Senate finance committee learned of additional undisclosed travel on Harlan Crow's jet, says Ron WydenThe conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose more private travel on a jet owned by the rightwing mega-donor Harlan Crow, a Democratic senator said on Monday, amid a swirling ethics scandal and demands for judiciary reform.I am deeply concerned that Mr Crow may have been showering a public official with extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill," Ron Wyden of Oregon, the Senate finance committee chair, told a lawyer for Crow in a letter. Continue reading...
Jenna Ellis to sit for interviews and turn over documents to prosecutors, and will avoid potential jail time in returnJenna Ellis, Donald Trump's 2020 campaign attorney charged in Arizona as part of the fake electors scheme, has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for getting her charges dismissed.Arizona's attorney general, Kris Mayes, announced the deal on Monday, sharing a legal agreement that shows Ellis agreed to sit for interviews and turn over documents related to the scheme. The agreement also calls on Ellis to testify completely and truthfully at any time and any place requested by the Arizona attorney general's office". Continue reading...
Fears of recession in US caused leading share indices to tumble, just weeks after they last scaled record highsWall Street suffered its worst day in almost two years after a global stock market sell-off sparked by fears of recession in the US.America's leading share indices - the S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq Composite - tumbled in volatile trading as the day started in New York, before pulling back slightly. Continue reading...
Missouri state lawsuit claimed that case against Republican nominee infringes on voters' constitutional rightsThe US supreme court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of Missouri to halt Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing for his conviction in New York on felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star and left a related gag order until after the 5 November presidential election.The decision by the justices came in response to a lawsuit by the state of Missouri claiming that the case against Trump infringed on the right of voters under the constitution to hear from the Republican presidential nominee as he seeks to regain the White House. Continue reading...
Biles has won three golds (team all around, individual all around and vault), one silver (individual floor) and finished fifth on beam Continue reading...
His tirade against the popular governor and secretary of state was highly unwise. Maga is not a majority in GeorgiaAll Donald Trump had to do on Saturday in Georgia is show up, bring the tent together and not pick a fight with other Republicans. It might have been money in the bag.Instead, Trump attacked Governor Brian Kemp, who is substantially more popular in Georgia than he is. Early in his comments, Trump pointed to a few recent high-profile murders in Atlanta, saying: Atlanta is like a killing field, and your governor should get off his ass and do something about it." Continue reading...
Simone Biles put her fifth place finish in Paris 2024 Olympic beam final down to a 'weird and awkward' atmosphere at Bercy Arena. Biles fell off the beam during her routine and later explained that a lack of noise meant she could 'hear some of the Android ringtones going off, the photo clickers' before adding 'you're tying to stay in your zone, and then people start cheering and the shushing gets louder'. Biles stayed positive, however, adding that she was 'proud' of herself and saying 'I can't be mad at my performances. A couple of years ago I didn't think I'd be back here at an Olympic Games, so competing and then walking away with four medals, I'm not mad about it'
Rishi Sunak's former adviser for social cohesion is right to say that inflammatory rhetoric has nourished extremism on the groundThe weekend scenes of encircled mosques guarded by police, and hotels accommodating asylum seekers attacked by mobs intent on violence, were among the most disturbing seen on British streets for many years. In their scope and intensity, these riots were of a different order to relatively isolated incidents in the past, such as the petrol bomb attack on a Dover immigration centre in 2022. In Rotherham, where a group of rioters broke into a Holiday Inn and attempted to set the building on fire, the bravery of outnumbered police averted a potential tragedy.Responsibility for this horror naturally lies with the perpetrators, who exploited the tragic murder of three girls in Southport last week as a convenient pretext for xenophobic violence. It is, as Sir Keir Starmer clearly intends, imperative that they are swiftly seen to suffer the consequences of such thuggery in court. Continue reading...
Despite an imperfect day on the beam and the floor, the American has re-established herself as the world's bestAs Simone Biles closed out her final transcendent floor routine and saluted to the judges, she held her arms above her head in a salute for as long as she could. It was partly a cheeky, sarcastic gesture, a reference to the deduction she seemingly received in the preceding final for not properly saluting to all judges, but it was also perfect. Bercy Arena, filled again for one last glimpse of her this year, responded by saluting her in turn with a long, heartfelt ovation.Although Biles did not close out her Paris Olympics with a golden picturesque finish in a chaotic last day of artistic gymnastics, her final day of competition in Paris was rather an exhibition of the sportsmanship and humanity that has accompanied her greatness. After a fall on the balance beam led to a fifth-place finish, Biles won a silver medal on the floor exercise. Continue reading...
Gary Towsey, who was captured on CCTV wearing Andre Reed's 35,000 ring, admitted to charges of handling stolen goodsA thief who left an American football legend feeling totally gutted" by dismantling his stolen Hall of Fame ring to try to sell its gems has been jailed for more than two years.Andre Reed, who played as a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills in the 1980s and 1990s, reported that the ring and other valuables, including passports, had been stolen from a room at London's Leonardo hotel last October. Continue reading...
Complacency from the US and Japan have fed the turmoil, but a gentle-ish landing is still on the cardsChoose the culprit behind the sudden sell-off in stock markets but a common theme in all top contenders is complacency.In the first case, it is the US Federal Reserve that stands accused, in the eyes of the market, of being asleep to the risk of a recession in the US. Friday's weak jobs numbers intensified the worry that policymakers have waited too long to cut interest rates. Even if a US recession in the next year remains unlikely in the eyes of most economists (a 25% possibility says Goldman Sachs, upping its forecast from 15%), it's the difference from previous expectations that moves markets. At the start of 2024, virtually nobody was talking about a US recession; now it is a plausible outcome to be priced into models. Continue reading...
Usha Vance doubles down on controversy dogging Donald Trump's running mate over his remarks about US leadersWomen offended by JD Vance's contention that the US is run by childless cat ladies" should realise it was merely a quip", the Republican vice-presidential nominee's wife, Usha Vance, claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday.I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and tried to understand what the context was and all that, which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often," Vance told Fox News in remarks that doubled down on a controversy that has emerged as one of her husband's most persistent. Continue reading...
Policy playbook developed for potential Trump 2.0 term aims to ban abortion pills, increase surveillance and champion fetal personhoodProject 2025, the wishlist for a Trump 2.0 administration drawn up by the influential thinktank the Heritage Foundation, proposes mobilizing an array of government agencies to curb access to abortion - up to and including a national ban on abortion pills that would affect even states that protect abortion rights.Backed by more than 100 conservative organizations, the 922-page Project 2025 has become notorious in recent weeks as Kamala Harris has started bringing it up at rallies. Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from its many proposals, claiming he doesn't know anything about Project 2025 and has no idea who is behind it" - even though his administration's officials wrote chunks of it. While the director of the blueprint stepped down last week, a move that the Trump campaign celebrated and that leaves its future operations unclear, the policy ideas endure and closely align with Trump's platform. Continue reading...
For decades I wrangled my frizz in an attempt to fit in. But amid rising antisemitism, I decided to embrace my identitySometime after 7 October 2023, I decided to stop straightening my hair. For decades, I had employed round brushes and flat irons and smoothing oils in service of wrangling the Jew frizz, spending money I barely had on keratin treatments and Brazilian blowouts.But as swastikas splattered public walls, as bomb threats blasted synagogues, as ancient conspiracy theories rose from the dead, as a congresswoman tweeted Antisemitism is wrong, but ...", I examined what I'd been doing: trying to look less Jewish; trying, as perhaps my great-grandparents did, to assimilate. For the first time, I felt the violence in that choice.Diana Spechler is an author and essayist. She writes the newsletter Dispatches from the RoadDo 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...
Campaigning on an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working families is a winning formula for Kamala HarrisOne of the most extraordinary aspects of our corporate-dominated American political system is the degree to which the needs of working-class people, the majority of our population, are systematically ignored by political and media elites.Americans who are following the 2024 presidential campaign - and the vital campaigns for control of the US Senate and the US House - will see, hear and read a whole lot of rhetoric from political insiders and the corporate media about the political game".77% overall73% independents69% Republicans67% Trump voters75% overall68% independents68% Republicans65% Trump voters72% overall72% independents56% Republicans56% Trump voters70% overall68% independents54% Republicans53% Trump voters63% overall57% independents46% Republicans46% Trump voters62% overall62% independents39% Republicans39% Trump voters62% overall59% independents43% Republicans42% Trump voters59% overall57% independents38% Republicans42% Trump voters58% overall55% independents43% Republicans43% Trump voters54% overall49% independents37% Republicans37% Trump voters51% overall49% independents47% Republicans42% Trump voters50% Overall51% independents25% Republicans25% Trump voters48% overall41% independents29% Republicans28% Trump votersBernie Sanders is a US senator, and chair of the health education labor and pensions committee. He represents the state of Vermont, and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress Continue reading...
We are living through the age of the meatfluencer and it has led to some strange stories in this election cycle - few stranger than Kennedy's latestI had never really engaged with how spooky Robert F Kennedy Jr looked until I saw him describe in a video the circumstances in which he ended up driving around with a dead baby bear in his boot. It sounds a lot more like an anxiety dream than a thing that happened, but here you go: the independent US presidential candidate had been taking some people falconing in the Hudson valley, in 2014, when he saw a woman hit and kill a bear with her van.Kennedy decided to skin and eat it, so he picked it up, only remembering later that he didn't have time to do either of those things, because he was going out for dinner in New York and taking a flight straight after. Can't take a dead bear cub on a flight. He had bought only hold luggage and this was carrion. Sorry. Continue reading...
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The ex-president is heavily courting a demographic that used to lean left. What's driving the widening gender gap among young people?A chill wind swept through Europe this summer. On the continent, far-right parties rose triumphantly in the EU elections, hoisted not just by the grumbles of older xenophobes but on the shoulders of young men. When news crews went out on the streets to train their cameras on these extremists in France, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands, they found no blackshirts, just barbershop trims and Zara chinos worn by young men, enthralled by dreams of ethnonationalism and a return to the values of the 1980s or the 1940s or some other period long before their birth. Then, in Britain this weekend, gangs of mostly young far-right men marauded through northern towns, attacking mosques and accommodation for asylum seekers. The nationalist right is rising once more on the tides of gelled-backed hair and Nike swooshes.A similar transformation could befall America in November. Until now, twentysomething voters were a thorn in Donald Trump's side, opposing him robustly in previous elections and making their resistance corporeal as leaders in the Women's March, Black Lives Matter protests and climate movement. Yet recent election polls suggest that while young women remain committed to the cause, there has been a tremulous withdrawal from young men. In 2016, 51% of young men identified with or leaned toward the Democratic party. By last year, it was down to 39%. Young men now favor Republican control of Congress and their support for Trump has grown since 2020. Continue reading...
Four new spots at his resort have opened at a 43% spike in a move seen as buying political influenceDonald Trump has set a million-dollar price tag for the ability to whisper in his ear should he win back the presidency in November, prompting ethics watchdogs to worry that the Republican nominee is selling access and political influence for personal gain.Trump is making available four new and rarely available memberships at his exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he mingled freely with unvetted patrons during his first term of office and accepted policy advice from guests scrawled on cocktail napkins. Continue reading...
The Americans topped the medal table in the pool in Paris but the men were close to going without an individual gold to show for their effortsAt a glance the Paris swimming medal table looks much as it did three years ago for the United States - top once again, both in golds and overall medals.But the meet continued a narrative that emerged in Tokyo of supremacy maintained but dominance lost. When Bobby Finke retained his men's 1500m freestyle title on Sunday on the final day of the Olympic meet, he was salvaging pride for the American men rather than signing off from France with an exclamation point on behalf of his nation. Continue reading...
Ex-president turning to Christian nationalists for support as Kamala Harris's potential nomination poses hard challengeDonald Trump, now facing a tougher challenge in the US election after Joe Biden stepped down in favor of Kamala Harris, is increasingly leaning into religious extremism aimed at energizing a key section of his support base: socially conservative Christians.Fears that Trump would be an authoritarian leader if elected seemed to be realized last week, when he told a group of Christian supporters they would not have to vote" in four years if he becomes president. Continue reading...
The quest for a sweet, fragrant cantaloupe is a national obsession on the other side of the Channel. But oh, the price!Scrolling through what I eat in a week" diaries instead of working, I found one from the New York fashion designer Somsack Sikhounmuong, and was captivated by his melons. Sikhounmuong bought two exquisite specimens for, brace yourself, $50 each. His doorman assumed there was a mix-up with his shopping: It's missing a lot of stuff because the bill is like $100, but there are only two melons in here." Sikhounmuong sheepishly confessed, but had no regrets: They are incredible, so sweet and so orange."I almost relate. Despite my horror at the way even basic foods have become so unaffordable, I descend into melon madness every summer, craving an orange Charentais, intensely fragrant and juicy. I inherited it from my French in-laws, who serve them at every summer meal with a ritual call - How's the melon?" - and response (hopefully tasty", fragrant", or really sweet"). The quest for a good melon is a French national sport, assisted by an official minimum sugar percentage of 10%. Specialist fruiterers ask, gravely, when exactly you intend to eat the melon to ensure the one they select hits its absolute peak then, and charge near-New York prices. They've always been precious: in 1864, Alexandre Dumas donated his books to melon town" Cavaillon's library in return for a measly 12 melons a year for life.Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Many of those with the American contingent in Paris have chosen to represent a country where some have vilified people like themA judo world championship bronze medalist from Cuba who got back into the sport after moving to America. The son of a pioneer in the new Olympic sport of breaking who came to the US after an arduous journey through the desert. Basketball players and track and field athletes who came to the USA for college and professional sports who decided to represent their new country internationally.Many of the 594 athletes named to the US Olympic team this summer are immigrants or the children of immigrants, all of whom have chosen to represent a country that is in the throes of a movement that would have limited their ability to get there or stay there, even through legal means. Continue reading...
Attempts to get Nicolas Maduro back to the negotiating table highlight the influence of a younger generation of votersWhen Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of the Venezuelan presidential election last week, there was an immediate outcry and accusations of fraud. Maduro had trailed significantly in many polls, and the National Electoral Council (CNE) didn't provide access to voting breakdowns as it is legally required to do.While much of the rhetoric from Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia's supporters has been heated, left-leaning governments in the region haven't come down on either side - despite many longstanding connections with Maduro's administration. This is a marked shift within the remnants of the pink tide" of leftist governments that dominated Latin American countries in the noughties may provide a way through the crisis, and achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela. Continue reading...
Make sure you don't miss a thing with our full, updating localised guide to the dates and times of all the events at Paris 2024Follow all the latest action live | Support the GuardianSearch for every event and start time at the Paris Olympics with our comprehensive live schedule. From the football pitch to the pool, via track and field and much more, use our filter tool to pinpoint the sports and disciplines you want to follow most so that you don't miss a thing. Continue reading...
He was looking for me,' former US House speaker says in CBS interview about home intruder David DePapeThe former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has revealed that she has been struggling with guilt ever since a man wielding a hammer invaded her home and gave her husband a near fatal beating that had been meant for her ahead of the fall 2022 elections.He was looking for me. Imagine the guilt of all of that," the California Democratic congresswoman said in an interview aired on CBS News Sunday Morning, which contained some of her most extensive remarks to date about the attack that badly injured Paul Pelosi. It's just a horrible thing. Continue reading...
As a Netherlands university found, female exclusion is seen as systemic - but if men have to wait their turn, it provokes angerAre radical measures a good idea to attract more women to your organisation? The technology university in the Dutch city of Eindhoven thinks so. In 2019 it decided to open all academic job vacancies exclusively to women. If, after half a year, no suitable female applicant was found, men could apply.The Netherlands lags seriously behind most EU countries when it comes to the percentage of female professors. And for a long time Eindhoven University of Technology lagged behind even other Dutch institutions. The figures were startling: 12% of full professors and 16% of associate professors were women in 2017.Renate van der Zee is a Dutch writer and journalistDo 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...
In a video on X, the independent presidential candidate said he and his friends thought the prank in New York would be funnyIndependent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr released a bizarre video on Sunday in which he admitted that, a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in New York's Central Park and staged the scene to make it look like a bicyclist had run over the animal.The video was apparently an effort to combat an upcoming New Yorker story that he predicted will be a bad story". Continue reading...
Firefighters make advances on wildfire that has burned 627 sq miles, but return of high temperatures may help it growFire crews battling California's largest wildfire this year have corralled a third of the blaze aided in part by cooler weather, but a return of triple-digit temperatures could allow it to grow, fire officials said Sunday.Cooler temperatures and increased humidity gave firefighters a great opportunity to make some good advances" on the fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills, said Chris Vestal, a spokesperson for the California department of forestry and fire protection. Continue reading...
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American sprinter has been talking about this for so long, sketching out his legend in plain sight. It took 30 paces to make it realNoah Lyles always said he was a star. He told anyone who would listen, from coaches, to fellow athletes, to the population of the world via the high-rolling Netflix film Sprint. Well, now they really are going to have to believe him, as on a lovely soft powder blue night in Saint-Denis, Lyles produced one of the most startling Olympic sprint final finishes to claim the Paris 2024 men's 100m gold medal.Lyles, the US and world No 1, had been an extraordinary presence in the buildup to this race. He is almost overwhelmingly charming in the flesh, all superstar sheen and utterly disarming honesty about his own flaws, his own superhero strengths, always on, always capturing the main stage. By the time he reached the start line in Paris for the men's final - along with the women's race, the keynote of this entire two-week circus - there was a sense of a man right on the edge. But of what exactly? Continue reading...
Florida representative Byron Donalds spars with ABC host over Republicans' questioning of vice-president's heritageDonald Trump ally Byron Donalds and ABC host George Stephanopoulos sparred on Sunday over Republicans' attack line questioning Kamala Harris's racial identity.During an interview on ABC's This Week, the Republican Florida representative called the issue a phony controversy" and said I don't really care." He then proceeded to double down on the issues - which the former president brought up earlier this week at the NABJ conference - by saying: When Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the first Indian American United States senator ... Now she's running nationally, obviously the campaign has shifted. They're talking much more about her father's heritage and her Black identity." Continue reading...
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Noah Lyles came from behind to pip Kishane Thompson by five thousandths of a second and take gold for USA in the men's 100mSome absolutely sensational shots in here that really capture all the emotion of day eight. Personally I can't go past this fantastic shot of Simone Biles, but I'd love to know what your favourites are? You can let me know via email - the link is at the top of the page.The track cycling will get underway on day 10 and hot off the presses, here is Kieran Pender's fantastic interview with Australian coach Tim Decker. From small town South Australia to the world stage, this is a truly fascinating story. Continue reading...
Supreme court justice says too much law' impairs liberties and talks about importance of an independent judiciaryUS supreme court justice Neil Gorsuch has said ordinary Americans are getting whacked" by too many laws and regulations in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield.Too little law and we're not safe, and our liberties aren't protected," Gorsuch told the Associated Press in an interview in his supreme court office. But too much law and you actually impair those same things."Guardian staff contributed. Continue reading...
Congressional race could head for recount as Yassamin Ansari leads Raquel Teran by 67 votes as of yesterdayThe Democratic primary in Arizona's third congressional district still remains too close to call and could be headed for a recount.Former Phoenix city council member Yassamin Ansari led former state lawmaker Raquel Teran by 67 votes with nearly 44,000 ballots counted as of Saturday evening. Continue reading...
Aide says US had tried to include Marc Fogel in prisoner swap and officials will do what they can' to bring him homeDeputy US national security adviser Jonathan Finer said Sunday that the White House worked hard to get Pennsylvania schoolteacher Marc Fogel included in the recent landmark prisoner swap involving Russia and western American allies - and though those efforts were unsuccessful, government officials continue doing what they can" to bring him home as soon as possible.Appearing on CBS News's Face The Nation, Finer declined to provide further details about Fogel's case and what his return to the US may entail. But he did assure the US is doing novel things" to ensure US nationals will not be detained in Russia - like Fogel - or elsewhere in the future. Continue reading...
Ex-president says members of United Auto Workers, which endorsed Harris, will vote for him despite Shawn FainThe United Auto Workers' decision to endorse Kamala Harris's presidential run has apparently gotten under the skin of Donald Trump, who has responded by insulting the union's leader as a stupid person".In a new interview with Fox News on Sunday, as reported by the Hill, the former president said of union chief Shawn Fain: Look, the United Auto Workers I know very well - they vote for me. They have a stupid person leading them, but they vote for me. They're going to love Donald Trump more than ever before." Continue reading...
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