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The movement faces an uphill battle, but it's growing - and is seen by many as our last hope for peaceThere have been near-weekly protests in Israel since October, focusing on the release of hostages and anti-government messages. Until recently, they have rarely included calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, and few protesters have addressed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza or looked to a long-term peaceful solution. Some progressives argue this lack of anti-war voices reflects a militaristic, nationalist stance inherent to Israeli society and the Zionist project.But is this true? Is a robust anti-war, pro-peace movement impossible in Israel? Continue reading...

Instead of just dropping the case, the Biden administration got a guilty plea and set a dangerous tone for reporters everywhereJulian Assange is on the verge of being set free after the WikiLeaks founder and US authorities have agreed to a surprising plea deal. While it should be a relief to anyone who cares about press freedom that Assange will not be coming to the US to face trial, the Biden administration should be ashamed at how this case has played out.Assange is flying from the UK to a US territory in the Pacific Ocean to make a brief court appearance today, and soon after, he may officially be a free man in his native Australia.Trevor Timm is executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation Continue reading...

The president's hazardous strategy has failed. Now France stands on the brink of its first far-right government since 1945The image was an oxymoron. Earlier this month, in a luxurious Parisian venue, Emmanuel Macron stood in front of a white wall on which one word was inscribed in large letters: ensemble, meaning together". Estranged from the members of his own party, and even from his prime minister, Gabriel Attal, who had not been informed of his plans, Macron was attempting to convince his audience that his dramatic decision to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections - something that almost everyone else regarded as a risky poker move - was in fact the right decision for the country.Yet Macron's decision couldn't have come at a worse moment. The coalition including his party, Renaissance, suffered defeat in the European elections in early June: its 14.6% score was dwarfed by Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN), which won 31.4% of the vote. Not only is the presidential alliance almost certain to lose its relative majority of 250 seats in the parliament, but the far-right party will undoubtedly increase its current tally of 89 seats. To win an absolute majority, RN, joined by a dissident group from the Republicans, would need to secure 289 seats. Even if it doesn't win an absolute majority, it could still become the largest party in the country and thus have its president, Jordan Bardella, named prime minister.Didier Fassin is professor of social sciences at the College de France and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Continue reading...

The former deputy PM cautiously welcomed developments that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the US justice department that will allow him to walk free. Joyce was part of the delegation to lobby US law makers over Julian AssangeSubscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube

Aileen Cannon also expresses doubts about changes to stop Trump from making remarks that could endanger agentsThe federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's prosecution for retaining classified documents expressed deep reservations on Monday with modifying the former president's bail conditions to prevent him from making statements that could endanger FBI agents, suggesting redacting their names in filings was enough.Trump-appointed US district judge Aileen Cannon also repeatedly admonished David Harbach, the prosecutor arguing on behalf of the special counsel, saying at one point she did not appreciate his tone and suggesting if he could not check his frustration, another prosecutor on the team could make arguments instead. Continue reading...

Human rights groups also back filing which aims to block state's new law forcing public schools to showcase textSeveral Louisiana families backed by human rights groups have lodged a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the state's new law forcing public schools to display the Ten Commandments.The suit was filed with the US district court in Baton Rouge on Monday at the start of what is expected to be an epic legal battle that could end up before the US supreme court. Christian nationalists have been itching for this fight, hoping to destroy the country's longstanding separation of church and state. Continue reading...

Lawyers for president's son say Delaware court did not have jurisdiction over case when it proceeded to trialLawyers for Hunter Biden have filed a motion requesting a new trial, arguing that a Delaware court did not have jurisdiction over the case when it proceeded to trial.Biden, the eldest living son of the US president, was found guilty earlier this month on three felony counts related to a handgun purchase while he was a user of crack cocaine. Continue reading...

Biden and Harris give forceful campaign statements blaming Trump for ending right to abortion accessJoe Biden and Kamala Harris marked the second anniversary of the US supreme court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade with forceful campaign statements that laid the blame squarely on Donald Trump for ending the national right to abortion.In a video released on Monday, Biden pledged to restore the right to an abortion and protect American freedom" if he is re-elected. Continue reading...

Sheng Thao maintains no plans to resign after authorities carried 80 boxes out of her home as part of investigationSheng Thao, mayor of Oakland, California, delivered a prepared statement on Monday in her first public remarks since federal authorities raided her home last week.Thao, who is serving her first term as the city's mayor, maintains that she did not do anything wrong and she has no plans to resign from office. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed. For the latest on abortion news in the US, read our coverage here.Vice President Kamala Harris just took the stage to address a crowd at the University of Maryland, her first event of the day to mark the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision.

Leg-spinner's sleight of hand and control is a crucial part of England's attack in the T20 World CupThis T20 World Cup is the seventh time in the past eight global tournaments that England's men have reached the semi-finals. There was turbulence en route - not uncommon on the inter-island flights in the Caribbean - but along with the two trophies won, it is a reminder of how far their white-ball cricket has come these past nine years.Among the constants in this period of uplift has been Adil Rashid, who on Sunday was once again toying with opponents like a street magician. Granted it was the USA trying - and failing - to read Rashid's sleight of hand. But regardless of the opponent, those four boundary-devoid overs of two for 13 were still a master craftsman at work. Continue reading...

Agency used list which included jobs such as nut sorter and microfilm processor and has not been updated since 1991The US's social security administration is no longer considering a number of outdated jobs as possible work opportunities to deny those applying for disability benefits.Social security disability benefits are determined with a claimant's medical records and ability to work in mind. If unable to perform their past job, the administration looks at the person's age, education and work experience to see if they can do other kinds of work. Continue reading...

Karoline Leavitt bashes biased coverage' and predicts hostile environment' for Trump at Thursday's debateCNN abruptly terminated a live interview with Donald Trump's spokesperson on Monday after she criticised the two journalists whom the network chose to moderate the much anticipated upcoming debate between the former president and Joe Biden.Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign national press secretary, became embroiled in a heated exchange with Kasie Hunt, the presenter of CNN This Morning, after saying Trump would be entering a hostile environment on this very network" when he debates the incumbent president in Atlanta on Thursday. Continue reading...

A week from polling day, the president's reckless gamble is proving a gift to Marine Le Pen and the radical rightLast week, a columnist for Le Monde memorably described Emmanuel Macron's decision to call a snap parliamentary election as a choice to play France at poker". Humiliated by Marine Le Pen's National Rally party (RN) at this month's European elections, Mr Macron opted to call the French electorate's bluff, calculating that the prospect of a radical-right prime minister in the Elysee would clarify" its thinking.A week away from the first round of a poll whose consequences will reverberate around Europe, this reckless gamble shows no sign at all of paying off. Quite the opposite. According to one survey, RN couldincrease its vote share to 36%, a few points up from its historic high on 9 June. Mr Macron's centrist Together movement languishes in a distant third place, well behind the New Popular Front (NPF), an alliance ofleftwing and progressive parties which is set to be the main challenger to Ms Le Pen in numerouscontests. Continue reading...

Uruguay opened their campaign with a 3-1 over Panama and the expectation is that they'll push Argentina for a record-breaking 16th title

Linda Tirado is at life's end' due to eye injury sustained while covering a protest in 2020A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd has entered hospice care due to her injury, signalling that she is dying from her wounds.Linda Tirado, 42, is at life's end and receiving palliative care", the National Press Club said in a statement last week. Continue reading...

The Dobbs decision has forced patients to travel out of their state to access abortion care, others have carried unwanted pregnancies, while for some it was a call to actionAfter Roe v Wade was overturned in June 2022, Daphne did not want to leave anything to chance.Abortion is currently legal until 18 weeks in Utah, where the 38-year-old lives - but the state has a 2020 trigger law banning almost all abortion care that is currently under appeal. Continue reading...

Biden administration challenged Tennessee ban on minors' gender-affirming care, which court will hear in OctoberThe US supreme court agreed on Monday to decide the legality of a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, as the justices waded into another contentious issue implicating LGBTQ+ rights.They took up an appeal by Joe Biden's administration of a lower court's decision upholding a ban on medical treatments including hormones and surgeries for minors experiencing gender dysphoria in Tennessee. The court will hear the case in its next term, which begins in October.US supreme court upholds ban on domestic abusers possessing gunsUS supreme court rules against Washington couple in foreign investment taxation caseUS supreme court strikes down federal ban on bump stock' devices for gunsUS supreme court unanimously upholds access to abortion pill mifepristoneUS supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees Continue reading...

Barbara Res, lead engineer on Trump Tower construction, tells MSNBC of her former boss's ridiculous remarks'A former employee of Donald Trump's pre-presidency organization has publicly claimed that he once made jokes about Nazi ovens" while Jewish executives were in the same room.Barbara Res - a lead engineer on the construction of Trump Tower and author of a memoir, Tower of Lies, about her almost two decades working for the former president - told MSNBC on Sunday that her erstwhile boss would make ridiculous remarks". Continue reading...

Cargo ship Dali, which crashed into bridge and killed six workers, heads to Virginia for repairs and container removalThe cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key Bridge's supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse.The 984ft (300m) Dali started moving shortly before 8.30am with four tugboats. It is headed to Norfolk, Virginia, for the removal of the remaining containers on the vessel and additional repairs. Continue reading...

Letting loose at the star's Wembley show, the comic absurdity somehow worked. But copycat dads, bewareFor men possessed of sufficient age and experience, the secret to dancing like no one is watching is simple: make sure no one is watching. Lock the doors, draw the curtains, put black tape over all the webcams in your house, and proceed. I was going to add that you should only dance anywhere you would also be happy to appear naked, until I remembered the shower, and saunas. Obviously, don't dance in either of those.No such security was available to Prince William at the weekend, when he was spotted - and also filmed - dancing away to Taylor Swift at Wembley Stadium on his 42nd birthday, in a blue blazer, high up on the balcony of some hospitality suite. It's amazing to me that seats that expensive don't come with one-way privacy screens, but evidently they do not. Continue reading...

More than 50 volunteers and officers joined frantic search for boy found safe after wandering away from familyA four-year-old boy survived nearly an entire day alone in the wilderness after he wandered away from his family while they were at a campsite in central California.Christian Ramirez of Torrance, California, was camping with his family at the Rancheria campground in Lakeshore, about 70 miles outside of Fresno, when his ordeal began, KTLA reported. Continue reading...

South Dakota governor - and Republican vice-president hopeful - says she'll support Trump's pardons if he winsKristi Noem, once a contender to be the Republicans' vice-presidential nominee, has argued that people facing charges over the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol should be individually evaluated for pardons - so as to minimize the chances of a repeat.Each of those situations needs to be looked at separately," Noem said on Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. What I have been very clear about is that we don't want to see another January 6 again. Continue reading...

Educators on the Fort Apache Reservation have repeatedly condemned teens for participating in a sacred dance. It follows a pattern of Christian discipline begun more than a century agoThe way the school saw it, it was devil worship.In October 2019, three teenage girls were punished for participating in a spiritual ceremony. Their Arizona school expelled two of them, and let the third off with a warning, citing their attendance as a violation of school policy and grounds for expulsion. Continue reading...

The glossiest jewel of the US's golden generation continued to deliver as a captain and goalscorer against Bolivia on Sunday nightOn 28 May 2016, Christian Pulisic became the youngest player to score for the US men's national team, finding the net in a 4-0 win over Bolivia in a tune-up for the Copa America Centenario. But what happened the night before was, in a quieter way, no less notable.Jurgen Klinsmann, then the US head coach, gave Pulisic permission to attend his high school prom in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the night before the match and the 17-year-old hired a private plane so he could make it back to Kansas City in time for the game. Continue reading...

Washington DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia all saw record heat while one person died during flooding in South DakotaMillions of Americans sweated through a scorching weekend as temperatures soared across the US - while residents were also rescued from floodwaters that forced evacuations across the midwest. One person died during flooding in South Dakota, the governor there said.From the mid-Atlantic to Maine, across the Great Lakes region, and throughout the west to California, public officials cautioned residents about the dangers of excessive heat and humidity. Forecasters say the heatwave will continue early in the week in the south-east, portions of the south and the Plains, providing the biggest worry in affected areas. Continue reading...

Policies are one-two punch' for women caught in criminal justice system, report's author saysThe number of women on probation or parole who must seek permission to travel for an abortion more than doubled to 635,000 in two years since the supreme court overturned the federal right to abortion, a new report finds.Fourteen states have near-total abortion bans and 21 restrict the procedure. Together with near ubiquitous travel restrictions imposed by probation and parole, more than half of women on probation or parole in the US must seek permission to travel before obtaining an abortion. Continue reading...

Historic defeats, managerial upheaval and turmoil at the federation have plagued the national team for two years. This summer is a chance for a resetBrazil enter the 2024 Copa America in flux. A side that routinely waltzes into World Cups as favourites has fallen behind quality European opponents. And increasingly the Selecao are struggling in South America, too.They've yet to find their groove in the post-Tite era. The former head coach was moved on after back-to-back World Cup quarter-final exits in Russia and Qatar. And in the 18 months since Tite departed, little has gone to plan. CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues guaranteed that Carlo Ancelotti would replace Tite by the end of his contract with Real Madrid, and hit on the creative (or unusual) tactic of installing Fluminense coach Fernando Diniz as a bridge appointment until Ancelotti arrived, with Diniz keeping his club responsibilities alongside the national team. Continue reading...

Compass Coffee is accused of hiring 124 additional people before union election next monthA coffee chain in the Washington DC area is accused of hiring dozens of friends of management, including other local food service executives and an Uber lobbyist, in an effort to defeat a union election scheduled for 16 July.Workers at seven Compass Coffee locations, more than a third of the company's stores, announced their intent to unionize in May 2024. The company has 18 cafes in Washington DC and northern Virginia and its coffee can be purchased in grocery stores throughout the area. Continue reading...

After retiring, I finally had time to practise. But I soon realised that playing and making music are two different thingsOn a hot June day in 2015, I retired after 34 years of teaching high school. I packed up my classroom, went home and tossed my briefcase in the attic. Then, I drove to meet my new piano teacher, Mark.I had worked for more than three decades as a busy English teacher with an endless stream of papers to mark and precious little time to experiment or learn new skills. Now, I was determined to make up for all I had been missing. I wanted to finally master the piano and learn how to make music.Brian Hanson-Harding is a retired English teacher living near New York City. He has written for publications including the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly and Working Mother Continue reading...

Department of Justice said aircraft maker violated settlement related to two fatal 737 Max crashes

Biden has a tough task ahead in this week's debate - but, thanks in part to rightwing attacks, the bar he faces is lowIf Joe Biden is to win November's election, he must win this week's televised debate. He must come off as energetic and competent. He must make the case, persuasively, that Donald Trump is a danger to the nation and the world. And, perhaps most of all, he must seem mentally sharp.That's a lot to do in under 90 minutes, especially while sharing the stage with someone as unpredictable as Trump, whose dominant personality and in-your-face tactics can put him at an advantage.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

Over the next few weeks, the Guardian will profile figures playing a key role in boosting the ex-president's attempt to regain the presidencyIt takes a village to run a presidential campaign, and in the case of Donald Trump's bid for reelection, that village is led by a group of shadowy, wealthy and well-connected figures working to shape the infrastructure of the election and his policies and messaging.Meet the election operators. Continue reading...

I was 10 when the US supreme court ruled against school prayer. Now Louisiana and Texas want to turn back the clockI was 10 in 1962, when the supreme court ruled, in Engel v Vitale, that the officially sanctioned recitation of prayer in public schools violated the constitution's first amendment, which prohibits the establishment of a state religion.Before that, my school day started with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by an appeal to God. We rose and pushed our chairs under our desks. Then we stood erect, gazed at the flag sticking out at an angle above the blackboard, and placed our right hands over our hearts. After the pledge, we bowed our heads and said a prayer composed by the New York state board of regents, which held authority over the schools: Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country."Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books Continue reading...

Rather than providing a check on the far right, the party opened the door to Faragism - and made his fantasies come true

The 70-year-old former Trump White House strategist has hosted a number of future GOP leaders and folds in absolutely anyone willing to listen'It is not your typical man cave. Christian iconography. A bust of Julius Caesar. A painting of John Paul Jones, the revolutionary war naval officer. A book, The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes, sitting on a crowded desk. A sign resting on the mantelpiece declares: There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences."Welcome to the War Room, where the classical, contemporary and conspiratorial nourish Steve Bannon's grand vision of himself as a historical figure. Each day he holds court in this basement on Capitol Hill to plot not only Donald Trump's return to power but the next American revolution. Screens, microphones and other podcasting paraphernalia sit above piles of books and newspapers, namely the Financial Times and New York Times. Continue reading...

Fishers take to shore three boatloads of hound dogs who had plunged in while chasing a deer during a fox huntInsurance agents Bob Gist and Brad Carlisle headed out to a Mississippi lake with fishing guide Jordan Chrestman hoping to catch some crappies.They came back with nearly 40 dogs whom they saved from drowning, according to the men, who took photos of the dramatic 8 June rescue and have since been feted as heroes on the local and national media circuits. Continue reading...

No team has come back from 0-3 down in the Stanley Cup Final since 1942. The Oilers could do just that while becoming the NHL's first Canadian champion in more than 30 yearsNo NHL team has come back from 3-0 down to win a Stanley Cup Final since the Toronto Maple Leafs did it against the Detroit Red Wings in April 1942. Now, 82 years later, the Edmonton Oilers may change that history. On Monday night on the edge of the Everglades, the Oilers will face off against the Florida Panthers in Game 7 and try to win their fourth straight to take the Cup and become the first Canadian NHL champions since the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. If it goes the Oilers' way, the game will most likely be crowned one of the NHL's all-time best - or at least one of the most memorable in league history. And the Oilers captain, a generational talent, will have come back to where his career with the team began.26 June 2015 was a Friday and there was a buzz in the BT&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, home (still, under a different name) of the Panthers. It was NHL draft night, and the assumed No 1 pick was an 18-year-old from north of Toronto who'd lit up the Ontario Hockey League for three years and led Canada to a World Junior Championship the previous winter. Connor McDavid had been playing on another level his entire life, allowed to skate at age six with the nine-year olds and granted exceptional status" to enter the OHL at age 15, a year early, where he became the most decorated player in the league's history. Continue reading...

Comedians are increasingly leaning on audience interaction to sell their shows - and changing the nature of the shows themselvesCrowd work. For some, it's the fun bit when standups cruise the front row asking: What do you do for a living?" For me, it's the scary bit where I avoid eye contact with said standups - because they don't want to hear, and I don't want to say, comedy critic". That terror aside, crowd work can be comedy gold in the hands of some acts, the most in-the-moment and authentic section of their whole show. Elsewhere, it's filler: so much so-so throat-clearing before the good gags, the ones the comic has bothered to write, begin.That is how crowd work has always been considered - until now. In 2024, it's increasingly the main draw - for which we have social media to thank, or blame. If you've noticed your socials clogged these days with crowd-work clips - this or that standup engaging in oh-so-spontaneous bantz with someone in row C - you're not alone. And it's not happening by accident. Clipped-up crowd work is standup for sale to the TikTok generation, a phenomenon changing not only how comics tout their work, but the work itself - and the nature of live comedy.Brian Logan is the Guardian's comedy criticDo 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...

Correspondents covering the UK election find Brexit amnesia bemusing, Nigel Farage's return surreal and the sense of public disillusionment overwhelmingFor a German audience currently staring with disbelief at an upsurge of far-right populism on its own doorstep, the British elections are mostly a reminder of where the destructive cluelessness of populist politicians can lead a country. Nothing you want to look at too closely, when you are potentially just at the beginning of such a turn of events yourself.Annette Dittert is the senior UK correspondent for ARD German TV Continue reading...

Christian Pulisic scored in the third minute and assisted on Folarin Balogun's goal in the 44th as the USMNT cruised past Bolivia 2-0 in their Copa America opener on Sunday night.Against an overmatched, youthful Bolivia side, the US were comfortable winners. Ten of Bolivia's starters entered the opening game of the tournament with 10 caps or fewer, and an experienced US side wasted no time in showing the gulf in quality. Continue reading...

Balogun wins a corner kick. US players do a sharp sequence of short passes, and Pulisic blasts a curling shot from one corner of the penalty area to the far upper corner. Viscarra gets a finger or two on it, but it's not enough.1 min: The USA could easily be up 1-0 already. A few seconds after kickoff, Weah raced down the right and fired off a cross that Viscarra had to come out and punch clear. The USA kept possession, and Bolivia should count themselves lucky that Balogun wasn't quite ready for a sharply hit through ball. Continue reading...