Former US House member of Utah and daughter of Haitian immigrants had received recent treatment for brain cancerMia Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died on Sunday.The former US House member of Utah was 49. Continue reading...
Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney, Will Ferrell and others pull no punches at first signature event at cultural center since Trump took overLeading comedians have defied Donald Trump's takeover of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in a show that one described as the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, ever".Trump did not attend Sunday's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honouring Conan O'Brien for lifetime achievement in comedy. But his ears may have been burning as comics and celebrities joked at his expense in what became a rallying cry for freedom of artistic expression. Continue reading...
Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through one of the most dehumanizing' experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voicesUmaymah Mohammad has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she remembers. She traces her ambition to the story of her mother, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel to Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and who contracted polio as a toddler. Despite living with the debilitating disease, Mohammad's mother went on to raise five children and obtain a graduate degree in the US.It's the story of a woman who overcame unbearable medical circumstances", Mohammad said. It also taught the Palestinian American about the sociological determinants of health", she said, as Mohammad believes displacement contributed to her mother catching the disease, due to the poor sanitary conditions entire communities of Palestinian refugees faced at the time. Continue reading...
Experts say US president's expansionism is threatening rules-based global order in place since 1945. Plus, measles cases already higher than in all of 2024
Families are taking out lines of credit, working second jobs, commuting for hours and forgoing careers. It doesn't need to be this way, experts sayAlmost 20 years ago, Danielle Atkinson was invited to interview for a job on a national political campaign. It was a dream role, and although it would mean leaving Michigan, Atkinson felt the opportunity was worth it.Then, she learned she was pregnant. It was a surprise - she and her husband had planned to focus on their careers before starting their family - but one that was welcome and exciting. But once she learned how expensive it would be to enroll her baby in full-time care, Atkinson made a difficult decision. I was like: Oh, my God, I've got to be near a support system,'" she said, recalling her decision to decline the interview and remain in Michigan, where her extended family could help with care. I had to take a step back from my career to have the baby." Continue reading...
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The former Democratic VP nominee's tour around the US is part brand redemption, part Democratic catharsis, part rallyTim Walz is trying to regroup to help Democrats fight the Trump administration, but he's still trying to figure out why he and his party lost in November.I knew it was my job to try and pick off those other swing states, and we didn't," he said about the 2024 election. I come back home to lick my wounds and say, goddamn, at least we won here." Continue reading...
I definitely can't match her sense of adventure - and I find real pleasure in my daily routines. But it is time to escape my hummus-tinged comfort zoneAs part of my puny striving towards personal growth, I am choosing not to feel personally attacked by learning about York resident Sally Millington, who has been doing 52 new things a year since 2018. Millington's 400-plus experiments span standup, bee-keeping, cliff-camping, jazz dance and busking dressed as a turkey (choose your own worst nightmare from that list). She's clearly a force of nature and it's an admirable commitment to getting out of your comfort zone. Why not?" she told Radio York, explaining that her adventures helped to fuel her creative and critical thinking and forge connections with amazing people I would never have ordinarily have met".I struggled to stem the rising tide of inadequacy this threatened to unleash in me though, because I doubt I've done five new activities since 2018. I'm still struggling with the aftershocks of my regular supermarket closing and an adventure" is trying a new brand of hummus. I did that this week - big mistake. Continue reading...
SoFi Stadium will host the US for two of its World Cup group games, but it was barren for their two lackluster gamesMauricio Pochettino looked sullen. Occasionally, he would shake his head in despair. Mostly, he just looked on with a frown.The United States men's national team manager understood that there would be a lot of recriminations to go around. Following a second competitive loss in four days in the Concacaf Nations League finals, it was hard to pinpoint where, exactly, to lay the blame for a dispiriting international window for the USA. Continue reading...
The Canadians were described by basketball's inventor as his sport's finest team. And they competed at a time when female athletes were often dismissedIt takes sustained excellence to win a college basketball title. But it is hard to believe that even the greatest March Madness teams could ever compile a winning record superior to that of the Edmonton Grads.The Grads took part in more than 400 games between 1915 and 1940 and lost only 20, giving them a win ratio in excess of 95%, according to M Ann Hall, the author of the definitive account of the team. Continue reading...
The American striker has been in splendid form at club level, but that has yet to translate to his national teamIt's not too warm or too bright for Josh Sargent. He's parked in a chair on the patio of the US men's national team hotel in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. He's facing the horizon and embracing the sun, the moment. There are possibilities ahead, including in the Nations League finals that were then due to take place in a couple days.Sargent arrived for his second camp under Mauricio Pochettino as a safe bet to be the starting striker for the US men's national team after Ricardo Pepi and Folarin Balogun were left off the Concacaf Nations League Finals due to injuries. Prior to the semifinal against Panama, he wasn't feeling the heat. Continue reading...
With the US president now warmer to Moscow than to Ottawa, it's little surprise Canadians I met rolled their eyes at the decline of the special relationshipAs wealthy but lightly defended countries have often learned, being close to a much more powerful state - geographically or diplomatically - can be a precarious existence. All it takes is an aggressive new government in the stronger state and a relatively equal relationship of economic and military cooperation can suddenly turn exploitative, even threatening.Since Donald Trump's second inauguration, this realisation has been dawning across the west, but nowhere more disconcertingly than in Canada. Its border with the US is the longest in the world: 5,525 miles of often empty and hard to defend land, lakes and rivers. Canada's two biggest cities, Toronto and Montreal, are only a few hours to the north, were you to approach them in a US army tank.Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
His targeting of foreigners with residencies or work visas was inevitable: to achieve his aims, more and more people must be disenfranchisedThe imperial boomerang effect is the theory that techniques developed to repress colonised territories and peoples will, in time, inevitably be deployed at home. Repressive policing, methods of detention and controlling dissent, forcing humans to produce goods and services for overlords in the metropolis, or even mass enslavement and killing: all boomerang" back into that metropolis. First, they are used against those who are seen as inferior; then, they are deployed even against those citizens with full rights and privileges if they dare to question authority. In short, the remote other eventually becomes the intimate familiar.Donald Trump's second term has so far been a case study in how systems built for those whose rights have been diluted or taken away eventually devour those who were assumed to be safe from such violations. There are three ways in which this process of rebounding happens. The first is through the creation of a domestic caste system that mirrors the one outside a country's borders, as demonstrated in the recent treatment of those foreigners with permanent US residency and valid work visas who expressed dissenting views on Gaza.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Possible shift in taxpayer data use aligns with more aggressive Trump immigration policies - key US politics stories from Sunday at a glanceThe US Internal Revenue Service is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump's deportation agenda.Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have been in negotiations for weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) could hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, raising concerns about abuse of power from the Trump administration and the erosion of privacy rights. Continue reading...
Mauricio Pochettino's side lost 2-1, their second straight defeat against regional competition in underwhelming fashionAfter winning four consecutive matches under new coach Mauricio Pochettino, the United States face a crossroads 15 months before joining Canada and Mexico as co-hosts of the 2026 World Cup.Canada took third place in the Concacaf Nations League with a 2-1 victory at SoFi Stadium on Sunday. The US defeat, which came 72 hours after a 1-0 loss to Panama in Thursday's semi-finals, meant the home side finished fourth in a competition it won in its three previous editions. Continue reading...
The US's disappointing Nations League is complete after defeat to Les Rouges in Los Angeles1 min: We are underway from Los Angeles!The crowd, once again, is incredibly sparse for a US game at home. The stadium PA countdown is reverberating off a LOT of empty seats. Continue reading...
South Carolina governor declares emergency as North Carolina announces mandatory evacuation in Polk countyThree major wildfires that broke out in one North Carolina county still recovering from Hurricane Helene have exploded to burn more than 3,000 acres combined as South Carolina's governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire in the Blue Ridge mountains.The North Carolina department of public safety announced a mandatory evacuation starting at 8.20pm on Saturday for parts of Polk county in western North Carolina about 80 miles (129km) west of Charlotte. Continue reading...
The recently appointed Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, called a snap election for 28 April, saying he needed a strong mandate because the country was facing 'the most significant crisis of our lifetimes' as a result of Donald Trump's 'unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty'. Carney, a former central banker, became the Liberal leader two weeks ago by persuading party members he was the best person to tackle the challenges posed by the US president. Polls suggest the Liberals, who have been in power since 2015 and trailed the Conservative opposition at the start of the year, are slightly ahead of their rivals
Victims identified in shooting that occurred at a park after an altercation between two groups of people', police sayPolice have arrested three people in connection with a mass shooting on Friday night at an unsanctioned car show" in Las Cruces, New Mexico that left three people killed and at least 15 others injured.Local police said the shooting occurred at around 10pm on Friday at Young Park following an altercation between two groups of people". There were approximately 200 people at the park when the shooting occurred. Continue reading...
Immigration officials could give names and addresses to IRS amid concerns over Trump administration's abuse of powerThe US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump's deportation agenda, according to reports by the Washington Post.Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have been in negotiations for weeks, Immigration And Customs Enforcement (Ice) could hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, raising concerns about abuse of power from the Trump administration and the erosion of privacy rights. Continue reading...
Murphy, who lived to 33, took in a rock in 2023 and tried to hatch it, captivating hearts and later fostering two eagletsMissouri lost an ambassador, role model and community pillar in the violent storms that swept the country on 15 March: a 33-year-old bald eagle named Murphy.Murphy captivated hearts far beyond the midwest and gained national attention in 2023 when he incubated a rock, attempting to hatch it, in a stunt the internet loved. The World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, where he lived, rewarded his instincts, allowing him to foster an eaglet that he nurtured back to health. Another eaglet was placed into his care, and is expected to be released midway through the summer. Continue reading...
UN charter says members shall refrain from the threat or use of force' against a country's territory or independenceThe post-second world war taboo on acquiring territory through force or by the threat of force is being unravelled by a generation of political leaders, led by expansionist threats from Donald Trump that are unprecedented for a US president.Experts are warning that a combination of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and Trump's comments explicitly pushing for the US to acquire Greenland, Canada, the Panama canal and Gaza is fuelling a permissive environment that threatens long-recognised borders and the international rules-based order that has existed since the end of the war. Continue reading...
Party leader faces backlash over his decision to support Republican-led bill to avoid government shutdownChuck Schumer defied calls to give up the top Democratic position in the Senate after he voted for Republicans' funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, saying on Sunday: I'm not stepping down."Schumer has faced a wave of backlash from Democrats over his decision to support the Republican-led bill, with many Democrats alleging that the party leader isn't doing enough to stand up to Donald Trump's agenda. Continue reading...
Pennsylvania attorney for suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shooting claims police violated his client's constitutional rights in arrestFollowing Luigi Mangione's arrest in the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, authorities in the US heralded his capture as good old-fashioned police work" that brought an end to a manhunt that had stunned America and the world.It had been a period of high drama and blanket media coverage. In the days that passed since Thompson was fatally shot on a Manhattan sidewalk by an unknown assailant on 4 December, police tracked down surveillance footage allegedly revealing the still-unidentified Mangione's face and widely distributed a now notorious still of him appearing to smile at a hostel, all in an attempt to find the fugitive. Continue reading...
The great heavyweight champion took his religion seriously and became lifelong friends with Muhammad AliGeorge Foreman died on Friday at the muchtooyoung age of 76. His aura of strength was such that there were times when it seemed as though he'd live for ever.People know about George Foreman the fighter and George Foreman the product pitchman; holding a small American flag in the ring after winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics; dethroning Joe Frazier in Jamaica; losing the title to Muhammad Ali in Zaire; the quixotic ring comeback that culminated in a 10th-round knockout of Michael Moorer to reclaim the heavyweight crown; and George Foreman's Lean Mean Grilling Machine, which earned him more than $100m. I lived through those times. But I was also privileged to know George as a person. Continue reading...
The cherished tradition reminds us to pause and reflect on our words and actions, and cultivates a profound sense of empathyWith its month-long array of beautiful rituals and meditations, Ramadan offers an enriching pause from the demands of daily life, allowing people to cultivate compassion and prioritise truthfulness in both small and significant ways.As a Muslim observing the challenging yet cherished daytime discipline of refraining from food and water, the experience within a multicultural landscape is particularly fascinating. In a society often fixated on material pursuits and instant gratification, fasting provides a sense of contentment that cannot be found in worldly possessions.Fasting has been prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may learn self-restraint.Shadi Khan Saif is a Melbourne-based journalist and former Pakistan and Afghanistan news correspondent Continue reading...
With its combination of community, cooperation and selflessness, this could offer some small comfort in a terrifying eraA new hygge has dropped, but you'll need to take off your cosy slippers and put down your cinnamon bun to try it. There is a real danger of getting the wrong end of the stick when we get enthusiastic about other nations' lifestyles - such as when the New York Times writes about modern Britons enjoying boiled mutton for lunch, or cavorting" in swamps, and we all get cross - but this comes straight from the Viking's mouth.That's Meik Wiking, the perfectly named chief executive of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. Writing in Stylist, Wiking suggests we consider adopting a Norwegian concept that requires no blankets or candles: dugnadsand, approximately translated as community spirit". He likens dugnadsand to barn-raising in 18th- and 19th-century North America, describing a collective willingness of people to come together in the context of community projects - emphasising cooperation and selflessness". Continue reading...
The governor dismissed an ex-judge studying the death penalty in the state and failed to heed a leading voice on the matter. It's no surpriseOn Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert".Gunches's case was unusual in many ways, not least that he stopped his legal appeals and volunteered to be executed, then changed his mind before changing it again. His execution was scheduled to be carried out almost two years ago. It was put on hold when the Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, commissioned an independent review of the state's death penalty procedures after a series of botched executions. Continue reading...
Meeting comes as China hopes to reach a deal to avert further tariff pressure from WashingtonRepublican senator Steve Daines, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday, as China hopes to reach a deal to avert further tariff pressure from Washington.The meeting marks the first time a US politician has visited China since Trump took office in January. Earlier this month, China's ministry of foreign affairs promised that China will fight to the end" with the US in a tariff war, trade war or any other war". Continue reading...
Administration's unprecedented degree of resistance' to judiciary undercuts its authority and weakens democracyDonald Trump's second administration has shown an unprecedented degree of resistance" to adverse court rulings, experts say, part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary that threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy.The attacks, experts say, threaten one of the fundamental pillars of American government: that the judicial branch has the power to interpret the law and the other branches will abide by its rulings. Continue reading...
Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protectionIn 1919, Jacob Israel de Haan, an Orthodox Jewish queer poet and lawyer, arrived in British Mandate Palestine from the Netherlands. Despite his initial sympathies with Zionism, within a few years de Haan would become an outspoken critic of the movement. Driven by what he called a natural feeling for justice", he advocated for another Jewish community in Palestine" - one that sought cooperation with the Arab-Palestinian community. His steadfast opposition to mainstream Zionism made de Haan a controversial figure, drawing the ire of Zionist leadership. On 30 June 1924, de Haan was assassinated by a member of the Zionist organization Haganah.This political assassination represented not merely the elimination of one man, but a portentous statement about which perspectives would be tolerated in the emerging political landscape. A century later, we are witnessing a similar troubling pattern. As attacks against universities and intimidation of Palestinian activists become ever more rife, those who challenge Zionist orthodoxy - whether out of political conviction, religious belief or ethical principle - face exclusion, vilification and worse. This time, the main tool is a sweeping legal redefinition of antisemitism in American law and policy.The redefinition of antisemitism isn't simply a policy shift - it's part of a deeper transformation of American democracy Continue reading...
Despite what the White House might think, the US's founding document does not contain the phrase the president is the law'The answer key to this quiz was recently removed from usa.govLawrence Douglas is a professor of law at Amherst College in Massachusetts Continue reading...
The Vermont senator and the New York representative are rallying huge crowds with a message to reshape the Democratic partyBernie Sanders is not running for president. But he is drawing larger crowds now than he did when he was campaigning for the White House.The message has hardly changed. Nor has the messenger, with his shock of white hair and booming delivery. What's different now, the senator says, is that his fears - a government captured by billionaires who exploit working people - have become an undeniable reality and people are angry. Continue reading...
Churches and non-profits are offering legal help, meals and workshops to people targeted by the Trump administrationOn Sundays, Juan Carlos Ruiz gives his sermons while wearing a white robe. Although his English- and Spanish-speaking congregants at a Brooklyn-based church may not notice it, the neck of his robe is ripped, the cloth frayed. When asked about the tear in his robe, Ruiz gives a charming smile, remembering his 2018 arrest.That year, during the first Trump administration, Ruiz was participating in a protest to prevent the deportation of a prominent New York immigration activist. As tensions flared, cops began to rough up some demonstrators. Ruiz attempted to intervene. He and 17 others were arrested by police; his white alb ripped during the struggle. Continue reading...
Deleting stories of Iwo Jima and other diverse US military heroism backfired. For subtle discussion of diversity, equity and inclusion, talk to Lorraine KellyIn the second world war, Navajo code talkers transmitted sensitive US military information in their own undocumented language. Which was nice of them, as their immediate ancestors had been dispossessed and destroyed by white settlers, and then had all their water poisoned with uranium. Were it not for the Navajos," concluded major Howard Connor, at the time, the marines would never have taken Iwo Jima." And that famous photo of the American soldiers raising a flag would just have shown some Japanese boy scouts letting off a party popper.But last month Trump's defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said: I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is our diversity is our strength'." Predictably, some Navajo code talkers had to have bodyguards to protect them from white American servicemen who thought they were Japanese. Plus ca change, as they say over there in that Europe. Continue reading...
At the 1968 Olympics, Foreman's flag-waving was seen as deference if not betrayal. But the reaction to it reveals the limited ways we allow Black athletes to express themselvesWhen a teenager from Texas named George Foreman waved a tiny American flag in the boxing ring after winning Olympic gold in 1968, he had little awareness of the political minefield beneath his size 15 feet. The moment, captured by television cameras for an audience of millions during one of the most volatile periods in American history, was instantly contrasted with another image from two days earlier at the same Mexico City Games: Tommie Smith and John Carlos, heads bowed and black-gloved fists raised in salute during the US national anthem, a silent act of protest that would become one of the defining visuals of the 20th century. Their message was unmistakable: a rebuke of the country that had sent them to compete while continuing to deny civil rights to people who looked like them. Their action was seen as defiant resistance, Foreman's as deference to the very systems of oppression they were protesting.But that reading, while emotionally understandable amid the fevered upheaval of 1968, misses something deeper - about Foreman, about patriotism, and about the burden of symbolic politics laid on the shoulders of Black athletes. Continue reading...
US defense secretary joins in on attacks against judges and lawyers as the Trump administration faces more than 100 lawsuits over its agendaPete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, became the latest senior official to openly criticise a judge as the Trump administration ramped up its attacks on court challenges to its political agenda.On Saturday, Hegseth mocked US district judge Ana Reyes for blocking a ban on transgender troops in the US military. The ban was enforced by an executive order signed by Donald Trump on 27 January. Continue reading...
US defense secretary joins mounting criticism of federal judges by Donald Trump and others in administrationThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, joined the mounting criticism of federal judges by Donald Trump and others in his administration on Saturday, mocking the judge who blocked a ban on transgender troops in the US military and suggesting she had exceeded her authority.The US district judge Ana Reyes in Washington ruled that Trump's 27 January executive order, one of several issued by the Republican president targeting legal rights for transgender Americans, likely violated the US constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law. Continue reading...
Yisroel Liebb of New Jersey claims pilot broke lock and pulled him out with his pants down, leaving him exposedAn Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston.Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and the US Department of Homeland Security, whose officers he said boarded the plane upon landing and took him away in handcuffs. Continue reading...
Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and againSince early 2024, I've been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University.So perhaps it's no surprise that I see the university's capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...
His attempts to bully and exploit the weak hark back to an era when the US emulated the worst aspects of the British empireDonald Trump's imperial presidency is a tawdry, threadbare affair. The emperor has no clothes to cloak his counterfeit rule. Lacking crown and robes, he resorts to vulgar ties and baseball caps. His throne is but a bully pulpit, his palace a pokey, whitewashed house, his courtiers mere common hacks. His royal edicts - executive orders - are judicially contested. And while he rages like Lear, his critics are publicly crucified or thrown to the lions at Fox News.Yet for all his crudely plebeian ordinariness, a parvenu imperialism is Trump's global offer, his trademark deal and most heinous crime. He peddles it against the tide of history and all human experience, as if invasion, genocide, racial inequality, economic exploitation and cultural conquest had never been tried before. If it wasn't clear already, it is now. He wants to rule the world. Continue reading...
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