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Ex-officials ask FCC to reject petitions to deny renewal of broadcast licenses for eight stations owned by ABCA group of prominent former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials, including key staffers and commissioners appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents, issued a filing Tuesday that warns the agency is trying to send a chilling message" to broadcasters after it received petitions to deny ABC license renewals for eight of its local television stations.The network's licenses are up for early renewal after an extremely unusual order from the Brendan Carr-led FCC in late April, following criticism of ABC by Donald Trump and Melania Trump. Continue reading...

The 20-year-old crypto bro likes to keep a low profile. He could still be forced to testify before the House oversight committeeUnlike his garrulous father, Barron Trump seems to be a man of few words. The president's youngest son has been busy flogging energy drinks and making millions from cryptocurrency schemes, but he's not big on public speaking. Indeed, the best-known clip of him talking is probably from when he was four years old and said I like my suitcase" in a Slovenian accent.Still, while 20-year-old Barron Trump might prefer to stay behind the scenes, he may find himself hauled in front of Congress and forced to answer some difficult questions. Last week, Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman and a member of the House oversight committee, called for Barron to testify about his alleged connections to the toxic influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate. The Tate brothers, who have become household names by monetising misogyny, were recently arrested in Miami, just before Andrew was due to co-host a bare-knuckle boxing event. They're now fighting extradition to the UK, and face allegations of rape, assault, trafficking and offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography". They deny these charges. Continue reading...

Authorities say the killings fit the definition of family annihilation, one of at least eight in the US this yearAuthorities in Michigan have identified a man they say fatally shot his wife and six children on Friday in a mass murder that fits the definition of a family annihilation.Citing autopsy results, the Ottawa county sheriff's office said in a news release Monday that Kristopher Karolkiewicz; his wife, Amanda; and their six children, aged five to 15, all died of gunshot wounds before their bodies were found in their burning home in Grand Haven Township. The agency noted that Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot himself to death - and said the deaths of Amanda and the children were ruled homicides. Continue reading...

Controversial move to classify Iran war as two separate campaigns criticised as attempt to minimise casualty figures. Plus, the man who started an animal shelter after a dog saved his life

If you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss's latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think againI hope you have found time to enjoy Fifa president Gianni Infantino's 15-page Instagram meltdown about his World Cup. The last time I saw this many defiant words, they were inked on someone sitting cross-legged on the floor of a Salvadoran supermax prison.Infantino has been clapping back at his haters - putting them on blast, in the parlance of our times - and on this evidence seems mesmerisingly close to picking out a Chicano script font and getting STILL I RISE needled across his corporate clavicles. Right next to the ones reading THROUGH THE FIRE, UNBREAKABLE and BUILT DIFFERENT.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnistMarina Hyde's new book, What a Time to be Alive!, is out in September (Guardian Faber Publishing, 20). To support the Guardian, order your signed copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply Continue reading...

ICE report reviewed by the Guardian discloses a patient was subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization', which experts have described as tortureThe Trump administration subjected at least one person undertaking a hunger strike in immigrant detention to forcible medical treatment - engaging in medical practice that healthcare associations and international human rights groups have described as torture.A document from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) health service agency, reviewed by the Guardian, confirms for the first time that the administration has used forced treatment on a hunger striker since Donald Trump began his second term. The document, published online in February by the ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), discloses that an unnamed patient who began hunger strikes between October and December of last year and was subject to force feeding, hydration, or forced urinary catheterization, or involuntary blood draws". Continue reading...

Like genies of folklore, AI agents take their instructions literally - to potentially disastrous effect. We must track their ability to do what we actually meanIn July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world's AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious dataset had been used to run code on one of its servers. Whoever was behind it captured internal security credentials and moved through systems over a weekend, running thousands of actions from a swarm of temporary server environments. It looked like the work of a sophisticated criminal group.It was not. It was one of OpenAI's new, still unreleased GPT models. Continue reading...

Whether in favor of or against the US-Israel war on Iran, people across the country are left holding the bill and wondering on its purposeFive months after the United States and Israel started a historically unpopular war against Iran that was going to supposedly last weeks, the fighting has refused to resolve in victory, defeat or peace. Iran's Supreme Leader had been killed in the opening strikes, ceasefires broke down, and the strait of Hormuz has been closed and re-opened.For voters interviewed across the country, while the damage may be distant, the residual effects have shown up at the pump, on the grocery bill and in a phone call telling a spouse they have a day to report for deployment. And for a country still absorbing the aftermath of Israel's war on Gaza - funded to the tune of billions of dollars by the United States - the war in Iran lands on top of an already raw argument about what American power is for. Continue reading...

Da'Jon Anthony Hayes-Burr, shot by another teenager, had stopped a 45-year-old man from harassing a 12-year-old girlKentucky's largest city is mourning the recent shooting death of a teenage boy who had earned a municipal commendation months earlier for defending a young girl from sexual harassment - and survived being stabbed in the process.Da'Jon Anthony Hayes-Burr, 15, was shot on Saturday night in Louisville's Shawnee neighborhood, according to authorities there. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital, and police booked a 14-year-old on a count of murder, as the Louisville news outlet WAVE first reported. Continue reading...

Rights groups condemn secrecy surrounding killings and say hurry to execute raises chance of torturous' deathsFlorida is preparing on Tuesday to carry out the state's first double execution within a single day since the start of the modern era of the US death penalty in 1976.Barring last-minute legal intervention, James Duckett, 68, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at noon on Tuesday at Florida state prison near Starke. Six hours later, Dominick Occhicone, 80, faces the same fate. Continue reading...

For generations, support for Israel was central to Jewish-American identity. But today, amid accusations that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, a growing generational and political divide is reshaping views in the US Jewish community. Matthew Cassel travels to New York City - the heart of Jewish-American life - to explore how Israel's wars across multiple fronts are challenging long-held traditions and dividing families. Continue reading...

MTC provided security at heavily criticised Manston centre in Kent and could now make 500m managing the siteA private security company linked to Donald Trump's immigration crackdown reported a slump in UK revenues after losing an asylum centre contract but could make 500m managing the same facility until 2036.Management & Training Corporation (MTC) said sales fell from 28.4m to 17.6m in 2025 after its contract to provide security and care" at the heavily criticised Manston site in Kent ended in September. Continue reading...

Born in a camp in Nepal, I was welcomed to the United States as a child. Loving this country does not mean ignoring its contradictionsIt was a hot, dry afternoon, sometime in the spring of 2009. I was wearing an oversized T-shirt and a pair of shorts twice the size of my waist, held up with a piece of wire. I sat beneath a tree across from the bamboo office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), waiting.My heart pounded as sweat rolled down my face. Every few minutes I looked toward the dirt road, hoping to see the white van. Finally the blue IOM logo came into view, and within seconds, dozens of people were running toward it. Continue reading...

Landmark deal covers about 76,000 claims and could end contentious, decade-long legal battleJohnson & Johnson said it would pay an estimated $5.5bn to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc products caused ovarian cancer, in a landmark deal that could end a contentious, decade-long legal battle.Johnson & Johnson on Monday said the settlement covers about 76,000 claims, including ones consolidated in a federal court in New Jersey, and related cases in state court, representing nearly all of the remaining talc claims against the company. Continue reading...

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Court filing shows authorities believe there is at least one more shooter than the two previously thoughtSeattle authorities said on Monday there were at least three suspects involved in the deadly shooting at a food festival on Sunday evening near the Space Needle. One of them was among the three killed in the violence.A document filed in juvenile court on Monday revealed a suspect aged 15 was arrested and waived his initial court appearance. The filing also showed that police think there are at least three shooters rather than the two initially reported: the 15-year-old, an acquaintance who died at the scene and at least one other unknown suspect". Continue reading...

El-Sayed says in TV debate ogre on a pike' Zoom comment was in reference to John Fetterman, not Haley StevensThe Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said his comments that progressives need to put the head of an ogre" on a pike was in reference to the US senator John Fetterman - not his opponent, representative Haley Stevens.In a televised debate on Monday, the final head-to-head before the state's 4 August primary, the moderator asked El-Sayed whether he regretted his comments made in a Zoom meeting, in which, according to leaked audio published by Politico, he suggested that if you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message". Continue reading...

Police believe Sara Gilson was killed by husband Jeremiah Duffy after she accused him on TikTok of child sexual abuseSara Gilson, the social media influencer who was killed after she publicly accused her husband of child sexual abuse, couldn't seem to get away" from Jeremiah Duffy despite filing multiple protective orders, Gilson's ex-husband said in an interview.She had been stuck in a relationship where domestic abuse seemed OK'," Lyle Landers told People. I had begged her for five years to get away from him. I had offered to help her, in any way I could, to get away from him. But he seemed to have some sort of control over her, and she couldn't seem to get away." Continue reading...

Fraught time for Ken Martin as new reporting details cash-flow problem and divisions over party's directionMounting financial pressures and growing internal turmoil at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have intensified scrutiny of chair Ken Martin, as new reporting detailed a deepening cash-flow problem, management concerns and widening divisions over the party's direction less than 100 days before the November midterm elections.The latest reporting has underscored both the committee's financial distress and the toll it has taken on Martin personally. The New York Times reported that the embattled DNC chair, who took the helm last year, became the subject of an internal HR inquiry after throwing his phone in the direction of a junior aide's desk during a heated exchange in early July, prompting a formal complaint. The Times, citing people familiar with the matter, also reported that the incident nearly cost him his job and has contributed to growing isolation with the party as the committee grapples with mounting financial strain. Continue reading...

Defense department updated database of casualties to list four service members deceased in Overseas Operations'A controversial move by the Pentagon to reclassify casualties in the Iran war is being taken by US military veterans as a sign of disrespect for the dead.It's such a huge disrespect for the families," said Michael E Smith, a retired US rear admiral and the founder of National Security Leaders for America. To claim that they weren't killed as a result of the war - oh, it was just overseas operations - is just ludicrous." Continue reading...

Tornado that blackened midday sky rips roofs off homes and flips vehicles in town of MenashaA tornado struck north-eastern Wisconsin on Monday, blackening the midday sky and sending workers sheltering in office basements as ferocious winds splintered homes, scattered twisted metal across a highway and knocked out power to more than 30,000 people.The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Winnebago county, about 90 miles (145km) north-west of Milwaukee. Damage was reported in cities including Appleton and Menasha, where police chief Matt Albrecht said some homes and businesses were severely impacted". Continue reading...

Prosecutors claim singer killed Celeste Rivas Hernandez after she threatened to expose relationship and ruin his music careerA Los Angeles judge ruled on Monday that singer D4vd must stand trial over the killing, sexual abuse and mutilation of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.Judge Charlaine Olmedo decided after a five-day preliminary hearing that prosecutors had provided enough probable cause to put the 21-year-old singer, who was born David Burke, on trial. Prosecutors have claimed Burke killed Celeste after she threatened to expose their relationship and ruin his burgeoning music career. Continue reading...

A parasite called cyclospora has sickened thousands of people across at least 41 states and prompted waves of headlines about weeks-long "explosive diarrhea". But as Guardian health contributor and reporter Melody Schreiber tells host Carter Sherman, Donald Trump's cuts to the CDC and FDA have kneecapped the agencies' ability to contain the dangerous outbreak - which is now growing rapidly. Melody and Carter trace one food supplier's role in the outbreak, discuss the future of public health and reveal tips for safe eating and cooking.

Bryan Kohberger, convicted of killing four college students in 2022, claims he pleaded guilty due to bad legal adviceA man convicted last year of killing four college students in Idaho has filed to withdraw his guilty plea and seek a new trial, claiming he pleaded guilty due to bad legal advice.Bryan Kohberger was convicted of breaking into a six-bedroom house in 2022 and killing four University of Idaho students in their early 20s. The victims - Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin - were found dead with dozens of knife wounds. Goncalves also showed evidence of asphyxiation and blunt force trauma. Continue reading...

Democrat Jamie Raskin pushes Fifa to release records of contact with Trump, administration and family businessJamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, has launched an investigation into Fifa president Gianni Infantino, seeking documents that would detail the ties between soccer's governing body and Donald Trump and his administration.In a Sunday letter, Raskin wrote to Infantino and called for Fifa to provide any documents and communications related to gifts, payments or benefits provided to Trump and his associates, as well as the visitor logs for Fifa's office space in Trump Tower, which it acquired last year. The committee also requested that Infantino sit for a transcribed interview. Continue reading...

Emergency appeal comes after court upheld ruling blocking president's order ahead of November midtermsThe Trump administration has asked the supreme court to clear the way for an executive order from Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting.The emergency appeal comes after an appeals court upheld a ruling blocking the president's order in nearly half the country ahead of November's midterm elections. Continue reading...

David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los AngelesThe Department of Justice has moved to dismiss charges against a prominent California union leader who was arrested while protesting against an immigration raid in Los Angeles last year, in the latest US government case against protesters to fall apart.David Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West, was arrested at a June 2025 demonstration and has been fighting the charges ever since. On Monday, the US attorney's office in LA filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him. Continue reading...

Today show host says her family will always ache for' mother Nancy, who has been missing for nearly six monthsSavannah Guthrie has posted a new video asking those responsible for her mother's unsolved disappearance to do the right thing" and point her family to their matriarch's location after nearly six months.In a new Instagram video posted on Monday, captioned Bring her home" alongside a yellow heart emoji, the NBC Today host issued an emotional public plea, saying: It has been months since our mom was taken from us. Our family is in agony. We are in a nightmare that will not end. Nothing about our situation has changed. We have done our part. We will never stop looking for her." Continue reading...

Kentucky senator has been absent and not seen in public since mid-June after he was hospitalized due to a fall

At a time when the quickening pace of global heating has never been clearer, climate policies are being deprioritisedA new and ominous word has entered the vocabulary of firefighters struggling to cope with the vast wildfire sweeping through south-west France. A pyrocumulonimbus is a fire-generated thunderstorm that can whip up winds in unpredictable ways, making the containment of a blaze and assessment of its likely course far more difficult. A known phenomenon in North America and Australia, firefighters believe France is suffering its first in the Bordeaux region, as the country endures the consequences of the third major heatwave of the summer and prepares for a fourth.The dire statistics of the ongoing fires in France and Spain tell a story of deepening devastation and human misery. A far greater expanse of French land has already been burnt this year, compared with the 30,000 hectaresduring the whole of 2025, while 220,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the Gironde. In Spain, the environment ministry has calculated that over 170,000 hectares have been affected, compared with 29,000 last year. Over100,000 people have been forced to flee.Do 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...

Julie Masino faced criticism as restaurant chain was called woke' and soulless' after unveiling modernized logoCracker Barrel's CEO, Julie Masino, is stepping down, the restaurant announced on Monday, nearly a year after the company was swept into a political maelstrom over proposed modernizations to its branding.Critics on social media denounced the Tennessee-based rustic restaurant chain as woke" as well as sterile and soulless" after it unveiled an updated logo that removed Uncle Herschel, the overall-clad man leaning against a barrel in the restaurant's original logo, last August. Donald Trump weighed in on the updates soon after, posting: WTF is wrong with Cracker Barrel?!" and demanding on social media that the company admit a mistake". Continue reading...

The supply of soccer seems to be enormously exceeding demand. It's made the sport feel utterly overwhelmingOn Friday, the Scottish Premiership kicks off its 2026-27 season. The following Friday, the Dutch Eredivisie begins anew, and England's Carabao Cup sets off on its ponderous journey. The various European club competitions have already begun their qualifying rounds - and did so on 7 July, in the case of the Champions and Conference Leagues. Liga MX is two rounds into its Apertura season; Major League Soccer resumed its regular season on 16 July. Other soccer is available elsewhere and at other times.It has been only a week since the World Cup ended.This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond, helmed this week by Leander in Jonathan's absence. Subscribe for free here. Have a question for Jonathan? Email soccerwithjw@theguardian.com, and he'll answer the best in a future edition.Leander Schaerlaeckens is a Guardian US contributor whose book on the US men's national soccer team, The Long Game, is out now. You can buy it here. He teaches at Marist University. Continue reading...

Former top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during CovidDiary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top US government science adviser's growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president rambling", crazy", desperate", bumbling", incompetent", an idiot", a true embarrassment", totally nuts" and truly an obnoxious adolescent".From the earliest days of the crisis six years ago, Fauci noted in his journal challenging interactions with the publicity-fixated Trump. On 27 February 2020, amid the first stirrings of public alarm, he wrote of a surprise late-night call, in which the US president wanted to chat about the coronavirus situation in general". Continue reading...

Europe and US risk being outpaced on innovation, as happened in the car industry, warns Pascal SoriotAstraZeneca must operate at Chinese speed" to ensure it does not suffer the fate of the western automotive industry by losing out to more innovative rivals, the drug company's boss has said.The FTSE 100 company is watching the rise of China's pharmaceutical industry closely and collaborating to take drugs to global markets, but its chief executive, Pascal Soriot, said the US and European pharmaceutical sectors must focus on increasing the speed of innovation. Continue reading...

Chicagoans come together for cathartic and communal screaming experience as activity gains traction across USPeople strolling along North Avenue Beach, a sandy strip on Lake Michigan, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, are apt to see something unusual on Sunday evenings.That's because Chicago's Scream Club" meets there every week during the city's warmer months, bringing together a community of up to 300 people who like to scream out over the water - and it's an activity that seems to be spreading across the US. Continue reading...

Coalition says Chemours downplayed health and climate risks in bid to fast-track the compound's useA coalition of 17 environmental groups is demanding the Environmental Protection Agency reject a new Pfas that chemical giant Chemours is attempting to fast track for approval for use in cooling datacenters, and would almost certainly pollute regions around the facilities.In formal comments submitted to the agency, the groups accuse Chemours of using bad science to downplay the chemical's toxicity and climate risks. Approving Chemours' application as it is would violate the law, the Earthjustice legal non-profit, a lead author of the comments, wrote. Continue reading...

Matthew Wolfe's Fires in the Night examines Earth Liberation Front, a US eco-anarchist movement, and its legacy of radical environmentalismAre echoes of 1990s radical environmentalism returning louder or fading away? It's a question posed by Fires in the Night, a new book on the history of the Earth Liberation Front (Elf), a loosely grouped band of US Pacific north-west activists that used economic sabotage and arson to protest environmental destruction.The members called themselves the Family" and were known to the outside world as Elves, owed to the acronym for the group Elf. Unlike rightwing extremists of the era, they practiced non-violence toward life, though not property. They were labelled domestic terrorists and practiced leaderless resistance". Continue reading...

Republicans have moved to dismantle a 60-year-old demographic reporting system. Now the agency wants to choose what it seesWorkplace discrimination isolates. When a Black manager is passed over for a promotion, or a pregnant worker is quietly sidelined, they are left with a polite excuse and a lingering suspicion. They cannot see the company-wide spreadsheet. They cannot know if others are hitting the same invisible wall. For 60 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has kept a spreadsheet of its own: an annual demographic snapshot compiled from employer reports. That nationwide record lets the agency see beyond any one complaint.Last Tuesday, however, the EEOC's Republican majority voted 2-1 to begin dismantling that reporting system. Two days later, the proposal entered the Federal Register, arguing that requiring employers to classify workers by race and sex may itself violate the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The rule is not final: comments are due on 24 August, and a hearing is set for 11 August. Continue reading...

The meet had lower stakes with no Olympics or worlds this year, but Nikki Hiltz, Sha'Carri Richardson and Cooper Lutkenhaus all took advantage of the momentIn two years' time, tens of thousands of fans will pack into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - with tens of millions watching around the world - as the world's fastest and strongest athletes compete at the 2028 Olympics.But this vast audience ebbs and flows in the long years between Olympics. On the other side of the country, around 5,000 fans filed into New York's Icahn Stadium this weekend for the USA Track & Field national outdoor championships. Continue reading...

New tariffs, gas price rises, the deaths of thousands, insecurity ... We're living at the whim of one capricious, vain, easily bored man and his gang of stoogesYou would be forgiven, as the US and Iran traded strikes over the past few days, for thinking that it was only last month that the two signed the Islamabad Memorandum, which formalised the process of ending the war and established a 60-day period to negotiate the final terms of a deal. That's because it was only last month. But there has been so much talk and bluster and strike and turn tail that the conflict feels like it has started and ended several times already. The whole war is only five months old but is already settling into a sort of permanent feature of life, one that is all repetitive theatre now, each act indistinguishable from the one before it to all but the most plugged-in observers. The war is over. The war is at its peak. The Iranians are brave people. The Iranians are scum, not least their leaders. The Iranians don't want a ceasefire. The Iranians are begging for one. The strait of Hormuz is open, it is shut, it is partly open.To recap, where we are now in the war that was only supposed to last a few weeks but is now entering its sixth month is that the US has expanded airstrikes on Iran in a major military punishment". Iran has once again struck US base targets located across the region. The Houthis have claimed their own blockade over a second shipping chokepoint - the war now extends from the Gulf to the Red Sea. Trump can't get out. Iran now understands the powerful leverage of the strait and its geographical, and therefore military, advantage in controlling it. Trump cannot end the war with that bargaining chip in its hands and the Iranians will not end the war without it. He can't withdraw on terms that merely restore the prewar status quo. And Trump can't go all in. Boots on the ground would be an extended bloody campaign that would claim many lives. In the US, the deaths of 18 troops so far and how the Pentagon appears to be trying to undercount that number has triggered outrage.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Southern and central states from California to Mississippi face heat indexes above 100F amid another heat domeAt least 40 million people were under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on Sunday as high temperatures and severe humidity gripped large swaths of the country for a second straight day.Heat indexes well above 100F (38C) stretched from Minnesota down to Mississippi, extending west into southern California and Nevada. Parts of the south-west were expected to see highs of 120F (49C), according to the National Weather Service. Continue reading...

Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and woundedThe Pentagon updated its official war casualty database over the weekend, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) also introduced a new casualty category labeled Overseas Operations" for personnel killed and wounded starting July 7".According to the updated database, the official toll for the earlier phase of the US-Iran war, known as Operation Epic Fury, now stands at 14 service members killed and more than 400 wounded in action. Continue reading...

Israeli prime minister says ICC's war crime charges are bogus' and plans to be in New York for UN gathering this fallBenjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, is fomenting hate" by calling the Israeli prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over Israel's war in Gaza if he visits the city for the United Nations general assembly.Netanyahu said he intends to be in New York in September to address the annual UN gathering of world leaders, despite the mayor's suggestion that he is not welcome. Mamdani said on Wednesday that while New York City does not have legal authority to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world's top war crimes court, he encouraged the federal government to do so. Continue reading...

Scott Gottlieb responds to report that company contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcementFormer Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb said on Sunday that it was not standard operating procedure" for Taylor Farms to ask the White House to intervene as the company prepared to announce a recall tied to a massive cyclospora outbreak.Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation, Gottlieb was asked about a report from the Wall Street Journal that Taylor Farms contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcement while federal investigators were preparing to publicly link the company to the multi-state outbreak. Continue reading...

Tom Homan comments on officer's eligibility to serve after reports that agent's two ex-wives had accused him of abuseTom Homan, the Trump administration border czar", on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the center of a recent fatal shooting in Maine should have ever cleared vetting".Speaking to CNN's State of the Union, Homan was asked by host Dana Bash about the officer's eligibility to serve following reports that two of his ex-wives had accused him of abuse.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

Singer rebukes Trump administration after it uses her song Firework over footage of missile striking Iranian naval shipPop star Katy Perry has condemned the Trump White House after it used her hit song Firework in a TikTok video showing US military strikes on Iranian targets, saying she never approved the use of her music.The White House video, which featured Firework playing over footage of a missile striking an Iranian naval ship, has amassed more than 6 million views. The post was captioned: Iran has been warned." Continue reading...

Even if no reactors are built, Donald Trump's announcement of a double-standards deal with Riyadh has wrought further damage in a new era of proliferationEven as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door to proliferation in the region on Wednesday. The US announced that it had signed a deal with Saudi Arabia which would potentially allow the kingdom to enrich uranium in future and to avoid the fullest inspection rights for the international watchdog.Experts have long warned that a civilian nuclear programme could create a path towards a nuclear-armed Riyadh. Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince and de facto leader, has said that if Tehran gets a nuclear weapon, we will have to get one". Concerns are magnified by the agreement's terms. Washington previously argued that the gold standard" was the United Arab Emirates' agreement to permanently forgo enrichment and accept full monitoring by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. Weakening it sets a precedent that Russia or China could also cite in nuclear deals in future. Continue reading...

New law prohibits retailers from using personal data to charge different prices for identical productsNew Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill recently signed a new law prohibiting businesses from using shoppers' personal information to charge different prices for identical products, making her state the third in the US to ban the practice.The Fair Price Protection Act passed by New Jersey's legislature seeks to protect consumers from surveillance pricing, in which retailers can use data including online activity, location and purchasing history to arbitrarily change prices for individual shoppers. Continue reading...

Sara Gilson was fatally shot less than two weeks after accusing her husband of pedophilia on social mediaAn Oklahoma woman known for posting on social media about parenting her children was fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide by her husband a short time after she published a clip alluding to allegations that he had molested a minor, according to authorities and court records.Sara Duffey - who was 43 and also went by Sara Gilson - Jeremiah Shawn Duffey, 48, were both found dead with gunshot wounds on Thursday at a home in suburban Tulsa, said statements from local police. Investigators suspected that Jeremiah had shot Sara and then himself. Continue reading...