Federal workers' union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissentThe union representing more than 8,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a lawsuit against the agency and administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday alleging the agency illegally terminated the union's collective bargaining agreement.The lawsuit, filed by two local unions of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), claims the agency failed to justify the contract's termination and was motivated by a desire to repress political dissent, a violation of the employees' first amendment rights. Continue reading...
Man, 57, was reportedly leaving A train at Utica Avenue station when stuck bag dragged him back and on to tracksA man in Brooklyn, New York, died after his bag got caught between the doors of a subway train which then dragged him down.On Monday, a man was leaving a Manhattan-bound A train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when his shopping bag became caught between the subway's doors. Continue reading...
With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck presidentIt took a dead child sex offender and a disastrous war to do it, but it looks as though the Maga faithful are slowly beginning to lose confidence in dear leader. As Donald Trump's approval ratings drop to record lows, some of his most fervent supporters are turning on him.See, as exhibit one, Trisha Hope, who was once a proud member of the Front Row Joes, a group of Trump superfans who follow the president to rallies around the country. They have custom-made T-shirts! They have branded baseball caps! They even have the attention of Trump himself, who frequently shouts out the group. He did once accidentally call them the front row Jacks and Joes", but who can expect a man of his calibre to pay attention to the plebs, eh? Continue reading...
Storm seems to have exposed segments of the Warren Sawyer, a wooden vessel that ran aground in 1884The nor'easter storm that pummeled New England over the weekend looks to have exposed large segments of a 19th-century schooner shipwrecked in the so-called graveyard of the Atlantic.The Warren Sawyer was sailing from New Orleans to Boston carrying cotton and scrap iron when the three-masted wooden vessel ran aground in Nantucket on 22 December 1884. Its captain and crew of seven were rescued and the ship began to break up after several weeks on the shoreline. Continue reading...
It marks another ratcheting up of Trump's trade war and affects nearly $1bn in imports of a $880bn trade relationshipUS-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early on Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1bn worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880bn worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of Donald Trump's second-term trade war with the US's longtime ally and trading partner. Continue reading...
Agent calls death of Haskins, who played the school principal in three programs, a tragic loss'The US actor Dennis Haskins - most known for co-starring in the popular Saved by the Bell television series franchise - has died, his agent confirmed on Tuesday. He was 75.Alluding to Haskins' Saved by the Bell character, the fictional high school principal Mr Richard Belding, agent Jay Schachter said in a statement: It's a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more. Continue reading...
Local sheriff's department announces new development related to disappearance of TV host's mother in ArizonaAuthorities are looking into the possibility of a new ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, nearly eight months after she went missing from her Arizona home, the Pima county sheriff's department said.The sheriff's department and the FBI Guthrie taskforce were recently made aware of the possible ransom note as well as social media comments related to it, the statement from the sheriff's department said on Monday. Investigators are working to determine its credibility. Continue reading...
Four sailors injured during unexplained mishap' onboard USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrierTwo US navy aviators ejected as they were landing their plane on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia on Monday, and four sailors onboard the vessel were injured in what naval officials characterized as a mishap".The two aviators, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3, successfully ejected as a mishap occurred during aircraft recovery operations" and were rescued by search and rescue personnel, the navy said in a short statement. Continue reading...
First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisisIt clouds your mind," recalls Deb Haaland, the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico's next governor. They say that, after the first drink, you lose your judgment."Haaland developed a drinking problem after leaving high school and was twice arrested for driving under the influence. But in her 20s she decided to get sober, a battle that required personal commitment and critical external support. She went on to become a member of Congress, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the House, and then to become the first Native American to serve as a US cabinet secretary. Continue reading...
Anthropic's prospectus makes chilling claim as new revelations emerge about Muse and Astra models. Plus the silent movie rediscovered in the strangest of places
Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight backHaving lost his mail-in ballot case, Donald Trump will likely resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November's elections.His last-ditch effort to count Joe Biden out in 2020 was for Republicans to investigate" states Biden narrowly won; proclaim fabricated allegations of stolen elections" to be true; and then reassign those states' electoral votes to Trump. I have previously described how that same playbook could be used to try to steal the midterms if a Democratic margin of victory in the House is relatively narrow. Continue reading...
Players across the league are leaving their teams up north to return home. It's prompted questions around money, tax rates, geopolitics and respectBack in September 1925, Frederick Wilson, sports editor at the Globe, explained the fear among hockey fans that Canadian teams might not be able to compete for players against the new US teams like New York or Boston that were entering the pro league. Will it be a matter of money?" Wilson headlined his piece. And for about a century, money was the recurrent nexus of the Canadian hockey panic, proven by franchise departures and depleted buying power.At the time, Wilson reassured everyone that, no matter the big US cash, everyone on the ice would be Canadian anyway. It will be some years before the [US] will be in a position to furnish players," he wrote. He was right about that. It took a long time for the US to catch up to Canada in on-ice talent. But now that it has, should we expect Americans to want to play anywhere else than the US? For 100 years Canada has worried that the US would just buy all the best hockey players. But now it makes its own and, as the new NHL season gets underway on Tuesday night, they want to go home. Continue reading...
Dog's handler resigned from sheriff's office after it emerged Bart had died due to severe dehydration in nearly 101F heatThe recent death of a Tennessee sheriff's office dog after being left in an outdoor kennel without water for a day and a half in excessive heat has prompted the animal's handler to resign amid administrative and criminal investigations, according to authorities.Bart had been a patrol dog specializing in suspect apprehension, tracking, searches and drug detection before his handler found him dead inside his outdoor kennel on 19 September, Julian Wiser, the Madison county sheriff, said in a social media video announcement. Continue reading...
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As the postseason starts with the wildcard round, our writers pick the dark horses, likely winners and the high seeds at risk of going out earlyThe Mariners. The only active MLB team to have never appeared in a World Series came within a single win of ending that hoodoo last October and appeared poised to go one stage further in 2026. Instead, their 76-86 clunker feels like a wasted chance for a lineup featuring Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena. BAG Continue reading...
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stayChrista Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to death on Wednesday after her request for clemency was denied by Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Monday. If the execution goes through, she will be the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmates at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. Continue reading...
Police arrest couple in their 70s after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, found dead in park in Bay Area city of DublinA married couple in their 70s have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing their son-in-law, a New York Times engineer, in broad daylight at a suburban Bay Area park.A police officer found Jonathan McKinsey, 40, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in a park in Dublin, California, a small city about 35 miles (56.3km) east of San Francisco. Around the time the officer discovered him, 911 calls began pouring in from witnesses reporting the shooting. Continue reading...
Decision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US publicSupreme court justice Samuel Alito recused himself on Monday from a major climate-change case after facing calls to step aside due to stock holdings in oil companies.A letter posted in the case did not specify a reason, but the conservative justice has previously recused himself from other cases involving companies where he holds stock. Continue reading...
Danette Colbert and Rickey White sentenced in Adan Manzano's death for racketeering and negligent homicideA Louisiana judge has handed lengthy prison sentences to two people convicted of roles in a criminal enterprise that targeted New Orleans tourists led to the death of a reporter covering the 2025 Super Bowl there.Nancy Miller, a state court judge, on Monday sentenced Danette Colbert, 49, to a total of 60 years in prison: fifty years for racketeering and a consecutive 10 years for negligent homicide in the death of Adan Manzano, a journalist for the Spanish-language news outlet Telemundo Kansas City. Continue reading...
President says plant will be built by Indian-owned company and calls it largest such facility in American historyDonald Trump on Monday announced what he called the largest steel plant in American history to be built in Iowa, giving Republicans a jobs message to take to voters in a state that could help decide control of the Senate in November.Using advanced steelmaking technology, the plant will produce some of the highest quality, most affordable steel anywhere in the world," Trump said in the Oval Office, flanked by Iowa's top Republicans. Continue reading...
CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level dataSeveral Florida counties recently declared a state of local emergency in response to a spate of dengue fever infections.Hillsborough county, Florida, officials made the declaration on 24 September as health authorities recorded 134 confirmed cases of dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne sickness typically found in countries outside the US. Officials said that the spread of the illness poses an immediate and widespread threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents and visitors of Hillsborough county". Continue reading...
Case of alleged hazing at the University of Arizona is latest in series of controversial incidents involving US fraternitiesA college fraternity at the University of Arizona has been suspended after new members were allegedly plied with alcohol and forced to swallow live goldfish.College officials informed the university's Sigma Tau Gamma chapter by letter earlier in September that it was under investigation for multiple alleged violations of the student code of conduct, including endangering, threatening, or causing physical harm" to members of the campus community. Continue reading...
Andrew Bailey will resign as FBI co-deputy director about a year after assuming the positionAndrew Bailey, a deputy director of the FBI who has been overseeing some of Trump's election-related investigations, will step down from his position approximately one year after assuming his role.I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri," Bailey wrote in an X post on Monday amid an ongoing shake-up at the bureau. Continue reading...
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Sending migrants to countries they do not come from can have deadly consequences and must be halted, says reportThe deportation of thousands of migrants from the US to third countries has set off a cascade of human rights violations" that could have deadly" consequences, two dozen UN human rights experts have warned.Since Donald Trump returned to power in 2025, the US government has been offering millions of dollars to foreign governments to take in migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, with no ties to their countries. Deals have been struck with 35 nations, nearly a third of them in Africa. Continue reading...
Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements onlineBo French, a Texas Republican running to lead a powerful state agency, has a history of making controversial social media posts, including calling for the public execution of Democratic leaders, according to a recent investigation from CNN's KFile team.French, who is running to lead Texas's railroad commission, has recently faced criticism from members of his own party after making a racist post on social media. Powerful Republicans, including the Texas senator John Cornyn, said they would not support French in the upcoming election. Continue reading...
The Israeli prime minister's remarks at the UN weren't just motivated by personal animosityIn a boastful and defiant speech to the United Nations on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu called out a list of villains he insisted are intent on destroying Israel and promoting an anti-Jewish conspiracy by accusing Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza. He singled out the leaders of Hamas, Iran, Qatar and Turkey, among others. But Netanyahu spent considerable time on the global stage attacking an unusual target: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City.Netanyahu accused Mamdani of promoting antisemitism, falsely claimed that he supports Hamas, and argued that since the mayor took office in January, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York." The Israeli leader also criticized Mamdani's wife for liking social media posts that supported the Palestinian cause soon after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. Overall, Netanyahu seems to have devoted more time in his nearly 40-minute speech to singling out Mamdani than any other political leader, including Israel's traditional enemies. Continue reading...
Identity of man, 27, being withheld pending family notification after 700ft plungeA Base jumper died on Sunday in Utah after his wingsuit failed while he plunged from a 700ft height, according to authorities.Local news reports cited the Cache county sheriff's office, which said that the man fell to his death at age 27 in a mountainous region of Hyrum, which is east from the city of Millville. Continue reading...
Powerful weather system pummels shoreline for a second day, knocking out power to tens of thousandsResidents of coastal communities in the US's north-east slogged through floodwaters for a second day as a powerful storm known as a nor'easter pummeled the shoreline on Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes.Tidal surges swamped low-lying neighborhoods in New Jersey while wind gusts toppled trees on New York's Long Island, damaging homes and bringing down utility poles. Continue reading...
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the storiesAbortion has faded from the headlines since the Dobbs decision of 2022, and Republicans like it that way. In the immediate aftermath of the supreme court's overturning of Roe v Wade, as millions of women lost access to the dignity and self-determination that abortion provided them, clinics shut their doors, and the extent of Dobbs's horrendously adverse public health implications started to become clear, abortion was always, it seemed, in the headlines. There were plenty of stories. There was the first known woman to die as the result of an abortion ban; and then the second; and then the third. There were the various lawsuits and ballot initiatives that for a while turned access off and on and then off again in various states; then there were the state supreme court elections, races that were newly transformed by the abortion debate and on which the health and status of a state's women now relied. There were the clinics that shut their doors in Republican-controlled states, many of which had provided the essential, stigmatized care for decades, under hostile conditions, with persistence and innovation and determination that were staggering.But the stories have faded from the headlines as the years have gone by. Feminism has gone dramatically out of style, with the big women's rights NGOs wounded enough by Dobbs and attacks from the Trump administration that they have been largely unable to push their agenda in either media or policy, and algorithmic social media driving a rise in gender conservatism and politicized misogyny, particularly among young men. But maybe more importantly, abortion has ceased to be a story because the horrors of abortion bans have ceased to be news: the US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women's health and status that has followed Dobbs, grown used to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women's death and indignity. Continue reading...
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argueRecent attacks on US universities by the Trump administration have built on decades of efforts by libertarian donor networks, fossil fuel companies and conservative thinktanks to reshape university governance and increase outside influence, according to a new study.The authors of the new perspective study argue that the erosion of university autonomy has left colleges more vulnerable to corporate interests, especially within climate and energy research. Continue reading...
Bread experts weigh in on whether the rye sourdough that bakers feed every day' is worth that muchA loaf of bread has become New York City's latest viral hit and, somehow, status symbol.At Rye, the first US outpost of Austrian bakery Martin Auer, a 3.3lb loaf of 100% rye sourdough sells for $60 in SoHo. Made with just water, flour, salt and time, the bread has attracted the kind of attention once reserved for rainbow bagels, cronuts and skyscraper milkshakes. Which begs the inevitable question - is it actually worth that much? Continue reading...
Experts warn Republicans may try to sow distrust and claim foreign interference' in crucial hours after counting begins. Plus, two pandas have a new home thanks to US-China diplomacy
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Nino keeps warm water trapped along the coastConcerns are mounting about an ocean phenomenon known as a Kelvin wave that could raise sea levels along the California coastline by up to a foot, as scientists say El Nino is supercharging the threat of storm surges and flooding in the coming months.As an incredibly strong El Nino continues to develop in the Pacific, the phenomenon brings with it a strange shift in the ocean. The Kelvin wave phenomenon is created when trade winds that usually blow from South America towards Asia die down or reverse in El Nino years, setting off a massive, slow-moving slosh of water. Continue reading...
Trump's tariffs and his war against Iran caused prices to rise, but the US president continues to claim it's the greatest economy in history'Donald Trump has taken to repeating a familiar boast: We have the greatest economy in history," Trump said recently at a White House press gaggle. The boast comes even though inflation is higher and economic growth lower than when Joe Biden left office, even though gas prices have jumped around 50% since the war against Iran started, and even though 73% of Americans think the economy is in fair or poor shape (48% say it's in poor shape). What's more, the Federal Reserve is so worried about inflation that it just raised interest rates.It's bluster, it's gaslighting for him to say the economy is the greatest ever," said Darrick Hamilton, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, the nation's main union federation. The economy is trending down by many measures. A lot of that has been caused by Trump's unforced errors." Continue reading...
How can we fix our pricing crisis? Economic sociologist Lindsay Owens urges tough new rules - and a consumer uprisingRepeat after me: it's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault." That's the message to frustrated US shoppers in Gouged: The End of a Fair Price - and What That Means for Your Wallet by Lindsay Owens, economic sociologist and head of the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive Washington thinktank.Consumer rage is rising and no wonder - we are all living through the reinvention of the rip-off", Owens told the Guardian, an experience that is undermining Americans' trust in the economy. Nothing short of a consumer uprising and a slate of tough new rules is going to fix the problem, she believes. Continue reading...
Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinityTwo years after Donald Trump decisively won the vote of the American man, polls say male voters are increasingly disillusioned with an administration that has waged wars and enriched itself.Ahead of the midterms, Trump's strategy seems to be to find a way to get that masculine animus back, so the male populace will vote not with their heads or their hearts, but with their hogs. At least, that's one way of understanding why, this summer, Trump's secretaries of health and defense announced plans that could increase levels of testosterone, or simply T", in the civilian and military population. Continue reading...
David Perdue's remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the severe' military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled islandDonald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday.David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point." Continue reading...
The New England quarterback was a revelation in the 2025 regular season. But Sunday's loss was just the latest in a series of crushing lowsAfter the Patriots pulled out a win in Week 2 over the Steelers, despite another uninspiring performance from Drake Maye, Mike Vrabel avoided answering questions about his quarterback. Vrabel joked with a reporter not to ruin my Sunday" when asked about Maye. And this was after a win.On Sunday, Maye was largely responsible for ruining Vrabel's afternoon in the Patriots' 35-6 loss to Jacksonville, which felt like rock bottom (the Pats hope). Simply put, Maye was atrocious. The 2025 MVP runner-up was 14-of-25 for 199 yards, no touchdowns, two interceptions, three sacks, and a lost fumble. Continue reading...
John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump public service announcements' air before midtermsAs the White House expands a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote Donald Trump's political agenda before the November midterm elections, US senator John Kennedy told CBS News on Sunday there ought to be a rule" against such spending - before tacitly admitting such spending is probably" illegal.Kennedy, the US president's fellow Republican, was asked by Margaret Brennan, the CBS Face the Nation host, about the White House spending to air multiple ads featuring Trump - including one that was produced for his 2024 election campaign. Continue reading...
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