The DoJ is investigating, with Cal-Maine's profits nearly eight times as high as at the start of the bird flu outbreakThe US's largest egg producer has reported soaring profits as consumer prices hit record highs thanks to avian flu - and alleged price-fixing which is being investigated by the Department of Justice.Cal-Maine's profits more than tripled compared with the same quarter last year - and are nearly eight times as high as at the start of the bird flu outbreak in February 2022, according to financial results published on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Early morning swims were a daily ritual for my dad until age and illness took its toll. On a recent visit, I hatched a plan to get him in the ocean again
Donald Trump bragged about countries 'kissing my ass' to negotiate tariffs during a dinner for Republicans on Tuesday. The US president said: 'We're going to do much better than that this time, because this time I'm doing what I want to do with respect to the tariffs.' He added that Congress should not get involved in the negotiations because 'they don't negotiate like I negotiate'
Politicians and student activists decry outlandish' deportation of Felipe Zapata Velazquez to ColombiaA campus protest is planned at the University of Florida on Wednesday in support of a Colombian student deported by the Trump administration following his arrest for alleged traffic violations.The family of Felipe Zapata Velazquez, 27, said on Tuesday he was undergoing a physical and emotional recovery process" in his home country after police arrested him in Gainesville on 28 March for offenses including having an expired tag and suspended driver's license, then turned him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Continue reading...
Records suggest Quest Diagnostics erroneously detected opiates. Lawyers say parole requests were jeopardized in the processThousands of drug tests used by a major US diagnostic company in California prisons last year are suspected to have generated false positive results, an enormous error that has jeopardized the parole requests of some incarcerated people, according to civil rights lawyers and prison medical records.California prison officials have known about the issue for months, but have failed to clear people's records or reverse the consequences people have faced from the tests. Continue reading...
Sergei and Marina were building a new life in California after protesting the Ukraine war. But Sergei was arrested during a routine check-in - and everything has changedSergei and Marina escaped Russia three years ago under threat of arrest after protesting against the Ukraine war, seeking asylum in the US. Now their best chance of remaining together, as a family, is to flee again.In a whirlwind three weeks, the couple's plans to rebuild their lives in the US were abruptly upended. Continue reading...
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Since Roe was overturned, a growing number of would-be abortion providers have begun to leave the country in search of an education as training in the US dwindlesOn paper, it should not be difficult for Dr Sebastian Ramos to learn to perform abortions. As a family medicine doctor, Ramos works in a specialty that frequently provides the procedure. He lives in deep-blue California, where it is still allowed. And the administrators running Ramos's residency program - a kind of apprenticeship that US doctors must undergo to become full-fledged physicians - support Ramos's desire to learn how to do it.But over the course of his three-year-long residency, Ramos is guaranteed just three days' worth of training at Planned Parenthood. Residents get to participate in only a handful of abortions. Continue reading...
We cannot be neutral with respect to fake news, misinformation or outright liesIn western academia, everything began with philosophy. Ever since, especially since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution of the 17th century, there has been a long, centrifugal process, with discipline after discipline making its distinctive contribution and marking out its methods and its domain of inquiry. Raphael's painting The School of Athens displays this perfectly, with the two great philosophers Plato and Aristotle in the centre. Yet even here, Raphael points at the specialisation of knowledge that is about to explode. Plato points upwards, symbolising his interest in the timelessness of metaphysics. Aristotle gestures downwards, emphasising his interest in the empirical.Today, at university, students and researchers focus on a single sub-branch of, say, modal logic, labour economics or organic chemistry. Knowledge has accumulated and fragmented. Renaissance men (or women) are almost nonexistent.Andrew Graham is a political economist, former master of Balliol College, Oxford and former director of the Scott Trust Continue reading...
As president proposes new cuts, data shows 11 corporations collectively recorded nearly $500bn in profits since last cutsEleven top US consumer goods corporations spent more than three times more on share buybacks than they did on taxes, using their savings from the 2017 Donald Trump tax cuts to supercharge purchases that enriched investors instead of lowering prices on goods essential to daily life, according to a new report.The findings are part of a new analysis of company filings by the Groundwork Collaborative economic thinktank. They come as the US president proposes $5tn in new tax cuts that would again lower the corporate tax rate, and likely lead to more buybacks. Continue reading...
Doug Ruch embarked on dying to serve tour' after learning he had fewer than 18 months left amid cancer battleA Texas man who recently learned he likely had fewer than 18 months to live amid his battle with cancer is using the time he has left trying to voluntarily perform community service - including feeding people who are unhoused - in each of the US's 50 states.Doug Ruch, 55, of San Antonio, said he embarked on what he named the dying to serve tour" after his terminal diagnosis made him reflect on things he could have done differently or better". Continue reading...
Further tariffs including 104% on China take effect. Plus, conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett becomes target for Maga attacksGood morning.The US and China are heading towards an all-out trade war, as Donald Trump unleashed a new wave of tariffs against dozens of partners that triggered a fresh day of stock market turmoil.How are markets moving in Wednesday trading? The UK's FTSE 100 index slid 2.4%, Germany's DAX fell 2.8%, France's CAC dropped 2.5% and Japan's Nikkei slumped 3.9%, but China's SSE index was up 1.3% at the time of writing. Follow our live coverage here.What's going on with bonds? Investors are alarmed at how the tariffs have provoked a sell-off in US bonds, causing yields for 10-year notes - usually the benchmark safe-haven asset, and a reference point for the cost of US government borrowing - to climb to 4.36%.Why has Trump's tariff methodology been disparaged? The new wave of tariffs are tailored to specific countries based on a formula that has been criticized by economists that divides trade in goods deficit by twice the total value of imports.What did the UN secretary general say? Pointing to the Geneva conventions governing the treatment of people in war, Guterres emphasized the obligation of the occupying power" to ensure the provision of food and medical supplies to the population. None of that is happening today. No humanitarian supplies can enter Gaza," Guterres said. Continue reading...
A decade ago, it was easy to believe US identity was a settled question. Now, as our institutions acquiesce to barbarism, the US's promise has been traded for chaosMaking America great again was never a promise Donald Trump could deliver on, nor one that he intended to. That said, he has undoubtedly thrust the US back into history - and not just through his assault, in recent days, on the global economic order.About 50 years ago, the tumults of the late 1960s and early 1970s began giving way to a quietude that would carry us through the end of the cold war. Tested as we may have been by conflict, scandals and crises economic and not, we entered this new century - and met the uncertainties of a new world we'd forced into being - surer of ourselves than ever before. The towers fell, yes, but the US's sense of purpose was as much of a settled fact in the world as American power. The American people were divided, true, but for all but an impertinent and implacable few, the major questions of American identity had been resolved. The meaning of American values, the contents of the American dream, the members, in good standing, of American society - these things were known and known so deeply, we supposed, that they hardly needed articulation. Continue reading...
Former sports stars can often feel forgotten after their college days are over. Some are taking the matter into their own handsTwo very different scenarios - a long-awaited title and a dramatic upset - unfolded in San Antonio and Tampa last weekend. UConn's women's basketball team won their first national title in almost 10 years and Houston's men pulled off a stunning comeback victory over Duke in the Final Four.Both teams were well supported by alumni, including former Huskies Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, and Sue Bird. Taurasi and Bird were on broadcast duties, but Moore and Stewart were in the stands during UConn's victory and breezed on to the court to celebrate the win. Meanwhile, Hakeem Olajuwon, who played college basketball at Houston before embarking on his Hall of Fame NBA career, was in town to cheer on the Cougars. But unlike the former Huskies, Olajuwon was denied permission to celebrate with his former college on court after their win over Duke.The athletic departments at UConn, South Carolina, Baylor, Notre Dame, and Tennessee did not respond to requests for comment for this article. Continue reading...
Why would anyone want a car that's too big for parking spaces, or that's a menace to other road users? I have a theoryExcuse me for a moment while I clamber on top of my high horse to deliver an important public safety announcement: stop buying enormous cars! Please, for the love of God, pedestrians and my tiny chihuahua that is just trying to cross the road, stop this cycle of car-brained insanity.I write this from the US, where everything (including the presidential ego) is supersized and where going for a walk means having to constantly peer around one enormous truck to make sure you're not going to get hit by another enormous truck. Still, at least in the US the big cars have big roads to drive down. The trend for bloated vehicles is spreading to places where they're even more unsuitable. New research has found that more than 1m cars that are too big to fit in parking spaces are being sold in the UK each year. Continue reading...
Four of us have received letters from the state telling us to leave or be removed. This is a terrifying illustration of Germany's lurch to the rightIn the first week of January, I received a letter from the Berlin Immigration Office, informing me that I had lost my right of freedom of movement in Germany, due to allegations around my involvement in the pro-Palestine movement. Since I'm a Polish citizen living in Berlin, I knew that deporting an EU national from another EU country is practically impossible. I contacted a lawyer and, given the lack of substantial legal reasoning behind the order, we filed a lawsuit against it, after which I didn't think much of it.I later found out that three other people active in the Palestine movement in Berlin, Roberta Murray, Shane O'Brien and Cooper Longbottom, received the same letters. Murray and O'Brien are Irish nationals, Longbottom is American. We understood this as yet another intimidation tactic from the state, which has also violently suppressed protests and arrested activists, and expected a long and dreary but not at all urgent process of fighting our deportation orders.Kasia Wlaszczyk is a cultural worker based in BerlinDo 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...
Ministers are insisting that Trump's regime can still be a friend. It's a delusion and a lieWhatever Britain's relationship with the US under Donald Trump might be, it should not be called an alliance. That word implies common goals, shared burdens and trust - a cooperative model that is not available from the White House.Trump's warped concept of reciprocity is encapsulated in his belief that foreigners are guilty of pillage" when they sell more goods to the US than they buy in return. The punitive levy, applied in proportion to the offending nation's excess exports, is a reciprocal" tariff in the president's lexicon.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
US president Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, the world's most polluting fossil fuel, which has also long been in decline. Under the orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet rising US power demand amid growth in data centres, artificial intelligence and electric cars
Pauses come after Trump officials sent warning letters to 60 US universities for failure to protect Jewish students'In early March, the Trump administration sent warning letters to 60 US universities it said were facing potential enforcement actions" for what it described as failure to protect Jewish students on campus" in the wake of widespread pro-Palestinian protests on campuses last year.The president of Cornell University, which was on the list, responded with a defiant op-ed in the New York Times, arguing that universities, and their students, could weather debates and protests over the war in Gaza. Continue reading...
During a US Senate finance committee hearing, senator from Virginia Mark Warner slams Donald Trump's 10% tariff on Australian imports, referencing the free trade agreement between the two countries and the US trade surplus with Australia. Warner labels the new tariff policy 'insulting' and 'ridiculous', calling Australia 'one of our strongest allies'. Trump's trade chief Jamieson Greer replies that 'we should be running up the score against Australia'Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube
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This live blog is now closedThe European Union still wants to avoid a trade war with the United States despite Donald Trump's administration's rejection of the zero for zero" offer on all industrial goods put forward by Brussels, an EU spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday.White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Monday that the European Union needed to lower its non-tariff barriers, including those created by value-added taxes and food safety regulations, if it wanted to reach a deal. Continue reading...
Michael Tanzi, who received lethal injection at Florida state prison for killing Janet Acosta in 2000, declared dead at 48A man convicted of killing a woman who was carjacked on her lunch break from her job at the Miami Herald was executed Tuesday evening.Michael Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a three-drug injection at Florida state prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, a production worker at the South Florida paper. The victim was attacked in her van, beaten, robbed, driven to the Florida Keys and then strangled before her body was left on an island. Continue reading...
An estimated 300,000 Canadians visit Palm Springs each year and Trump's levies threaten tourism in the regionWorried that Donald Trump's policies are scaring away Canadians, a key segment of their tourist industry, a California resort city has put up Palm Springs Loves Canada" signs across its downtown.It was a gesture to let our Canadian visitors know that what happens in Washington DC, is not the way that Palm Springs is looking at Canada," Ron deHarte, the city's mayor, said of the signs, which were installed on Friday. Continue reading...
President claims many' countries were seeking a deal with Washington and signs four executive orders on coal - key US politics stories from 8 AprilDonald Trump is poised to unleash his trade war with the world on Wednesday, pressing ahead with a slew of tariffs on the US's largest trading partners despite fears of widespread economic damage and calls to reconsider.The US president claimed many" countries were seeking a deal with Washington, as his administration prepared to impose steep tariffs on goods from dozens of markets from Wednesday. Continue reading...
Chinese government asks: Who represents the real threat?' after US defense secretary vows to keep canal secureUS secretary of defense Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that the Panama canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure.Hegseth's remarks triggered a fiery response from the Chinese government, which said: Who represents the real threat to the Canal? People will make their own judgement." Continue reading...
Order restores journalists access to White House spaces while the news agency's lawsuit moves forwardA US judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore full access to the Associated Press to presidential events, after the news agency was punished for its decision to continue to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.The order from the US district judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of Donald Trump, requires the White House to allow the AP's journalists to access the Oval Office, Air Force One and events held at the White House. Continue reading...
Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate's releaseAn immigration judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration has until 5pm on Wednesday to present evidence as to why Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, should be deported. She said that if the evidence does not support deportation, she may rule on Friday on his release from immigration detention.Khalil, a green-card holder and leader in the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year, was detained on 8 March. The Trump administration claims that his presence has adverse foreign policy consequences, an argument decried by his legal team as a blatant free speech violation. The government has not provided any evidence that he broke the law, a typical condition for revoking permanent residency. Continue reading...
Move comes after company signed agreement to support Department of Homeland Security's deportation effortsSeveral thousand people have signed a petition urging Avelo Airlines to halt its plans to carry out deportation flights in cooperation with the Trump administration.This comes as the budget airline company recently said it had signed an agreement to fly federal deportation flights for the administration from Mesa, Arizona, starting in May. Continue reading...
State is fourth in the US to create such a system, recognizing a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peopleNew Mexico became the fourth state in the nation to create an alert system for missing Indigenous Americans after its governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, signed legislation creating a turquoise alert" on Monday.The act, which passed both chambers of the state legislature unanimously during the state's recent legislative session, symbolizes the growing attention that a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people - most often women and girls - has received in recent years. Continue reading...
Nicholas Roske, of Simi Valley, California, faces up to life in prison over incident in Maryland in June 2022A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh at the US supreme court justice's home in a suburb of Washington DC nearly three years ago.Nicholas Roske was arrested near Kavanaugh's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in June 2022. Roske was armed with a gun and a knife, was carrying zip ties and was dressed in black when he arrived in the neighborhood by taxi just after 1am, authorities said. Continue reading...
Whitehall sources say Starmer and Reeves aligned in seeing steel as of huge strategic importance'Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are actively considering nationalising British Steel in an escalation of plans first revealed in the Guardian last year.The prime minister said all options were on the table to secure the future of the Scunthorpe plant, which is owned by the Chinese firm Jingye and employs about 3,500 people.Defended the welfare cuts as being based on dignity" and criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility for not taking into account possible behavioural changes of people affected by the cuts when assessing the consequences of the policy.Said threats from foreign powers targeting people in the UK were growing" and the issue was constantly being raised in international talks. He added: I think we generally underestimate that threat, and it's very important we're alive to it."Stepped up his criticism of regulators, telling MPs he was astonished" by how many there were and saying he was frustrated" by the barriers they put up.Called for an inquiry into the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza and said international law underpins everything we do bilaterally and multilaterally" when questioned about the conflict in the Middle East.Said he would speak to the intelligence agencies and the Kyiv government after Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukraine president, said two Chinese citizens had been captured fighting as part of the Russian army.Said changes to the social care system could come as soon as next year amid a review led by Lady Louise Casey. Continue reading...
Agreement between IRS and DHS will give unprecedented access to immigration enforcers to aid in deportationsThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will share taxpayer information about undocumented immigrants with homeland security officials, a move that will give unprecedented access to immigration enforcers to aid in deportations.A memorandum of understanding between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the IRS was filed late on Monday in a case brought by immigrants' rights groups Centro de Trabajadores Unidos and Immigrant Solidarity Dupage, represented by Public Citizen and other lawyers. The memo says Ice can request information from the IRS for its investigations into undocumented immigrants who have not left the country after receiving a final order of removal from a judge. It is signed by the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. Continue reading...
Georgia is still recovering from the impact six months on and the famed Masters course will look different as a resultHurricane Helene made landfall in the early hours of Friday 27 September, in Big Bend, Florida. Meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center had been watching it building for a week, as it moved away from Nicaragua, up past Grand Cayman, Cancun, and Cuba, and the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, had declared a state of emergency on the Tuesday afternoon.The current forecast for Hurricane Helene suggests this storm will impact every part of our state," Kemp said, but in Augusta, over in the east of the state, people felt safe, they hadn't had a hurricane here in almost 100 years, and this one was forecast to pass it by. Continue reading...
Prosecutors say Ryan Routh made reconnaissance' trips before alleged incident in West Palm Beach in SeptemberA man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last summer tried to buy a rocket launcher as well as an anti-aircraft missile from a person he thought was a Ukrainian arms dealer, court papers filed on Monday assert.The documents add substantial additional details to the justice department's case against Ryan Routh, 59, who allegedly made several reconnaissance" trips to West Palm Beach from his North Carolina home ahead of the alleged assassination attempt on 15 September last year. Continue reading...
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Bank says it still values inclusivity after bowing to Trump agenda by changing hiring and promotion policyBarclays has ditched gender and ethnicity targets for US staff, making it the latest UK company to bow to Donald Trump's anti-diversity drive.Managers at the US arm of the British lender will no long have to consider how new hires and promotions advance the careers of women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, who have traditionally been overlooked in the banking sector. Continue reading...
Just over 71,000 cars sold in first quarter as German manufacturer is silent on effect of US tariffsPorsche sales slumped in the first three months of the year as an increase in deliveries to the US was overshadowed by falls in Europe and China, while Donald Trump's trade war has triggered uncertainty in the global car industry.The German car manufacturer reported a 37% rise in North American deliveries in the period from January to March, hitting 20,698, which Porsche said was partly because of low figures last year when car deliveries were delayed due to import restrictions on Chinese components. Continue reading...
US supreme court justice dubbed disgusting fraud' for siding with liberal justices in Venezuela deportations caseAmy Coney Barrett, a conservative US supreme court justice, earned the ire of the far right by siding with three liberal justices in a ruling against the Trump administration this week, the second time in recent months that she has drawn their scorn.On Monday, she joined a dissent in a ruling over a 1798 law that Trump is using to deport alleged gang members to Venezuela and El Salvador. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Trump administration to use the Alien Enemies Act to continue these deportations, if detainees are given due process. Continue reading...
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