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A shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, has left 10 people dead, including one police officer. One witness, Sarah Moonshadow, said she and her son were at the checkout when she heard multiple gunshots. The two ducked for cover and then started running to leave the store. The shaken customer said she took shelter behind a building, but her dog was still at the grocery store

A suspect has been arrested over the fatal shooting of 10 people including a police officer in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Plus, the US sanctions China over alleged Uighur human rights abuses

Today, people use fashion like emoticons: ready-made avatars that perform emotions so you don’t have to“New is the nightmare of every single designer,” lamented Miuccia Prada in a recent interview. And in the fashion world’s Covid lockdown year, the new nightmare meant converting runways usually organized in Paris, Milan or New York to an almost entirely online format for the rest of us, at home, scrolling through bite-sized content on pocket-sized screens.Related: 'The fakery is all part of the fun' – the hoax of the mirror selfie Continue reading...

As senior US officials arrive in Mexico for talks experts say deal to send Covid vaccine shows that migrants are still a bargaining chipJoe Biden took office promising to put a friendlier face on US immigration policy. He put an end to a scheme requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico, promised to restore the US asylum system and pledged to spend $4bn on addressing the root causes of migration in Central America.But as ever-increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors arrive at the US southern border and create a domestic political crisis for the US president, he is turning to a tactic used by his predecessors – including Donald Trump: outsourcing immigration enforcement to Mexico. Continue reading...

The skirt, a traditional Native garment, outshone everything in the Eisenhower building – and there is a story of empowerment and survival behind itIt was a dress that triggered a flood of headlines. Standing in front of Vice-President Kamala Harris with her right hand raised, Deb Haaland was sworn in last week as the secretary of the interior dressed in a long rainbow ribbon skirt adorned with a corn stalk, butterflies and stars.Related: Making history in style: Deb Haaland wears Indigenous dress at swearing-in Continue reading...

Carolina Ramírez Pérez was eligible for a US visa, but was forced to use dangerous methods to cross the border to safety, her family saysWeeks before Carolina Ramírez Pérez died in a packed SUV on a desolate California highway 15 miles from the Mexican border, her husband had begun bringing a machete to bed. Continue reading...

Dozens of bills would ban trans youth from certain sports teams. Experts say they’re based on unfounded fears and could harm vulnerable kidsRepublican lawmakers in more than 25 US states have advanced legislation banning transgender children from certain sports teams and limiting their access to gender-affirming healthcare.Trans youth represent just a fraction of the US population – recent estimates suggest they make up 0.7% to 2% of youth. But conservative lawmakers have introduced more than 80 bills regulating their lives in the first three months of 2021, the highest-ever number of anti-trans legislative proposals filed in a single year. Continue reading...

A new HBO documentary explores the ripple effects when Covid-19 shut down the NBA just as racial justice came to the fore in the United StatesChris Paul dribbles on. The 11-time All-Star point guard – or, “Point God,” as he is known – is midway through his 16th NBA season and his first with the Phoenix Suns, his fifth team and third in three years. The Suns are currently flying high in the Western Conference after a decade of disappointment, and have resumed playing at home before modest crowds of 3,000, in deference, of course, to the coronavirus.

Dozens of families pass daily through the Brownsville immigration depot in Texas, nearly all women with small children, telling the same story. They make their way north from Central America through Mexico hoping for jobs in the US that are often on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, but better than anything back home, and leaving leaving behind endemic violence. Paul Handley documents their plight Continue reading...

Store customers describe heartache of not being able to help some of the victims

The state filed the first major lawsuit against Biden’s administration, marking a return to a tried and true playbook of weaponizing the courtsTexas has branded itself as an aggressive and litigious arm of the Republican party for years – a rightwing David up against the Democratic Goliath.So, when Democrat Joe Biden took over the Oval Office in January, the state’s conservative leaders were already raring for a knock-down, drag-out brawl. Continue reading...

A gunman has killed at least 10 people including a police officer at a supermarket in Colorado on Monday 22 March 2021. Commander Kerry Yamaguchi of the Boulder police department addresses the media, saying the shooter is being held in custody and was injured.

Cabinet nearly assembled but president still must make hundreds of other federal appointmentsMarty Walsh has been confirmed as the next US labor secretary, bringing Joe Biden’s cabinet a step nearer to completion.The Senate voted 68-29 to confirm the Democrat, currently the mayor of Boston. Continue reading...

David Schwimmer got a base salary of £800,000, a £1.4m bonus and £4.3m in long-term bonus sharesThe boss of the London Stock Exchange Group almost tripled his pay to £6.9m last year after the company’s $27bn (£19.5bn) takeover of financial data provider Refinitiv led to a surge in LSE’s share price.David Schwimmer, a US banker who has been chief executive of LSE since 2018, was paid a base salary of £800,000, a £1.4m bonus, plus £4.3m in long-term bonus shares, according to the company’s annual report published on Monday. Continue reading...

Henry Cuellar released images as Biden administration under growing pressure over border conditionsThe Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar has brought more pain for the Joe Biden administration on its border policy by releasing pictures of an overcrowded immigration facility in Texas where he said more than 400 male minors were being held in a section meant for 250.Related: Officials head to Guatemala and Mexico amid rise in migrants at US border Continue reading...

Mario Gonzalez’s accusation would mean he was detained after images of suspect released and authorities captured him

Publisher says expert did not endorse book titled Dr Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor

Officials aim to ‘develop an effective and humane plan to manage migration’ as migrants flee violence in Central AmericaThe Biden administration announced on Monday that two senior officials will travel to Mexico and Guatemala to discuss the increase in migrants attempting to enter the US.Related: Is there a crisis at the border? Advocates in Texas say it's 'political manipulation' Continue reading...

Files made public as part of a national push for greater police transparency following the death of George FloydThe complaint records of 83,000 active and former New York City police officers have been added to a searchable public database justice advocates hope will help citizens and activists identify problem officers and trends in police abuse.The records were made public as part of a national push for greater police transparency following the death of George Floyd, an African American man, under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis last year. Continue reading...

Review showed that former Apollo chief paid Epstein $148m for his financial advising services and donated $10m to his charityBillionaire Leon Black, co-founder of one of Wall Street’s most prominent investment firms, unexpectedly stepped down early from his position as chief executive of Apollo Global Management on Monday, the latest in a series of moves following an inquiry into his ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.Apollo Global Management announced that Black will be leaving immediately, citing health issues he and his wife are experiencing. The company had announced in January that Black would be stepping down as chief executive before 31 July. Continue reading...

In whispers through air ducts and notes under cell doors, prisoners debate whether president will fulfill campaign promiseThrough notes passed under cell doors with string and conversations whispered through air ducts, death row prisoners in Indiana are debating whether Joe Biden will fulfill his campaign promise to halt federal executions.Related: 'This is not justice': supreme court liberals slam Trump's federal executions Continue reading...

Today’s girls are more alive to ‘tricky adults’ than we were, but I feel a nuclear rage that they still have to learn thisIt must have been around 1991 that a police officer visited our school and stood on the main stage in the hall. She was a lady police officer, which struck us as mildly outlandish and also signalled the nature of what was to come. A year or so earlier, a male officer had come to our single-sex high school to talk about bullying and civic responsibility. This was different. As we sat, cross-legged and sniggering, it was clear that she was here to talk to us, woman-to-woman.For many of us, news of the disappearance and death of Sarah Everard earlier this month triggered public horror and a private reckoning with our decades-deep conditioning about personal safety. In the event of being attacked, said the WPC that day, we were to stick our fingers in his eyeballs. We were to take the heel of one hand and ram it hard into his chin. We were to grab his nose and kick his shins. If all else failed, said this valiant woman staring down the embarrassed girls of year 11, we were to dig deep and vomit on him. That was it. Huge laugh. She’d lost the room. Continue reading...

Congressman Tom Reed allegedly rubbed Nicolette Davis’s back and unhooked her bra without her consent in 2017

With rising numbers of people attempting to cross, both parties are blaming the other for strain at the US border. Plus, why are so many Republican men set to refuse a Covid vaccine?Good morning.The US border was always going to hit a political nerve, but the issue is fast becoming the most contentious issue the Biden administration has faced so far. Continue reading...

Found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, what came before for the former NRL star is now more cautionary tale than achievementCue the cliches about the “Hayne Plane” crash landing. About lofty heights and rarified air and falls from grace. Jarryd Hayne has been many things over the past 15 years and now he is a convicted criminal, guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.Long gone are the days when Hayne was an enigmatic specimen many fans did not understand, but all wanted to copy. A Hillsong celebrity who in 2016 partied with an alleged Hells Angels bikie and, just as he had finished Snapchatting his “cash money fam, cash money, give me a fucking cigarette” video, fell victim to a pornography mishap at a high school. Continue reading...

The NFL is perhaps the most scrutinized league in the world. But who gives the best analysis of what goes on with the teams and players?1) Domonique Foxworth, ESPNFoxworth has a unique biography among NFL analysts. A former cornerback who played six seasons in the league, he went on to earn an MBA from Harvard and served as the president of the NFL Players Association. Continue reading...

Trump ally was not part of the 6 January riot but he had numerous contacts with key far-right groups and figures involvedAs the federal investigation of the 6 January Capitol insurrection expands, scrutiny of Donald Trump’s decades-long ally Roger Stone is expected to intensify, given his links to at least four far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who had been charged, plus Stone’s incendiary comments at rallies the night before the riot and in prior weeks, say ex-prosecutors and Stone associatesAlthough Stone was not part of the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that shocked America, the self-styled “dirty trickster” – who was convicted on seven counts in the Russia investigations into the 2016 elections but later pardoned by Trump – had numerous contacts with key groups and figures involved in the riot in the weeks before and just prior to its start. Continue reading...

With major voting rights legislation in the balance, Democrats have not reached a consensus over an essential procedural hurdleThe US Senate is rapidly hurtling towards a high stakes showdown over the filibuster, a once arcane procedural maneuver that stands in the way of Democratic efforts to pass sweeping voting rights legislation, among other measures. Continue reading...

The response within the global Asian community to news of the Atlanta shooting was, ‘not again’. We saw this coming

The Los Angeles Lakers star is out ‘indefinitely’ with a high ankle sprain. The 36-year-old’s legendary drive means he will try to return as soon as possibleIndefinitely. That is the word athletes hate to hear when they have an injury. Usually they just want to know, Can I play through it? Otherwise, when can I be back? Indefinitely is not a good word. On Saturday, LeBron James went down with an ankle injury. The injury is more striking given that he recently voiced his distaste for this month’s All-Star game, which he believed put more wear on players who had already had a shortened offseason due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Nevertheless, he made it through unscathed – or at least until the second quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday. While trying to grab a loose ball, he collided with Hawks forward Solomon Hill. James’s right leg began to roll in, but then his ankle forcibly rolled outward, which can be a recipe for a high ankle sprain. Continue reading...

It looks like many of us will only go into the office for half the week. But we shouldn’t forget those who don’t have the option