News comes amid anti-diversity legislation that has gutted inclusionary programs at several public universitiesAfter 21 years of service, the University of Utah's LGBT Resource Center will close on Friday, as the second-largest public university in the state comes into compliance with HB 261, Utah's version of the anti-DEI legislation that has swept the country and gutted inclusionary programs at several public universities.As we've evaluated how best to comply with the legislation, I want to be clear that we've faced very difficult decisions," the vice-president for student affairs, Lori McDonald, said in a statement. The law and subsequent guidance require a foundational change in how we approach student support, and we will follow the law. This isn't about changing the words we use; we're changing how we approach the work." Continue reading...
Former secretary of state, who has debated both men, says Trump starts with nonsense and digresses into blather'Hillary Clinton has said it would be a waste of time" for Joe Biden to attempt to refute Donald Trump's contentions in Thursday's presidential debate because it's nearly impossible to identify what his arguments even are".The former secretary of state wrote in a New York Times opinion piece that Trump starts with nonsense and then digresses into blather". Continue reading...
Alieu and Isatu Wurie died during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as temperatures exceeded 120FA Maryland couple died recently while completing the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid extreme heat.Alieu Wurie, 71, and Isatu Wurie, 65, of Bowie, Maryland, were among the more than 1,300 people who died during the pilgrimage as temperatures exceeded 120F (48.9C). Continue reading...
This case is nothing to be proud of. As politicians stood by, he suffered within a chaotic system they have done little to fixFinally. After more than five years locked inside HMP Belmarsh, Britain's most secure prison, and seven years confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange can breathe some fresh, free air. It is certainly a day to celebrate, but also one to demand answers. Why - why, for heaven's sake - has it taken so long? And what about all the others who languish in crazily overcrowded British jails?It seems appropriate that Assange's release, on the basis of a deal that gives the US government the fig leaf of a guilty plea, occurred in the very week before a general election, in the country where he was detained for all those years. Voters seem likely to dispose of a government whose feeble home secretaries, from Priti Patel onwards, bowed the knee to the US on its extradition request when they could have easily followed the brave path that Theresa May took when she was home secretary in 2012, declining to allow the removal to the US of the hacker Gary McKinnon. But what lessons have any of our politicians - or our judges - learned? Continue reading...
From selling Bibles to extolling the Ten Commandments, Trump has been courting evangelicals all year. And despite his shortcomings, it is working as well as everWhat were you doing at 1.22am on Friday morning? I was engaged in my favourite hobby: sleeping. Donald Trump, it seems, was also busy with his favourite pastime: being unhinged on social media. In the early hours of Friday, Trump hit the well-worn caps lock key on his digital device and started truthing" on his Truth Social platform.I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER," he wrote. READ IT - HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024" Continue reading...
Vivek Murthy made declaration after weekend in which dozens of Americans were killed or wounded in mass shootingsThe US surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country.The advisory issued by Dr Vivek Murthy, the nation's top doctor, came as the US grappled with another summer weekend marked by mass shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded. Continue reading...
WikiLeaks founder reportedly travelling to US plea deal hearing in Northern Mariana Islands. Plus, how fashion entered its ugly' decadeGood morning.Julian Assange has struck a deal with the US justice department, freeing him from a UK prison, and is expected to plead guilty to breaching US espionage law in a deal that would allow him to return home to Australia.Will he face more jail time? Probably not. Under the deal, which must be signed off by a judge, he will probably be credited for the five years he has already served and face no further prison time.How long was he held at Belmarsh prison? 1,901 days.How would a ceasefire be worked out? It would be based on prevailing battle lines during peace talks, according to Kellogg and Fred Fleitz. Continue reading...
Down 3-0, then storming back to tie the series, the Oilers gave the NHL its most anticipated Final game seven in decades - but it was the Panthers who shrugged off their reputation as a joke to take their first Stanley CupOn what was their third attempt in franchise history, the Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup. They didn't do so easily. Up three games to none on the Edmonton Oilers, they let their series lead slip away, lost three in a row, and set up a deciding seventh game back in Florida on Monday night, arguably the most anticipated Stanley Cup Final game seven in decades. It delivered an anxious end-to-end battle, and an exciting end to a long and unprecedented final round. Excitement is cold comfort for Oilers fans, whose hopes were high after Edmonton's surprising resurgence. For them, the loss will sting even more than that of 2006, the last time the Oilers lost the Cup in seven. But for Florida, the Cup is the culmination of a 30-year journey from early expansion surprise to laughing stock and back again.When the Panthers first went to the Cup Final, in 1996, the team was only three years old, one of the early forays the NHL made into the American South. Replete with high-quality expansion draft picks, including star goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck, the Panthers surprised many on their way past their Eastern opponents on the way to the Cup. But those Panthers ran into a powerhouse Colorado Avalanche team, newly (and forcefully) decamped from Quebec City. The Panthers got swept, 4-0. Still, that early playoff run engaged a new fanbase and even established a bit of team lore, based on a story about how forward Scott Mellanby killed a rat that scuttled into the Panthers' locker room at the Miami Arena during the team's home opener that season. As other players jumped out of the way, Mellanby treated the rat like a puck, killing it with a hard one-timer. Fans took to tossing plastic rats on the ice to celebrate wins - a habit that's stuck. Continue reading...
Trumpists are painting Biden's border policies as a nexus of vicious crimes so we forget the former president is a felonDonald Trump is already showcasing the big surprise he will spring on Joe Biden at their debate. It's not a surprise; it's his most morbid, ghastly and predictable trick.On Friday, his campaign arranged and publicized a telephone call to the mother of a young woman who had been murdered by an undocumented immigrant to express his heartfelt sympathy. That day, the former president posted three similar stories of gruesome murders on his Truth Social account. We have a new Biden Migrant Killing - It's only going to get worse, and it's all Crooked Joe Biden's fault. He's a disgrace to the Office of President, he's a disgrace to America. I look forward to seeing him at the Fake Debate on Thursday. Let him explain why he has allowed MILLIONS of people to come into our Country illegally!" Continue reading...
New York Red Bulls withdrew its teams from a youth tournament earlier this year. Now veteran players are speaking to them about their own experiencesSo what if they called us monkeys?" said one attendee at a Monday night meeting with players from the New York Red Bulls' male youth academy teams last month. Fuck it. We keep balling." A team meeting with teenage soccer players isn't normally something to make news but this particular event, held in 200-plus capacity event space at Red Bull Arena with every player from the club's top under-12 to under-17 teams, was a little different.Also in the room were former Major League Soccer stars Bradley Wright-Phillips, Earl Edwards Jr, Jalil Anibaba, Ray Gaddis, and Calen Carr as well as former USMNT legends Eddie Pope and Jozy Altidore. Notably, all the former players were Black. Former footballers love to talk, especially about the old days, but the main topic that night in late May was not about winning MLS titles nor being the first American to score in La Liga. Continue reading...
Public service commission, which establishes regulation and sets rates for utilities, accused of disenfranchising Black votersGeorgia has not held an election for its powerful public service commission for more than two years while a lawsuit alleging that the way commissioners are elected disenfranchises Black voters plays out.On Monday, the US supreme court declined to hear the case, leaving an appeals court ruling in place and putting an end to further delays. Continue reading...
Kirk's non-profit, Turning Point Action, is planning a $100m chase the vote' operation to help propel the ex-president to the White House, but his outsized influence is being subjected to scrutiny
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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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