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Donald Trump gave our resentful reactionaries a playbook to copy. The vitriol will be hard to put back in the bottleAs a Swedish correspondent in the US, I have sometimes braced myself on trips back home for some drastic societal change I'd heard about, only to return home and find that things were in fact exactly as they'd always been. Drivers still followed the little white arrows on the road - government recommendations for maintaining safe distances between cars and a symbol of Swedish society's strong adherence to rules and compliance. On the evening news, bureaucrats would have heated debates about such things as infrastructure and highway tolls. Politics was reliably boring; a sure sign of a healthy democracy.But over the past few years, something has genuinely changed. The political discourse is aggressive, focused on the culture wars, and seems stuck in a constant mode of outrage. The shrill vocabulary often seems to be lifted straight from American cable news. Gun violence and gang crime is at record levels - September was the most violent month for shooting deaths on record - and has helped stoke a culture of fear and an ever-escalating political blame game over immigration and asylum policies.Martin Gelin is the US correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the author of Den vita stormen: Rasismens historia och USA's fall (The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy)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...

As the United Autoworkers strike continues, a collection ranging from board games to defensive weapons tells the story of organizing - and how little has changedA Hawaiian shirt branded with union logos that wouldn't look out of place on a hypebeast runway. Political cartoons roasting Ronald Reagan's anti-labor policies. Rusty weapons recovered from violent strikes. All of that and more can be found in the Reuther archives, an exhaustive repository of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union's artifacts from a century of strikes.The US is in the midst of the first strike by workers at all the big three car companies of Detroit in 80 years. It's been a galvanizing moment for autoworkers, with Joe Biden making a historic visit to the picket line.. Continue reading...

Kaiser Permanente workers push for improvements to staffing levels and wage increases after union contract expiresMore than 75,000 healthcare workers at the US's largest non-profit private healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, are poised to strike on 4 October in the largest healthcare strike in US history.The workers' union contract expired at the weekend and staff are pushing for significant improvements to staffing levels and wage increases that account for recent high inflation. Continue reading...

Americans should feel encouraged by the tenacity of judges and prosecutors in holding Trump accountableThere's reason to feel a bit more secure about the strength of American democracy, notwithstanding Donald Trump's escalating threats.For one thing, a large bipartisan coalition in both chambers of Congress has beat back the House Maga Republicans' attempt to shut down the government.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.comGuardian Newsroom: How will the US presidential race unfold? On Thursday 2 November 8pm-9.15pm BST, join Devika Bhat, David Smith and Hugo Lowell and Joan E Greve for a livestream discussion on the 2024 US presidential election. Book tickets here Continue reading...

Far-right congressman files motion after expressing outrage at speaker's bipartisan effort to avoid government shutdown. Plus, what do we really know about non-surgical cosmetic treatments?

Revealed: individuals contacted by agency gave detailed accounts of abusive behavior they allegedly experienced or witnessedThe FBI has interviewed several individuals who have alleged they were abused by members of the People of Praise (PoP), a secretive Christian sect that counts conservative supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett as a lifelong member, according to sources familiar with the matter.The individuals were contacted following a years-long effort by a group called PoP Survivors, who have called for the South Bend-based sect to be investigated for leaders' handling of sexual abuse allegations. The body, which has 54 members, has alleged that abuse claims were routinely mishandled or covered up for decades in order to protect the close-knit faith group. Continue reading...

Heating his personal pool during a cost of living crisis? Donating millions to elite schools? The PM is banking on us filing this all apathetically under stuff rich people do'To kick off the Conservative conference, Laura Kuenssberg gave Rishi Sunak a first look, on air, at a word cloud of responses from the public to the question: What does Rishi Sunak stand for?" If you were building a reputation as a supervillain, the words looked great, but what about a prime minister? Unprecedented? Disastrous? The Rich", Rich People", Rich" and People" were four separate categories, by far the most ubiquitous; only Money" and Himself" came close. A few people knew he was a Conservative. There was an honourable mention of wealth", which is a little more courteous than rich", in so far as it's not something you are, it's something you have. Either way, one thing has cut through about the prime minister: he is really rich.It did come up, when he first took office a year ago, that his immense riches might pose a problem for him, just in the day-to-day stuff. Traditionally, people like their politicians to know the price of milk and how to pour a pint. This was always quite an easy fix for our esteemed public servants, who could learn these details ahead of a leadership bid.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

In an extract from his memoir, the 13-year NBA veteran reveals the childhood tragedy he has kept secret for more than 30 yearsI've never told anyone this before, but my best friend died in my arms - and it was all because of basketball. It's a day I've kept tucked away in a corner of my mind for over 30 years, like the carefully folded contents of a weathered trunk, buried behind cobwebs and cardboard boxes in the farthest corner of an attic. Until I started writing this book, I hadn't spoken about what happened to anyone, including my parents and siblings. It's a guarded memory I've only revisited in moments of solitude on my road to the NBA, and I debated dredging up the past when my family has always been about moving forward. Still, what happened changed the course of my life, as well as theirs, and I can't possibly tell my story without it.When it happened, Chris was seven and I was six. We were two inseparable bundles of energy who lived in neighboring tenement buildings in the crime-ridden Washington DC, projects in the late 1980s. We'd met in kindergarten and our families had become familiar enough to know that where they found one of us, the other was most assuredly there, as well. We walked to school together in the morning and left together each afternoon for the corner bodega, where we shared a $2 turkey, cheese, and mayo hero in thick white deli paper we'd unwrapped barely out of the door. Then, it was off to one of the half dozen courts sprinkled within walking distance of our complex, where we played basketball until dusk warned us to get home. Continue reading...

Being within touching distance of the Ryder Cup action is a rare and precious experience - one unlikely to last much longerYou get a fluorescent green bib from the front desk, and it makes you look a bit like you're about to do community service, but you don't really mind, because what you've just been given is actually a golden key. One of the most precious items in the whole of sportswriting - right up there with your thesaurus, your dog-eared envelope full of expense receipts, and Wikipedia. You're about to enter a magical portal into a sunlit universe of big swings and perfumed shoulders, cigar smoke and mild swearing.There are times in this job when you feel the need to explain to people that actually, it's not as opulent and idyllic as it all seems. That there are deadlines and demands, brutally early starts and late nights, interminable hours spent in windowless rooms waiting for a man in a tracksuit to shower you in banalities, long train journeys with Jonathan Wilson. Then, of course, there are the moments that just need to be savoured and shared. Lean into the smugness. Come with me. We're going behind the ropes at the Ryder Cup. Continue reading...

With no end to the conflict in sight, politicians and the public must not waver in our resolve to support the wartorn countryThe blue and yellow flag still flies high over Britain's town squares and public buildings, signalling our unwavering and enduring solidarity with Ukraine's war effort.Well, in theory, anyway. For you can feel the fatigue descending now, like heavy autumn mist pooling in the bottom of a valley; a sort of strange public torpor, quietly smothering the high emotion of the early days of the war. Having leapt too quickly at the assumption that Kyiv couldn't possibly hold out against the mighty Russian army, British public opinion then swung wildly towards what has turned out to be an equally unrealistic idea, namely that plucky Ukraine could somehow achieve a David v Goliath victory over the rusting superpower within the year. We could put up with one winter of rocketing gas bills, surely, if that was the price to be paid for peace in Europe. Only now it's the second winter of not daring to turn on the central heating, and the stories emerging from the frontline are no longer of Ukrainian farmers cheerfully towing away stranded tanks with their tractors, but of a grinding war of attrition that could last up to a decade.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

Far-right congressman files motion after expressing outrage at speaker's bipartisan effort to avoid government shutdownCongressman Matt Gaetz, a hard-right Republican of Florida, introduced a motion to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker on Monday, expressing outrage over the Republican leader's successful efforts to avoid a government shutdown this weekend.I have enough Republicans where at this point next week, one of two things will happen: Kevin McCarthy won't be the speaker of the House, or he'll be the speaker of the House working at the pleasure of the Democrats," Gaetz told reporters after he filed the motion. I'm at peace with either result because the American people deserve to know who governs them." Continue reading...

About 400 people took part in the search Monday, including state and local police, forest rangers and volunteer firefightersA nine-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was found safe Monday following a two-day search, authorities said.Charlotte Sena was located in good health" and a suspect is in custody" in connection with her disappearance Saturday evening, New York state police said in a statement. Continue reading...

After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the US vowed to hold Saudi Arabia accountable. Biden has done the oppositeFive years ago, Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul to pick up a document he needed in order to marry his Turkish fiancee. The journalist never walked out. Inside the consulate, he was ambushed by a 15-member Saudi hit team, who suffocated him and dismembered his body with a bone saw. The death squad then slipped out of Turkey on two charter planes owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.Since then, Mohammed bin Salman - Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, who, according to US intelligence officials, approved Khashoggi's assassination - has managed a near complete rehabilitation of his increasingly autocratic regime. Prince Mohammed has met with Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders; he's positioning Saudi Arabia as a global tourism destination; and he's plowing ahead with plans to build Neom, his $500bn futuristic city in the desert. The prince has spent more than $6bn on investments in football teams, golf tournaments and other sports deals. He's pouring billions more into Silicon Valley tech companies - all part of an effort to whitewash the kingdom's abysmal human rights record. Continue reading...

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Trump was a quiet presence inside court, but outside he said deranged' judge overseeing case should be out of office'Not many defendants would dare to brand the judge overseeing their case deranged", call for them to be kicked out of office and dismiss the suit against them as a witch-hunt". Not many defendants are Donald Trump.On the first day of a civil fraud case that could decide the future of his business career, Trump cut an angry, uncomfortable figure. This is a judge that should be out of office," he told reporters as the court broke for lunch. This is a judge that some people say could be charged criminally for what he's doing." Continue reading...

Ex-president rails against judge and prosecutors accusing him of years-long fraud they say inflated his wealth by as much as $2.2bnDonald Trump attacked the judge and New York prosecutors who have charged him with orchestrating a years-long fraud on Monday as state prosecutors accused the former president of using the scam to inflate his wealth by as much as $2.2bn.Trump arrived at a New York court just a few miles south of Trump Tower on Monday for the first day of a fraud trial that could see the former president and his family business paying hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and that has already threatened to end his business career in the city where it started. Continue reading...

Eight men tell BBC Panorama they attended events involving sex acts run for Mike Jeffries and his partner, some after sexual auditions'The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has been accused of exploiting young men for sex at events he and his partner hosted in the US and around the world, according to a BBC investigation.Most of the men also allege that a middleman, who was hired by the fashion brand's former boss Mike Jeffries, sexually auditioned" them by requesting or offering to perform oral sex on them, before the young men were introduced to him and his partner, Matthew Smith. Continue reading...

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or onlineNew York City public hospitals will now offer abortion care via telehealth, placing them among the first public health systems in the US to do so.The city's mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Monday that abortion pill prescriptions would now be available by telephone or online, adding that such access can happen from the comfort of your home". Continue reading...

Doug Larsen and family killed shortly after taking off from Canyonlands airfield, about 15 miles north of MoabA state senator from North Dakota, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed in Utah, a senate leader said Monday.Doug Larsen's death was confirmed on Monday in an email that the Republican state senate majority leader David Hogue sent to his fellow senators and was obtained by the Associated Press. Continue reading...

The future of Trump's New York real estate business will be decided in a Manhattan court case kicking off on Monday

The quest for Pure Conservatism is afoot, and the former PM is not short of ideas. The problem is that they're all really terribleWhen two tribes go to war ... Or three. Or four. The real action at this year's Tory party conference is all taking place on the fringes. Almost no one believes that Rishi Sunak can win the next election and the leadership hopefuls are making their pitch for the hollowed-out soul of the party. The main hall is a dead zone. A theatre of charades where ministers on autopilot trot out a whole load of cliches they don't believe to a handful of dozing delegates who aren't listening. The speeches are delivered as if they were written by ChatGPT channelling a below-average 12-year-old. That's being kind in the case of Lucy Frazer, Mark Harper and Claire Coutinho.It's like gatecrashing a parallel universe. One where all the normal rules of politics are broken. A party conference is normally where people and politicians come together to share their worldview. Confirmation bias. Or, when times are tough, to bunker down and reassure themselves that all is well with their world even if the world is against them. Continue reading...

The prospect of defeat has liberated the party to lurch further to the right. Shame on the centrists who encourage this rabbleI want to scare the shit out of you," Frank Luntz, a focus-grouper to the US right, proclaimed to the Tory party audience. He hardly needed to. You know the average age of the Labour voter? 38-40. The average age of the Tory voter? Deceased." Nervous laughs. At every whither the future" event, speakers quote the YouGov poll showing only 1% of 18-24s back their party. For under-50s, it's barely better. The very word Conservative" is poison and young cohorts are staying with Labour as they age.Tory afflictions will fill Labour with glee this week. So many fractions of factions and so many contenders jostling for a bald man's comb, amid wails of the wiser who know it's almost all over. Like the ancient mariner, they pluck the sleeve of any passing journo to spill their tales of woe, no holding back.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Jackpot is fourth largest in Powerball history, with one in 292.1m odds, after 32 consecutive drawings without winnerAn estimated $1.04bn Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs on Monday night, tempting players to spend a couple dollars on a long shot chance at instant riches.The prize is the world's ninth-largest lottery prize behind earlier drawings of Powerball and Mega Millions, the other nearly nationwide lottery game. The jackpot is the fourth largest in the history of Powerball. Continue reading...

Robert Wayne Lee, 40, made contact online with suspected pedophiles and record videos of in-person confrontationsA man who gained a sizable social media following by posing as a child online to lure out alleged sexual predators was shot to death late last week during a confrontation at a restaurant in Michigan.Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing of 40-year-old Robert Wayne Lee, also known to his followers as Boopac Shakur. Continue reading...

Half of the Premier teams are part- or fully-owned by Americans or US companies. Fans' suspicions are understandable

Trump and his adult sons could lose business licenses and face up to $250m in penalties - even as he rises in the pollsDonald Trump laps the Republican field and leads Joe Biden, but the judiciary is unimpressed. Since Tuesday, the 45th president went zero-for-three in New York and DC courtrooms. After all the smoke cleared, his financial assets and personal freedom remain in jeopardy.On Monday, his latest trial begins in Manhattan. He and his adult sons face civil fraud charges. Last Tuesday a New York trial judge found that Trump had defrauded his lenders and insurers. In hindsight, The Art of the Deal bordered on the art of the steal.Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992 Continue reading...

From Max Homa's brilliance in a lost cause to Rory McIlroy's car park incident, our team share their best moments from ItalyPlayer of the tournament Rory Rocky" McIlroy was due a massive Ryder Cup, and he delivered one. McIlroy was Europe's top points scorer for the first time. Beyond bare statistics, his off-course influence galvanised the winners. Continue reading...

The Duchess of Sussex for California senator? Now where could they possibly have got that idea?The Duchess of Sussex is not, following the death of Dianne Feinstein, going to be the new senator for California. No, she was never in the frame, and no, her ultimate aim is not the White House. The ink was barely dry on the story in the MailOnline, and assorted rightwing titles globally, that Meghan was the long shot", before the real candidate, Laphonza Butler, was announced.Butler, incidentally, is a politician with a hinterland, a former union leader, once adviser to Kamala Harris, and currently president of Emily's List, a scheme to get more Democratic pro-choice women elected. What kind of mad hubris, outrageous self-regard, would lead an ersatz princess and failed podcaster to think she was better suited to the role? Well, none, necessarily. Meghan occupies a peculiar place in the international media imagination, where they can say almost anything about her, stick in a few sources say" and speculations", and their evergreen story is ready to go, a tale of the prideful wokerati, oversharing, overprivileged, hypocritical. She is like an avatar for the ultimate, in-your-grill liberal.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

For the most part, the US newspapers gave Europe credit for their comprehensive victory in Rome as they regained the titleFor triumphant European golf fans, the galling thing about America's relationship with the Ryder Cup is that much of the US simply does not care about the tournament. On Sunday most sport fans in the States were discussing Taylor Swift's appearance at an NFL game, the final day of the MLB regular season or Jrue Holiday's trade to the Boston Celtics.But that's not to say that no one cares. And, for the most part, the US press gave Europe credit for a comprehensive victory. Europe's Ryder Cup triumph was down to meticulous planning, clever leadership and a strategy of drawing on the competition's history," wrote Tom Hamilton and Mark Schlabach of ESPN. They also complimented Europe captain Luke Donald and his vice-captain, Edoardo Molinari. Continue reading...

Watchdog group says entities backed by Leonard Leo have invested over $9m in dark web' of special interest groupsThe rightwing activist Leonard Leo has helped fund a network of groups involved in a crucial US supreme court case that could fundamentally weaken the federal government's ability to hold corporations to account, a leading watchdog said as the conservative-dominated court prepared for its new term.Leonard Leo spent years stacking the court with ideological kindred spirits," said Caroline Ciccone, president of Accountable.US. Now he's funding a dark web of special interest groups to push an extreme agenda." Continue reading...

Monsoon season usually brings summer thunderstorms for about three months each year starting in JuneAfter a summer of extreme heat, Arizona's most populous city is in the record books again. This time Phoenix is notching a record for dry heat.The National Weather Service said Sunday that the monsoon season this year in the arid south-west dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from 15 June to 30 September. That's the driest since the agency began keeping records in 1895. The previous mark was 0.35 inches in 1924. Continue reading...

Association of Flight Attendants accuses airline of fostering anti-union culture, including illegal company unions'Flight attendants at the largest regional airline in the US, SkyWest, are seeking to unionize the airline, taking on what they claim is an illegal company union and pushing back on alleged retaliatory firings of two flight attendants who were leaders of an organizing campaign.Flight attendants at SkyWest, which operates flights for Delta, United, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines, are currently represented by the SkyWest Inflight Association (SIA), a work group that does not purport to be a union and is supported and funded by the airline itself, according to a handbook for SIA representatives. Continue reading...

The European team celebrated wildly after securing an outstanding 16-11 victory over the US at the Ryder Cup. They chanted and sang as they took in their win. Celebrations went on until the early hours of the morning Continue reading...

After losing my parents, I've become a caregiver for my aunts, uncles and older friends. I love it - aside from all the tech support, of courseIt's 4.30pm and I'm cutting up prosciutto for my 89-year-old uncle so he can take his evening pills with something in his stomach. Something other than the orgy of Mini Magnum ice-cream bars that he and my aunt just wolfed down while I was intercepting the pizza delivery guy.What kind of a midlife fool do they take me for? As if I wouldn't notice the sticky aftermath smeared all over their guilty faces. Not to mention hearing their entire covert" operation when I came back into the house. Busted. They forgot to turn on their hearing aids and couldn't hear a thing they were doing, or how loudly they were doing it - the freezer drawer slamming, the wrappers crackling, the gleeful squeals and smacking lips. Those sly dogs. Continue reading...

New York attorney general will argue Trump owes at least $250m in profits made from false financial statements. Plus, climate scientist Michael Mann on our last chance to save the planetGood morning.Just a few miles south of Trump Tower in New York City, a judge today will hear allegations of fraud within the Trump Organization in a trial that could lead to Donald Trump and his family business paying hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and that has already threatened to end his business career in the city where it started.What has Trump said about the trial? Trump said he would appear in court today. I'm going to court tomorrow morning to fight for my name and reputation," he said on his Truth Social account on Sunday.Will there be a jury? No. The trial is a bench trial, meaning there will be no jury. The New York supreme court justice Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the case, will be the sole decider. Because this is a civil trial, Trump will not be sent to prison if he's found guilty nor does he have to make an appearance in court.What did Biden say? The president said: We cannot under any circumstances allow America's support for Ukraine to be interrupted. I fully expect the speaker to keep his commitment to secure the passage and support needed to help Ukraine as they defend themselves against aggression and brutality." Continue reading...

Nasrat Ahmadyar worked with US forces in his home country. He was killed while driving for Lyft in JulyIt was three hours to midnight on a hot Virginia evening in early July when Nasrat Ahmadyar returned to the two-bedroom apartment he shared with his wife and four children. He'd just finished a game of volleyball, but the night was not over.Ahmadyar, 31, was struggling to pay rent, behind on his car payments, and constantly preoccupied with the situation in Afghanistan, the country he'd fled not two years earlier after the Taliban took over. Had he stayed, he was certain he would have been killed because of the years he spent helping American special forces in their long and ultimately fruitless campaign to stop the hardline Islamist movement from returning to power. Continue reading...

Florida governor strips schools' funding alleging ties to Chinese communist party and at GOP debate vows to go tough on ChinaIt was a desperately needed moment of grandeur for Ron DeSantis: the Florida governor's strongman act over China briefly lifting his stuttering presidential campaign during last week's Republican primary debate in California.But what DeSantis left unsaid as he railed against China's growing global influence, while promising a hard power" approach to Beijing should he win the White House, was how his posturing was hurting students and families back in his home state. Continue reading...

The senator was sometimes brave and ahead of her time, and sometimes stifled by the desire to not make wavesFlags are at half mast in San Francisco's city hall for a woman who was born here and died in Washington DC at the end of a remarkable life. It was inside that building that the most dramatic and pivotal event of Dianne Feinstein's political career took place, when a murderer made her mayor, the mayor who would become one of the country's strongest leaders in response to the Aids crisis. That role gave her the visibility to run for the US senate in 1992, and she held onto that seat to her dying day, showing up on Thursday to cast a vote in the budget battle, hours before her death at 90.Senator Feinstein began her political career being ahead of her society and ended it by being behind it. This is not surprising for a public life in politics that stretched through 60 years of dramatic social and political change. But it may be hard to perceive for those who don't know she was early on a champion for women's rights - including her own just to participate, at a time when that was groundbreaking - and for rights and recognition for queer people at a time when most politicians would only mention them to demand punishment and ostracization for them.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell's Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

A new study shows how verbal abuse impacts children - and sows the seeds for long-term issues like self-harm and anxietySticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is a phrase often repeated to children in the hope that they will learn that they cannot be hurt by name-calling or verbal abuse. In fact, words are humans' most powerful tools, and harsh language used against children can damage them for the rest of their life.It is natural to respond to a naughty" child by shouting - and children are forgiving of, and are surprisingly empathic in relation to, parental stress. But let us not deceive ourselves that verbal intimidation such as shouting, yelling or screaming at children leaves no scars. Or that being humiliated and ridiculed leaves children unaffected. Continue reading...

The former No 1 overall pick looked like he was set for a career on the bench. But he has found a renaissance of sorts in TampaWhen Tom Brady finally retired, the NFC South was set to be wide open. After all, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers decided to replace perhaps the best player in NFL history with Baker Mayfield, best known for his disappointing stint with the Cleveland Browns, which ended with his teammates' dads weighing in on his faults and faint praise for his comic acting chops. The Bucs' divisional rivals, the New Orleans Saints, were among the teams looking to take advantage of Brady's retirement.Heading into the teams' first meeting of the year, the 2-1 Saints could take first place by defeating the Buccaneers, who were also 2-1 after a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. In theory, New Orleans had the advantage at quarterback, having signed four-time Pro Bowler Derek Carr. Carr did not have a single touchdown pass during Sunday's 26-9 Tampa Bay victory. In contrast, Mayfield went 25-for-32 and threw for 246 yards and three touchdowns. Continue reading...

As more than 100,000 people flee to avoid rule by Azerbaijan, it's time for the EU to consider the prospect of membership for ArmeniaThe president of the self-declared Republic of Artsakh", Samvel Shahramanyan, has dissolved all institutions of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh and almost all Karabakh Armenians are now thought to fled the enclave being reintegrated into Azerbaijan. What lessons can be drawn from the tragic epilogue of this three decades-long secessionist conflict in Europe?The images of long queues of cars escaping mountainous Karabakh to neighbouring Armenia bring back dark memories of ethnic cleansing that Europe thought had been relegated to its past. Just as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its imperial follies, trenches and wanton destruction, catapulted Europe back into the harrowing days of the world wars, the flight of ethnic Armenians rewinds us to the Balkans of the 1990s - or even further back, to the end of the Ottoman empire during the first world war.Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian columnist. She is director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and an honorary professor at the University of Tubingen Continue reading...

Boys and young men are increasingly being drawn into online forums that denigrate, objectify and slut-shame' women. How can we effectively address it?It was not so much a rabbit hole I found myself down, but in a whole warren of sexist content when I began researching a story on Kenya's manosphere" - a loosely connected network of websites and social media platforms that promote misogyny online.What I saw was disturbing: scores of tweets, posts and video content that denigrated, objectified and slut-shamed" women, or encouraged men to exercise coercive control. Continue reading...

US president Joe Biden said that aid to Ukraine must keep flowing after a deal to avert a government shutdown dropped assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion. The president lambasted Republicans for holding up government spending talks and assured Ukraine that US support and aid were unwavering. 'We cannot under any circumstances allow American for Ukraine to be interrupted,' Biden said

Laurie Allen is now among the at least 98 people who died when a blaze destroyed the historic Hawaii town in AugustA woman who escaped a wildfire that destroyed Hawaii community by running through a burning field has died after spending more than seven weeks in a hospital burn unit.Laurie Allen died Friday at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, according to a GoFundMe page set up for her and her husband, Perry Allen. Continue reading...