Opponents say closing Great Highway to cars will increase traffic as supporters argue it will mitigate coastal erosionCalifornians have voted to close part of a nearly century-old highway in San Francisco to cars, transforming a two-mile section into a park for pedestrians and cyclists.On election day, city residents voted to approve Proposition K, extending the ban on vehicles on a portion of the Upper Great Highway along the coastline. The measure has sparked intense debate over whether cars should have regular access to the area. Continue reading...
The world No 1 made it two wins from two in Turin by beating the American 6-4, 6-4 in a rematch of US Open final... or three.Sinner has been doing his final warm-ups and the players will be out in a minute or two: Continue reading...
Meteorologists track disturbance in Caribbean Sea predicted to become storm named SaraFlorida is at risk of being hit by yet another major tropical storm only weeks after Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated towns across the state.Meteorologists are currently tracking a new disturbance predicted to evolve into a storm in the Caribbean Sea. The storm, to be named Sara, will form in the western Caribbean later this week and may make a turn towards south Florida as a powerful hurricane next week if wind patterns change, according to the Hurricane Tracker App. Continue reading...
Police say Salisbury University students set up fake profile to lure man to apartment, beat him and hold him prisonerOfficials in Maryland have charged 12 students with offenses including hate crimes for allegedly luring a gay man to an apartment off campus, holding him prisoner and breaking his rib while beating him.A statement from the Salisbury police department said one of the accused, all students at Salisbury University who have since been suspended, set up a fake account on a dating app to entice the victim with a promise of sex with a 16-year-old. Continue reading...
As US electorate moves to right, Oregon city bucks trend and also elects most diverse city council in historyIn 2022 it appeared the political winds in Portland, Oregon, one of the US's most progressive cities, were beginning to shift. Residents who had grown frustrated over the city's approach to homelessness rejected the incumbent, Jo Ann Hardesty - the first Black woman to serve on the city council - in favor of the law-and-order" Democrat Rene Gonzalez, who pledged to back an expanded police force and clean up" Portland.But this month, as swaths of the US electorate moved to the right, the Pacific north-west city took a markedly different approach. Residents elected the most diverse city council in Portland history, opting for more progressives, and rejected Gonzalez as mayoral candidate. Instead, they chose Keith Wilson, a businessperson who has never before held office and has promised to end unsheltered homelessness in a year. Continue reading...
World super lightweight champion reflects on her rematch with Amanda Serrano being the main support to the controversial boutWhen Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano were locked in battle during the last round of their first fight at Madison Square Garden, on a fevered night in April 2022,, I could not help myself. Alongside an entire row of ringside reporters, I stood up to watch the final minute of a riveting contest. Suddenly oblivious to the march of our urgent deadlines and the etiquette of remaining above such raw human emotion, we were swept away by the courage and determination of both women in one of the greatest fights ever staged at the Garden.It was only afterwards, when you're looking back and hearing people's reactions that you think: Gosh, that was a huge moment for women in boxing'," Taylor says now. You're hearing stories of young girls being inspired by that night and how people are calling it historic. It's then that you just say: Wow, that was an amazing night..' Continue reading...
Sheng Thao and Pamela Price faced discontent over housing crisis, rising costs and departure of last sports teamVoters have ousted Oakland's mayor and the region's progressive district attorney, in a major political shake-up for the northern California port city. It's the first time in modern history that voters here have ousted leadership from either position.Sheng Thao, the mayor, and Pamela Price, the district attorney for Alameda county, were both the target of recall campaigns, launched amid discontent over the city's challenges: a spiralling housing crisis, rising costs and the departure of the city's last remaining major league sports team. Continue reading...
President-elect expected to pick Marco Rubio for secretary of state and Mike Waltz for national security adviserDonald Trump has chosen a pair of establishment Republicans from Florida for senior roles in his administration as he builds a national security team that looks more hawkish than the isolationist America First brand of foreign policy that he has championed in public.Trump was expected to select the senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, the US's top diplomat, and has asked the congressman Mike Waltz, a retired Green Beret known as a China hawk, to become his national security adviser, a powerful role that would help shape his policies on the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as around the world. Continue reading...
Judge called law unconstitutional on its face' but an appeal would be heard by perhaps most conservative court in USA new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom by the beginning of 2025 has been temporarily blocked after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday.The judge said the law was unconstitutional on its face" - and plaintiffs were likely to win their case with claims that the law violates the US constitution's first amendment, which bars the government from establishing a religion and guarantees the right to religious freedom. Continue reading...
School also decided to close its campus to the public after La'Tavion Johnson, 18, was killed and 16 were injuredThe Tuskegee University campus in Alabama has closed to the public and fired its security chief after a deadly mass shooting there over the weekend.The shooting, which occurred during the school's 100th homecoming weekend, killed one person and injured 16 others early on Sunday. At least a dozen of those were injured by gunfire, authorities say. Many students were among those hurt. Continue reading...
Investigators say Ryan Borgwardt took out $375,000 life insurance and was in contact with woman in UzbekistanFor several weeks, the family of avid kayaker Ryan Borgwardt braced for the likelihood that search divers were about to find his body in a Wisconsin lake. His kayak, fishing rod, wallet and car keys were found at Green Lake on 12 August, the day he disappeared, and a lifejacket floating on the water offered further evidence that his wife and three children had lost their husband and father.An investigation, however, has determined that Borgwardt took out a $375,000 life insurance policy, faked his own death and simply vanished, possibly to central Asia to join a woman with whom he had been communicating online. Continue reading...
Settlers have been dreaming of a return to Gaza for nearly 20 years - and Trump's presidency may only embolden themLast week, Brig Gen Itzik Cohen, a senior IDF officer, quietly admitted what the international community has long been reluctant to acknowledge: that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, and deceiving the world about its true objectives in the besieged territory. He made the admission during a closed briefing to Israeli journalists last Tuesday regarding the army's activities in the north of the strip. Israel's forces, he boasted, were getting closer to the complete evacuation" of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya - Gaza's three northernmost cities, which have been under intense Israeli bombardment since early October. There is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes," Cohen continued, before adding that his clear orders" were to create a cleansed space".The army hastened to distance itself from Cohen's comments after they garnered the attention of the international media: what may have sounded like war crimes, a spokesperson clarified, was merely a remark taken out of context. Yet what we see playing out on the ground in northern Gaza is exactly as Cohen described it: tens of thousands of civilians forced out of homes, shelters and hospitals, day after day, by airstrikes, artillery fire, quadcopter drones or armed battalions arriving at their door - who make sure to demolish or burn whatever is left behind.Ben Reiff is a senior editor at +972 magazineDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
President-elect's eldest son says he will join anti-ESG' firm 1789 Capital, which focuses on conservative investmentsDonald Trump Jr, the eldest son of president-elect Donald Trump, has decided to join a venture capital firm and will not be part of his father's administration.Trump Jr told a crowd of donors over the weekend that he will be joining the Florida-based venture firm 1789 Capital, according to a report in the New York Times. Continue reading...
Consumers started their Christmas shopping early, Kantar says; UK jobless rate rises to 4.3% while wage growth excluding bonuses is at a two-year lowThe UK can strike a US trade deal with Donald Trump while also rebuilding EU relations after Brexit to cement its status as a beacon of stability" in an increasingly volatile world, a leading economist has said.Andy Haldane, the former Bank of England chief economist, said Keir Starmer's government could show the UK was open for business at a time when so much else of the world is looking inward - whether to the EU, or the US, it could really pay dividends".Of course we should pursue energetically an improved deal with the EU, although that won't be straightforward. The new government committed to that and should keep on committing to that.That should not, though, preclude - and does not preclude, as difficult as it will be - seeking out a free trade arrangement with the US under a new Trump presidency. Continue reading...
Some liberals have a weird urge, based on the flimsiest evidence, to see conservative women as misled victims of Maga menHer father may have been voted into the highest office in the land, but have the results of the US election left Ivanka Trump feeling low? Deep down, did the former first daughter hope Kamala Harris might prevail?The idea that Ivanka, who appears to have made enormous amounts of money during her dad's first term, might have secretly been rooting for Harris seems preposterous. But consider, for a moment, the evidence, which is this: a blue pantsuit. Ivanka, who was absent for much of her dad's campaign, rocked up to Trump's victory party - creepy slumlord" husband in tow - wearing a bright blue ensemble. Since blue is associated with Democrats, tongues started wagging. Was this a fashion statement or a political statement? Was Ivanka trying to send a message that she was Team Kamala? Continue reading...
More than $250,000 raised for Michael Grimm, Republican reportedly injured while riding horse in SeptemberA fundraiser for a Republican former congressman who was reportedly paralyzed in a fall from a horse during a polo event in September has raised more than a quarter of a million dollars in two days.Michael Grimm, also a former US marine and FBI agent who served seven months in prison for financial fraud before being released in 2016, is receiving treatment at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey, according to the New York Post. Continue reading...
Experts say president-elect is likely to oppose policies such as universal healthcare and measures to reduce smokingDonald Trump will take office with a pledge to make America healthy again", even as growing evidence shows the president-elect's conservative policy agenda is associated with worse health.Population health scientists see Republican-led states, some of which have the worst health outcomes in the developed world, and Trump's track record as warning signs for the future. Continue reading...
Billionaire provided vast majority of funds to America Pac in winning bid to return Trump to White HouseElon Musk's super political action committee (Pac) spent about $200m to help elect Donald Trump to a second presidency, according to a person familiar with the group's spending, funding an effort that set a new standard for how billionaires can influence elections.The billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX provided the vast majority of the money to America Pac, which focused on low-propensity and first-time voters, according to the Associated Press source, who was not authorized to disclose the figure publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. In turn, as CNBC reported, Musk's net worth jumped $70bn since Trump's victory in the 5 November election. Continue reading...
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Gregory Aymond's offer, required because he turns 75, says he wants to stay for resolution of institution's bankruptcy but adds it is up to Pope FrancisNew Orleans' Roman Catholic archbishop Gregory Aymond is submitting his resignation Tuesday, on his 75th birthday, fulfilling a church requirement - though it is unclear if Vatican officials would immediately accept it with his scandal-plagued organization's expensive, highly contentious bankruptcy case still unresolved.In a letter issued on Friday to priests and deacons under his command, Aymond cited canon - or church - law that required him to offer to retire because of his age. But he said he also offered to remain in office until the resolution of the bankruptcy. Continue reading...
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Harris and Trump voters share their election opinions from a Guardian callout that received more than a thousand responsesIt's like being sucked into a tsunami," said Vivian Glover, a Kamala Harris voter from South Carolina, about the realisation that Donald Trump had been re-elected as president.The contrast between the two campaigns couldn't have been more stark. On the one hand an intelligent, highly qualified public servant with a unifying message, and the opponent someone who epitomizes corruption, immorality, dishonesty, incompetence, racism, misogyny, tyranny and has clearly indicated his willingness to embrace authoritarianism." Continue reading...
Rubio is reportedly in line for secretary of state, with Waltz expected to be made national security adviser. Plus, what's behind all the celebrity lookalike contests?
At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfareA friend recently asked: Do you think the United States will survive the anger of white men?" As blunt as the question is, the core element is not so far-fetched. In fact, the majority of white men (and women) who voted in the presidential election in 2024 have rallied around a man who has called for the termination of the constitution", vowed to be a dictator", and threatened to deploy the US military against Americans. They support a man who is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a proven liar, who has been fined nearly half a billion dollars for fraud, who incited an insurrection that injured 140 police officers, and who mismanaged the Covid-19 pandemic causing hundreds of thousands to die needlessly.The fact that Donald Trump's candidacy was even viable, given that horrific track record, was because of the support of white men. White men, whose anger was on full display at Madison Square Garden as they spewed racist, misogynistic venom. White men who attacked poll workers and also voters of Kamala Harris. White men who chafed at the thought that their wives and girlfriends would not vote for the man who thought it was a beautiful thing" that reproductive rights had been destroyed. And, as the New York Times reported, the downwardly mobile, frustrated white men without a degree, [who] have been surpassed in income by college-educated women".Carol Anderson is the Robert W Woodruff Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Continue reading...
Lawsuit filed by pro-choice protesters seeks to clarify medical exceptions in states's near-total abortion banWomen denied medically necessary abortions in Idaho are expected to testify this week in a trial over the state's near-total abortion ban.The trial, which starts on Tuesday and is expected to last through at least Thursday, is part of a lawsuit filed by abortion rights supporters who want to clarify the medical exceptions in Idaho's near-total abortion ban. Currently, abortions are only permitted in Idaho to preserve a patient's health. The vagueness of the exception means women have been forced to go out of state for the procedure, or wait until they get sick enough that doctors can legally intervene. Continue reading...
Once Ice acting director and Heritage visiting fellow, Homan was called the father' of Trump's family separation policyIn 2018, then acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) Thomas Homan told HuffPost that Congress needed to fix immigration laws because: I'm the first one to say, I can't arrest 11 million people."Now, newly tapped as Donald Trump's border czar", he will be tasked with just that. The president-elect said on Monday that Homan, a former law enforcement official who has served in immigration enforcement under multiple presidencies, would be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin". Continue reading...
Just because Trump is publicly distancing himself from abortion does not mean Republicans won't enact a national banAbortion rights initiatives were on the ballot in 10 states on Tuesday, and won in seven of them. One of the losers was prop 4, Florida's abortion rights measure, which received a whopping 57% of the vote but failed to meet the state's unusually high 60% threshold, meaning that the state's six-week ban will remain in place. Asked about the Florida abortion rights proposition ahead of the election, Trump said that when he went to cast his ballot near Palm Beach, he would vote against it.It has always been a little hard to believe that Donald Trump personally hates abortion, even if it is abundantly clear how little he thinks of women. Trump, after all, has claimed to have numerous conflicting positions on abortion rights throughout his life. And his brand of masculinity is boorish, vulgar, and above all, sexually entitled - far from the priggish, repressed moralism of more classical anti-abortion figures like Mike Pence.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
In evading legal consequences for his actions, Trump was handed a chillingly simple strategy: just run for president againDonald Trump's most vital campaign did not involve his political consultants, the hysteria of his rallies, the paranoid TV spots about migrant murderers and transgender bogeymen, his blathering on bro" podcasts or the prancing of a hopped-up Elon Musk. Nor was it about a garbage can in the ocean, eating pets or divine intervention.Trump's vulnerability was always at the forefront of his mind. He knew he could have been eliminated at crucial moments before election day. He was anxious about more than an assassination. He understood that his most threatening adversary was the criminal justice system. Trump had to get away with his crimes to survive. The making of the president required the unmaking of justice. Continue reading...
As the business end of the season comes into view, we look at the weaknesses that could end the championship hopes of some of the league's best teamsAs we career at high speed into the second half of the season, even the best NFL teams have issues they need to shore up before the playoffs. Because in the postseason every mistake is magnified, and every big play is bigger.So, here are five of the NFL's most credible contenders, and the one potentially fatal flaw that could boot each one of those squads out of the race to Super Bowl LIX. The list is far from exhaustive - there are plenty of other teams who could win the title - feel free to add your own choices, and their weaknesses, below. Continue reading...
So far, the president-elect's rhetoric has been at odds with reality. If that changes, it would redraw the US electoral mapDonald Trump's unpredictable style and electoral success reflect a turbulent era when neither progressives nor authoritarians have secured control. Far from signalling an autocratic takeover, his rise shows a political landscape in flux. The 2008 crash and its uneven recovery marked the decline of the old economic order. But in 2016, the rise of Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left highlighted a real shift, as neoliberalism's grip loosened, making space for once marginalised ideas.Since then, two US presidencies have acknowledged the need to rebuild an economy that supports blue-collar workers affected by free trade, immigration and globalisation. While neither administration succeeded - and paid for it at the ballot box - the result has been a growing constituency on both sides of the American political divide that takes seriously, albeit often rhetorically, economic injustice. But for any political movement to become dominant, it has to shape the core ideas that matter to everyone, not just its diehard supporters. Continue reading...
Spirit Airlines flight heading from Florida to Port-au-Prince diverted to Dominican Republic after flight attendant was grazed by bullet, amid broader violence in Haiti's capitalHaiti's international airport shut down on Monday after gangs opened fire at a commercial flight landing in Port-Au-Prince, prompting some airlines to suspend operations as the country swore in a new interim prime minister who promised to restore peace.The Spirit Airlines flight headed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Port-Au-Prince was just hundreds of feet from landing in Haiti's capital when gangs shot at the plane, striking a flight attendant who suffered minor injuries, according to the airline, the US embassy and flight tracking data. Continue reading...
The end to this bloody stalemate must come with negotiation, and Putin should not wait until Trump is in the White HouseFirst the good news. The US is talking to Russia. Then the bad. Vladimir Putin has been phoned not by the current US president, but by a known admirer and sceptic of the US's support for Ukraine, the president-elect, Donald Trump. Could these two facts offer a path to peace?Two years ago, Putin made a terrible mistake. He thought he could invade Ukraine and topple its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He failed utterly. Ukraine's forces pushed him back to the supposedly pro-Russian territory of his 2014 invasion. At talks in Istanbul months after this failure, Putin's representatives might have settled for a ceasefire and the acceptance of some western security guarantee for Kyiv. The talks broke down with the west encouraging Ukraine to fight on. In what amounted to a proxy war on Moscow, the west attacked Russia and its people with the severest sanctions ever seen, while donating to Ukraine huge sums of aid.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
A fresh wave of violence between Haitian police and gangs has gripped the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, with a Spirt Airlines flight bound for the capital's main airport from Florida forced to divert after it was struck by gang-related gunfire. On the same day, the country swore in a new prime minister tasked with restoring peace. 'The first essential task that will determine the success of the transition is to re-establish the security of people, property and infrastructure, food security and freedom of movement throughout the country,' incoming Haitian prime minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime said Continue reading...
Some supporters believe race and gender were underlying reasons many won't admit to for why the vice-president lostIn the hours after Joe Biden's decision to end his re-election bid and endorse Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee for president, 40,000 Black women - leaders in politics, business and entertainment - met on a Zoom call to rally around the vice-president.We went from that call to organizing our house, our block, our church, our sorority, and our unions," said Glynda C Carr, president and co-founder of Higher Heights, an organization that works to help Black women get elected to political office. That is what we did for the 107 days that she ran for office. Black women used our organizing power around a woman that we knew was qualified, that had a lived experience." Continue reading...
Pramila Jayapal says party has to pick some big fights' and blames leaders for falling hostage to big-money interests'As shell-shocked Democrats try to understand why working-class Americans - once the cornerstone of their political base - chose a billionaire over them, progressives argue the path forward is to champion popular and populist" economic policies.Democratic recriminations have intensified in the nearly seven days since their devastating electoral losses, which may yet deliver a new era of unified Republican governance in Washington, after Donald Trump stormed to a second term while his party easily flipped the Senate and is on the verge of winning a majority in the House. Divisions have deepened, with progressives blaming the party's embrace of corporate America and swing-state Democrats accusing the left of tarnishing its appeal with ex-urban and rural voters. Continue reading...
Tubman helped free several Black people from slavery and led soldiers on a gunboat raid during US civil warThe revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland's Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state's national guard. Continue reading...
Richard Allen, 52, could face up to 130 years in prison for killings on a hiking trail in Delphi, a small Indiana townA jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.Deliberations stretched into a fourth day before jurors found Richard Allen guilty of the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. The former drugstore worker was convicted of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Allen, 52, could now face up to 130 years in prison. Continue reading...
Status of abortion in state has been contested since Roe was overturned, triggering the 175-year-old ban into effectDuring heated oral arguments on Monday morning, the Wisconsin supreme court appeared poised to find an 1849 law banning most abortions cannot be enforced.The legal status of abortion in Wisconsin has been contested since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and ended the right to abortion nationwide, triggering bans across the country - including in Wisconsin, where a 175-year-old ban immediately went into effect. Continue reading...
Victim reported being sexually assaulted by several males' and coerced into taking drugs on frat row, officials sayOfficials at Cornell University have suspended one of the Ivy League institution's Greek fraternities while police investigate an incident in which a victim was allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted by several males" and forced into taking drugs.The New York university's police department said it received a report about an assault said to have taken place at an off-campus event in the city of Ithaca on the night of 25 October, the Times Union reported. Continue reading...
Despite his fall from grace, the royal always seems to find a pal to pay his way. In a world awash with murky interests, it is rather important that we find out whyIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a fortune is usually dead keen to throw it at Prince Andrew.Because they keep on doing it, don't they? They just can't help themselves, from the oligarch son-in-law of Kazakhstan's then president, who so obligingly paid 3m over the asking price for the Duke of York's former marital home at Sunninghill Park, to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who so famously lent the duke's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson 15,000 to help clear her debts. Even after King Charles stopped paying his security bills, Andrew is believed to have found what the royal journalist Robert Hardman's biography of the king delicately calls other sources of income" related to his contacts in international trade - a phrase that makes you long for the good old days of Fergie gamely doing WeightWatchers ads to pay off her overdraft or Princess Anne's son-in-law going on I'm A Celebrity to discuss her reaction to his novelty boxer shorts.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
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