Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teacher's fatal car wreck on Monday reportedly led to a vehicular homicide conviction for the motorist who crashed into her - a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator's widower while he prepared to cover the 2025 Super Bowl for Telemundo.Todd W Armstrong's one-day bench trial in an 11 April 2024 traffic collision that killed Ashleigh Boyd in Topeka, Kansas, resulted in the judge, Andrew Holmes, finding him guilty of vehicular homicide, driving on the wrong side of the road and speeding, according to the victim's father, Brian Hinck. Continue reading...
President's decision to ban three news organisations from White House prompts backlash. Plus, a new resource to help trace the history of enslaved people in the 19th centuryGood morning. The row over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds.The president had abruptly announced his ban against CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying he had had enough of purposely negative stories" about him. On Monday the ban against CNN meant no broadcaster was covering Trump's midday ribbon-cutting for a new White House helipad. The White House provided its own livestream but the president's remarks were inaudible over the sound of a helicopter's engine.How have CNN, MS Now and Politico responded to the ban? A lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order that would immediately lift the ban. In a statement, the organizations said: We are filing a lawsuit today to protect our first amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes."What other significant media developments have there been? Paramount has reached a settlement with California and several other states that sued over its proposed $81bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), the California attorney general announced, clearing the way to consolidate some of Hollywood's most recognizable TV networks and studios under one owner.What else is Trump expected to say at the UN? The US ambassador to the UN said Trump would speak about how he had confronted complex problems head-on around the world". Our writer Robert Tait notes in this analysis, however, that thanks to Trump's recent social media blitz and self-proclaimed 25 top achievements", the chances of an uplifting speech appear slim. Continue reading...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are seeing new forms' of diseaseThe US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday - but it's still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be accelerating and cases are appearing in ways providers have never seen before.Members of Congress on Monday requested an immediate briefing" on the decision to change how measles deaths are reported as cases continue to rise throughout the United States, reaching levels not seen in decades. A possible measles exposure was reported in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia last week. Continue reading...
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump's powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conductBrendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was for about a decade a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group when he was in his late teens and 20s that some former members compared to a cult", according to a Guardian investigation.The Midtown group, which was based in the Washington DC area, attracted young people who were seeking help with addiction, sometimes at the urging of their parents. Continue reading...
The Democratic Senate nominee's views on Israel and comments after a synagogue attack prompted a public debate among Jewish votersWhen Jess Newman heard that Temple Israel in Detroit was attacked last March, her first thoughts went to her extended family.I grew up going to services there," she said. The attack was awful. My Jewish identity is very important to me." Continue reading...
It's becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chinLast week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both spoke before a Washington group demanding a stop to AI and its datacenters.Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs behind AI. Continue reading...
Veronica Escobar tells Guardian she was prevented from speaking to detainees at much-criticized Texas facilityFederal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Veronica Escobar from fully conducting her congressional oversight duties at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, the lawmaker said in an interview with the Guardian.Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso and surrounding areas on the US-Mexico border in west Texas, conducted an oversight visit last month at the Camp East Montana ICE tent facility housed in the Fort Bliss military base, after two separate disturbances" had been reported there in recent weeks. Continue reading...
If anything, the ongoing war is uniting a divided country against the foreign invaders. Washington seems a long way from grasping this pointThe US president, Donald Trump, asked recently on one of his Truth Social rants: When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?" So frenetic and all-over-the-place are Trump's statements that one does not know which are actual policies and which are simply noise. But if counting on the Iranian people" to rise up and fight is indeed US policy then, as far as I can tell from within Iran, it is a failed one. And miserably so. At least for now.There is no reliable nationwide polling that can tell us what Iranians think about the war in real time. So this is an observation, not a poll. It comes from conversations I have had with many people.Hossein Hamdieh holds a joint PhD in Geography and Anthropology from Humboldt University of Berlin and King's College London. He is currently based in Tehran, where he works as a social researcher Continue reading...
Jenn Lichter's childhood followed a difficult path. The resilience she gained helped her achieve an unbreakable ultrarunning feat this summerOn 27 June, Jenn Lichter lined up for her first 100-mile race, the Western States 100. The oldest and most prestigious 100-miler in the world, Western States attracts a highly competitive field from around the globe - the athletes run across the Sierra Nevada from Olympic Valley to Auburn, California. Despite 18,000ft of climbing and daytime temperatures often flirting with triple digits, Lichter went in confident. I wanted to win, there was no secret to that," she says. That's just who I am."The race remained close for the first half, until the 30-year-old made a move on the climb to Devil's Thumb. The gap grew and at the final aid station, Lichter had a sizable lead over the athlete in second place. A mile from the finish, Nick Cornell, Lichter's fiance, told her she was just ahead of the course record. That was the first I had heard about it," Lichter says. He knew my competitive side would jump at the challenge." Continue reading...
The rights of overseas voters are protected by US federal law. It's not hard - but Americans should start planning nowThe UK hosts the second largest population of voting-age US citizens outside the United States, but Americans living in the UK vote at very low levels in US elections.The US government's Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) estimated that there were 298,268 voting-age US citizens in the UK in 2022, second only to Canada. But FVAP also estimated that only 3.8% of these US citizens in Britain voted in that year's midterm elections. Why do hundreds of thousands of eligible US voters in the UK not exercise their right to vote, even though US rules for voting abroad are relatively welcoming compared to many other countries? Continue reading...
Trump's announcement on Russia ally comes as he steps up his trade war with Canada, a long-term US ally and top supplier of potashPresident Donald Trump has said he is working on a massive" deal to buy fertiliser from Belarus, pivoting away from main supplier Canada amid an escalating trade dispute, and moving instead toward an ally of Russia.The United States is working on a massive deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus," Trump said on his Truth Social network. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our farmers and ranchers." Continue reading...
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White House promoted its own Trump TV' feed online after ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participateThe major US television news outlets agreed to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds.The collective decision came after the barred outlets - CNN, MS Now and Politico - sued the administration on Monday, saying the president's actions were a violation of their first amendment rights. Continue reading...
Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a great mayor' for New York CityDonald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a great mayor" for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding up as a symbol of the Democratic party's alleged embrace of communism" ahead of the November midterms.At a news conference following their closed-door meeting at Gracie Mansion, Trump and Mamdani appeared friendly as they have in previous meetings. Mamdani said he and Trump held a wide-ranging" discussion, which touched on affordable housing and immigration, but did not offer extensive details regarding any disagreements between them. Continue reading...
Thousands of flights were delayed or canceled after a primary line failed and a backup fiber-optic cable was severedAirport operations across the US north-east resumed Monday evening after a communications line failure snarled flights at some of the country's busiest airports, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and delays.Flights were halted at several airports after a primary communications line failed at a key Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facility in Philadelphia. The backup fiber optic line, which delivers internet service, was inadvertently severed by a railroad construction crew, resulting in a telecommunications crash and hundreds of canceled flights at Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, Philadelphia and Boston airports. Continue reading...
Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket companyA federal judge on Monday refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas, while environmental groups vowed to continue their legal challenge.US district judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr declined the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction to prevent the parcel exchange, saying they failed to prove it would worsen ecological risks to a Gulf coast region already transformed by billionaire Elon Musk's rocket operations. Continue reading...
Shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez comes months after increased federal immigration enforcement in AustinThe Venezuelan man who was shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas on Sunday spoke out from detention on Monday afternoon when he was able to call his lawyer, in the middle of a press conference, and plead for better medical care.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was taken from a hospital in Austin into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, even though he apparently still has a bullet lodged near his spine and is in much discomfort. Continue reading...
Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fightA long-running legal fight over Missouri's congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by Donald Trump, even though the US supreme court has blocked those districts from being used in the November election.A three-judge panel of the 8th US circuit court of appeals said Missouri should use the new Republican-drawn US House districts in the November election, just as the state did in its August primary. To revert to its prior districts for the general election would violate the US constitution, the appeals judges said. Continue reading...
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Accra Reset's report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacleThe United States' withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South under growing strain" a new report warns.The report says the Trump administration's cuts to programs such as US Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs of living globally have brought new urgency" for the need to reform healthcare in the region. Continue reading...
Holdout juror in Clancy's case, Michael Desronvil, sided with the prosecutors, arguing that Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three young childrenLawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children.In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyers asked the court to question the juror about his alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire that prospective jurors filled out before the trial began and his truthfulness when jurors were questioned by the judge a day before the trial ended. Continue reading...
Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid AhmedThe last time she gathered with fellow Democrats for a pre-election national convention, Georgia state representative Ruwa Romman got an unspoken message from the party establishment: on their biggest stage, she said, There's room for an anti-choice Republican but not for Palestinians". Democratic officials gave speaking slots to an architect of Georgia's strict abortion ban and other conservatives critical of Donald Trump, but they denied a speech from Romman or other Palestinian Americans.In Democratic primaries this year, voters rejected many of the party establishment's choices, including a 15-term congresswoman in Colorado and the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The unlikely winners in all those races emphasized empathy and accountability for Palestinian losses in Gaza; Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Senate primary, made opposition to the ardently pro-Israel group Aipac central to his candidacy. With 60% of potential Democratic voters in a May poll sympathizing more with Palestinians than Israelis and 48% saying the party has been too supportive of Israel, the base is eager for Democratic leaders to rethink unfettered US-Israel solidarity. Continue reading...
A helicopter assisting in fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite national park crashed on Sunday afternoonTwo helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon.The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres since it ignited last week, when their helicopter crashed around 3pm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Continue reading...
James Eaton, 51, faces life in prison after jury rejects insanity defense rooted in claims he was acting on orders from US and Israeli intelligenceA jury has convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad.Jason Eaton, 51, faces up to life in prison over the November 2023 attack near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, which left Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the waist down and wounded his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid. Continue reading...
California man charged with misdemeanor battery in Burbank over incident sending three patrons to hospitalA 34-year-old man from California has been arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying a person at a movie theater who was using his cellphone during the film, according to authorities.Police arrested Matthew Ware on 15 September after purportedly pepper spraying a patron at the AMC Burbank 16 who was using his cellphone, while two other moviegoers nearby also experienced irritation from the pepper spray, according to the Burbank police department. All three people were treated at a local hospital. Continue reading...
President to meet Ukrainian counterpart in New York as Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian energy sectorDonald Trump is expected to press Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on an energy ceasefire during a face-to-face meeting this week during United Nations high-level week, as world diesel prices have soared due to the war in Iran, as well as Russia's war in Ukraine.Ukraine stepped up its attacks on Russia's energy sector over the weekend, launching its largest reported strike yet on the Moscow region in a barrage that struck a major Moscow oil refinery and killed three people. Continue reading...
States including California and New York sued over concerns of extinguishing competition' with $81bn mergerParamount has reached a settlement with California and several other states that sued over a proposed $81bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), the California attorney general announced Monday, clearing the way to consolidate some of Hollywood's most recognizable TV networks and studios under one owner.Though the merger was approved by the justice department in June, a coalition of 12 states, led by California, had sued over concerns that combining two of the five last legacy studios in Hollywood would extinguish competition" and lead to fewer movies in theaters and on streaming platforms. Continue reading...
Gilbert's family says he died peacefully in his sleep' months after My Friends Over You musician shared stage four cancer diagnosisGuitarist Chad Gilbert - a founding member of the US rock band New Found Glory that doled out the early 2000s anthem My Friends Over You - has died aged 45.Gilbert's family announced his death on Sunday, saying that he passed away peacefully in his sleep" and left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by his side, just as he wished". Continue reading...
The Canadian prime minister's remarks before the European parliament outlined a vision of the west without its most powerful memberThe speeches keep coming, each building on the previous one, as the Canadian prime minister builds a case for a new world order that has strikingly little to do with the United States of America, the country that has led the west since the second world war.On 20 January, in Davos, Mark Carney proposed that the world's middle powers do more to support each other, in light of a rupture" in the global order. That was clearly a reference to the destabilizing policies of Donald Trump, who had been inaugurated exactly one year earlier, and had spent most of that year insulting the US's allies. Continue reading...
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Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe" that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean constituted crimes against humanity".The boat strikes, carried out since September 2025 on the stated grounds of stopping drugs being trafficked by sea to the US, have killed more than 230 people. The latest, on Saturday, killed four people in the Caribbean. Continue reading...
CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately call last week's sudden lockout a direct assault on the first amendment'. That's rightOn Monday, the three news organizations that had been kicked out of the White House because of Donald Trump's latest fit of pique sued the president and three top advisers.An accompanying statement by CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately calls last week's sudden lockout a direct assault on the first amendment". Continue reading...
As the White House doles out threats and insults, it would be easy to hold out for better times. Mark Carney is right to court the EU insteadThe absurdities of the Trump administration and its hangers-on could be written off as a distraction if the stakes weren't so high. People might be used to banal trolling on social media platforms, but the global hegemon has forced this petulance onto hundreds of millions of people who are worried about their future and the future of the world. That makes the trolling something worse than distracting.The White House's online personality is at once extremely disconcerting and extremely juvenile. It's easy to be stunned by the scale and brazenness of it. During a trade dispute with Canada, and feeling insulted by the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, the president of the United States decides to rename Lake Ontario Lake America, and then proceeds to share memes showcasing the renamed body of water - which remains Lake Ontario outside US borders (and inside it, for some states, such as New York). Not to be outdone, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, posted an attack against a Canadian cadet and her instructor, mocking them and the Canadian armed forces. Continue reading...
Three news outlets will file lawsuit in attempt to regain access to the White House after having badges disabledIn what will be one of the largest battles yet between the press and Donald Trump's administration, three news organizations - CNN, MS Now (formerly MSNBC) and Politico - that have been denied access to the White House are suing to regain their ability to enter the building, accusing the president of violating the US constitution.The suit will be filed Monday morning in the US district court for Washington DC. Continue reading...
Doula stopped to assist couple with birth while first responders were also stuck in traffic and arrived on footA woman stuck in heavy traffic in San Francisco went into labor and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, local authorities have said.The San Francisco fire department said in a statement that a couple had been snarled in heavy congestion near the city's Golden Gate Park when they were forced to pull over due to the imminent birth. Continue reading...
Walter Moorhead, 74, jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after allegedly shooting a woman while hunting in DelawareA Maryland hunter was recently jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after he allegedly fatally shot a woman whom he mistook for a deer, according to authorities in Delaware.Walter Moorhead, 74, was hunting from a ground blind in a field near Ellendale, Delaware, at about 7.40pm on Friday when he believed he saw a deer and fired his rifle, state police said in a statement. Yet it was actually a woman whom Moorhead fired at and struck as she walked across the field with two children, the statement added. Continue reading...
Police responded to altercation and found injured man and another person who identified himself as a federal agentAuthorities in Illinois are investigating a case on Sunday in which a US citizen was detained by federal immigration agents before ending up at a hospital with injuries.It came the same day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and seriously wounded a man in Austin, Texas. Continue reading...
The court's decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emergeLast week's supreme court decision upholding the district court's restraining order on USPS's mail-in ballot restrictions is being hailed as a victory for electoral integrity by politicians, political commentators and voting rights advocates alike. The senator Chuck Schumer, for example, called the decision one of the most important cases to protect voting rights before the supreme court". But the unsigned, three-sentence opinion, with only a brief concurrence and a lengthy dissent, is no such thing.The court based its brief opinion entirely on the timing of the roll-out of the new rules, which became effective on 21 August, just weeks away from the midterm elections and only days before several states were scheduled to begin mailing out their ballots. California's submission to the court, joined by twenty-two states and the district of Columbia, asking the court to leave the injunction against the rule change in place, made clear that compliance with the rules in advance of the midterms would not only be difficult; it would be impossible without disenfranchising thousands of voters. And that, of course, is the point. Continue reading...
Legislation proposed by House Democrats aims to address survivors' financial and medical burdensDanielle Bensky wants a typical life.I would just love to own a house one day and have a dog," said Bensky, who is among the Jeffrey Epstein survivors advocating for accountability. I think that's the dream - literally just to have a normal existence where we're not trying to fight the government and constantly be facing our own abuse." Continue reading...
Today's wealth gap is much bigger, and the country's richest have much more power than they once did. It's an Age of OligarchyFor many, the era of US history that most resembles contemporary America is easy to identify: the Gilded Age.It is, in certain ways, an apt comparison. Like modern America, the Gilded Age saw a small number of men tower over US politics and industry alike. Rising atop a swell of wealth inequality, figures like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller mixed private interests with public policy, opening doors in Washington and beyond with ease. Their model is a clear precedent for figures such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and more. Continue reading...
Trump's mess has rekindled Yemen's civil war and a years-long conflict between the Houthis and Saudi ArabiaWhen the US and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in late February, Tehran's allies in the Middle East jumped into the fray. Lebanon's Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel, while Shia militias in Iraq attacked US bases and diplomatic outposts. But the Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, mostly stayed on the sidelines.Over the past few weeks, however, the Houthis have changed their tactics and have entered the conflict in full force. They led a rapid advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast, seizing a strategic port city and several islands that gave the militia control over the Bab al-Mandab strait, a vital waterway for energy shipments and other global trade. Thanks to Donald Trump's war, Iran and its allies now dominate the Middle East's two major regional energy chokepoints: Bab al-Mandab and the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...
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Anti-ICE protesters gather and demand transparency at site where 28-year-old was shot in torsoA US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man on Sunday afternoon in Texas's capital city, Austin, prompting demonstrations at the scene against the Trump administration's hardline anti-immigration campaign.The man, identified by relatives and his lawyer as 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, was taken to a hospital in Austin in a serious but stable condition, officials said, before being taken into custody. He was shot once in the torso on the city's north side, Austin's police chief, Lisa Davis, said at a news conference with the mayor and other city officials. Continue reading...
Our photographer, Tom Jenkins, captures the colour and razzmatazz as college football arrived in the capital, hot on the heels of successful NFL outings in recent yearsRarely has Wembley Way seen or heard such a commotion. The famous 500-yard long concourse leading to the national (association) football stadium in London played host to a sea of raucous American football fans on Saturday, as they gathered to mark the first ever top-tier college football game on British turf.Pundits from Fox's Big Noon Kickoff Show were broadcasting live from outside the venue - a curious spectacle in which the hosts even ate fish and chips on a temporary set that included a fake Grenadier guard and an old red phone box - as thousands of supporters around them waved placards and chanted college anthems. It fuelled a tailgate party atmosphere that wouldn't have felt out of place in the States.Above: Pundits for the Fox Big Noon Kickoff Show discuss the game with both head coaches in a temporary studio built on Wembley Way. Below: Brady Quinn, Mark Ingram II, Matt Leinart and Urban Meyer eating fish and chips as they present the show, while fans wave placards. Continue reading...
The Chargers star is huge, can run and has a golden right arm. But he has never quite reached the heights many expected for himJustin Herbert is one of the most promising quarterbacks in the NFL. In fact, Justin Herbert has forever been one of the most promising quarterbacks in the NFL. That adjective, promising," continued to be load-bearing on Sunday, as Herbert and his Chargers turned in an underwhelming performance in a 26-14 loss to the Raiders. Los Angeles are now 0-2 on the year, with those losses coming to the team that just picked No 1 in the draft and a moribund Arizona who picked No 3. Stockholders in Herbert's growth were taking a beating in after-hours trading. But, as ever, there's plenty of reason to debate whether Herbert underachieved or whether his team let him down.Herbert is 6ft 6in, can run, has a golden right arm and is capable of making astonishing throws. NFL decision-makers view him as roughly the sixth-best QB in the league but also say things like, He should have more accolades at this point." Certainly, he should have more wins this season, but on Sunday the 28-year-old found himself outdueled by one of the league's senior citizens in Vegas quarterback Kirk Cousins, who is 10 years his senior. Herbert completed 15 of 27 passes for a touchdown and two interceptions, and he also took three sacks. Cousins threw a pick and took two sacks but was much more efficient from down to down (8.7 yards per attempt to Herbert's 7.1), and the Chargers offense mostly sputtered. In 13 possessions, Los Angeles put together two long touchdown drives and otherwise didn't march more than 30 yards in a series. Continue reading...
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the show of force' costing American taxpayers millionsNo one would tell the shackled detainees onboard the US immigration plane where they were going. The officers in charge would taunt them when they asked, they said. It was only when the seat-back video screens finally showed a map that the 18 migrants worked it out. Continue reading...
While world leaders prepare for annual UN gathering, shifts in the global order continue in the face of a disruptive American presidentIn the event of a midterms election battering, it is possible that a deflated Donald Trump, constrained by a Democrat-controlled Congress, will gradually have to face up to the indignity of irrelevance.While continuing to sign off Truth Social posts with his usual, Thank you for your attention to this matter", no one will actually be paying much attention. His meandering press conferences will no longer be carried live by TV networks. The Republican party will move on to the question of his successor. Trump could announce he had changed the name of the Champs-Elysees to Sunset Boulevard and even Google Maps will stifle a yawn. He would become that most pitied of political animals, the lame duck. Continue reading...
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