Groups will determine who is most vulnerable, on the Mexican side of the border, and their criteria has not been made publicThe Biden administration has quietly tasked six humanitarian groups with recommending which migrants should be allowed to stay in the US, instead of being rapidly expelled from the country under federal pandemic-related powers that block people from seeking asylum.The groups will determine who is most vulnerable, on the Mexican side of the border, and their criteria has not been made public. Continue reading...
News comes one month after labor department announced US added just 266,000 jobs, far below the 1m gain expected for AprilThe US added 559,000 jobs in May as the coronavirus pandemic receded, shaking off fears of a substantial slowdown in hiring after April’s disappointing monthly report.The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday that the unemployment rate had fallen to 5.8% from 6.1% in April, still significantly higher than the 3.8% unemployment rate recorded in February 2020 before Covid 19 hit the US but less than half its 14.8% peak in April last year. Continue reading...
LA Lakers, the defending NBA champions, are out of this year's play-offs after losing to the Phoenix Suns in six games. It is the first time Lebron James has lost in the first round, but claimed 'it doesn't matter to me … what matters to me is getting this team back healthy.'James also praised Suns shooting guard Devin Booker, who scored 47 points, 22 of which came in the first quarter.
Before the G7 summit, the EU’s four biggest economies united to increase pressure for an agreement to curb global tax abuse by multinational companiesGood morning.With the G7 summit set to begin in two weeks, the EU’s four biggest economies have raised the stakes for leaders to reach a landmark agreement to curb tax avoidance by multinational companies. Continue reading...
A series of slave revolts terrified white residents and helped fuel the rationale for gun ownershipBodies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “plague of gun violence” and the inability to mount an effective response, even in the wake of multiple mass shootings, is, unfortunately, rooted in the other pandemic gripping the United States: anti-Blackness and the sense that African Americans are a dangerous threat that can only be neutralized or stopped by a well-armed white citizenry.For too long, the second amendment has been portrayed with a founding fathers aura swaddled in the stars and stripes. Continue reading...
Experts say AI is set to grow rapidly in psychiatry and therapy, allowing doctors to spot mental illness earlier and improve care. But are the technologies effective – and ethical?In just a few years, your visit to the psychiatrist’s office could look very different – at least according to Daniel Barron. Your doctor could benefit by having computers analyze recorded interactions with you, including subtle changes in your behavior and in the way you talk.“I think, without question, having access to quantitative data about our conversations, about facial expressions and intonations, would provide another dimension to the clinical interaction that’s not detected right now,” said Barron, a psychiatrist based in Seattle and author of the new book Reading Our Minds: The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry. Continue reading...
Training documents reviewed by the Guardian show the Orange county department is also warning about the ‘extreme left’ and Black Panthers, raising concerns about false equivalency
Babylon founder Ali Parsa will net almost £1bn from Spac merger with Alkuri GlobalA virtual GP appointments app used by the NHS has announced a £3bn US stock market listing after agreeing to a blank-cheque company merger that will net its British-Iranian founder almost £1bn.Babylon’s reverse merger with Alkuri Global, a New York-listed special-purpose acquisition company (Spac), makes it the latest firm to take advantage of a growing Spac trend that makes it cheaper for private companies to go public. Continue reading...
The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the USThe advert painted an idyllic picture of White’s Island.For $449,000 you could buy 143 acres of forests with sweeping views of the rugged shoreline of Big Lake in Maine, on the east coast of the United States. “[It’s] a unique property … steeped in history … with only two owners in the last 95 years,” wrote the real estate agent from privateislandsonline.com. Continue reading...
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Jonathan Freedland and Joan E Greve look at what it might take for the Republican leadership to properly punish Marjorie Taylor Greene for the outrageous and offensive comments she continues to makeIn May Democrats and Republicans condemned Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments comparing Covid face mask mandates to Jewish people being forced to wear a yellow star during the Holocaust.Republicans stopped short of punishing the far-right Georgia congresswoman, though, unlike their decision to oust the veteran party member Liz Cheney from her House leadership position. Cheney was voted out because she continued to publicly reject Donald Trump’s lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election, and because she had voted to impeach Trump over his role in the 6 January insurrection. Continue reading...
The former vice-president was speaking at a New Hampshire Republican dinner as he considers his own 2024 White House runMike Pence has said he isn’t sure that he and Donald Trump will ever see “eye to eye” over what happened on 6 January, when a mob of the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the election.Pence, speaking at a Republican dinner in the early voting state of New Hampshire, gave his most extensive comments to date on the deadly events, when rioters broke into the Capitol building, some chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” after the vice-president said he did not have the power to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Continue reading...
Executive order will enforce a ban on 59 companies including Huawei and chip maker SMIC as president expands Trump-era policyJoe Biden has signed an executive order that bans American entities from investing in dozens of Chinese companies with alleged ties to defense or surveillance technology sectors.In a move that his administration says will expand the scope of a legally flawed Trump-era order, the US treasury will enforce and update on a “rolling basis” the new ban list of about 59 companies. Continue reading...
The Communist party is widening its attack on the legacy of 1989 – and criminalising a new generation of activistsOver the weekend, a diminutive, white-haired woman carrying a yellow umbrella and a homemade cardboard sign saying “32, June 4, Tiananmen’s lament” was arrested on suspicion of taking part in an unlawful assembly. She had been marching along the pavement alone. This Kafkaesque scene happened not in China, but in Hong Kong. The fate of “Granny Wong”, a 65-year-old protest veteran called Alexandra Wong Fung-yiu, underlines the rapidity of Beijing’s clampdown in the city where, just two years ago, 180,000 people attended the annual vigil remembering the 1989 killings in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing.This year the Hong Kong vigil has been banned. Anyone gathering at the vigil site in Victoria Park on Friday could face five years in prison. Even publicising the event could lead to one year in jail under Hong Kong’s draconian National Security law, imposed sight unseen at the end of last June following a year of massive pro-democracy demonstrations. Public commemoration has become so risky that one Hong Kong newspaper even suggested writing the digits “64”, to commemorate the date of the protest, on light switches, so that flipping the switch became an act of remembrance. These moves underline the dangerous power of public memory, and how the events of 32 years ago still represent a suppurating sore at the moral heart of China’s Communist party. Continue reading...
Workers began removing artwork and barricades from George Floyd Square, the memorial space constructed at the south Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer.
Bailey also defended Patty Hearst and Sam Sheppard but his legal career was halted when he was disbarred in two statesF Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended OJ Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said on Thursday. He was 87.The death was confirmed by Peter Horstmann, who worked with Bailey as an associate in the same law office for seven years. Continue reading...
FBI agents interviewed present and former employees who worked for Louis DeJoy about campaign contributionsFederal law enforcement authorities are investigating the controversial US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, who was widely criticized for his handling of the post office during the election, in relation to political fundraising that involved his former company, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.FBI agents recently interviewed present and former employees who worked for DeJoy and his business, according to the Post. They are asking about campaign contributions and business activities, sources told the newspaper. Prosecutors also hit DeJoy with a subpoena for information, according to the report. Continue reading...
First 25m doses will be disbursed across Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and AfricaJoe Biden has outlined how the US plans to share 80m Covid-19 vaccine doses with other countries, saying the first 25m doses will be disbursed across Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.After months of mounting pressure from the international community, the Biden administration said last month that it intended to send the 80m doses of US-approved coronavirus vaccines overseas by the end of June, but did not outline which continents or countries would benefit until now. Continue reading...
US president and first lady in the UK for G7 summit, his first foreign engagement since taking officeThe Queen will meet Joe Biden when he visits the UK for the G7 summit later this month, Buckingham Palace has announced.The head of state will welcome the US president and the first lady, Jill Biden, to Windsor Castle on Sunday 13 June. Biden is due to attend the G7 gathering in Cornwall, which will be held in Carbis Bay from 11-13 June. Continue reading...
Ex-president’s son is listed under the ‘activist’ category with an undisclosed amount of proceeds being donated to charityDonald Trump Jr has followed the growing list of minor celebrities, social media influencers and once influential politicians to join the personalized video messaging service Cameo.The former president’s eldest son, listed on the site under the category of “activist”, is charging fans $500 a video with an undisclosed amount of the proceeds being donated to his chosen charity. Continue reading...
Mare of Easttown would have been just another whodunnit without the rich detail of an older woman’s storyKate Winslet has always had guts. But for her to have a belly, let alone one that wobbles and jiggles in the way most 45-year-old women’s middles quite unremarkably do, is still apparently a thing so shocking as to make headline news. This week the star of the cult TV drama Mare of Easttown disclosed that she had refused her director’s offer to edit out footage of her “bulgy bit of belly” from a sex scene, arguing that her character should be allowed to look like the woman she was meant to be: a middle-aged small town detective who has carried two children, unwinds after an exhausting day with a beer rather than a gym session, and has rather more serious things to worry about than the odd flabby bit hanging over her jeans.“She’s a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we’re starved of that a bit,” as Winslet, who not only starred in but executive produced the show, puts it. Not since the eponymous heroine of Shirley Valentine ran away to Greece in search of one last adventure, and marvelled at her new lover’s willingness to kiss her stretchmarks, has a naked stomach on film been deemed to make such a statement. Continue reading...
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Community members had turned the intersection where Floyd was murdered into a public mourning spaceParts of the memorial space constructed at the south Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer were removed by work crews on Thursday morning.The city confirmed to the Guardian that barricades had been taken down to allow the intersection to be reopened to traffic, as reporters on the ground confirmed the presence of a large group of workers early in the morning. The deconstruction work appeared to have ceased within a few hours. Continue reading...
Girls sideswiped a car and then collided with a semi-truck but were both wearing seatbelts and no one was harmedTwo young girls in Utah stole their parents’ car so they could drive to California to go to the beach and “swim with dolphins”, authorities said.Related: Can a piece of software look after your elderly parent? Continue reading...
Eric Adams and Andrew Yang, leading the polls with Kathryn Garcia, were focus of their rivals during Wednesday eventThe New York City mayoral race exploded into life on Wednesday night, as the Democratic primary debate saw candidates clash over whether to rein in or bolster the city’s beleaguered police force, and the two centrist frontrunners found themselves variously attacked as Republicans or gun-toters.Related: Coming back better: New York City is reopening – but will it be fairer? Continue reading...
Friday’s meeting of finance ministers in London is a chance to clean up global taxation – but will they take it?When the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, welcomes the US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, to the meeting of G7 finance ministers in London on Friday, those gathered around the table at Lancaster House will have the chance to strike the biggest blow against tax abuse in a century.After decades of evidence that the international tax rules are unfit for purpose, the Biden administration has finally injected genuine ambition into efforts to prevent the super-profits of the world’s largest multinationals disappearing into tax havens. It’s a deal could deliver hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenues to boost the pandemic response and recovery. But there is also a downside: the current OECD proposals would distribute those revenues in a manifestly unfair way. That would surely eradicate any remaining legitimacy the richest nations could claim for their privileged position of setting rules for the rest of the world. Continue reading...
Manuel Gonzales, a New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque, was interrupted at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it. A man tried to grab the item, swinging his fist and calling Gonzeles a tyrant.The campaign group for Gonzales said the Democrat was unharmed and 'will not be intimidated'
In telling the president he can form a government under far-right politician Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid has taken a critical step in possibly ending Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year run in office
The increasing use of the uppercase letter seems empowering – but no one should impose any rules on blacknessAnti-racism. Allyship. Accountability. These are some of the key words that have accompanied the Black Lives Matter protests over the past year. But one little-noticed change is to the word black itself. Since the protests, people have started to capitalise the “b” when writing about black people.The Associated Press updated its influential style guide, known as a “bible for journalism”, to capitalise the “b”, stating that “the lowercase black is a color, not a person”. A significant number of news agencies, magazines, universities, publishers and cultural institutions followed suit. Continue reading...
Beijing is using blockchain to build a new internet and many developing countries are likely to sign up – but at what cost?Cyberspace is one huge, unregulated mess. A virtual wild west where sophisticated criminal gangs ply their trade alongside multinational companies, spy agencies, activists, celebrity influencers – and nation states. The question of who governs it is one of the biggest of our time.Britain needs to be, if not quite ruling the waves, at least a global force for good in the expanding virtual world. The issue has never been so pressing. Six years ago, I acted for a coder in the biggest cyberfraud phishing case in the UK. The malware my client and others created was so sophisticated that the police could not decode it but were able to show it was used for fraud. The financial data harvested was stored on two servers, one in France and one in the US, and the lack of international cooperation meant law enforcement never got their hands on it. Continue reading...
We asked the world’s press to commit to treating climate change as the emergency that scientists say it is. Their response was dispiritingThe TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R Murrow, the pre-eminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrow’s bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrow’s reporters to cover dance competitions in Hamburg, Paris and London, explaining that Americans needed some happy news. Murrow wouldn’t do it. “It’ll probably get us fired,” he told his colleagues, but he sent his correspondents to the German-Polish border; they arrived just in time to witness Hitler’s tanks and troops roar into Poland. Suddenly, Europe was at war. And Americans heard about it because journalists at one of the nation’s most influential news outlets defied convention and did their jobs.Related: ‘This is it. If we don’t amp up, we’re goners’: the last chance to confront the climate crisis? Continue reading...
The US owes African Americans reparations for Tulsa – but also for slavery, and countless other lynchings and race massacres, and Jim CrowA hundred years have passed since a mob of white Americans – with the backing of local political figures and police – stormed into the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street, and massacred an estimated 300 African Americans while burning and looting the entire neighborhood. This crime, for which no one was convicted, was one of the most severe single instances of racial violence in the history of the United States, and is finally being openly discussed after decades of national silence.With this renewed attention should come more than just news coverage and speeches. African Americans must be paid reparations – for the money and lives stolen by this country as a whole, for the crime of Tulsa and for the long list of violent acts that the United States was built upon. Reparations would not undo the injustices of the past – or the modern violence of budget cuts, housing discrimination, mass incarceration and mass policing – but it would at least signal a turning point, while greatly improving the lives of a people deeply wronged by a system that could hardly exist without them. Continue reading...
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A new series from Guardian US aims to scrutinize this monumental shift in the way society cares for those in needAmerica is facing a caring crisis, with too few careworkers able to take the difficult underpaid jobs that help the nation’s elderly and those with disabilities live with dignity.Who – or what – will step into the breach? Continue reading...
A select committee could break logjam as Democrats try to press ahead with an investigation in what could be the last opportunity to hold Trump accountable
On the day of her graduation, the Texas valedictorian Paxton Smith threw out her pre-approved speech and decided to use her platform to condemn the new extreme abortion ban in the state.When addressing the graduating class of Lake Highlands high school, Smith criticised the 'heartbeat bill', a law passed by the state's governor, Greg Abbott, in May that prohibits abortions after six weeks, when most people do not know they are pregnant. The near-total ban makes no exception, even in the case of rape or incest.'I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter,' Smith said.
The Brazilian – along with the likes of Tom Brady and LeBron James – offers more proof that the end only comes once we stop breathing and believing“Dreeew!” howled the exultant man on my laptop from his Fort Lauderdale home, filling the screen with the toothy, dimpled grin that leaves all who see it smiling almost as brightly. Such is the infectious effervescence of Hélio Castroneves, and on the Monday afternoon we finally connect this Roberto Benigni of the track is feeling extra bubbly.Just the day prior he’d scored a record-tying fourth victory at the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 after a 12-year dry spell that would make a nice career for just about any other driver. But even though Castroneves placed fourth in the 2017 championship and second twice in his previous seven Indy 500 starts, he wound up losing his longtime seat in Team Penske’s No 3 car. To explain it in terms a Lethal Weapon fan might appreciate: he was getting too old for this … sport. Continue reading...
New Mexico event disrupted as 20-year-old called candidate ‘tyrant’ while swinging fistA New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque was interrupted at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it and a man who called him a “tyrant” while swinging his fist.The campaign group for the Bernalillo county sheriff, Manuel Gonzales, said the Democrat was unharmed and “will not be intimidated”. Continue reading...
This week’s roundup also features Italy’s Euro 2020 squad rapping and Premier League one-goal wonders1) Italy pulled out all the stops for their Euro 2020 squad announcement, with the selected players taking part in a three-hour variety show. All in good fun, even if the rap segment might have been a bit much. It was all too much for Stefano Sensi.2) The French Open is in full swing at Roland Garros. Check out some fine sliding, a delightful drop shot from Gaël Monfils, skills from Laura Siegemund and Serena Williams enjoying herself. Continue reading...
Paxton Smith criticizes near-total ban that makes no exception for rape or incestThe valedictorian at a Texas high school went off script while delivering her graduation speech, criticising the state’s extreme abortion ban in an address that has since been widely shared on social media.School administrators had signed off on Paxton Smith’s pre-written speech on how TV and media have shaped her worldview. But, when it came time to address the graduating class of Lake Highlands high school, she pivoted. Continue reading...
Previous seizures of the records of journalists from the Washington Post and CNN have emerged in the past monthThe justice department under Donald Trump secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper has reported.The case announced on Wednesday is the third instance in the past month in which a news media organisation has disclosed that federal authorities seized the records of its journalists in an effort to identify sources for national security stories published during Trump’s administration. Continue reading...
From opioids to crack, families have been torn apart by the drug crisis rampaging through the US – as the stark work of these three photographers shows Continue reading...
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Local officials have worked to overcome Black fears rooted in the notorious Tuskegee study but Trump-supporting rural areas are another matterOmar Neal had every reason to be skeptical.Here in Tuskegee, Alabama, where roadways are dotted with signs that read “Vaccinate Me. Stop the Spread”, the history of racist medical abuse weighs heavily. Continue reading...
