Those caring for relatives with severe disabilities say planned Republican cuts will be fatal for someKelly Fountain of central Arkansas plans to move her family out of the state if work requirements are enacted for Medicaid, given the issues and lack of resources she has already faced in obtaining support for her 24-year-old son with disabilities, Colby.If Trump's budget is passed as it is currently written, we will be leaving Arkansas," said Fountain. Our politicians here know very well that people are going to lose their Medicaid, they're depending on it. People are not only going to lose their healthcare, they're going to die." Continue reading...
Israel orders army to respond forcefully' after claiming Tehran has violated ceasefire. Plus, the mystery of the hijacker who disappeared after parachuting out of a plane
Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga's agendaAcross the US, group chats and community threads have started spiking with warnings. Not just the typical alerts about traffic or out of service subway stations, but where and when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raid was last seen. What places to avoid. What the plainclothes agents might look like.Hey all," a Brooklyn, New York, resident wrote in a closed chat with neighbors last week. A little birdie just told me ICE is out." Continue reading...
The former governor, now a New York City mayoral candidate, marks the party's drift into boorishness and crueltyAs the far right has gained ascendancy, and the 2024 election is historicized as a blowout victory for Donald Trump rather than the relatively close contest that it actually was, members of the Democratic establishment and party leadership seem to be settling on the lesson that they will take into the second decade of the Trump era: if you can't beat him, imitate him.It's long been the impulse of the party to move right, chasing Republican victories by replicating Republican policy positions, and since their loss last November many Democrats have followed in this decades-old tradition, shifting their rhetoric still further rightward on border policy, crypto, foreign policy, trans rights and DEI. They respond to polling and to a vague sense of the cultural zeitgeist, aiming less to persuade than to imitate. Often, Democrats seem as if they are not offering a different policy vision for the country so much as they are offering a different stylistic one: the same austerity, cultural revanchism and inequality but in a more polite package.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
The former New York governor who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations is leading the mayoral primary raceWhen Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace four years ago, few would have predicted him to make a comeback.Yet the former New York governor, who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations, is the frontrunner to become the next mayor of New York City, a role that he hopes could rehabilitate him and, allegedly, give him a platform to run for president. Continue reading...
The NBA postseason remains a psychodrama of moments, memes and memories unlike anything in sport. We look back at the biggest takeawaysIf a single, overarching lesson can be taken from this year's NBA postseason, it's this one: no game is over until the clock hits 00:00. Whether it was the New York Knicks stealing victory from the jaws of defeat against the Celtics in Boston in round two, Aaron Gordon's buzzer-beating dunk sealing a crucial win for the Nuggets against the Clippers in Los Angeles in round one, or the Indiana Pacers defeating the odds over and over again with their clutch time brilliance throughout the playoffs, a lead has never felt less safe in the NBA. Continue reading...
Leftwing Zohran Mamdami, 33, sees surging support in race with former governor for Democratic nominationNew Yorkers are headed to the polls on Tuesday in a primary election that is both likely to decide the city's next mayor and have major political implications for the future of the Democratic party.The race pits two drastically different Democrats against one another. Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist endorsed by the progressive wing of the Democratic party, is the main challenger to Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who has been backed by the party's centrists and billionaire donors. Continue reading...
The US health secretary's latest report is more interested in vaccine scepticism than the brutal toll inflicted by guns and road traffic accidentsMake America healthy again". We can all get behind this slogan and agree that much more could be done to improve the health of people living in the US. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health and human services secretary, recently released a report detailing the challenge of the US's health. About 90% of it outlines the high rates of obesity, mental health issues and chronic disease, 10% covers vaccine scepticism, and 0% looks at solutions or any discussions of the systemic social and economic issues that drive much of the US's health problems.But what surprised me more was a notable omission of the two biggest killers of American children. American children aren't just unhealthier. They're more likely to die in the first 19 years of life because of guns - both homicides and suicides - or in a road traffic accident than children in comparable countries. How can an entire report be written without mentioning these factors, and how unique the US is in the burden of disability and death they cause?Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of How Not to Die (Too Soon)
The US president is more willing to listen to Israel than his predecessors were and is also deeply suspicious of the CIAWhen Donald Trump ordered the US military to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend, the debate among intelligence officials, outside experts and policymakers over the status of Tehran's nuclear program had largely been frozen in place for nearly 20 years.That prolonged debate has repeatedly placed the relatively dovish US intelligence community at odds with Israel and neoconservative Iran hawks ever since the height of the global war on terror. Continue reading...
In 1971, a man held a plane to ransom for $200,000, then parachuted out in his suit and dress shoes, never to be seen again. What happened to him?On the evening of 24 November 1971, Florence Schaffner, a flight attendant on a Northwest Orient flight heading to Seattle, Washington, from Portland, Oregon, was handed a note by a male passenger seated at the back of the plane. Schaffner assumed the note was a phone number - this wasn't the first time a passenger had hit on her - so she stowed it in her purse without reading it. The man leaned towards her and whispered: Miss, you'd better lookat that note. I have a bomb."Schaffner read it: Miss - Ihave abomb in my briefcase and want you to sit by me." Continue reading...
Court ruling will allow administration to continue deporting migrants to war-torn countries not their own. Key US politics stories from Monday 23 June at a glanceThe US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to conflict-ridden places such as South Sudan.In a brief, unsigned order, the court's conservative supermajority paused the ruling by a Boston-based federal judge who said immigrants deserved a meaningful opportunity" to bring claims that they would face the risk of torture, persecution or even death if removed to certain countries that have agreed to take people deported from the US. Continue reading...
President's proclamation had barred foreign students from studying at top university, citing national security concernsA federal judge on Monday blocked Donald Trump's administration from implementing his plan to bar foreign nationals from entering the United States to study at Harvard University.US district judge Allison Burroughs in Boston issued an injunction barring Trump's administration from carrying out its latest bid to curtail Harvard's ability to host international students amid an escalating fight pitting the Republican president against the prestigious Ivy League school. Continue reading...
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This blog has closed. Read our latest story hereThe US embassy in Qatar has advised American citizens there to shelter in place until further notice".This comes as on Sunday night, the state department issued a worldwide caution" security alert advising US citizens abroad to exercise increased caution". Continue reading...
Justices lift judicial order, handing victory to US president in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportationsThe US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to conflict-ridden places such as South Sudan.In a brief, unsigned order, the court's conservative supermajority paused the ruling by a Boston-based federal judge who said immigrants deserved a meaningful opportunity" to bring claims that they would face the risk of torture, persecution or even death if removed to certain countries that have agreed to take people deported from the US. Continue reading...
Health secretary and chief of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hail voluntary agreement as a good start'The US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and Dr Mehmet Oz announced a voluntary agreement with insurance companies to change prior authorization practices - where private health insurers require patients to ask for permission before they can receive medical treatment.The majority of Americans receive health insurance through a private company, whether through an employer, or a privatization of public health insurance programs, such as Medicare Advantage. Continue reading...
Fast-moving weekend thunderstorm caused high winds and swells as authorities say one person still missingThe El Dorado county sheriff's office confirmed Monday that it had found a seventh person dead after a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe during a fast-moving weekend thunderstorm that caused high winds and swells of up to 8ft. One person is still missing.A 27ft-long gold Chris-Craft vessel with 10 people aboard overturned Saturday afternoon after apparently being hit by a large swell near DL Bliss state park on the lake's south-west edge, according to the US Coast Guard. Continue reading...
Several cities are under extreme heat warnings as high temperatures and humidity grip parts of the countryThe National Weather Service (NWS) has issued several extreme heat warnings and advisories as a dangerous and prolonged wave of high temperatures and humidity blankets much of the central and eastern US, with the worst conditions expected to persist into the middle of this week.Several locations recorded their hottest temperatures of the year over the weekend: Salt Lake City, Utah, hit 104F (40C) on Thursday, its first triple-digit reading of 2025, and on Saturday the city of Mitchell in South Dakota also reached 104F, surpassing its previous daily record of 101F (38.3C). Daily high records were broken in parts of Minnesota, Wyoming and Michigan. Continue reading...
Amid Trump's disrespect of old allies, EU and Canada vow more support for Ukraine and joint work on climate crisisCanada has signed a wide-ranging defence pact with the EU, as Donald Trump and global instability prompt traditional US allies to deepen their alliances.Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, on Monday joined European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, in Brussels, where they signed a security and defence partnership, pledged more support for Ukraine, as well as joint work on issues from the climate crisis to artificial intelligence. Continue reading...
Explosions were heard over Doha, the capital of Qatar, as missiles flew in the night sky on 23 June. Iran's military said it had carried out a 'devastating and powerful' missile attack on the Al Udeid US airbase. Iran had issued threats to retaliate against the United States after US bombers dropped 30,000lb bunker-busters on Iranian underground nuclear sites at the weekend, joining Israel's air war against Tehran
He has used clear messaging to redirect anger from the disenfranchised to the economic elites. That the wealthy are worried shows it's workingThe Zohran Mamdani phenomenon should not be happening, if received wisdom is a reliable predictor of events. He's the 33-year-old Muslim leftist and Queens assemblyman running for the New York mayoralty with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the vitriolic campaign against him suggests his momentum has caused panic in gilded circles. His chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, Andrew Cuomo, could not scream party establishment more loudly: he's New York state's former governor - just like his father was - and a former cabinet secretary. He married into that classic Democratic royalty, the Kennedys; his endorsements include the former president Bill Clinton; and billionaires such as Mike Bloomberg are pouring millions into his Super Pac.In another age, someone like Mamdani would have been a no-hoper. What changed was the 2016 presidential campaign of the long-marginalised socialist senator Bernie Sanders, which re-energised the US left. But Donald Trump's recent victory on a more extreme platform led to predictions of a general rightwing lurch in US politics, with progressive positions scapegoated for the Democratic loss (even though Kamala Harris ran on a squarely corporate, centrist" ticket). I was scheduled to interview Mamdani on the night of the US presidential election, but his campaign asked to postpone as results started to come in suggesting a Trump victory was likely. Presumably, they wanted to reassess strategy in the coming US political winter. Continue reading...
Man got stuck near the flue of the chimney in a parks building after doors automatically locked for the nightFirefighters had to rescue a man who got stuck in the chimney of a Connecticut parks building while trying to retrieve his dog from a bathroom when the doors automatically locked for the night.Police were called Sunday morning to Rockwell Park in Bristol for a burglary complaint and were told by parks employees that someone was in the chimney. Firefighters responded to the scene and got the man out after having to remove parts of the chimney and building, causing $5,000 to $10,000 worth of damage, police said. Continue reading...
US trade commission approves deal for Omnicom to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest advertising agencyOmnicom's $13.5bn acquisition of rival Interpublic can move forward on the condition the new company does not enter agreements with others to steer ad dollars towards or away from publishers based on political content, the US Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.The agreement with the agency would still allow individual advertisers to specify where their ads are shown, the FTC said. It would also settle potential claims from the FTC's nascent investigation into possible coordination with media watchdogs who have been accused by Elon Musk of helping orchestrate advertiser boycotts of the social media platform X. Continue reading...
Real estate company alleges that the Zillow ban' prevents rivals from competing against itThe real estate brokerage company Compass has filed a lawsuit against Zillow over its policy to ban private home listings.In a filing with the US district court for the southern district of New York, Compass claims that Zillow has sought to rely on anticompetitive tactics to protect its monopoly and revenues in violation of the antitrust laws." Continue reading...
If Iran's nuclear program was not an imminent threat, what motived the US-Israeli attack? Why now? The answer is political opportunityThe United States has bombed Iran. Donald Trump announced on Sunday that B2 bombers attacked three nuclear sites including the Fordow nuclear site, sometimes referring to as the crown jewel of Iran's nuclear program.As the world waits for Iran's response, it is worth revisiting events since 12 June, when Israel, with US support, attacked the Islamic Republic. The official reason is nuclear weapons. The real reason I contend is the elimination of the Iran-led Axis of Resistance and establishing Israel regional hegemony over the Middle East with tacit support from Arab autocrats.Nader Hashemi is associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics and director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
On a 200-acre site in Fayette County, Georgia, US Soccer hopes to build the best facility of its like in the worldThirty minutes away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Atlanta, the land becomes greener, the trees are taller and builders are working in the intense Georgia sun to ensure US Soccer's new National Training Center is ready for action in time for the men's World Cup next year.It is an enormous site, spanning more than 200 acres in Trilith, Fayette County, and the hope is it will be the best training facility in the world when it opens. Funding has partly come from Arthur M Blank, who owns three sports teams in Atlanta, and executives are confident everything is on schedule for the doors to open in April. Continue reading...
Polite, considerate, and brilliant to watch, Oklahoma City's team of champions helped produce one of the most absorbing postseasons in yearsThese were supposed to be the boring finals, a contest between two small-city teams with none of the media pull of Boston or New York or even Denver for that matter, featuring the (allegedly) most overrated guard in the NBA, no personalities, relentless fouling, and a Canadian MVP whose ascendancy seemed to indicate nothing more than the terminal decline of America as a stable of elite basketballing talent. Instead we were treated to the most thrilling and unpredictable finals since LeBron James came through with his famous rejection in 2016 - a bustling, punishing, seven-game exhibition of physical basketball whose outcome was genuinely unclear until the final quarter of the season. Denigrated and dismissed by a basketballing commentariat who've spent much of this season ruing the modern NBA's dearth of charisma, Oklahoma City and Indiana played as if stung by the laugh lines, launching from both ends of the court with a kind of mad, symphonic intensity.If the finals of the past few years were about punctuating a dynasty (Golden State in 2022), letting Nikola Joki be Nikola Joki (Denver in 2023), and mastering a technocratic synthesis of all the elements of the modern game (the Celtics last season), this was a victory built on turnovers, flops, dives, steals, slingshot passes, and snap threes from distance. It was grubby at times, but it was all the more beautiful for its lunging desperation. At the end of it all, the team with the best regular-season record and the best player in the league emerged victorious. In years to come this stat line alone may confer a sheen of inevitability over the season. But Oklahoma City's victory in Sunday night's decider - like these finals and the playoffs generally - was anything but predictable. Even after star guard Tyrese Haliburton, who played through the finals with a calf strain, exited the court with a ripped achilles late in the first quarter, the Pacers would not give up. Continue reading...
Progressive assemblyman may be leading the former governor in race for New York City mayor, survey findsZohran Mamdani, a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, has drawn level with Andrew Cuomo in the city's primary, according to a new poll, as voters brave record-breaking temperatures to cast their ballots.Mamdani, a 33-year-old New York assemblyman, may even be leading Cuomo, the 67-year-old former governor and scion of a prominent New York political family, if the poll's simulation of the system of ranked-choice voting is correct. Continue reading...
Department said message saying our hearts go out to the victims and families impacted' by strikes was offensive'The Los Angeles county sheriff's department deleted and then apologized for posting a message expressing sympathy for the victims and families impacted" by US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.The message, posted on X, Facebook and Instagram, said the sheriffs' hearts go out" to Iranian victims". A swift online backlash followed, and the department then issued an apology that referred to its own original post as offensive and inappropriate". Continue reading...
Thousands of people gathered in cities around the world at the weekend to protest against Donald Trump's decision to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. The protests came as world leaders called for de-escalation and a return to the negotiating table
Dust settles after impassioned protests but military presence unnerves California leaders - and threatens to inflame already tense situationShortly before last November's presidential election, before anyone could envision him defying his America first" political base and launching a bombing raid on Iran, Donald Trump offered a preview of how and why he would want to deploy the military on US soil.It was, the president said, to deal with the enemy within". Continue reading...
Flamengo, Botafogo, Palmeiras and Fluminense are not as rich as European clubs but they have heart and heritageThe graveyard of football is full of favourites'," warned Botafogo manager Renato Paiva in what has proven to be this summer's coldest line in sweltering United States heat. Gritty draws achieved by Palmeiras against Porto and Fluminense against Borussia Dortmund at the Club World Cup were enough to start a conversation. But the underdog heroics of Brazil's other two clubs have shaken up how we see club football across the world.For the first time since Corinthians shocked Chelsea in Yokohama in 2012, when some Brazilian fans sold their homes and vehicles to make the trip, the reigning Copa Libertadores champions have beaten the Champions League winners. Igor Jesus, who has been strongly linked to Nottingham Forest, scored the only goal of the game as Botafogo beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, a special setting for Brazilians given it is where they won the World Cup in 1994 and honoured the recently deceased Ayrton Senna. Continue reading...
Gunman, identified as Brian Anthony Browning, 31, may have bee suffering mental health crisis, police sayThe man who opened fire outside a Michigan church filled with worshippers before he was struck by a vehicle and then fatally shot by security staff had attended services there a couple of times in the last year and his mother is a member, police said.The gunman, identified as Brian Anthony Browning, 31, did not have any previous contacts with local police or a criminal history, but may have been suffering a mental health crisis, the Wayne police department said in a news release. Continue reading...
He was 30 points behind former governor Andrew Cuomo just months ago, but now he's surging in the contest to lead the largest US cityZohran Mamdani trailed Andrew Cuomo, the frontrunner to be the next New York City mayor, by 30 points just a few months ago.Now, just ahead of the Democratic primary on Tuesday, the 33-year-old democratic socialist has bridged the gap with Cuomo, a politician so of the establishment that a giant bridge north of New York literally bears his last name. Continue reading...
President's dubious claims of emergency' threaten civic and political norms in authoritarian style, experts warnDonald Trump's drives to pursue his radical policies on immigration, tariffs and energy may seem at first to have little in common beyond a shared Maga political agenda.But Trump has made spurious or thinly documented claims of national emergencies" to justify harsh illegal immigrant measures, sweeping tariffs and massive energy deregulation, say legal scholars, watchdog groups and Democrats. Continue reading...
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Heavily immigrant towns and cities in California resemble ghost towns as fear of Ice raids grip local residentsAt Hector's Mariscos restaurant in the heavily Latino and immigrant city of Santa Ana, California, sales of Mexican seafood have slid. Seven tables would normally be full, but diners sit at only two this Tuesday afternoon.I haven't seen it like this since Covid," manager Lorena Marin said in Spanish as cumbia music played on loudspeakers. A US citizen, Marin even texted customers she was friendly with, encouraging them to come in. Continue reading...
An estimated 3 million rats live in New York City - so members of the Rat Pack' are working to ease human-rodent relationsI am standing near a tree bed in a bustling Brooklyn park, with only a few feet of dirt separating me from a small" family of rats - that's usually around 8 of them, I'm told. I've come on this rat walk" with a few dozen New Yorkers, all milling about awkwardly, subjecting ourselves to the kind of brainless small talk heard at speed dating events. But instead of looking for love, we've come to learn more about New York's rodent population. Tonight, knowing thy enemy means we must slink among the rats.We're led by Kathleen Corradi, the city's famed rat tsar, appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in 2023, and we are united by our visceral hatred of rats. We don't want to see them scurry by on late-night walks home, or watch as they slink in and out of trash bags on the street. We especially don't want them in our homes. As one exterminator put it to famed metro reporter Joseph Mitchell back in 1944: If you get a few [rats] in your house, there are just two things you can do: you can wait for them to die, or you can burn your house down and start all over again." Continue reading...
Advocates fear Senate's version of Trump's budget bill could leave millions without healthcare and boost corporationsAdvocates are urging Senate Republicans to reject a proposal to cut billions from American healthcare to extend tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations.The proposal would make historic cuts to Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled people that covers 71 million Americans, and is the Senate version of the big beautiful bill" act, which contains most of Donald Trump's legislative agenda. Continue reading...
Like a sleep divorce, where couples sleep in separate beds, separating screens means that you both get to watch what you want on the TVRelationships are all about compromise, but there are some areas where it's simply impossible. Then it becomes about a mutually beneficial workaround instead. A poll has revealed that 55% of couples regularly argue over which TV show to watch: hot on the heels of the sleep divorce (different bedrooms) are we headed for the screen divorce (different tellies)?Don't mean to boast, but my husband and I are one step ahead of this trend - screen separated, if you will. In the Venn diagram of programmes we enjoy, the intersection is big enough to fit the words Taskmaster and The Traitors, and that's about it. He's tried to lure me into his televisual world, I've tried to tempt him into mine, but no dice. Eventually, we realised one of us was always watching through gritted teeth, while the other felt guilty. And so, just like the courageous pioneers of the sleep divorce, who made the decision to prioritise healthy rest above convention, we needed to take action. To divide and conquer. Continue reading...
Emerson Colindres reflects on traumatizing' ordeal after Ice sent him to Honduras despite having no criminal recordThe Ohio high school graduate and soccer standout who was recently deported from the US to Honduras despite having no arrest record has described being handcuffed like we're some big criminals" for the entirety of his deportation flight.To me, it was kind of more traumatizing because I haven't been to my birth country in years," Emerson Colindres, 19, who was brought from Honduras to the US by his family at age eight, said to the Cincinnati news station WCPO in an interview over the weekend. Continue reading...
The emergence of Hawk Trump dismayed some of his Maga base but students of US adventurism were unsurprisedSo the military parade that brought tanks to the streets of Washington on Donald Trump's birthday was more than just an authoritarian ego trip. It was a show of strength and statement of intent.Exactly a week later, sporting a Make America great again" (Maga) cap in the situation room, the American president ordered the biggest US military intervention in decades as more than 125 aircraft and 75 weapons - including 14 bunker-busting bombs - struck three Iranian nuclear sites. Trump called it a spectacular military success" - but it remains unclear how much damage had actually been inflicted. Continue reading...
From bustling Free Huey rallies to private moments smoking with Angela Davis, Stephen Shames's photographs tell the revolutionary organisation's incredible story Continue reading...
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