Officials launch inquiry as victim identified as Jesse Dominguez, 34, who family says may have been in mental health crisisA California highway patrol officer fatally shot a man on Sunday during a confrontation in the middle of a Los Angeles highway, state authorities said as they announced an investigation into the incident.The Los Angeles county medical examiner's office on Tuesday identified the man as Jesse Dominguez. The 34-year-old was walking along the westbound lanes of Interstate 105 in south Los Angeles county when the deadly encounter unfolded, the California highway patrol said. Continue reading...
Hanme K Clark, 45, is believed to be driving a 2017 white Ram 1500 pickup truck with camper shell, says Custer county sheriffA man was on the run on Tuesday after police say he fatally shot three people and critically wounded a fourth over a years-long dispute about the use of an easement on the suspect's property in rural Colorado, authorities said.The 45-year-old suspect, Hanme K Clark, was believed to be driving a 2017 white Ram 1500 pickup truck with a camper shell, said the Custer county sheriff, Lloyd Rich Smith. He said at a midday news conference that the department were narrowing in on the suspect and hoped he would surrender peacefully. Continue reading...
Joaquin Blaya condemns recent interview on Spanish-speaking TV network as propaganda' while John Leguizamo calls for a boycottA former president of Univision condemned the Spanish-language US television network's recent interview with Donald Trump as propaganda" and an insult to the Hispanic community".To call the Trump [interview] an interview is mistaken," Joaquin Blaya told MSNBC. It was not an interview as we understand [it] in the United States. It was basically a one-hour propaganda open space for former president Trump to say whatever he wanted to say." Continue reading...
However, judge decided former president could not be disqualified from the presidential ballot under the 14th amendment clauseDonald Trump appealed a ruling in which a Colorado judge said he could not be disqualified from the presidential ballot under the 14th amendment to the US constitution, even though he engaged in insurrection by inciting the deadly January 6 attack.The former president took issue with the finding that he participated in insurrection in connection with the attack on the Capitol staged by his supporters. Continue reading...
Shooter in Ohio wounded four people before killing himself, days after two people were shot and killed outside a Walmart in AlaskaWalmart says it is working closely with investigators to try to determine why a shooter opened fire at one of its stores in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself late on Monday.The attack came during a year that - as of early Tuesday - had so far seen the US report about 610 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...
George Conway, J Michael Luttig and Barbara Comstock create new legal group to speak out against the endless stream of falsehoods'Three prominent US legal thinkers have announced a new organisation to champion conservative legal theory within the rule of law, to fight the threat of a second Donald Trump term.Our country comes first," the three wrote in the New York Times, and our country is in a constitutional emergency, if not a constitutional crisis. We all must act accordingly, especially us lawyers." Continue reading...
Police work to confirm whether body is that of Ross McDonnell, 44, last seen leaving Brooklyn apartment on bicycle earlier this monthNew York police are working to confirm that a body found on a city beach is that of the award-winning Irish film-maker Ross McDonnell, who was last seen leaving his Brooklyn apartment on a bicycle early this month.Although the body has not been officially identified, NBC law enforcement sources told the network the remains appeared to be those of McDonnell. Continue reading...
Phillip Fisher Jr, who served three years in prison, volunteered at Philadelphia summit for rightwing parental rights groupA Philadelphia-based outreach leader for Moms for Liberty - the conservative parental rights group that is pushing to exclude discussion of gender and diversity from school curricula - has been exposed as a registered sex offender.According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Phillip Fisher Jr - a pastor and local Republican ward leader who volunteered at Moms for Liberty's national summit in Philadelphia this year - pleaded guilty in 2012 to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse involving a 14-year-old boy when he was 25 and living in Chicago.In the US, call or text the Childhelp abuse hotline on 800-422-4453 or visit their website for more resources and to report child abuse or DM for help. For adult survivors of child abuse, help is available at ascasupport.org. In the UK, the NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. In Australia, children, young adults, parents and teachers can contact the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800, or Bravehearts on 1800 272 831, and adult survivors can contact Blue Knot Foundation on 1300 657 380. Other sources of help can be found at Child Helplines International Continue reading...
The premature loss of a cancer patient is something that is anathema to an oncologist. Could I have done more to change her mind?Every time I talk to you, I feel more distressed."Tears stream down the patient's face as she claps her palms over both ears to shut me out. Continue reading...
Nine people aboard escape injury after P-8A aircraft flying in rainy weather miscalculates and ends up in Kaneohe BayA navy plane flying in rainy weather overshot a runway on Monday at a military base in Hawaii and splashed into Kaneohe Bay - but all nine aboard were uninjured, authorities said.The coast guard responded, but rescue attempts were quickly called off after all parties involved" emerged safely, a spokesperson for the military branch said. Continue reading...
A deal to pause hostilities in Gaza and free some hostages is agonisingly close, but both sides are split on what happens nextA deal with Hamas to release some of the Israeli hostages seized on 7 October in return for a pause in the fighting in Gaza, if confirmed, would reflect a change of course by Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has adopted an uncompromising stance since the start of Israel's worst security crisis in 50 years.It would probably be wrong to suggest the deal, as currently configured, represents a softening of Netanyahu's position. He has been adamant from the beginning that Israel's overriding aim must be to eliminate Hamas as a military and political force in Gaza. He appears wedded to that approach, on whose success his own political future hinges. Continue reading...
Geoffrey Holt, who wore threadbare clothes, rode a bicycle and died in June at 82, donates fortune to home town of HinsdaleGeoffrey Holt was the unassuming caretaker of a mobile home park in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he lived a simple but curious life.Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes - riding his lawnmower, headed to the convenience store, parked along the main road reading a newspaper or watching cars pass. Continue reading...
About one in four women will experience partner violence, yet domestic violence still seems shrouded by myths and silenceThe settlement came almost immediately. Cassandra Ventura, the R&B singer better known by the stage name Cassie, had filed her blockbuster lawsuit in federal court against the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs only a day before Combs, a rapper and producer, paid her to drop the suit. In her complaint, Ventura described a pattern of coercive control, abuse, drugging and sexual violence perpetrated against her by Combs throughout their more than 13-year relationship, which began in 2005, when Cassie was 19 and had just signed to the 37-year-old Combs' Bad Boy Records, and ended in 2019.The complaint alleges that Combs plied Ventura with drugs, such as ecstasy and ketamine; that he beat her, including in one incident in Los Angeles in 2009, after Combs saw Cassie talking to another business agent, which required her to recuperate for a week; that he raped her repeatedly, including an incident in which he hired male sex workers to gang-rape Ventura, which Combs filmed, and again in 2018, when he broke into her house and assaulted her after she attempted to leave the relationship; and that he controlled nearly all aspects of her life, including not only her career, which he allegedly leveraged to keep her silent, but also access to her own medical information and when she was allowed to see her family. Ventura also alleges that after she was romantically linked to another man, Combs told her that he would blow up the man's car. A vehicle belonging to the rival exploded in a driveway shortly thereafter.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnistIn the US, the domestic violence hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). In the UK, call the national domestic abuse helpline on 0808 2000 247, or visit Women's Aid. In Australia, the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732. Other international helplines may be found via www.befrienders.org. Continue reading...
An exhibition on women's activism drove home how much more involved dads are now, and that we have 1970s feminists to thankSay what you want about millennials, but this is a generation of hands-on dads." If you're a parent on Instagram, you have probably seen a video using this template by now. Against a background of saccharine music, users show their male partners lovingly interacting with their children. It's cheesy and self-congratulatory, and if I did it to my husband I think he would be utterly mortified. But there's also something cheering about it. This is a generation that has been bashed by its predecessors for supposed entitlement, so such videos represent a gentle, if sentimental, rebuke - an assertion that we are doing things differently when it comes to childcare.And we are doing things differently, there's no doubt about it. Millennial dads show up for their kids. They spend three times more time with their children than previous generations, and whereas in 1982 almost half of dads (43%) admitted to never having changed a nappy, that figure had fallen to 3% by 2000. Indeed, you could go so far as to say that refusing to change a nappy - or complete other childcare tasks - would be met these days with the utmost scorn, not just from women, but from other men. It would have been highly unusual for a woman of our mothers' generation to expect such support and input from a male partner. Some did exist: they were called involved fathers" because the norm was to leave the children to the woman and, though the term still exists, it is highly likely to provoke an eye-roll, as is the suggestion that dads are merely babysitting" their own kids.Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The US House speaker is a longtime user of Covenant Eyes, in which an accountability partner' tracks the content on your phoneThe first thing to say about Covenant Eyes, the anti-porn phone app used by House speaker Mike Johnson, is that it did change my relationship with pornography.It dramatically increased the amount of time I spent thinking about it. Continue reading...
The USMNT booked their spot in next year's Copa America with a 4-2 aggregate win over Trinidad and Tobago in the Nations League. Here's what we learnedWhen Gio Reyna, of all players, is the voice of reason urging his teammate to calm down, swallow his frustration and act less petulantly, you know there's a serious problem. Continue reading...
Deal could include limited ceasefire and exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Plus, most US gun deaths are suicides. How can they be prevented?
The more disturbing Trump's public proclamations become, the more US plutocrats seem to want him to winAs an ever-greater portion of the nation's total wealth goes to the top, it's hardly surprising that ever more of that wealth is corrupting US politics.In the 2020 presidential election cycle, more than $14bn went to federal candidates, party committees, and Super Pacs - double the $7bn doled out in the 2016 cycle. Total giving in 2024 is bound to be much higher.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley Continue reading...
Senator's urge for US to make Israel reconsider military strategy is met with fierce backlash, underscoring rift on left over war in GazaBernie Sanders called on Congress to require Israel to change its policies as a condition to receiving US military aid - a statement that was met with fierce opposition by vocal Democratic supporters of the Jewish state, underscoring a deepening rift on the left over the Biden administration's response to the war.In a statement on Saturday, Sanders, a leading progressive voice, proposed leveraging US security assistance as a way of forcing Israel to reconsider its military strategy amid its bombardment and blockade of Gaza that has led to spiraling death, dislocation and destruction across the territory. Continue reading...
Robert Burns and Bob Yanacsek tie for 970 votes in race for Monroe mayor - and Burns wins it after Yanacsek incorrectly calls headsIn US politics, the slimmer the margins, the crazier things can get. And that reality has vaulted the winner of a coin flip into the mayor's office of a North Carolina city.The new mayor of Monroe, Robert Burns, and the runner-up, Bob Yanacsek, had signed up to run alongside three other candidates in a 7 November election that generated low voter turnout. Continue reading...
New documentary attempts to get to the heart of the legendary running back's decision to quit the game while still in his primeBarry Sanders's 1999 NFL retirement still smarts. Jim Brown and Michael Jordan at least pivoted toward new pursuits (acting and, in MJ's case, baseball for a while) and with their legacies secure. Sanders was 31, ringless and a season or so shy of becoming the NFL's all-time rushing leader when he spun away to London to escape the press, faxing a goodbye letter to his home town newspaper on the eve of the Detroit Lions' training camp. Until yesterday," one supporter huffed at the time, OJ was my least favorite runner, but he only stabbed two people in the back."It's taken Detroit hitting rock bottom time and again and other star players walking away from the NFL in their primes - Calvin Johnson, not least - for fans to appreciate Sanders's lionhearted call. It's the motivation behind his early retirement that's long been so mystifying. A new Amazon Prime documentary called Bye Bye Barry aims for more clarity, but comes up grasping in the end.Bye Bye Barry is available to stream now on Amazon Prime. Continue reading...
The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union modelFor the first time anywhere in the world, workers for the US carmaker Tesla have gone on strike. It's not a coincidence that this strike is happening in Sweden, which has one of the strongest labour movements in Europe. More than 90% of workers are protected by collective bargaining agreements, and the system has strong backing among employees and employers alike. With good reason: the Swedish labour relations model has sustained relative industrial peace between wage-earners and corporations for decades.By refusing to play ball, Elon Musk's car giant may have picked an unwinnable fight. What started as a minor local disagreement has grown to the point that it could have global implications, with potential ripple effects for labour movements and auto workers across Europe and the US.Martin Gelin writes for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter Continue reading...
The autumn statement will be another chance for the Tories to offload blame, as if 13 years of failure and cuts hadn't happenedWinter is coming, as it always does, and the NHS creaks and groans. The chancellor will not tomorrow hand over the 1bn it needs to cover the cost of strikes, though NHS debts mount while almost 7.8 million people in England suffer on waiting lists.But Jeremy Hunt will have an easy riposte, hot ammunition to hurl at the NHS, rehearsing for the upcoming election. A spate of alarming reports all say the same thing: NHS productivity has fallen since the pandemic, with more money and more staff treating fewer hospital patients. So says the authoritative Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), parliament's public accounts committee and the House of Commons library. Here's what the chancellor can say: in the last five years the NHS has had more money and some 20% more doctors and nurses, yet it treats fewer hospital patients than pre-Covid. Forget asking for more.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
TSA predicts busiest ever' holiday season as inclement weather likely to hit central, north-east and mid-Atlantic regionsStorms and inclement weather this Thanksgiving holiday week are likely to disrupt travel plans for much of the US.The forecasts come as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it expects this holiday travel season to be the busiest ever". Continue reading...
President makes age jokes as 81st birthday coincided with White House tradition but vintage comedy it was notHe had his turn at the White House, made all the right noises and now, getting on a bit, is heading for a quiet retirement.Sadly for the millions of voters who tell opinion pollsters they want him to make way for someone younger, it is not Joe Biden, but a turkey named Liberty who is about to put his feet up. Continue reading...
Shock ruling from Republican-appointed appeals court prevents outside groups or citizens seeking to enforce voting rights lawA federal appeals court shocked voting rights groups on Monday with a ruling that only the US government, not outside groups or citizens, could sue to enforce the Voting Rights Act's provisions.The civil rights law, which outlaws racial discrimination as it relates to voting, has typically been enforced by lawsuits from these groups, not by the government itself. Now that the Republican-appointed eighth circuit court of appeals has made the ruling by 2-1, this private right of action" to enforce Section 2 of the law is called into question. Continue reading...
Experts like Paul Nestadt of Johns Hopkins University say stigma and misinformation get in the way - but don't have toIn 2022, the number of US gun suicides reached an all-time high: 73 people dying by gun suicide every day, or a total of nearly 27,000 deaths that year.Despite years of intense debate over gun violence in the US, this central fact still receives little attention: the majority of the country's gun deaths are suicides, not homicides. Continue reading...
Book, MTG, by far-right Georgia congresswoman and leading supporter of Trump policies will be published in US on TuesdayA new book by the far-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene - a leading supporter of Donald Trump's America First" policies and founder of the America First Caucus, which called for meaningful work for American workers and their families" - was printed in Canada.The information is included on the copyright page of the book, MTG, which will be published in the US on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Pearson's church once had 6,000 members, and his story was chronicled on This American Life and later became a Netflix filmThe founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience - but gained a new one - after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has died, his agent said on Monday.Bishop Carlton Pearson died on Sunday night in hospice care in Tulsa due to cancer, said his agent, Will Bogle. Pearson was 70. Continue reading...
Decision affirms Minneapolis ex-police officer's conviction for second-degree murder and sentence of over 20 years in prisonThe US supreme court rejected on Monday a conviction appeal for the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd.The decision affirms Derek Chauvin's conviction for second-degree murder and sentence of more than 20 years in prison. Continue reading...
Golfers spot suspect being pursued by Wisconsin police hide in portable toilet and push it over to incapacitate himA suspected car thief was caught in a portable toilet after bystanders saw the man hide in it and then pushed it over with him still inside.Police in Wisconsin had been pursuing a stolen car when it crashed into two other vehicles and four suspects fled on foot. But one of the suspects hid in a portable toilet, though unknowingly he had been spotted by a group of golfers on a nearby course. Continue reading...
Rapper voices frustration over budget cuts to home town New York while Washington votes to increase funding for overseas warsThree years after supporting Joe Biden's victorious 2020 campaign, the straight-talking rap superstar Cardi B has ditched her backing of the president after public service cuts in her home town of New York.The Grammy winner, whose legal name is Belcalis Almanzar, said in an Instagram live stream she was done with Biden. Her tirade highlighted what she portrayed as contradiction between US domestic and foreign policies, saying the White House was helping Ukraine fight Russia and Israel fight Hamas while New York City mayor Eric Adams announced a 5% municipal budget cut last week. Continue reading...
Employees in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, make rare move to organize staff in financial industryWorkers at two Wells Fargo bank branches are planning to launch unionization efforts on Monday in a rare move to organize staff at a financial services company.Employees in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, said they would notify the National Labor Relations Board that they plan to hold elections to decide whether to unionize, the Wall Street Journal reported. Continue reading...
While the event was far from flawless, organisers can be satisfied with a race that lived up to the razzle-dazzle of Sin CityThe morning after the night before in Las Vegas might so easily have been one of guilt and remorse for Formula One. Instead, as the circuit was being dismantled and the Strip returned to what passes for normality in Sin City on Sunday, F1 could reflect on being one of the lucky few who would leave up on the weekend. At least in terms of perceived success, if not cold, hard cash.The race itself was a cracker, a contender for best of the season. Any fear of the circuit proving to be another street-based procession proved unfounded. Instead there was real racing and passing, the drivers admitting their expectations had been confounded. The upside down pig that the track resembles - turns 14, 15 and 16, where many passes were made, would be where a curly tail would protrude - had proved capable of delivering a veritable silk purse. Continue reading...
Argentina's next president has been compared to his fellow rightwing populists Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. Milei secured 55.69% of the vote against 44.3% for his rival, the centre-left finance minister Sergio Massa. Milei has vowed to 'exterminate' inflation and take a chainsaw to the state. Before a career in politics, Milei was a media personality known for controversial outbursts. In one instance on live TV, he destroyed a pinata representing the country's central bank - an institution he vowed to abolish on the campaign trail
Over 7,000 congregations have been approved to break away since 2019, when church strengthened bans on same-sex marriageAnother 250-plus United Methodist congregations have broken with the denomination in north Georgia amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ+ people in the church.The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to allow 261 congregations to break away, or disaffiliate, after theological tensions over bans on same-sex marriages and the ordination of clergy who are openly LGBTQ+. Continue reading...
Greg Abbott said Biden's border policies pose a danger to the US and credited Trump with lowering number of border crossingsDonald Trump won the endorsement of Texas governor Greg Abbott at an event near the US-Mexico border Sunday, a location meant to highlight the former Republican president's plans to crack down on immigration if he wins the 2024 White House race.Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic president Joe Biden next year, traveled to Edinburg, Texas, with his fellow Republican Abbott to visit national guard soldiers, state public safety department troopers and other service members stationed there. Continue reading...
US first lady who played a significant role in supporting her husband Jimmy's political career from Georgia to the White HouseRosalynn Carter, who has died aged 96, arrived in the White House in January 1977 determined to recast the role of US first lady. From the foundation of the US, each president's spouse has had to work out how to be at the centre of national attention while avoiding actions or comments affecting the president's political interests. Many, like Pat Nixon, simply retreated into the background; Eleanor Roosevelt spent 12 years robustly carving out a totally separate career; Edith Wilson, sticking to her domestic role during Woodrow Wilson's first term, then went into history as the secret president" by continuing to run the administration after the president's disabling stroke in 1919.Rosalynn Carter, having played a significant part in her husband Jimmy's political career, from his election to the Georgia senate in 1962 to his presidential victory in 1976, arrived in Washington with the comment that it would be a shame not to take advantage of that power". Her first move was to organise an Office of the First Lady in the east wing of the White House, with a chief of staff whose rank and salary parallelled that of other White House functionaries. The new department built up a staff of 18 and spent the next four years coping with the avalanche of social and political invitations that Mrs Carter attracted. Continue reading...
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