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After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the USWhen federal agents fatally shot US citizen protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January during the nation's largest immigration-enforcement operation ever, it marked a turning point for the second Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.Donald Trump in his second term had sparked outrage and huge protests with federal immigration officers descending en masse to one Democratic-run city after another in what some leaders called militarized invasions". Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans, then Minneapolis saw lines of masked and armored officers swaggering into town to conduct street arrests, ambushes of day workers waiting in Home Depot car parks for hire, and neighborhood sweeps. Adults and kids were whisked off to detention and protests met with aggressive deployment of chemical spray, teargas, fists and batons. The killings in Minneapolis were the culmination of what appeared to many to be a federal shock force increasingly out of control while being defended by federal leaders - and public opinion broadly turned against this violence. Continue reading...

Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry's bottom lineSome of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert F Kennedy Jr's Make America Healthy Again platform, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project.The ascension of RFK Jr to secretary of health and human services has boosted his putative campaign to end chronic illness in the US, which he believes is primarily caused by processed foods and dyes, exposure to certain chemicals, and poor farming practices, along with an overuse of what he falsely claims are dangerous vaccines. The Maha" movement blends long-running mainstream concerns about food and farm safety with conspiracy theories about everything from medicine to milk. A Maha summit" in Washington this week will feature JD Vance and several members of Trump's cabinet. Continue reading...

The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicismKen Paxton's political career, more than that of any other Republican candidate campaigning in this cycle, charts the arc of the religious right. The most influential of its activists and donors engineered his rise as a culture warrior at each of its phases from his creation through every disgrace. His race for the Senate, the culmination of his ambition, has become not only his last stand, but also the Alamo for Christian nationalists in Texas.Paxton's rap sheet explains his Christian identity politics as a shield to distract from the liability of his own record of financial and sexual scandals scrolling back decades. The 20 articles of impeachment against Paxton, adopted by the Republican-controlled Texas house of representatives in May 2023, were double the Ten Commandments that Paxton insists should be displayed in every Texas classroom. Continue reading...

Kimya Holmes' lawsuit over a news segment on a real-estate transaction invokes law that no longer existsA New Orleans state court judge filed a police complaint against a local CBS affiliate after it aired a segment scrutinizing a real-estate transaction in which she was involved, with the jurist invoking a section of law that no longer carries criminal penalties, according to the journalist who reported the story.The situation centering on New Orleans criminal court judge Kimya Holmes and investigative reporter David Hammer was only the latest in a series of high-profile matters pitting Louisiana journalists against members of the state's court system. Continue reading...

The quarterback is widely adored on and off the field. Whether he deserves the public spotlight is another questionThroughout the NFL's history, we've had our fair share of clown princes. Not too long ago, Rob Gronkowski was the league's court jester. That history extends back, through Pat McAfee and Chad Ochocinco, past Jared Allen and John Randle to Jim McMahon, Steve McMichael, John Riggins, Alex Karras and Billy White Shoes" Johnson.There's probably something deeply insightful to say about the need for goofballs in a sport characterized by militarized order and a seriousness that borders on self-parody, but what's important now is how we reflect on these chosen merrymakers. Continue reading...

A Sierra Leonean nurse detained, handcuffed and flown to Ghana. An Iranian dissident sent to Central African Republic. A Cameroonian deported to Equatorial Guinea.This is the face of the Trump administration's policy since 2025 - striking deals with 35 countries and sending up to 25,000 migrants in the US across the world, often to places they have no connection to at all.The Guardian investigations correspondent Louisa Loveluck - as part of a consortium of journalists organised by Forbidden Stories - uncovers some of the human stories behind these deals.Today in Focus host Annie Kelly asks whether this is even legal and what happens to people once they are banished.What is Trump's third-country deportation policy and whom does it target?Banished to alien lands: Trump's secret deportation deals Continue reading...

Group of officers known as riders' in 2000s prompted longest arrangement of its kind in US historyAfter 23 years, a district judge has released the Oakland police department (OPD) from federal oversight, marking the end of the longest arrangement of this kind in US history.In the early 2000s, a group of police officers known as the riders" were exposed for offenses like planting evidence, falsifying reports and using excessive force against primarily young Black men. These actions led victims to file more than 100 civil lawsuits against the department. In 2003, as a part of the settlement of these cases, OPD was put on a federal court-ordered reform program. Continue reading...

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Curtis Wilkie Beasley executed for 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after US supreme court declines to interveneA 77-year-old Florida man was put to death on Tuesday for his conviction in a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber.Curtis Wilkie Beasley was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a lethal injection at the Florida state prison near Starke, authorities said. He was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft auto in the 1995 hammer attack on Carolyn Monfort at her home south of Orlando. Continue reading...

Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022The US Senate on Tuesday evening rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank, including the killings of nine American citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces over the last few years.The resolution, led by the Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, would have given the state department 30 days to report to Congress on those deaths and on wider human rights conditions in the territory, including Israel's detention of Palestinian children. Continue reading...

Yellow 2120' has been driven out of other Altadena neighborhood crawlspaces, but he just keeps coming backHe's back: the 550lb bear made famous after he took up residence under an Altadena home in November 2025 is wandering the Los Angeles neighborhood again after he moved in and out of the crawlspace of another home.Yellow 2120", as the black bear has been tagged, was spotted in the crawlspace of a home on Minoru Drive on Monday. Continue reading...

US president also issues executive order officially rebranding artificial intelligence' as superintelligence'Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a morally binding" agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. He announced the deal, called the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, following a White House luncheon with top tech executives.It's almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection," Trump said. Continue reading...

Garces Perez, who was shot in his car by agents, is accused of striking officer with side mirror while trying to drive awayFederal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an assault charge against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas, accusing the man of striking an officer with his side mirror while trying to drive away.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer, according to a criminal complaint. Garces Perez, whose attorney has said still has a bullet lodged in his back from the 20 September shooting, made an initial court appearance in an Austin federal court on Tuesday, according to the US attorney's office in the western district of Texas. Continue reading...

Caleb Flynn convicted of aggravated murder in shooting of Ashley Flynn, a schoolteacher and volleyball coachCaleb Flynn, the former Ohio music pastor and one-time American Idol contestant accused of killing his wife to pursue a lover, was convicted of her murder on Tuesday.As a judge read the guilty verdict, 40-year-old Flynn cried, shaking his head and closing his eyes at times. He faces up to life in prison. Continue reading...

Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from rulingThe Trump administration can resume quickly deporting immigrants to a third countries", or countries other than those immigrants' homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals, the supreme court ruled on Tuesday.The six-justice conservative majority of the high court temporarily lifted a lower-court decision that required the administration to provide immigrants sufficient notice and the opportunity to claim fear of torture or persecution in the countries where they are being sent. The Trump administration had claimed this stipulation had prevented it from efficiently removing aliens" from the US. Continue reading...

The verdict stems from Carroll's 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against TrumpDonald Trump has agreed to stop fighting in court the disbursement of E Jean Carroll's $5m verdict in her 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him, a procedural development as these funds were already distributed to her.While the decision does not change anything about Carroll's receipt of the payout, its revelation effectively means that Trump will no longer oppose the monetary outcome he had long fought. Continue reading...

More than 100 people have said they were injured by the ride in California, which reached speeds up to 76mphSix Flags has permanently shut down its embattled X2 rollercoaster in Valencia, California, the company announced on Tuesday, as numerous past riders have come forward with allegations of serious injuries.X2, a Magic Mountain park favorite, which reaches up to 76mph (about 122km/h) and has seats that can rotate 360 degrees, had been closed since mid-July. Continue reading...

During the 29 September US Senate judiciary committee hearing, the Republican senator Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith, the former special counsel, of attending an Atlanta Hawks basketball game in Atlanta. Schmitt insinuated that Smith was in the area when Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, revealed she'd had a relationship with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade. Smith, who led two criminal cases against Donald Trump in 2023, clarified he had attended an Iowa Hawkeyes v Maryland Terrapins game in February 2024 to watch Caitlin Clark Continue reading...

Douglas Carter, 71, who has spent more than four decades on death row, was released on bail until new trial beginsA Utah man who has spent more than four decades on death row was released from jail after newly analyzed DNA evidence showed that he was not connected to a 1985 homicide.Douglas Stewart Carter, now 71, walked out of the Utah county jail late on Monday night after a judge ordered his release on bail. He will have to wear a GPS monitoring device until a new trial begins. Continue reading...

Strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, and focus on folding Jewish history into public school educationZohran Mamdani debuted a sweeping plan Tuesday to combat antisemitism and hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City, moving to assuage concerns from critics who see his steadfast denunciations of Israel as antisemitic.The strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, an increased focus on folding Jewish history into public school education, and a pledge to highlight important Jewish cultural and religious sites in the mayor's day-to-day governance of the city. Continue reading...

GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate informationFormer special counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal cases against Donald Trump in 2023, faced attacks from Republicans in a wide-ranging hearing on Tuesday that included a basketball mix-up, a reference to the tooth fairy and accusations of perjury.In the Senate judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday, the Republican senator Eric Schmitt, of Missouri, raised perjury allegations against Smith, seemingly over a mix-up about the Atlanta Hawks and University of Iowa Hawkeyes basketball teams. Continue reading...

Texts, including unnamed male defendant appearing to apologize, reportedly sent days after alleged 2024 assaultExcerpts of text messages reportedly exchanged by a defendant in the Cornell University gang-rape case and the woman who claims she was assaulted were published by CBS News on Tuesday, a day after New York prosecutors said they were reopening a criminal investigation.The texts were reportedly sent within days of the alleged October 2024 assault at a campus fraternity house in which a female student said she was drugged and repeatedly raped over the course of seven hours by multiple men who were alerted to her presence on the social media platform Snapchat. Continue reading...

The Labour leader has set out his plans with passion and ambition, but the story he tells lacks a vital chapter on managing global chaosAndy Burnham is at home at Labour conference, and not only because it is in Liverpool and he has Merseyside roots. The prime minister is native to his political tribe wherever it gathers. He is fluent in its sentimental vocabulary and indigenous to its folk traditions.Keir Starmer had solid Labour bona fides. He joined the party as a teenager. His parents named him after Keir Hardie. But he didn't have Burnham's knack for turning those red-team credentials into an emotional connection.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

Recreational jumpers used their training as paramedics to treat crash victims before ground crews arrivedA team of experienced skydivers recently dropped in to help at a plane crash they happened to witness in Wisconsin - and used their training as paramedics to treat a seriously injured victim before ground-based rescue crews arrived.The single-engine plane carrying four people crashed in a cornfield near East Troy on Sunday, watched by the occupants of a Skydive Milwaukee aircraft who were preparing for an afternoon of recreational jumping. Continue reading...

Federal workers' union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissentThe union representing more than 8,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a lawsuit against the agency and administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday alleging the agency illegally terminated the union's collective bargaining agreement.The lawsuit, filed by two local unions of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), claims the agency failed to justify the contract's termination and was motivated by a desire to repress political dissent, a violation of the employees' first amendment rights. Continue reading...

Man, 57, was reportedly leaving A train at Utica Avenue station when stuck bag dragged him back and on to tracksA man in Brooklyn, New York, died after his bag got caught between the doors of a subway train which then dragged him down.On Monday, a man was leaving a Manhattan-bound A train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when his shopping bag became caught between the subway's doors. Continue reading...

With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck presidentIt took a dead child sex offender and a disastrous war to do it, but it looks as though the Maga faithful are slowly beginning to lose confidence in dear leader. As Donald Trump's approval ratings drop to record lows, some of his most fervent supporters are turning on him.See, as exhibit one, Trisha Hope, who was once a proud member of the Front Row Joes, a group of Trump superfans who follow the president to rallies around the country. They have custom-made T-shirts! They have branded baseball caps! They even have the attention of Trump himself, who frequently shouts out the group. He did once accidentally call them the front row Jacks and Joes", but who can expect a man of his calibre to pay attention to the plebs, eh? Continue reading...

Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates

Storm seems to have exposed segments of the Warren Sawyer, a wooden vessel that ran aground in 1884The nor'easter storm that pummeled New England over the weekend looks to have exposed large segments of a 19th-century schooner shipwrecked in the so-called graveyard of the Atlantic.The Warren Sawyer was sailing from New Orleans to Boston carrying cotton and scrap iron when the three-masted wooden vessel ran aground in Nantucket on 22 December 1884. Its captain and crew of seven were rescued and the ship began to break up after several weeks on the shoreline. Continue reading...

It marks another ratcheting up of Trump's trade war and affects nearly $1bn in imports of a $880bn trade relationshipUS-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early on Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1bn worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880bn worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of Donald Trump's second-term trade war with the US's longtime ally and trading partner. Continue reading...

Agent calls death of Haskins, who played the school principal in three programs, a tragic loss'The US actor Dennis Haskins - most known for co-starring in the popular Saved by the Bell television series franchise - has died, his agent confirmed on Tuesday. He was 75.Alluding to Haskins' Saved by the Bell character, the fictional high school principal Mr Richard Belding, agent Jay Schachter said in a statement: It's a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more. Continue reading...

Local sheriff's department announces new development related to disappearance of TV host's mother in ArizonaAuthorities are looking into the possibility of a new ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, nearly eight months after she went missing from her Arizona home, the Pima county sheriff's department said.The sheriff's department and the FBI Guthrie taskforce were recently made aware of the possible ransom note as well as social media comments related to it, the statement from the sheriff's department said on Monday. Investigators are working to determine its credibility. Continue reading...

Four sailors injured during unexplained mishap' onboard USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrierTwo US navy aviators ejected as they were landing their plane on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia on Monday, and four sailors onboard the vessel were injured in what naval officials characterized as a mishap".The two aviators, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3, successfully ejected as a mishap occurred during aircraft recovery operations" and were rescued by search and rescue personnel, the navy said in a short statement. Continue reading...

First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisisIt clouds your mind," recalls Deb Haaland, the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico's next governor. They say that, after the first drink, you lose your judgment."Haaland developed a drinking problem after leaving high school and was twice arrested for driving under the influence. But in her 20s she decided to get sober, a battle that required personal commitment and critical external support. She went on to become a member of Congress, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the House, and then to become the first Native American to serve as a US cabinet secretary. Continue reading...

Anthropic's prospectus makes chilling claim as new revelations emerge about Muse and Astra models. Plus the silent movie rediscovered in the strangest of places

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties - until they became casualties in the latest phase of Trump's anti-immigration campaign

Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight backHaving lost his mail-in ballot case, Donald Trump will likely resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November's elections.His last-ditch effort to count Joe Biden out in 2020 was for Republicans to investigate" states Biden narrowly won; proclaim fabricated allegations of stolen elections" to be true; and then reassign those states' electoral votes to Trump. I have previously described how that same playbook could be used to try to steal the midterms if a Democratic margin of victory in the House is relatively narrow. Continue reading...

Players across the league are leaving their teams up north to return home. It's prompted questions around money, tax rates, geopolitics and respectBack in September 1925, Frederick Wilson, sports editor at the Globe, explained the fear among hockey fans that Canadian teams might not be able to compete for players against the new US teams like New York or Boston that were entering the pro league. Will it be a matter of money?" Wilson headlined his piece. And for about a century, money was the recurrent nexus of the Canadian hockey panic, proven by franchise departures and depleted buying power.At the time, Wilson reassured everyone that, no matter the big US cash, everyone on the ice would be Canadian anyway. It will be some years before the [US] will be in a position to furnish players," he wrote. He was right about that. It took a long time for the US to catch up to Canada in on-ice talent. But now that it has, should we expect Americans to want to play anywhere else than the US? For 100 years Canada has worried that the US would just buy all the best hockey players. But now it makes its own and, as the new NHL season gets underway on Tuesday night, they want to go home. Continue reading...

Dog's handler resigned from sheriff's office after it emerged Bart had died due to severe dehydration in nearly 101F heatThe recent death of a Tennessee sheriff's office dog after being left in an outdoor kennel without water for a day and a half in excessive heat has prompted the animal's handler to resign amid administrative and criminal investigations, according to authorities.Bart had been a patrol dog specializing in suspect apprehension, tracking, searches and drug detection before his handler found him dead inside his outdoor kennel on 19 September, Julian Wiser, the Madison county sheriff, said in a social media video announcement. Continue reading...

As the postseason starts with the wildcard round, our writers pick the dark horses, likely winners and the high seeds at risk of going out earlyThe Mariners. The only active MLB team to have never appeared in a World Series came within a single win of ending that hoodoo last October and appeared poised to go one stage further in 2026. Instead, their 76-86 clunker feels like a wasted chance for a lineup featuring Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena. BAG Continue reading...

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Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stayChrista Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to death on Wednesday after her request for clemency was denied by Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Monday. If the execution goes through, she will be the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmates at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. Continue reading...

Police arrest couple in their 70s after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, found dead in park in Bay Area city of DublinA married couple in their 70s have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing their son-in-law, a New York Times engineer, in broad daylight at a suburban Bay Area park.A police officer found Jonathan McKinsey, 40, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in a park in Dublin, California, a small city about 35 miles (56.3km) east of San Francisco. Around the time the officer discovered him, 911 calls began pouring in from witnesses reporting the shooting. Continue reading...