth anniversary of their first encounter.Dempsey bridged boxing's old and modern eras and was one of the most charismatic fighters in history. When Dempsey was young, biographer Randy Roberts recounts, he lived in mining camps and hobo jungles, rode the rods, and more than once begged for food. What separated him was his willingness, even eagerness, to work. He accepted any type of employment from washing dishes, cutting lawns, and scrubbing floors to the harder work of coal-mining, digging ditches, and picking fruit." Continue reading...

In today's newsletter: The PM's first facetoface with the US president marks a fragile resetGood morning. In the early hours of Tuesday a plane carrying Andy Burnham, a handful of UK ministers, an excited group of British political journalists, and Burnham's wife, Marie France, landed at a New York airport for one of Burnham's first major outings as prime minister: a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump.Considering the president once described Burnham as the mayor of a town," and the prime minister once said Trump wouldn't be welcome in said town (Manchester), the meeting yesterday afternoon went remarkably well.UN general assembly | Donald Trump has called on nations to unite to isolate Tehran and bring down global energy prices, as he gave a bellicose defence of his administration's foreign policy and decision to strike Iran.The far right | Charities have condemned footage of a far-right activist using a blade to slash an inflatable dinghy in the Channel while a rescue worker was onboard, in a further escalation of organised anti-immigration protest.UK news | Children as young as 13 in the UK have been referred to a specialist clinic for a devastating" bladder condition linked to sustained use of ketamine.West Bank | British banks and financial institutions are receiving warnings from MPs that they should not invest in Israel's E1 settlement project.UK politics | Andy Burnham has opened the door to fighting the next election on the UK rejoining the EU, but said his immediate priority was continuing to rebuild bridges with European allies. Continue reading...

Fears persist about Trump sucking up' to Xi on Taiwan, but few concrete outcomes anticipated from US meetingWhen Xi Jinping, China's leader, touches down in Maryland on Wednesday, he will step out into the arms - perhaps a hug, if Donald Trump's wishes come true - of a US president who has shown China more bonhomie than any of his recent predecessors.The meeting between Xi and Trump this week will be the second time that the leaders of the world's two biggest economies have talked face to face this year. At the previous summit, held in Beijing in May, there was much talk of building a strategic stability" between the two powers. But there was little by way of concrete outcomes: the countries remain at loggerheads over trade, export controls and geopolitics. Continue reading...

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Cuban delegates left the room during the US president's speech to the UN general assembly, where he called Cuba 'a failed state' and said the country 'will fall'. The US has maintained a trade embargo on Cuba for more than 60 years, and Trump's administration has stepped up pressure on the communist-controlled island nation. Continue reading...

Surrogate who rejected abortion request had asked justices to halt court order recognizing LA couple as legal parentsThe supreme court has refused to get involved with a custody dispute between an Alaska surrogate and a California couple whose child was born with a rare and serious heart defect.On Tuesday, Justice Elena Kagan denied an emergency request from McKenna West, an Alaska nurse and surrogate who had asked the US's highest court to halt a California court order recognizing the couple, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, as the boy's legal parents. Continue reading...

Former VP, who lost state to Trump in 2024 elections, is lending her popularity to unite fractured partyKamala Harris returned to Michigan on Tuesday to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, lending her popularity among Black voters to a progressive Senate nominee still working to unite a party fractured by a bruising primary - and the former vice-president's loss to Donald Trump in the state.Appearing with El-Sayed at a Detroit birth center, Harris used a roundtable on Black maternal health to frame that November's contest against the Republican Mike Rogers as a fight over women's access to care. Continue reading...

Lawyers for James Fergie' Chambers, wanted over alleged support for Hamas, say client is being persecutedThe Spanish government has decided to allow the Trump administration's controversial extradition request to extradite wealthy activist James Fergie" Chambers to continue in the country's courts.Chambers, a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects, is currently imprisoned in Madrid. It is the first known case of the US seeking to extradite a citizen over alleged support for Hamas, an accusation tied to money Chambers has donated to support Palestinians, including the Sameer Project, in Gaza. Continue reading...

Carnival spokesperson confirms onboard cameras captured male passenger going overboard on way from MexicoA 56-year-old man is missing after he reportedly jumped off a Carnival cruise ship on Saturday.A Carnival spokesperson confirmed in a statement that cameras on the ship captured a male passenger going overboard the Panorama, according to several news reports. Continue reading...

US officials have begun to buy back wind leases as president seek to block renewables in favor of fossil fuelsDemocratic attorneys general from California and New York have sued the Trump administration over its plans to buy back offshore wind leases as Donald Trump seeks to discourage the expansion of wind energy in favor of fossil fuels.California attorney general Rob Bonta said he was suing over removal of a project off his state's coast planned by Chicago-based Invenergy. The Trump administration said in June it was buying back the company's US offshore wind leases for four wind projects on the east and west coasts. Continue reading...

Gone was any shred of US idealism. It was a spectacle of raw power - a power that is likely to only diminish in the years aheadExpectations were low for Donald Trump's address to the UN on Tuesday, and yet somehow it was even worse than expected. He does not perform well in formal settings, like chambers of government, preferring a blingier room, like Mar-a-Lago, or an outdoor rally. For years, he has made no secret of his hostility to the UN, and the very principles of international order that define it.In recent years, that hostility has deepened into something more like a full-on assault, with frequent attacks on the international criminal court (perhaps out of fear that he will someday be indicted), on the UN's climate agenda, and on Unesco (which the US decided to withdraw from in July 2025). Continue reading...

Amid show's major overhaul by Bari Weiss, Sunday's episode draws third-smallest audience for a second episode in the past 25 years60 Minutes' blockbuster interview with Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, failed to provide a major ratings boost for the Sunday show, according to audience figures released Tuesday.Sunday night's episode of the newsmagazine show drew an average of 6.77m total viewers, the third-smallest audience in the past 25 years for the second episode of a season, adding to a disappointing debut for Bari Weiss, who, as CBS editor-in-chief, rewired the show, firing several high-profile correspondents in the run-up to the new season. Continue reading...

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Houthi militants have made a lightning advance along the Red Sea coast, capturing strategically important territory in Yemen.Hundreds of civilians have been killed and more than 100,000 people have been forced to flee their homes.The Guardian's Oliver Holmes explains why this conflict has world governments on edge Continue reading...

President chided Kaitlan Collins for asking him question at UN after White House ban on CNN, MS Now and PoliticoDonald Trump has scolded a CNN anchor for covering him at the UN in New York after banning the network and two other media outlets from the White House.Kaitlan Collins asked the US president on Tuesday when the Iran war would end, citing a poll that claims two-thirds of Americans don't think the US is winning. Continue reading...

US president threatens to annihilate' Tehran and dismisses threat from AI as a hoax' in bellicose address

Officials say one pilot safely ejected as F-16 believed to have crashed on approach to Spangdahlem after training drillAn F-16 fighter jet assigned to the US air base Spangdahlem in western Germany crashed on Tuesday, the US military said, adding that one pilot had ejected safely and was receiving medical treatment.The cause of the incident is under investigation, the military said in a statement, with emergency response personnel at the scene of the crash. Continue reading...

The US president spoke about the war with Iran during the UN general assembly on Tuesday, threatening to 'annihilate' the country and 'drive them into hell' if the regime didn't agree to a deal with the United States

Jake and Logan Paul were invited to give a motivational speech. Just don't let them get involved with military policyWe're now approaching month seven of a war against Iran that Donald Trump repeatedly assured us would be over in a matter of weeks. Prices are rising, troop morale is plummeting, and there is little evidence things will improve.The situation is so desperate that the decision makers at the Pentagon have decided to bring out the big guns. I'm not talking about nuclear weapons, although Trump recently threatened to blow the entire nation [of Iran] up". No, I'm talking about influencers Jake and Logan Paul, who are famous for doing idiotic stunts on YouTube and getting hit in the face during boxing matches. Last Thursday, Pete Hegseth's Department of Defense or whatever they're calling it these days (the Department of War Crimes?) welcomed the Paul brothers to Washington DC to meet with our warriors" and deliver a motivational speech. In response, former Republican congressman and air force officer Adam Kinzinger wrote, We aren't a serious country at the moment." That about sums it up. Continue reading...

Jury report says no credible evidence' points to criminal conduct related to death of Mississippi teen after boat outing with friends on 4 JulyA grand jury made a unanimous decision late Monday night to not bring criminal charges against anyone in the mysterious death of Nolan Wells, a Mississippi teen who died after a boat outing with friends on 4 July.The Jackson county, Mississippi grand jury, which met from 14 September to 18 September, issued 132 subpoenas during its investigation, considered evidence from 43 witnesses and investigators, and reviewed an independent investigation by Wells' family. They also considered physical and digital evidence, including mobile phone data and forensic reports, photographs, videos and GPS data. Continue reading...

South Carolina medical examiner says no signs of trauma' and the manner of death has been ruled accident'Hayden Panettiere died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Greenville county coroner's office.Medical examiners in South Carolina confirmed the 36-year old actor's cause of death on Tuesday, saying: The cause of death has been ruled as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol and Quetiapine." Continue reading...

Mark Rutte has the right idea - go beyond Washington and make the case for the transatlantic alliance to the public. They may well have a willing earAt a moment when Europe is focused on persuading Donald Trump to remain committed to Nato, it needs to convince Americans, too. So the presence this evening of the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, in front of a public audience in Des Moines, Iowa, is significant. This is the home town of Trump's ambassador to Nato, Matthew Whitaker, and the visit brings the debate over Nato's future directly to a midwestern audience in a red state that operates far from elite foreign-policy circles in Washington. Rutte's appearance is long overdue.Russia's war in Ukraine and uncertainty over the US commitment to European security have forced European leaders to confront their dependence on Washington. While some are pressing for building European capabilities as a means to separate from the US, others see greater European defence spending as essential to keeping the US engaged. Either way, European governments can't rely solely on meetings with Trump to secure the alliance's future. Continue reading...

Son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber died at a rehabilitation facilityThe death on Sunday of Presley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber, is being investigated as a suspected overdose, according to police.Gerber died at a rehabilitation facility, Los Angeles county medical examiner records show. An autopsy was performed, but more testing was required before investigators could give a cause of death for Gerber, which the medical examiner did not immediately do.The Associated Press contributed Continue reading...

Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teacher's fatal car wreck on Monday reportedly led to a vehicular homicide conviction for the motorist who crashed into her - a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator's widower while he prepared to cover the 2025 Super Bowl for Telemundo.Todd W Armstrong's one-day bench trial in an 11 April 2024 traffic collision that killed Ashleigh Boyd in Topeka, Kansas, resulted in the judge, Andrew Holmes, finding him guilty of vehicular homicide, driving on the wrong side of the road and speeding, according to the victim's father, Brian Hinck. Continue reading...

President's decision to ban three news organisations from White House prompts backlash. Plus, a new resource to help trace the history of enslaved people in the 19th centuryGood morning. The row over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds.The president had abruptly announced his ban against CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying he had had enough of purposely negative stories" about him. On Monday the ban against CNN meant no broadcaster was covering Trump's midday ribbon-cutting for a new White House helipad. The White House provided its own livestream but the president's remarks were inaudible over the sound of a helicopter's engine.How have CNN, MS Now and Politico responded to the ban? A lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order that would immediately lift the ban. In a statement, the organizations said: We are filing a lawsuit today to protect our first amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes."What other significant media developments have there been? Paramount has reached a settlement with California and several other states that sued over its proposed $81bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), the California attorney general announced, clearing the way to consolidate some of Hollywood's most recognizable TV networks and studios under one owner.What else is Trump expected to say at the UN? The US ambassador to the UN said Trump would speak about how he had confronted complex problems head-on around the world". Our writer Robert Tait notes in this analysis, however, that thanks to Trump's recent social media blitz and self-proclaimed 25 top achievements", the chances of an uplifting speech appear slim. Continue reading...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are seeing new forms' of diseaseThe US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday - but it's still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be accelerating and cases are appearing in ways providers have never seen before.Members of Congress on Monday requested an immediate briefing" on the decision to change how measles deaths are reported as cases continue to rise throughout the United States, reaching levels not seen in decades. A possible measles exposure was reported in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia last week. Continue reading...

Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump's powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conductBrendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was for about a decade a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group when he was in his late teens and 20s that some former members compared to a cult", according to a Guardian investigation.The Midtown group, which was based in the Washington DC area, attracted young people who were seeking help with addiction, sometimes at the urging of their parents. Continue reading...

The Democratic Senate nominee's views on Israel and comments after a synagogue attack prompted a public debate among Jewish votersWhen Jess Newman heard that Temple Israel in Detroit was attacked last March, her first thoughts went to her extended family.I grew up going to services there," she said. The attack was awful. My Jewish identity is very important to me." Continue reading...

It's becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chinLast week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both spoke before a Washington group demanding a stop to AI and its datacenters.Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs behind AI. Continue reading...

Veronica Escobar tells Guardian she was prevented from speaking to detainees at much-criticized Texas facilityFederal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Veronica Escobar from fully conducting her congressional oversight duties at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, the lawmaker said in an interview with the Guardian.Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso and surrounding areas on the US-Mexico border in west Texas, conducted an oversight visit last month at the Camp East Montana ICE tent facility housed in the Fort Bliss military base, after two separate disturbances" had been reported there in recent weeks. Continue reading...

If anything, the ongoing war is uniting a divided country against the foreign invaders. Washington seems a long way from grasping this pointThe US president, Donald Trump, asked recently on one of his Truth Social rants: When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?" So frenetic and all-over-the-place are Trump's statements that one does not know which are actual policies and which are simply noise. But if counting on the Iranian people" to rise up and fight is indeed US policy then, as far as I can tell from within Iran, it is a failed one. And miserably so. At least for now.There is no reliable nationwide polling that can tell us what Iranians think about the war in real time. So this is an observation, not a poll. It comes from conversations I have had with many people.Hossein Hamdieh holds a joint PhD in Geography and Anthropology from Humboldt University of Berlin and King's College London. He is currently based in Tehran, where he works as a social researcher Continue reading...

Jenn Lichter's childhood followed a difficult path. The resilience she gained helped her achieve an unbreakable ultrarunning feat this summerOn 27 June, Jenn Lichter lined up for her first 100-mile race, the Western States 100. The oldest and most prestigious 100-miler in the world, Western States attracts a highly competitive field from around the globe - the athletes run across the Sierra Nevada from Olympic Valley to Auburn, California. Despite 18,000ft of climbing and daytime temperatures often flirting with triple digits, Lichter went in confident. I wanted to win, there was no secret to that," she says. That's just who I am."The race remained close for the first half, until the 30-year-old made a move on the climb to Devil's Thumb. The gap grew and at the final aid station, Lichter had a sizable lead over the athlete in second place. A mile from the finish, Nick Cornell, Lichter's fiance, told her she was just ahead of the course record. That was the first I had heard about it," Lichter says. He knew my competitive side would jump at the challenge." Continue reading...

The rights of overseas voters are protected by US federal law. It's not hard - but Americans should start planning nowThe UK hosts the second largest population of voting-age US citizens outside the United States, but Americans living in the UK vote at very low levels in US elections.The US government's Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) estimated that there were 298,268 voting-age US citizens in the UK in 2022, second only to Canada. But FVAP also estimated that only 3.8% of these US citizens in Britain voted in that year's midterm elections. Why do hundreds of thousands of eligible US voters in the UK not exercise their right to vote, even though US rules for voting abroad are relatively welcoming compared to many other countries? Continue reading...

Trump's announcement on Russia ally comes as he steps up his trade war with Canada, a long-term US ally and top supplier of potashPresident Donald Trump has said he is working on a massive" deal to buy fertiliser from Belarus, pivoting away from main supplier Canada amid an escalating trade dispute, and moving instead toward an ally of Russia.The United States is working on a massive deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus," Trump said on his Truth Social network. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our farmers and ranchers." Continue reading...

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White House promoted its own Trump TV' feed online after ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participateThe major US television news outlets agreed to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds.The collective decision came after the barred outlets - CNN, MS Now and Politico - sued the administration on Monday, saying the president's actions were a violation of their first amendment rights. Continue reading...

Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a great mayor' for New York CityDonald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a great mayor" for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding up as a symbol of the Democratic party's alleged embrace of communism" ahead of the November midterms.At a news conference following their closed-door meeting at Gracie Mansion, Trump and Mamdani appeared friendly as they have in previous meetings. Mamdani said he and Trump held a wide-ranging" discussion, which touched on affordable housing and immigration, but did not offer extensive details regarding any disagreements between them. Continue reading...

Thousands of flights were delayed or canceled after a primary line failed and a backup fiber-optic cable was severedAirport operations across the US north-east resumed Monday evening after a communications line failure snarled flights at some of the country's busiest airports, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and delays.Flights were halted at several airports after a primary communications line failed at a key Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facility in Philadelphia. The backup fiber optic line, which delivers internet service, was inadvertently severed by a railroad construction crew, resulting in a telecommunications crash and hundreds of canceled flights at Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, Philadelphia and Boston airports. Continue reading...

Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket companyA federal judge on Monday refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas, while environmental groups vowed to continue their legal challenge.US district judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr declined the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction to prevent the parcel exchange, saying they failed to prove it would worsen ecological risks to a Gulf coast region already transformed by billionaire Elon Musk's rocket operations. Continue reading...

Shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez comes months after increased federal immigration enforcement in AustinThe Venezuelan man who was shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas on Sunday spoke out from detention on Monday afternoon when he was able to call his lawyer, in the middle of a press conference, and plead for better medical care.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was taken from a hospital in Austin into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, even though he apparently still has a bullet lodged near his spine and is in much discomfort. Continue reading...

Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fightA long-running legal fight over Missouri's congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by Donald Trump, even though the US supreme court has blocked those districts from being used in the November election.A three-judge panel of the 8th US circuit court of appeals said Missouri should use the new Republican-drawn US House districts in the November election, just as the state did in its August primary. To revert to its prior districts for the general election would violate the US constitution, the appeals judges said. Continue reading...

Accra Reset's report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacleThe United States' withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South under growing strain" a new report warns.The report says the Trump administration's cuts to programs such as US Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs of living globally have brought new urgency" for the need to reform healthcare in the region. Continue reading...

Holdout juror in Clancy's case, Michael Desronvil, sided with the prosecutors, arguing that Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three young childrenLawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children.In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyers asked the court to question the juror about his alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire that prospective jurors filled out before the trial began and his truthfulness when jurors were questioned by the judge a day before the trial ended. Continue reading...

Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid AhmedThe last time she gathered with fellow Democrats for a pre-election national convention, Georgia state representative Ruwa Romman got an unspoken message from the party establishment: on their biggest stage, she said, There's room for an anti-choice Republican but not for Palestinians". Democratic officials gave speaking slots to an architect of Georgia's strict abortion ban and other conservatives critical of Donald Trump, but they denied a speech from Romman or other Palestinian Americans.In Democratic primaries this year, voters rejected many of the party establishment's choices, including a 15-term congresswoman in Colorado and the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The unlikely winners in all those races emphasized empathy and accountability for Palestinian losses in Gaza; Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Senate primary, made opposition to the ardently pro-Israel group Aipac central to his candidacy. With 60% of potential Democratic voters in a May poll sympathizing more with Palestinians than Israelis and 48% saying the party has been too supportive of Israel, the base is eager for Democratic leaders to rethink unfettered US-Israel solidarity. Continue reading...