Trump lawyer Robert Garson told the Telegraph he discussed refuge for those leaving UK over antisemitismDiscussions are reportedly under way within Donald Trump's administration about the US possibly granting asylum to Jewish people from the UK, according to the Telegraph, citing the US president's personal lawyer.Trump lawyer Robert Garson told the newspaper that he has held conversations with the US state department about offering refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK citing rising antisemitism. Continue reading...
William Brock fatally shot Lo-Letha Toland-Hall in 2024 after wrongly assuming she was involved in plot to rob himAn 83-year-old Ohio man faces sentencing on Tuesday after being convicted of murder in the shooting of an Uber driver who he wrongly thought was trying to rob him.William J Brock fatally shot the driver after wrongly assuming she was in on a plot involving scam phone calls that deceived them both to get $12,000 in supposed bond money for a relative, authorities said.Associated Press contributed Continue reading...
Trump's support of Letlow comes after Louisiana senator voted to convict president in second impeachment trialDonald Trump has sought to deliver a staggering blow to the re-election chances of Senator Bill Cassidy - the president's fellow Republican with whom he has politically feuded - by giving his complete and total endorsement" to a potential primary opponent.Trump's endorsement of US House member Julia Letlow as well as his encouragement for her to run for Cassidy's Senate seat in Louisiana comes after the senator voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial during Trump's first presidency. Continue reading...
Tariff threats over the Arctic island expose the limits of coercive diplomacy. Europe's united response and pushback shows fear is fadingFor all Donald Trump's bluster about restoring American strength, his attempt to bully European allies over Greenland reveals a deeper weakness: coercive diplomacy only works if people are afraid to resist. Increasingly, they aren't. And that is a good thing. Bullies often back down when confronted - their power relies on fear. Mr Trump's threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Europeans unless they acquiesce to his demand to purchase" Greenland has stripped his trade policy bare. This is not about economic security, unfair trade or protecting American workers. It is about using tariffs as a weapon to force nations to submit.The response from Europe has been united and swift. That in itself should send a message. France's Emmanuel Macron says plainly no amount of intimidation" will alter Europe's position. Denmark has anchored the issue firmly inside Nato's collective security. EU leaders have warned that tariff threats risk a dangerous downward spiral. Even Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, seen as ideologically close to Mr Trump, publicly called the tariff threat a mistake" - adding that she has told him so. Continue reading...
Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Pence and others say action could hurt US economy and strain Nato allianceDonald Trump's escalating calls for the United States to seize or otherwise obtain Greenland has ignited fresh criticism from the president's own Republican party, with some saying it could hurt the US economically or strain the Nato military alliance.Such Republicans included US senators Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, who were part of a bipartisan group to travel to Denmark to discuss concerns in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory. Continue reading...
The US president's trade war for Greenland tells us that the time for fence-sitting or wishful thinking is overOne way or the other, President Trump said, he will have Greenland. Well, at least now we know it's the other; not an invasion that would have sent young men home to their mothers across Europe in coffins, but instead another trade war, designed to kill off jobs and break Europe's will. Just our hopes of an economic recovery, then, getting taken out and shot on a whim by our supposedly closest ally, months after Britain signed a trade deal supposed to protect us from such arbitrary punishment beatings. In a sane universe, that would not feel like a climbdown by the White House, yet by comparison with the rhetoric that had Denmark scrambling troops to Greenland last week it is.That said, don't underestimate the gravity of the moment.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Karoline Leavitt was recorded warning network to put out new interview with president in full and without editsDonald Trump's White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was recently recorded warning CBS News to broadcast a new interview with the president in full and without edits - or we'll sue your ass off".Trump said, Make sure you guys don't cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,'" Leavitt told CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil after he had interviewed the president, according to an audio exchange first reported on by the New York Times. The 13-minute exclusive segment aired on Tuesday, months after CBS's parent company Paramount agreed to pay Trump $16m over its editing of an unrelated interview ahead of the 2024 election that vaulted him to a second presidency. Continue reading...
Calls are renewed for permitting to hike the Los Angeles-area mountain that looks deceptively accessibleThe peak is just there in the distance, hovering above Los Angeles, snow-capped and tantalizing to the city-bound.About an hour from the sands of the Pacific coast, Mount Baldy and the surrounding Angeles national forest have long been a wilderness playground to millions who call the greater Los Angeles area home. Continue reading...
Jake Lang's anti-Islam, anti-Somali and pro-ICE rally near City Hall outnumbered by hundreds of counterprotestersHundreds of counterprotesters on Saturday drowned out a far-right activist's attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.Conservative influencer Jake Lang organized an anti-Islam, anti-Somali and pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstration, saying on social media beforehand that he intended to burn a Quran" on the steps of City Hall. But it was not clear if he carried out that plan. Continue reading...
It's far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence - despite what thinktanks might claimOn 7 January 2026, Renee Good was killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross; video captures a man's voice calling her a fucking bitch" afterwards. Kristi Noem, secretary of homeland security, maligned Good as having committed domestic terrorism". Good's killing became a national flashpoint as protests erupted demanding justice for the mother of three.Good's killing is no anomaly. A Wall Street Journal investigation revealed 13 instances of ICE firing into civilian vehicles since July 2025, with at least eight people shot and two killed. ICE detentions are notorious for their inhumane conditions; 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025 alone, matching a record set two decades prior in 2004.Heba Gowayed is an associate professor of sociology at Cuny Hunter College and Cuny Graduate Center and author of the book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human PotentialVictor Ray is the F Wendell Miller associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and author of the book On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care Continue reading...
A group of journalists look to fill the void left by Conde Nast's Gourmet by reviving it as a worker-owned newsletterAmiel Stanek still recalls the crush of learning that Conde Nast decided to shutter Gourmet magazine back in 2009. He shared a subscription with his college roommates and writing for the publication had been one of his dreams.I was beside myself. It was like hearing your hometown baseball team had been traded away," Stanek said. He thought to himself: Where will I write now?" Continue reading...
Five exchange-traded funds have been launched by Trump Media, owner of the president's social media platform Truth SocialThe word Truth" was plastered all around the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning. At 9.30am, when the market opened, a small crowd stood on the balcony above the trading floor to ring in the day.The group was celebrating the launch of five exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that are tied to Truth Social, Donald Trump's social media platform that has spun into a menagerie of products over the last few years. Continue reading...
Lila Dominguez was working on an article as agents came on to school grounds - their presence has jolted Minneapolis's young peopleWhen immigration enforcement agents came on to her Minneapolis high school's grounds on 7 January, Lila Dominguez was in the school's basement working on an article about an ICE agent shooting Renee Good earlier that day.The high school junior was glued to her phone watching videos from outside the school. Continue reading...
Demonstrations against the Iraq war proved protest works. Now we must halt destruction before it more powerfully startsIn spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: I spent two years in Vietnam, and I've seen this movie before." A year after George W Bush's declaration of mission accomplished" - when the war had hit its peak popularity at 74% - the invasion had descended into quagmire, marked by a raging insurgency, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and US casualties nearing 1,000. For the first time, a majority of Americans judged the war a mistake". In this, they echoed what millions of Americans, predicting fiasco, had been saying since before its start.By the summer of 2005, with Iraq exploding in civil war, public support further eroded. Vietnam comparisons abounded. Running against the war, Democrats had blowout wins in the 2006 midterms. The new Congress empaneled the bipartisan Iraq study group, which concluded that the war had to end. Its fate was sealed by the election of Barack Obama, who made good on his pledge to withdraw US troops (though US forces later returned to take on the Islamic State).Jeremy Varon is the author of Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror (University of Chicago Press, 2025) Continue reading...
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As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we're witnessing climate gentrification'Ellen Williams' left hand played with her long dark hair as her right hand guided the steering wheel, her phone resting face-down in her lap. Born and raised in Altadena, an unincorporated area in Los Angeles county, she didn't need to look at a map as she drove to where her home of 22 years burned down.We passed empty lots with gaping holes where foundations once stood. The banging of hammers rang through the neighborhood and wood frames rose from the dirt, the smell of fresh lumber in the air. Perched on street corners were signs declaring: Altadena is not for sale." Continue reading...
Elissa Slotkin, under investigation over Pentagon video, says president using well-worn playbook' to silence debateDonald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to intimidate potential critics and discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a video with other Democrats imploring military service members to refuse illegal orders". Fellow senator Mark Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated. Continue reading...
Independent media, civil society, the rule of law - these are the things that Iranians truly need. And there are ways for the west to help secure themSoon after becoming president in 2017, Donald Trump ordered an attack on an Islamic State (IS) underground complex in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. The strike involved the first-ever use in combat of a GBU-43 massive ordnance air blast (Moab) bunker buster" bomb - the US's most powerful conventional weapon. The bombing killed about 90 insurgents but failed to crush IS. It also made zero long-term difference to the US's losing battle with the Taliban.Yet that was not the point. Inexperienced Trump, who had famously avoided military service, was keen to show he was in charge, a commander-in-chief unafraid to make tough calls and send troops into harm's way. He craved a big bang - a spectacular demonstration of unmatched US power. Like a teenager who unexpectedly obtains the keys to the family gun cabinet, he could not resist the temptation to play with all those shiny new Pentagon weapons.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...
Many believed a US president would - for the first time - rescue them but now people can only despair after mass arrests and brutalityWhen Donald Trump, said he would rescue" protesters if Iranian authorities started shooting, Siavash Shirzad believed the US president.The 38-year-old father had seen protests rise up before, only to be brutally crushed by authorities.
French president says no amount of intimidation' will make EU change course; Greenlanders march against takeover threat. Key US politics stories from Saturday 17 January at a glanceEuropean leaders have hit back at Donald Trump's threats to impose tariffs on countries opposing his Greenland takeover, saying the move would undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral".The US president threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries - including Denmark, Germany, France and the UK - until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland, in an extraordinary escalation of the president's bid to claim the autonomous Danish territory. Continue reading...
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Heads of state across Europe respond in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland, and boycott of World Cup suggestedDonald Trump threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries including Denmark, Germany, France and the UK - until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland, in an extraordinary escalation of the president's bid to claim the autonomous Danish territory.In a lengthy post on Saturday on Truth Social, Trump said he would impose a 10% tariff on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland beginning 1 February, on any and all goods sent to the United States of America". Continue reading...
Swift verdict of not guilty in case of Jacob Winkler another high-profile defeat for Jeanine Pirro, US attorney for DCA man tried on a felony charge of aiming a laser at presidential helicopter Marine One while it was transporting Donald Trump was acquitted recently by a jury in Washington DC - which reached its decision in about 35 minutes Tuesday.The swift verdict of not guilty in the case of Jacob Winkler represented another high-profile defeat for Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host whom Trump appointed to be the US attorney for the nation's capital. Pirro's office has pursued harsh penalties against individuals accused of attacking federal officers or threatening the president but has failed multiple times. Continue reading...
As high court considers trans kids' participation in school sports, tensions run high between opposing protest groupsAs the US supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday for a case that could determine whether transgender children can participate in school sports - and potentially impact LGBTQ+ civil rights protections more broadly - competing groups of activists rallied in Washington DC.On one side was a multiracial mix of hundreds of people rallying for trans rights and in support of Becky Pepper-Jackson, a track and field athlete from West Virginia and the plaintiff in the West Virginia v BPJ case before the supreme court. Continue reading...
People took to the streets of Greenland and Denmark on Saturday as part of the Hands Off Greenland' rallies in protest against Donald Trump's insistence the US should take control of the self-governing territory
US health department's new food pyramid places red meat and cheese high in saturated fats over plant-based proteinsThe new food pyramid rolled out in US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) places animal-based proteins, including cheese and red meats high in saturated fats, above plant-based proteins, which has raised alarm bells among health and environmental experts.This rejiggered food pyramid is in line with Kennedy's previous signals that he will recommend increasing saturated fat in US diets as part of the Make America healthy again" movement. Continue reading...
Warner Bros is also being pursued by Paramount Skydance, helmed by David Ellison, son of president's allyDonald Trump bought at least $1m worth of bonds in Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), according to a financial disclosure form, days after he said would be involved" in a proposed merger between the two companies.The White House released a financial disclosure report on Friday which showed that Trump made two purchases from Netflix and two purchases from WBD, each amounting to at least $502,000. Continue reading...
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal's words have become a rallying cry against Trump's immigration crackdownYou don't want this smoke," Rochelle Bilal, Philadelphia's sheriff, warned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during an 8 January press conference. Her words have since become a rallying cry for resistance to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. At the conference with Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's district attorney, and city council members, Bilal spoke out against the 7 January fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. We stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement," she said at the conference. I don't call them none of that. I call them made-up, fake, wannabe law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law."Bilal is part of a growing body of elected officials who are speaking out against the Trump administration's immigration policies and ICE's alleged misconduct and aggressive enforcement tactics. As the first Black female sheriff of Philadelphia elected in 2019, Bilal has faced perhaps the most vitriol from opponents who have targeted her for her race and gender. Race played a big [role in the] response," Bilal told the Guardian in a conference room on her Philadelphia office floor. The negative, nasty messages that are being received is ridiculous." Since the video of her speech went viral, Bilal told the Guardian that death threats that she's received have required her to increase her security detail. In a Facebook post, ICE also said that she should resign. Continue reading...
The Trump administration's immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the USOn 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as 10 countries from eastern Europe. The Department of Homeland Security justified the decision by claiming that immigrants from these countries are at high risk" of reliance on welfare and becoming a public charge".As an immigration scholar, I was immediately struck by the falsehood of this economic justification. The vast majority of immigrants have been legally disqualified from cash welfare since 1996. Those who do qualify for benefits like Snap and Medicaid use them at much lower rates than non-immigrants. Through their taxes, immigrants are net contributors - especially undocumented immigrants who are excluded from federal benefits. Continue reading...
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same dangerWhen I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV specials, by teachers, that there were strangers out there who wanted to hurt us. Stranger Danger" was everywhere. It was a well-meaning lesson, but the risk was overblown: most child abuse and exploitation is perpetrated by people the children know. It's much rarer for children to be abused or exploited by strangers. Continue reading...
The secretary of state - a neoconservative foreign policy hawk turned America First cheerleader - has defied expectations that he would not last in Trump's cabinetThe exchange seemed to crystallize a master-servant relationship in a single instant.Early in January, in a White House gathering with oil executives invited to discuss investment in Venezuela after the US overthrow of Nicolas Maduro, its strongman president, Macro Rubio discreetly passed a note to Donald Trump. Continue reading...
Strong media presence in Minneapolis has ensured Renee Good's shooting, and its fallout, has received wide coverageAfter a federal immigration agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with grisly videos quickly going viral on social media, news organizations from around the state, country and world dispatched correspondents and anchors to the scene.In the days since, that media presence has ebbed and flowed - though a well-resourced local news corps and many national journalists have remained, including reporters for the Guardian, covering additional clashes between police and protesters. Continue reading...
Grantees outline risks to vulnerable populations over uncertainty of funds creating gaps in careA counseling program in Alabama for people with HIV, helping them get into treatment and housing. A training program in New Hampshire for first responders learning how better to respond to people in mental health crises. Mental health counseling for children in Tennessee experiencing trauma.On Wednesday, the funding for these and thousands of other programs was rescinded. The halt affected about 2,800 organizations across the nation offering mental health and substance use services, often on the front lines of the dual crises, in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa). Continue reading...
History tells us what happens when American presidents focus on foreign policy and neglect domestic economic policyDonald Trump's blitzkrieg since his 3 January seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has been guided by his triumph of the will, as he told the New York Times. Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me ... I don't need international law."Trump treats the spectacle as a reality TV show in which he is both the executive producer and the host who ultimately declares himself the winner. At his 3 January press conference on the day of Maduro's seizure, Trump mentioned oil" 27 times, money" 13 times and democracy" not once. He trashed the democratic opposition as lacking respect" and support". The capture of Maduro was a decapitation, not regime change. Indeed, Trump served as a convenient agent of an internal coup of the existing powers, whom he declared an ally". We have to fix the country first," he said. You can't have an election."Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth. He is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clearIn life, there's the beginning and the end," John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the podium of the 1968 Olympics, once told me. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between - whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet."Claudette Colvin, who died earlier this week in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On 2 March 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, aged just 15, Colvin took a stand and refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman.Gary Younge is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester Continue reading...
Governor Tim Walz says weaponizing the justice system is an authoritarian tactic' as he and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey reportedly will be subpoenaedThe US justice department is investigating Minnesota's political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration's controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports.The investigation, which CBS News first reported, marks an extraordinary use of federal power to challenge two of the crackdown's most vocal Democratic critics, including the state's governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey. Continue reading...
Each board member will manage defined portfolio critical to Gaza's stabilization and long-term success', according to White House - key US politics stories from Friday 16 JanuaryDonald Trump's so-called board of peace" has been announced as the US president seeks to manage the reconstruction of Gaza and its transitional administration amid a fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.The seven-member board includes US secretary of state Marco Rubio, former British prime minister Tony Blair, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff and World Bank president, Ajay Banga. Trump himself will serve as chair, with further appointments expected in the coming weeks. Continue reading...
Lawyer for administration had apologized earlier for violating court order and admitted mistake'A US federal judge in Boston on Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to rectify the mistake" it made by deporting a college student to Honduras while she was traveling home to visit her family for Thanksgiving as he recommended it issue her a student visa.The US district judge, Richard Stearns, imposed the deadline after a lawyer for the administration earlier this week apologized for having violated a court order that should have prevented 19-year-old Any Lucia Lopez Belloza from being sent to Honduras. She is a Honduran national who was brought to the United States by her mother when she was eight while seeking asylum. Continue reading...
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