President says national security adviser Mike Waltz, suspected of adding journalist to chat, has learned a lesson'Donald Trump defended his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday and said the leak of highly classified military plans was the only glitch in two months", as scrutiny intensified into how top US officials shared operational details for bombing Yemen in a group chat.In an interview with NBC, Trump said, Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man," as Democrats called for an investigation into the sharing of the plans for this month's major airstrikes in Yemen on the Signal app. Continue reading...
Los Angeles wildlife center staff working around clock to care for 47 eggs and 12 chicks, all double-crested cormorantsDozens of bird eggs and chicks were rescued from nests in a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapsing in a California park.Now staff at the International Bird Rescue's Los Angeles wildlife center have been working around the clock to care for the 47 eggs and 12 chicks, all double-crested cormorants, in hopes that they will be able to be released back into the wild in a few months. Continue reading...
The news website calls the lawsuit meritless and a transparent attempt to ... silence the independent press'A top campaign manager for Donald Trump's victorious 2024 presidential bid has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, alleging the news outlet fabricated claims about his campaign compensation and deliberately damaged his professional reputation.Chis LaCivita's lawsuit, filed on Monday in the US district court for the eastern district of Virginia, centers on a series of articles published in October 2024 claiming that he received up to $22m from the campaign and associated political action committees. Continue reading...
Trump administration is accused of inciting climate of repression' and stifling free speech on campuses, including Columbia UniversityUS academic groups have sued the Trump administration in an effort to block the deportation of foreign students and scholars who have been targeted for voicing pro-Palestinian views and criticism of Israel.The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (Mesa) filed a lawsuit at a US federal court in Boston on Tuesday accusing the administration of fomenting a climate of repression" on campuses and stifling constitutionally guaranteed free speech rights. Continue reading...
We absolutely won't tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neitherOnce again, we find ourselves having an anguished debate about mobile phones and online safety, in this case asking: should we ban the devices for US national security advisers under the age of 60? Do you know what your national security adviser is doing on his device? Is he using it to stay in touch with other guys in the big-man-osphere to talk about bombing Hooters? Or did he maybe add the editor-in-chief of a leading general interest magazine to a Signal group in the crucial hours running up to a highly sensitive US military operation in Yemen, seemingly committing so many alleged crimes that he should have a full-body orange jumpsuit tattooed on him for ever?By now, you will have caught up with the tale of one of the most idiotic breaches of security imaginable - executed, regrettably, by the actual US national security adviser. Mike Waltz seems to have been aided and abetted in his full-spectrum fatuity by other ultra-senior figures, including the vice-president, JD Vance, and the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, who shared detailed operational and strategic information in a chat to which Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg had been accidentally invited. Is Hegseth OK? Has he returned to being - how to put this delicately? - someone you probably don't want to give important tasks to after lunch"?Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said the US was exerting 'unacceptable pressure' on Greenland, ahead of an unsolicited visit by a US delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory. The visit will be led by Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president, JD Vance, and includes the White House national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and the energy secretary, Chris Wright. President Donald Trump has reiterated his suggestion that the US should take over Greenland numerous times since he took office in January. 'The visit is clearly not about what Greenland needs or wants,' said Frederiksen. 'President Trump is serious. He wants Greenland. Therefore, [this visit] cannot be seen independently of anything else' Continue reading...
Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holidayDo you like being shackled and strip-searched? Absolutely no judgment if so, but anyone who isn't into that sort of thing may want to avoid a holiday to the US at the moment. Although I'm sure I don't need to tell you that. Unless you've been hiding under a news-blocking rock (in which case: what's the address? And can I join you?), you'll have noticed that Donald Trump's America hasn't exactly been rolling out the red carpet for visitors. There have been a number of recent incidents where white westerners - people who aren't normally targeted by overzealous US immigration authorities - have been detained, deported or denied entry for obscure reasons.Take the 28-year-old Welsh artist Rebecca Burke, for example. She was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) for 19 days in what her father described as horrendous conditions". Now, to be fair, Burke had the wrong paperwork: she hadn't realised that she needed a working visa instead of a tourist visa in order to exchange domestic chores for accommodation with a host family. But getting imprisoned for almost three weeks over a mix-up and then being led on to a deportation flight - in chains! - back to a country that is supposedly a close ally, is obviously extreme. A Canadian woman also made headlines after being detained by Ice for two weeks when immigration enforcement officers flagged her visa application paperwork. And two German tourists were similarly held for almost two weeks in a detention centre. Continue reading...
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They are the children of the Black Panther party - the self-styled Panther cubs. Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination, they have lived in the shadows of a promised land that was never attained. We join them as they continue to wrestle, 50 years later, with the dichotomy of their extraordinary childhoods: the enormous pride and love it gave them as members of the Black Panther family, and the booming loss they endured - of parents, of security, and of the hope for radical change that did not materialise. That hope lives on in the cubs, and their reflections on America's current crisis offers burning lessons for today Continue reading...
Major security leak sparks calls for investigations. Plus, Tesla's European sales drop 44%Good morning.A major security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.The leak has shocked people across the political spectrum. The minority Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, called it one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time". He urged Republicans to seek a full investigation.What did Hegseth say? On Monday Hegseth said that nobody was texting war plans" and attacked Goldberg as deceitful and highly discredited" without refuting any specifics from the Atlantic story.What does the administration claim? That the Alien Enemies Act, which permits deportation of foreign nationals during wars or invasions, is applicable because the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua's activities constitute an invasion". But they have not provided solid evidence that those deported are even gang members: one a 23-year-old gay makeup artist with no apparent gang affiliations. Continue reading...
My wireless sleep headphones let me enter a one-woman sensory deprivation chamber every night. HeavenI'm having a night-time love affair. A blinding, unwashed, entirely distracting relationship that I turn to when everyone else in my house is asleep. My new bedmate whispers in my ear when I'm supposed to be sleeping and leaves imprints on my neck in the morning. That's right: I'm talking about my new sleep mask with built-in wireless speakers.When I got pregnant last year, my body appeared to forget, entirely, how to sleep. Which was fun, as everyone around me started to joke rather grimly about precisely how tired I was about to make myself for the next 18 years. But then my husband presented me with a small, padded strip of grey velvet fabric, through which I can play precisely the sort of soporific audio that quells even my most brutal insomnia. Continue reading...
They are the children of the Black Panther party - the self-styled Panther cubs. Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination, they have lived in the shadows of a promised land that was never attained. We join them as they continue to wrestle, 50 years later, with the dichotomy of their extraordinary childhoods: the enormous pride and love it gave them as members of the Black Panther family, and the booming loss they endured - of parents, of security, and of the hope for radical change that did not materialise. That hope lives on in the cubs, and their reflections on America's current crisis offers burning lessons for today Continue reading...
The striker is in the middle of his best club season since a traumatic injury, and his national team is benefittingWatching him score dazzling free kicks, pull off handsprings and other acrobatics in his goal celebrations, and lift the trophy for best player in the Concacaf Nations League Finals, it is easy to forget Raul Jimenez ever suffered a serious injury of any type. Or that less than five years ago, there were questions about if he'd ever play the sport again, period.Yet there Jimenez was, with two goals in Mexico's semifinal against Canada and another two in the final against Panama, joking about enjoying a few tequilas in celebration of El Tri's first-ever Nations League triumph. A sleek headband is the only visible reminder of his November 2020 collision with Arsenal's David Luiz - an incident that fractured his skull and caused a brain bleed, and which could have cost him his life without the proper and timely medical interventions he received. Continue reading...
The independent senator from Vermont has been rallying the resistance on a cross-country Fight Oligarchy' tourBernie Sanders said Donald Trump has absolutely" created a constitutional crisis in the United States and is pushing the country very rapidly toward an authoritarian form of society".The independent senator from Vermont has been rallying the anti-Trump resistance on a cross-country Fight Oligarchy" tour, drawing some of the largest crowds of his decades-long political career as he taps into rising anger over the president's stunning power grabs. Continue reading...
Many believed Steph Curry's Golden State were past it in 2022 before they won the championship. This time around, Jimmy Butler has given them new lifeIt felt like the end, again.The Golden State Warriors missed the playoffs in 2020 and 2021, but they stormed back from the abyss in 2022 to beat the Boston Celtics in the NBA finals. Steph Curry was 33 for most of that season. Draymond Green and Klay Thompson were 31. The Warriors' return to the pinnacle of basketball had the whiff of a last hurrah, and indeed, their championship core faded for a second time after that: a second-round exit in 2023, a play-in tournament flatlining in 2024. Curry and his four-time championship-winning teammates continued to get older in the way athletes do. Continue reading...
With the US threatening unilateral withdrawal, even from the top Nato military post, five European nations must fill the vacuumIn the face of Vladimir Putin's aggression against Ukraine and Donald Trump's destabilisation of the Atlantic alliance, an embryonic European security council is taking shape on the hoof. Whether it will prove strong enough to protect Europe's liberal democracies and deter Russia without US military support may be tested all too soon.Nato was created under US leadership to keep the Soviet Union at bay while suppressing centuries-old rivalries among European powers. The alliance stayed united through the cold war and attracted new central European members after communist rule collapsed. But the spectre of US disengagement now threatens to leave Europe without its nuclear-armed protector.Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...
Donald Trump complained in a social media post about a portrait of him that has been hanging in the Colorado state capitol since 2019. The US president said that the painting 'was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before'. In the post, Trump blamed Colorado governor Jared Polis for the portrait and demanded it be taken down. However, a Republican senator had commissioned the portrait using fund from a GoFundMe campaign. Colorado Senate Republicans hosted an event alongside the artist in 2019 to hang the painting, which had been approved by the group
Catastrophic security leak sparks calls for investigations. Here is your roundup of key US politics stories from 24 March 2025Senior Trump administration officials have triggered bipartisan outrage after broadcasting classified military plans through a Signal group chat to which they had inadvertently added a prominent journalist.According to reporting in the Atlantic, the editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally invited into a Signal chat group with more than a dozen senior Trump administration officials including Vice-President JD Vance, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, national security adviser, Mike Waltz, secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, and others. Continue reading...
Even some Republicans have called president's public demand to remove the painting petty'Donald Trump critics aimed ridicule at the president after he publicly demanded the removal of his portrait at Colorado's state capitol building, calling it truly the worst".In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump shared an image of the portrait and complained about the painting, saying it was bad and blaming it on Colorado's governor, Jared Polis - whom the president insulted as being radically left". Continue reading...
Yunseo Chung, who partook in university's pro-Palestinian protests, called government's actions shocking overreach'A Columbia University student who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at the university is suing Donald Trump's administration for attempting to deport her.Attorneys for Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old who has legally resided in the US since childhood, filed a complaint on Monday describing the government's actions as shocking overreach" and an unprecedented and unjustifiable assault" on her rights. Continue reading...
What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic - a distortion of what it means to be AmericanLess than seven weeks into Donald Trump's second term as president, his administration has set off a new wave of handwringing over what has by now become a familiar question: has the US entered a constitutional crisis?Triggering the latest iteration of that worry, the government hastily deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, without hearings or evidence and thus without anything even resembling due process of law, pursuant to the US president's proclamation signed in the dark on Friday evening" that they constituted an invasion by a foreign state. Continue reading...
Louis DeJoy led dramatic effort to restructure the US postal service over past five yearsThe US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, who said earlier this month that he had asked the government efficiency team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, is resigning effective on Monday, the agency said.DeJoy, who has headed the agency since 2020, in February said he had asked the US Postal Service (USPS) governing board to identify his successor but had given no indication in recent days that he planned to step down abruptly. Continue reading...
Tucker Challan, 16, was found on Sunday after triggering and being buried in an avalanche in Turnagain PassA teenager has died after triggering an avalanche, the fourth person killed in snow slides in Alaska this month.Alaska State Troopers said the body of 16-year-old Tucker Challan of Soldotna was recovered from the avalanche on Sunday by the Alaska mountain rescue group. Continue reading...
Employees who may have to return home risk death or imprisonment at hands of authoritarian governmentsForeign workers at US government-backed media outlets being cut by the Trump administration say they face deportation to their home countries, where some risk imprisonment or death at the hands of authoritarian governments.Earlier this month, the Trump administration moved to defund the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that oversees the Voice of America (VoA), the US's largest and oldest international broadcaster, and provides grants to Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other news agencies. Staff have been placed on administrative leave and contractors have been fired. The agency had around 3,500 employees with an annual budget of $886m in 2024. Continue reading...
In apparent deal between three countries, Venezuelan official said country would resume accepting US deporteesA group of Venezuelan immigrants have been deported from the US to Honduras and then sent on to Venezuela, after an apparent deal between the three countries.The flights came one day after a Venezuelan government official announced on social media it would resume accepting deportees from the US. Deportations from the US to Venezuela, which have rarely taken place, have been a point of dispute for the Trump administration. Continue reading...
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Suspect was previously convicted in fatal stabbing of her first spouse in 2000 and served nearly a decade in prisonA month after an official with California's department of forestry and fire protection (CalFire) was found slain at her home, the woman's wife has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of murder, authorities said - marking the second time the suspect is accused of illicitly killing a spouse of hers.Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi's arrest came after she was named the prime suspect in the 17 February stabbing death of Capt Rebecca Marodi, 49, in Ramona, near San Diego. Continue reading...
Legal saga over state's majority-Black districts could be vehicle for justices to further weaken the Voting Rights ActThe US supreme court appeared sharply divided on Monday on whether it should strike down Louisiana's congressional map because the state added a second majority-Black district.The case, Louisiana v Callais, arrived at the supreme court after years of legal wrangling over Louisiana's congressional map. It centers on the drawing of the state's sixth congressional district, a majority-Black district that stretches in a diagonal slash across the state and is currently being represented by a Democrat. Continue reading...
One minute Rachel and Phoebe are giving birth, the next they're perfectly groomed and having coffee with their mates. That's not a picture I recogniseI've started watching this great fantasy series from the mid-90s and early 00s - it's called Friends. It follows a group of humanoid characters who treat childbirth as a social occasion, wear full makeup postpartum and never look after their babies. The fantasy element is very clever - so subtle in fact that it is only now, watching it decades later, as a parent myself, that I even noticed it.Perhaps back in the 90s the otherworldly nature of Phoebe Buffay waiting to give birth to triplets in a room chock-full of her wise-cracking friends, despite it being a high-risk pregnancy, was understood. Maybe the way that Ross Geller's baby Ben is delivered under a sheet, by an obstetrician apparently working blind, was a well-known speculative fiction trope back then. Possibly when it originally aired, parents were simply amazed by the special effects involved when Rachel Green was shown sitting in a coffee shop gossiping about her love life, three weeks after giving birth, in full makeup and blow-dry, high heels, a pair of size 10 jeans - and entirely without her baby. Whatever was going on, no one at the time seemed fazed by this uncanny valley where babies breastfeed just once in their life, never get ill and are put behind glass in hospital nurseries to be glanced at by visiting relatives who then have sex in cupboards. Continue reading...
Despite losing their best player to injury and their head coach to a red card, Canada hardly lost a step as they beat their northern neighbors on their own turfAmerican positives from a particularly sobering Sunday afternoon at SoFi Stadium were in desperately short supply. To be fair, Americans in general had been in short supply there last week, with the abject turnout for both of the host nation's two games.One bright spot for the Americans, however, was that Jesse Marsch had been silenced. A second-half red card meant the Canada coach was barred from talking post-match. The dismissal came after an almighty touchline meltdown that spilled on to the playing area as he roared at referee Katia Itzel Garcia after back-to-back penalty appeals. Cameras trailed him through stadium gangways and tunnels as he raged on. Marsch madness' headlines were a layup. Continue reading...
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Post-Eaton fire, congregants who want a quick rebuild are met with a question: how long are they allowed to grieve?Before the Masjid Al-Taqwa, a mosque in Altadena, was reduced to rubble in the Eaton fire in January, it was a space that belonged to all its worshippers. When the urge for prayer stirred the soul during off-hours, a faithful follower could borrow the key and have the place to pray.Now without a mosque during Ramadan, members are worshipping in diaspora. The weekly communal prayer services are temporarily held in a park community room. After hours at a Muslim elementary school, members break their fast together. It's a fragmented spiritual existence. Continue reading...
The president thinks tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented' - but his trade war seems based on fiat and whimI've been writing about manufacturing in the US since the 1980s, and it's been heart-wrenching to report on dozens of factory closings and the devastation they have done to workers and communities. As the nation grasped for ways to slow these plant closings, I also wrote about Washington's use of carefully employed trade measures, like targeted tariffs, and how they helped save some plants and jobs, especially in the steel industry.Carefully targeted tariffs can be a winning strategy, but Donald Trump's obsession with tariffs - especially across-the-board ones that are neither careful, nor targeted - has already shown itself to be a lose-lose strategy. Perhaps it's too generous to use the word strategy to describe what the president is doing, because his tariffs seem based on fiat and whim, not on thoughtful planning. Continue reading...
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
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