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Five other relatives were injured when vehicles crashed into each other after semi-truck driver failed to stop at signThree members of the Michigan-based family featured on TLC's reality show Meet the Putmans were recently killed in a car crash, and five other members were injured.In a statement shared on Saturday, the family said its patriarch Bill Papa" Putman, his wife, Barb - who goes by Neenee - and their daughter-in-law Megan were killed in a tragic car accident" that was evidently reported the previous night. Continue reading...

Trump claims he'll impose 100% tariff on any and all movies' made abroad but doesn't give details or timeline

Google Maps images show suspect who was shot dead by police had Trump sign outside his Michigan houseThe gunman who killed at least four worshippers, wounded eight and was shot to death by police Sunday at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, had a sign emblazoned with the last name of Donald Trump outside his house, public records show.The president responded to the church shooting on Sunday by saying there is still a lot to learn" about the deceased suspect, identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford. This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Continue reading...

Mike Lindell alleged Los Angeles county devices were rigged in 2020 to change Trump votes to Biden votes

Church set ablaze on weekend when shooting attacks also took place in North Carolina, Texas and New Orleans. Plus, the secrets of Birkenstock's enduring success

While Kansas City got their season back on track with an excellent offensive performance, their AFC rivals are 1-3 and lost one of the finest players in the NFLThe Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens came into Sunday's slate in very unusual circumstances - two of the best teams of the last few years were struggling. Both were 1-2, and after the Chiefs' 37-20 blowout win on Sunday, the Ravens are in the kind of real trouble one doesn't usually expect from such a normally stable franchise.First, the Chiefs. This offense has been a problem transcended by Patrick Mahomes for a long time, for all sorts of reasons, but there was at least a one-week reprieve from such worries. Mahomes was dynamite, completing 25 of 37 passes for 270 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, and a passer rating of 124.8. It helped that speedy receiver Xavier Worthy was back in action for the first time since Week 1, and Worthy lived up to his ... well, worth, with five catches for 83 yards. Mahomes threw touchdown passes to four different receivers and for the first time in goodness knows how long, Andy Reid's offense was a fun watch. Continue reading...

From Shane Lowry's victory jig to the emergence of a new US star, our team's picks from an electrifying weekendPlayer of the tournament Viktor Hovland. Well, that was a significant half-point on day three ... No, seriously, the award belongs to Tommy Fleetwood. Singles defeat should not mask his overall performance. Surely a major winner in waiting. Continue reading...

John Eidsmoe, associated with Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, has history with public defenses of ConfederacyA Presbyterian pastor linked to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) via various aligned or affiliated organizations also has a history of associations with the neo-Confederate movement, including speaking dates for prominent neo-Confederate groups, and public defenses of the Confederacy and Confederate monuments.One group whose conference Colonel John Eidsmoe addressed, the Council for Concerned Citizens (CCC), was credited by racist mass murderer Dylann Roof for contributing to the radicalization of his views on race, which culminated in his deadly attack on Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. Continue reading...

RFK Jr is conducting a review of mifepristone, citing a deeply flawed study. The move could be devastating for womenRobert F Kennedy Jr's health department is conducting a new review of mifepristone, the drug used in the majority of American abortions, claiming that a new study from a conservative thinktank has raised concerns about its safety.Mifepristone, which was approved by the FDA 25 years ago this month, has repeatedly been proven safe and effective for use terminating pregnancies in both multiple medical trials and in widespread patient use over the past quarter of a century. The report cited by Kennedy, meanwhile, comes from the Ethics and Public Policy Center - a group that applies the Jewish and Christian traditions" to modern law and pushes back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives" - and was not peer reviewed. The study has been heavily criticized by medical experts for its methodology and lack of transparency regarding how it obtained and analyzed its data. The report appears to have dramatically inflated the rate of serious adverse health outcomes in patients who took mifepristone - in part by seemingly conflating the bleeding that occurs in the normal course of a medication abortion with hemorrhaging, and in part by relying on unclear terminology. The Ethics and Public Policy Center report classified serious adverse events" as occurring in almost 11% of mifepristone patients. More reliable studies, subject to data transparency, peer review, and a more rigorously honest set of definitions, have found that such adverse health events happen in fewer than 0.5% of users. In a meta-analysis of more than 100 studies, the vast majority found that more than 99% of people who use mifepristone have no serious complications.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

President's 2024 election rival delivers fiery remarks while accepting Congressional Black Caucus Foundation awardDonald Trump has proven himself to be an unchecked, incompetent, unhinged president," and his opposition must follow leaders who are ready to fight fire with fire," his 2024 election rival Kamala Harris has said.The former Democratic US vice-president delivered those fiery remarks on Saturday evening while accepting an award from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington DC - and after Trump's fellow Republican allies have demanded that his liberal opponents tone down their rhetoric in the wake of the 10 September shooting death of rightwing political activist Charlie Kirk. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Miller's homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources sayStephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats, according to three people familiar with the situation. At times, his role has superseded that of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser.The strikes on the Venezuelan boats allegedly carrying narcotics, which the administration has claimed were necessary because interdiction did not work, have been orchestrated through the homeland security council (HSC), which Miller leads as the homeland security adviser. Continue reading...

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragicWatching the Kamala Harris presidential campaign unfold last year, I remember thinking, and writing, about how striking it was that she had been rehabilitated almost overnight into a political titan. Authoritative accounts of her before that moment portrayed a lo-fi vice-president, who, even according to people who had worked to get her there, had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country". Another striking feature of her campaign was how it leaned into vibes and spectacle rather than substance, or building faith in Harris as a clean break from an unpopular and visibly deteriorating Joe Biden. Her new book, 107 Days, a memoir of the exact number of days she had to win the presidency, goes a long way in explaining why that was. In short, Harris - and those around her, including supportive media parties - got high on their own supply.This was not the intention, but 107 Days is a hilarious book. The kind of you have to laugh or else you'll cry" type of hilarity. As the second Trump administration unfolds in ever-more disastrous ways, Harris and the other timeline that was possible had she won take on a calamitous, mythical quality. Here she comes, alerting us to the fact that her defeat was no fateful tragedy, but a farce. There was no hidden, better version of Harris that was muzzled and limited by circumstance. There was only a woman with a formidable lack of self-awareness and a propensity to self-valorise.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Latin trap and reggaeton artist to lead NFL half-time celebration on 8 February, following Kendrick Lamar's record-breaking 2025 showBad Bunny will headline the NFL's biggest stage next year: the Super Bowl half-time show in northern California.The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that the Grammy-winning artist will lead the halftime festivities from Levi's Stadium on 8 February in Santa Clara, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading...

A man began shooting inside a Mormon chapel in Michigan during a Sunday service and set the building ablaze, killing at least four people and injuring eight others. Officials identified the gunman as Thomas Jacob Sanford from the nearby city of Burton. Recovery crews had not completed searching the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the police chief said some people were still unaccounted for

Church allegedly set ablaze by gunman on weekend when shooting attacks also took place in North Carolina, Texas and New OrleansAt least four people were killed and eight others injured after a gunman opened fire at a Mormon church in Michigan and then set the building ablaze, authorities said.Two of the shooting victims died and eight others were hospitalised, officials said initially, while the gunman was shot dead by police. Several hours after the shooting, police reported finding at least two more bodies in the charred remains of the church, which had not yet been cleared and may contain other victims. Continue reading...

Latest departures in Trump administration's deferred resignation program come as Congress faces government shutdown deadline - key US politics stories from Sunday 28 SeptemberMore than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such mass event in US history, as part of a Trump administration program designed to make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce.With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal. Continue reading...

State attorney general asks federal court to block Trump from sending troops to city based on social media gossip'The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit in federal court on Sunday seeking to block the deployment of 200 national guard troops to Portland, arguing Donald Trump's characterization of the peaceful city as war ravaged" is pure fiction".Oregon's governor, Tina Kotek, said at a news conference that she had been notified by the Pentagon that the US president had seized control of the state's reservists, claiming authority granted to him to suppress rebellion" or lawlessness. Continue reading...

Masters champion withstood days of abuse from the US crowd and the exhaustion of five matches to help Europe over the lineIn the first moments after Rory McIlroy finally won the Masters he was already thinking about this Ryder Cup. The man who'd won everything wanted to win this more than anything. It had been on his mind ever since the last one at Marco Simone, when he startled the media, his captain, and his teammates by launching into a speech about how he was targeting victory here at Bethpage.I've said this for the last six years to anyone that will listen: I think one of the biggest accomplishments in golf right now is winning an away Ryder Cup," McIlroy said back then, and that's what we're going to do". Continue reading...

Ryder Cup updates from finale at Bethpage Black

European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken downBy the time Europe finished the job, finally, on Sunday, the golf had the last word. But, until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly backdrop: galleries that drifted from partisan into venomous and the organizers who let the line slide until it snapped.It didn't happen all at once. For the first day and a half of golf's most intense rivalry, it was New York-loud without being unruly. Then Saturday afternoon arrived and the tenor shifted. Rory McIlroy, the visiting lightning rod, kept stepping off shots as volleys of abuse landed in the quiet of his pre-shot routine. Shane Lowry played teammate and minder. Justin Thomas, not exactly a shrinking violet, began shushing his own end of the grandstand so his opponents could putt. Continue reading...

Forecast track could take storm, which caused disruption in Bahamas and Cuba, away from US east coastTropical Storm Imelda formed on Sunday and was expected to become a hurricane on a forecast track that could take it away from the US east coast in the coming days. The storm was causing disruption in the Bahamas and Cuba on Sunday, and a tropical storm watch was posted in parts of Florida.Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto weakened very slightly but remained a strong category 4 storm in the Atlantic, threatening Bermuda. Continue reading...

Police chief William Renye said a gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during Sunday services before apparently setting the building ablaze, killing at least one person and injuring nine before police shot him. Hundreds of people were inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township when a 40-year-old man rammed his vehicle into the front door, then exited the vehicle and started shooting. The suspect is also believed to have set the church on fire, Renye said. 'We do believe we will find some additional victims once we find the area where the fire was,' he added.

Ty Cobb, who managed Trump's Mueller investigation response, said president is trying to rewrite history'The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to rewrite history" in his favor, a former senior White House lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the president's political opponents.Ty Cobb, who defended Trump's first administration during the Mueller investigation into his 2016 campaign's alleged collusion with Russia, also told CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial. Continue reading...

Footage shows a Mormon church in Michigan burning after multiple people were shot. The shooting occurred at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles (80km) north-west of Detroit

Dick Durbin renews push to talk to Trump officials as operations and protests escalate at Broadview facilityAfter days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials.Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be accountable for its actions" amid the administration's cruel immigration crackdown". The post on Sunday morning came after Saturday night protests and arrests at an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois. Continue reading...

Many voters who voted Trump into the White House fear that the free childcare program could face a slow deathFor almost as long as she's been a mother, Sara Laughlin has known where she could turn for help in Troy, a western Ohio town 20 miles north of Dayton.For years, the local Head Start program provided stability and care for her oldest son, and it now does the same for her two younger children, twin boys. Head Start was there for Laughlin and her family through tough transitions, including the end of a long relationship. She credits the free federally funded program, housed in a blue building on the edge of this manufacturing hub of 27,000, for allowing her to keep her job as a massage therapist while raising three kids. Continue reading...

US president reverses course days after scrapping meeting to discuss crisis with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck SchumerDonald Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at the White House on Monday afternoon in a last-ditch effort to avoid a looming government shutdown, the House speaker and the US president's fellow Republican Mike Johnson said on Sunday.Trump's climbdown comes days after he scrapped a planned meeting to discuss the crisis with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, the respective Democratic minority leaders in the House and Senate. Continue reading...

Europe braces for further damage if products containing metal, such as windows and doors, are added to rolling listThe EU steel industry, already reeling from Donald Trump's 50% tariffs on imports, is bracing itself for further damage after the US opened the possibility of a rolling list of derivative" products that could be subject to tariffs including windows and doors with some metal.In August the US listed 407 product categories as derivative" inclusions, ranging from wind turbines, mobile cranes and bulldozers to rail cars and furniture. Continue reading...

With BLS figures under scrutiny, indices from Truflation, Zillow, Adobe and ISM show a more nuanced picture of pricesDonald Trump has a lot of questions about the official government statistics these days. And while his skepticism of bad numbers may look cynical and political, there are reasons to look at the numbers cautiously.According to some reports, staffing shortages have forced the US federal government to scale back the price checks it uses to calculate the inflation rate" with the labor department reportedly admitting that it had to cut back" on its price checking nationwide and even suspend its surveys in some cities due to manpower shortages. Continue reading...

US voting machine maker sued ex-New York mayor and Trump lawyer in 2021 for repeatedly calling election riggedRudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has settled a long-running defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over lies he told about the result of the 2020 presidential election.Details of the settlement, revealed in federal court in Washington DC in a filing late on Friday, are confidential. The Colorado-based voting machine manufacturer sued Giuliani for $1.3bn in 2021, citing more than 50 instances in which he made false or defamatory statements insisting the election was rigged against Trump, with the integrity of Dominion's machinery at the heart of the conspiracy theory. Continue reading...

Representative Doug LaMalfa made headlines in August after being booed and shouted down at a local town hallInside a packed banquet hall in northern California in early August, tensions were flaring. As the representative Doug LaMalfa spoke to constituents in his district, he faced immediate pushback from frustrated audience members who shouted the Republican down.It was the first public town hall LaMalfa had held in Chico, the largest city in his district, in eight years. The booing and shouts grew louder still as the Republican representative, a loyal supporter of Donald Trump, talked about waste and fraud" in government programs, and the uproar continued for more than an hour as people expressed fear and anger over immigration raids, tariffs, cuts to Medicaid and Medicare and the impacts on rural hospitals. Some called for his resignation, while one attendee yelled: No fascism in America." The rowdy scene made headlines across the US. Continue reading...

A recent trip to Britain from my native California presented some worrying truths about our shared political futureI've always wanted to visit the UK. This might sound absurd to you, considering I'm from California - home of sunshine, half-naked bodies and the studio where they film Jeopardy. What could possibly pull me to the cold, damp, gray shores of England? The oppressively brown food? The dodgy colonialist history? Tesco? No, it was the glowing box that vibrated with whatever passed for culture in my small town: television.British TV was an obsession in my house, via those purveyors of affordable, exotic entertainment at PBS. We'd get classy fare through the Masterpiece Theatre series, but also more downmarket comedies like Are You Being Served? (a variety of sexually obsessed retail clerks trip over each other) or Keeping Up Appearances (lower-middle-class oafs desperately wish they were posh). I had no concept of what people were saying in their thick accents or most of the jokes meant, especially the double entendres. Continue reading...

Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversedIt has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.Relegated by voters to the minority in last year's election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump's demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans. Continue reading...

As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump's EPA moves to weaken pollution regulationsOn a tree-lined street in a quiet suburb known by some as Arbor City", Eileen Miranda often watched her grandson race around the yard, trusting - like most - that the air they were breathing was clean. But data from an air quality sensor she recently installed outside her home showed otherwise. Now she wonders if it was the air that contributed to her eldest son's childhood struggle with asthma.It overwhelmed me," Miranda said. I thought the numbers would be low. This community is nice, but lo and behold"Eileen Miranda outside her home in La Mirada, California, in March. She is among many Latinos in the US who have installed monitors to stay informed about their neighborhoods' air quality. Continue reading...

Legal experts speak of cruel' and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facilityChildren, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.Legal experts able to witness conditions made a barrage of allegations about deprivations, violations of legally agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known Ice center currently holding families. At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, kids and their parents described a prison-like environment" where the guards reportedly call them inmates" despite them not being criminals, and said they live in cell-like trailers".prolonged, vaguely explained detention: This goes beyond the general legal limit of 20 days for children, with accounts of children held for two or three months and a family detained for 45 days, released, then quickly re-detained.lack of access to drinkable water: Families have not wanted to consume dirty" water that smells so horrible", but drinkable water is often unavailable unless they buy it.sleep deprivation: Children, especially, are suffering sleeplessness because the lights are never switched off, while officials slam doors, walk in and out frequently and speak loudly on walkie-talkies all night.inadequate medical care: One boy complained of acute stomach pain" for six hours before he vomited and ended up being rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery for appendicitis. Monitors observed children with diseases like leukemia [or] on the autism spectrum ... suffering immensely from missing needed therapies and the harsh conditions".lack of hygiene products: Apart from liquid hand soap, which reportedly can cause rashes and hives, shampoo and body soap must be paid for.emotional abuse: Mothers gave accounts such as I am not allowed to hold my husband's hand anywhere ... there is no place where we can ... speak privately".poor education: School takes place just one hour daily for each age group and typically constitutes drawing, painting and worksheets, but little real teaching.self-harm: One parent said his son's exhaustion, distress and anxiety over continued detention led him to start throwing himself against the floor and getting bruises". Continue reading...

As the constitutional order frays, the US could look to Brazil as a demonstration of a functioning democracyBetween anti-immigrant zeal and a general disdain for any rules whatsoever, the Trump administration has shredded the constitutional order that makes government legitimate.This is now a legitimacy crisis.Daniel Mendiola is a professor of Latin American history and migration studies at Vassar College Continue reading...

The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015Settled legal precedent in the US is not gospel" and in some instances may have been something somebody dreamt up and others went along with", the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has said.Thomas - part of the conservative supermajority that has taken hold of the supreme court over Donald Trump's two presidencies - delivered those comments Thursday at the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in Washington DC, ABC News and other outlets reported. His remarks preceded the nine-month term that the supreme court is scheduled to begin on 6 October. Continue reading...

More than 40,000 Elvis fans flocked to Porthcawl, south Wales, for the world's biggest gathering of its kind, with tribute acts and dazzling scenes captured by Rick Findler Continue reading...

Forget the US president's seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problemFor many people in eastern Europe, August 1939 may not feel that long ago. That was the moment Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union secretly agreed to partition Poland and forcibly subsume the sovereign Baltic republics and Finland into their totalitarian spheres of influence". The world knows what came next.Now the question arises: is it happening again? This time around, it's Donald Trump's United States and Vladimir Putin's Russia making the big geopolitical power-play - and, once again, all of Europe is potential prey. Notwithstanding last week's sparring over Ukraine, the two leaders' core aims appear closely aligned.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

While not without its challenges, autism isn't a curse to be cured of, as the likes of the US president and RFK Jr want us to believeDonald Trump's claims about autism deserve as little oxygen as possible, but it's been a depressing, infuriating week for many autistic people and those of us who love them. His administration unveiled contentious claims about the causes of autism - pregnant women taking Tylenol, also known as paracetamol - and pushed for research to find a cure". It got me thinking about how to cope psychologically, and my conclusion - and that of many of my friends in the autism community - is that you have to laugh or you'll cry.There's a saying that when you've met one autistic child, you've met one autistic child. I've never loved the autism as superpower" narrative, and how it erases those with high-support needs and the challenges autistic people can face. Equally, Trump's framing of autism as a tragedy and a disease in need of curing is deeply problematic, so I feel it's important to highlight some of the incredible, brilliant things about autism. The fact is that the autistic children I've met have more to teach a man like Trump, more than he is ever capable of learning. Things such as:Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist and author. Her Republic of Parenthood book is out now.Do 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...

Officials in Portland have pushed back against the announcement, saying there is no need for military troops' - key US politics stories from Saturday 27 SeptemberDonald Trump has ordered the deployment of the national guard to Portland, Oregon, authorizing full force, if necessary", ignoring calls from local and state officials who say the president has been misinformed about the scale of a protest outside a federal immigration office.The president says that he has directed all necessary troops to be deployed to protect war ravaged Portland", claiming that immigration facilities were under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists". Continue reading...