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Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested himAuthorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as fake" during an arrest operation targeting undocumented people on Wednesday under the direction of the Trump administration, according to a viral video and reporting by Telemundo.Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was at his construction job in Foley, Alabama, when officials arrived to arrest workers there. Garcia Venegas - who was born in Florida to Mexican parents - began filming the arrests with his mobile phone before officials reportedly knocked the device out of his hand and tried to arrest him as well. Continue reading...

The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers is unconscionable and does not advance the cause of Palestinian liberationThe killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC on Wednesday night is unconscionable. The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, should be alive, and justice must be meted out to their assailant. This brazen act of political violence in the heart of the nation's capital only underscores the obvious: all this violence - whether it's in Washington DC, Gaza, Jenin or Israel, and whether it's by bullet, bomb or forced starvation - all of it must end, and it must end immediately.What we know so far is that shortly after 9pm on Wednesday evening, a gunman approached a group of four people who were departing an event at the Capital Jewish Museum that had been hosted by the American Jewish Committee. (It's been reported that the event focused on bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza through Israeli-Palestinian and regional collaboration".) The suspected gunman, identified in media accounts as 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, had been seen pacing outside the museum when he spotted the group of four leaving the building. He opened fire on the group, fatally wounding two at close range. He then entered the building, where he was detained by event security. He can be seen on video in handcuffs and chanting free, free Palestine". Continue reading...

Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwardsA vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture.Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called dissident right", political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the network state" movement. Continue reading...

A potential agreement with survivors is in the works, but some parties are unhappy with settlement amountThe Catholic archbishop of New Orleans made a rare in-person appearance in federal bankruptcy court on Friday, days after announcing a potential agreement to settle claims with hundreds of clergy abuse survivors that has been met with pushback from some of the plaintiffs.I'm here because I'm concerned for the survivors," Gregory Aymond said in an interview with WWL Louisiana away from the cameras after what is believed to have been his first appearance in person for an open court hearing in the five years since his archdiocese - one of the US's oldest - joined roughly 40 Catholic institutions to file for bankruptcy protection amid the worldwide church's long-ongoing clergy molestation scandal. Continue reading...

Nearly 2,000 applications for British citizenship submitted since January, when Donald Trump took officeDuring the 12 months leading up to March, more than 6,000 US citizens have applied to either become British subjects or to live and work in the country indefinitely - the highest number since comparable records began in 2004, according to data released on Thursday by the UK's Home Office.Over the period, 6,618 Americans applied for British citizenship - with more than 1,900 of the applications received between January and March, most of which has been during the beginning of Donald Trump's second US presidency. Continue reading...

Jesse Watters' list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz - and Watters' show helps shape US politicsTim Burchett, a Republican congressman, would like you to know that he is not a straw man. No sir. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the Tennessee lawmaker explained that he is a red-blooded American male who does not drink out of a straw" because that's what the women in my house do". And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Cases in New Mexico and Kansas give experts reason to be concerned' in second-worst US measles year since 2000The measles outbreak in Texas is showing signs of slowing, though other states are seeing more cases and health officials are warning against complacency as the US continues to experience high rates of measles amid falling vaccination rates.It has been a handful of days since anyone in Lubbock, Texas, has tested positive, and there are no known measles hospitalizations at the children's hospital in the city, which has also cared for children from nearby Gaines county. Continue reading...

Maro efovi's remarks come after pace of talks prompted Trump to propose 50% tariff on goods from blocThe European Union's trade chief has struck a defiant tone after Donald Trump threatened to place a 50% tariff on all goods from the bloc, saying any potential trade deal between Brussels and Washington must be based on respect not threats".The US president made his announcement after voicing frustration with the pace of progress on a trade agreement with the EU. The new rates would come into effect from 1 June. Continue reading...

The drop in productions is causing alarm - can Tinseltown halt the exodus and reclaim its spot as the home of movie-making?When Adam Scott was working on the hit TV show Parks and Recreation in the early 2010s, the Los Angeles studio where the show was filmed was packed - every stage was filled and working".These days, he told his former co-star Rob Lowe in a much-discussed recent podcast conversation, it's quiet over there" - in part because it's just too expensive to shoot here". Continue reading...

Adriana Smith, declared braindead in February, is being kept alive because she's pregnant. Where was the concern for her life while she was here?A Black pregnant woman who was declared brain dead back in February is still being kept alive on a ventilator, because of a Georgia law that prohibits abortions beyond six weeks. If this sounds like the stuff of speculative fiction, it's because there's literally a Handmaid's Tale episode about this. And while the TV show based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 book may have gotten many things right about the soul of authoritarianism and a violently patriarchal society, living that reality is even more sickening.Anyone who thinks this is about the life of Adriana Smith's child is fooling themselves. This is the state, boundary testing to see how far they can take their efforts to have full reproductive control over American women, and gauging how much the American public is willing to tolerate.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

The rallying cry from 2020 Black Lives Matter protests pushed some US cities to divert money towards housing and community servicesAfter George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, protesters who swarmed the streets across the US shouted the refrain: Defund the police." An idea that was once viewed as radical - to redirect money from law enforcement to other city departments and social services - became a rallying cry overnight.As a result of continued pressure, dozens of jurisdictions throughout the nation promised to reduce their police budgets. While most of them backtracked and increased law enforcement funding in the next year or two, several cities changed policies or added new public safety and homeless services departments. Continue reading...

Coming changes at the state department follow pattern of moving resources away from programs that focus on preventing far-right violenceUS state department employees recently opened up their emails to find a PDF to their new style guide", which dictates what language and terminology they can and can't use.According to this new updated guide, the term racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism"- REMVE" or RMVE" - was now banned, except in situations where they were legally compelled to use it. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Staff in Britain now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above global average of 1.3 daysUK workers continue to work from home more than nearly any of their global counterparts more than five years after the pandemic first disrupted traditional office life, a study has found.UK employees now average 1.8 days a week of remote working, above the international average of 1.3 days, according to the Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), a worldwide poll of more than 16,000 full-time, university-educated workers across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa that began in July 2021. Continue reading...

I thought we all believed in a collective responsibility towards children. This terrible conflict has made me question thatI have seen images on my phone screen these past months that will haunt me as long as I live. Dead, injured, starving children and babies. Children crying in pain and in fear for their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers. A small boy shaking in terror from the trauma of an airstrike. Scenes of unspeakable horror and violence that have left me feeling sick. Sometimes I skip over these photos and videos, afraid perhaps of what I will see next. But more often than not, I feel compelled to bear witness.I know I am not alone. So many of us, privileged in our comfort and safety, have watched the suffering of the children of Gaza through social media, images mixed in jarringly with ads and memes and pictures of other people's children, smiling and safe. It renders the horror even more immediate: these could be your kids, or mine, or any kid you know, but for the lottery of birth.Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 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...

It is easy to look back at 2020 and feel aggrieved, even fooled. But in the British city where slaver Edward Colston's statue was pulled down, I found cause for optimismIt has been five years since George Floyd, a Black man who lived in Minneapolis, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. The killing, captured in a distressing 10-minute video that quickly flooded social media timelines, sparked something that felt like an international revolution: protests took place across the world, forcing countries and cities to reckon with their present and historical treatment of Black people.In Britain, protests reached fever pitch when activists in Bristol toppled a statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader and deputy governor of the Royal African Company, and hurled it into the harbour. Bristol, once a major slave-trading port, had maintained a veneration of Colston that was increasingly divisive. The statue in particular had been a key focus of tensions: attempts to add a second plaque acknowledging Colston's role in the slave trade were frustrated in 2018. For many Bristolians, the direct action provided a moment of long-overdue relief.Jason Okundaye is an assistant newsletter editor and writer at the Guardian. He edits The Long Wave newsletter and is the author of Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay BritainDo 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...

From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it bestGrowing up in Germany, we were taught to believe we had done better. Better than our grandparents' generation, who swept their complicity under a thick rug of silence. Better even than our parents, whose revolts in the late 1960s rarely led to any serious reckoning with the legacy of the Holocaust.Born in the late 1980s, my generation learned about Auschwitz early on. We visited former concentration camps and studied the Nazi regime not as an alien aberration, but as a warning: this is how democracies die. Today, with the far-right AfD and ethno-chauvinism on the rise, that warning has never felt more urgent.Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based journalist and author. He worked as a senior editor in Berliner Zeitung's culture department, specialising in contemporary art and politicsDo 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...

Defense secretary's move outlined in memo seemingly punishes media for reporting on leaks inside departmentDefense secretary Pete Hegseth moved on Friday to dramatically curtail press access inside the Pentagon, seemingly punishing the news media for reporting on leaks of classified and unclassified information in recent weeks.The changes, announced in a two-page memo issued by Hegseth, effectively boxed credentialed reporters into one corner on one floor of the building that houses the press office and spaces used by news organizations. Continue reading...

This blog has now closed. Read our latest politics story hereHarvard University has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the Ivy League school's ability to enrol international students, a move the school called unconstitutional and retaliatory.Reuters reports that in a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Harvard called the revocation a blatant violation" of the US constitution's first amendment and other federal laws. Continue reading...

Three were employees of Sound Talent Group, including founder, listed as plane's owner and had a pilot's licenseSix people on board a small plane that crashed in San Diego on Thursday morning were confirmed dead, officials said, as authorities worked to ascertain their identities and investigate the cause of the incident.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a press conference Friday afternoon that local authorities were the entity in charge of releasing the names of the victims. Continue reading...

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed paroled after 18 months from facility in New Mexico to her home in Bullhead City, ArizonaThe armorer convicted in the fatal 2021 shooting involving Alec Baldwin on the set of the film Rust was released Friday from a New Mexico prison.Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was paroled to her home in Bullhead City, Arizona. She was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March 2024 for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed when Baldwin discharged a prop gun loaded with a live round during a rehearsal. Director Joel Souza was also injured. Continue reading...

San Francisco authorities say officials from Bureau of Prisons visited famous site last week and plan to returnFederal prison officials visited Alcatraz last week after Donald Trump's announcement earlier this month of plans to rebuild and reopen the infamous island prison, which has been closed for over 60 years.David Smith, the superintendent of the Golden Gate national recreation area (GGNRA), told the San Francisco Chronicle that officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons are planning to return for further structural assessments. Continue reading...

Staff to be cut to dozens, with more authority expected to be handed to state and defense departmentsA large restructuring of the US National Security Council got under way on Friday as Donald Trump moved to reduce the size and scope of the once-powerful agency, five sources briefed on the matter said.Staff dealing with a variety of major geopolitical issues were sent termination notices on Friday, said the sources, who requested anonymity as they were not permitted to speak to the media. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Critics and defendant's legal team accuse US president of trying to do favor for Salvadorian leaderDonald Trump's administration is attempting to dismiss criminal charges against a top MS-13 leader in order to deport him to El Salvador, according to newly unsealed court records - igniting accusations from critics and the defendant's legal team that the US president is trying to do a favor for his Salvadorian counterpart, who struck a deal with the gang in 2019.According to justice department records, the MS-13 figure in question, Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez, has intimate knowledge of that secretive pact, which - before eventually falling apart - involved Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's government ceding money and territory to the gang, who in return promised to reduce violence from its side and provide Bukele's party with electoral support. Continue reading...

President's order sought to suspend lawyers' security clearances after accusing firm of undermining justice'A US judge on Friday overturned Donald Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block, a big law firm that employed a lawyer who investigated him.Trump's executive order, called Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block, suspended security clearances for the firm's lawyers and restricted their access to government buildings, officials and federal contracting work. Continue reading...

Several people held in connection with jailbreak as manhunt enters second week and criticisms mount over jail managementSeveral people have been arrested on accusations of helping some of the 10 men who broke out of New Orleans's jail on 16 May - and half of the escapers remained on the run as a manhunt for them entered its second week, according to authorities.Police said on Friday that they had booked Casey Smith, 30, a day earlier on allegations that she provided transportation to at least two of the escapers in the hours after the jailbreak. She had allegedly admitted to doing that alongside another woman whom police took into custody on Wednesday, identified as 32-year-old Cortnie Harris, Smith's cousin and the girlfriend of one of the escaped men, Leo Tate, 31. Continue reading...

Biden had blocked Japanese acquisition, citing national security, with Trump previously agreeing he was totally against' itDonald Trump has thrown his weight behind a partnership" between US Steel and Nippon Steel, months after insisting he was totally against" a $14.9bn bid by the Japanese firm for its US rival.While the US president stopped short of an all-out endorsement of the takeover, he announced a deal between the two businesses on social media on Friday. Continue reading...

Airplane giant will pay and invest $1.1bn after misleading US regulators, including $445m for crash victims' familiesThe justice department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed on Friday.Under the agreement in principle" that still needs to be finalized, Boeing would pay and invest more than $1.1bn, including an additional $445m for the crash victims' families, the justice department said. In return, the department would dismiss the fraud charge in the criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer. Continue reading...

US vice-president, JD Vance, has said his country won't be pulled into any more 'open-ended conflicts', and would stop making countries around the world comply with US values, in what he said is a major shift in US foreign policy. Vance was speaking at the graduation ceremony for the US naval academy where he said: 'We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defence and the maintenance of our alliances for nation building and meddling in foreign countries' affairs, even if those foreign countries had very little to do with core American interests'. He added: 'No more undefined missions, no more open-ended conflicts'

In Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren't Gazans being protected in the same way?On 20 May, the secretary-general for humanitarian affairs at the United Nations stated that 14,000 babies would be dead unless the blockade was lifted immediately. The day before, the former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin said: Every child in Gaza is the enemy." And now, world leaders in the UK and France threaten vague concrete actions" if Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid". But undefined concrete actions" are woefully insufficient. To those leaders I say: Gaza's children cannot eat statements.Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, declared last week: We are destroying everything in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us." So let's say what must be said, without apology: military intervention to defend Gaza is not only justified - it is required. It is humanitarian. It is overdue. Israel must be stopped. Continue reading...

Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see itI sat this week with Hussein Agha, a man who has given his working life to seeking peace between Israelis and Palestinians, negotiating from the Palestinian side of the table. He was gloomier than I have ever seen him, adamant that peace between the two sides can never, ever come. Because, Agha explained, this conflict was not about mere lines on a map or forms of words, the goods in which diplomats trade. This was about emotions, and specifically hatreds. Hatreds that, he feared, are becoming too murderous to contain. It's biblical," he said.What he had in mind was the fury that drove Hamas to slaughter around 1,200 Israelis on a sleepy Saturday morning nearly 20 months ago and the fury that has driven the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to bombard Gaza ever since, killing more than 50,000, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, and, over the last 80 days, denying food to those who remain. He fears that the hatreds that fuelled these events, and that are fuelled by them, will grow larger and more venomous until nothing and no one is left. The whole land shall be laid waste and made desolate. Continue reading...

We'd like to hear from scholars and students from abroad in light of the Trump administration's attack on universitiesInternational students at Harvard University were ordered this week to transfer schools or lose their legal status following the Trump administration's revocation of the university's eligibility to enroll students from abroad.While that order was swiftly blocked by a judge, it is one of a series of events creating uncertainty on campuses across the US. It follows the US government's revocation of hundreds of student visas on various grounds, including minor infractions or participation in protests against the war in Gaza. (Some of those visas have been reinstated.) Academics have also felt the impact of funding cuts and subsequent hiring freezes, leading to hundreds looking to leave the US to work elsewhere. Continue reading...

Muppet created by University of Maryland alumnus Jim Henson encouraged the class of 2025 to find your people'Kermit the Frog knows it's not easy being green - or graduating from college and plunging into an adult world in tumult, where political turmoil, economic uncertainty and international wars rage.So the amphibious Muppet was at pains to encourage students in the graduating class of 2025 at the University of Maryland, where the Muppets' creator is an alumnus, as he delivered the ker-mencement speech on Thursday evening. Continue reading...

The group is in temporary custody of homeland security in Djibouti following challenges in court

This is the latest act of violence in a string of incidents that have affected Jewish, Arab and Muslim communities

Move is most severe escalation yet in weeks-long dispute. Plus, Trump seeks to end basic rights for child immigrants in custody

Princess Elisabeth has completed first year of master's degree but Trump administration's crackdown may jeopardise studiesPrincess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by Donald Trump's administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued attendance.The US president's administration revoked Harvard's ability to enrol international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status in the US, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges. Continue reading...

Masked men broke into US reality star's flat and held her at gunpoint in 2016, escaping with jewels worth 10mA Paris court will reach a verdict on Friday in the trial of 10 people alleged to have been involved in the theft of jewellery worth millions of euros from the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian when she attended Paris fashion week in 2016.Three pensioners and a man in his 30s are accused of breaking into a luxury residence in Paris, where they tied up Kardashian and held her hostage at gunpoint in her bedroom in the early hours of 3 October 2016. Continue reading...

Provisions in Trump's beautiful bill' include plans to cut billions of dollars in food and health benefits to the poorAdvocacy groups associated with the left are urging some Republicans not to go along with a plan to cut health and food benefits to the poor.The lobbying campaign comes as Democrats are nearly powerless to stop the One Big Beautiful Bill" act - a 1,100-page package of Donald Trump's legislative priorities, from deporting migrants to building a border wall. Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate. Continue reading...

Students will need to move schools to keep legal status, as US universities reel from funding cuts and Trump ordersThe Trump administration's announcement on Thursday that it would revoke Harvard University's eligibility to enroll international students marked the most severe escalation yet in its weeks-long showdown with the university.The move, which the university is likely to challenge in court, would force more than 6,000 currently enrolled students to transfer to other universities or lose their legal status, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The announcement sent shock waves through US universities already reeling from funding cuts and executive efforts to bring them in line with the administration's agenda, but it will also add yet another element of uncertainty for international students after the administration abruptly terminated the legal status of thousands in recent weeks - a move it partially walked back but that has nonetheless disrupted students' education and upended their lives. Continue reading...

Unit closures, reduced hours of operation and exam backlogs reported after Trump administration reductionsThe Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation's largest integrated healthcare system, has been plunged into crisis amid canceled contracts, hiring freezes, resignations, layoffs and other moves by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's so-called department of government efficiency" (Doge), internal agency documents obtained by the Guardian show.The documents paint a grim picture of chaos across the department's sprawling network of 170 veterans affairs (VA) hospitals and more than 1,300 outpatient clinics, which serve 9 million US military veterans. Continue reading...

Exclusive: A rightwing activist behind a current supreme court challenge has spent decades railing against homosexual behavior'Steven Hotze, a Republican donor from Texas, has spent decades fighting against LGBTQ+ rights, with campaigns seeking to roll back protections for people he has deemed termites", morally degenerate" and satanic".The Houston-area physician is not well-known in mainstream politics, and his efforts targeting queer and trans people have generally been local, with limited impact. Continue reading...

Americans are gradually turning against the president over his handling of immigration. Republicans will have to answer for itIf you can bear to hear it, there are still more than 1,300 days remaining in the Trump administration. That's an interminably long time given all the havoc the president has been able to wreak since January alone; the chaos and cruelty of the term so far also happen to have used up his political capital remarkably quickly. The New York Times average of polls, which found him at 52% approval on inauguration day, had him at 51% disapproval on Wednesday. That collapse is less a problem for Trump specifically - assuming, perhaps optimistically, that he won't appear on a ballot again - than it is for the Republican party, which will have to answer for the mess he's made in next year's midterms and beyond. And one of the challenges they seem likely to face is a changed public opinion landscape on immigration - a strength that Trump's barbarism, just as in his first term, seems to be turning into a liability.While it remains his strongest issue, polls have shown the public's confidence in Trump on immigration declining steadily since January - averages suggest the public is newly and evenly split on his handling of it and some polls taken around the 100-day mark even found an outright majority of Americans disapproving. It's no mystery why. The shock-and-awe campaign the administration is waging against immigrants legal and not has produced a steady stream of headlines that sound awful to all but Stephen Miller and the nativist fanatics driving Trump's agenda. The deportation of a four-year-old citizen suffering from a rare form of cancer. The end of temporary protected status for 9,000 Afghan refugees even as the administration welcomes Afrikaners supposedly fleeing white genocide", a myth most voters who don't frequent white supremacist forums are probably unfamiliar with. The use of the immigration enforcement apparatus to pursue and persecute critics of Israel's war in Gaza. Even as voters succumbed to a panic over the migrant surge under Biden, moves like this under Trump and a public backlash to them were inevitable.Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Members of Congress are accused of hiding out when workers have sought answers on why their jobs were axedWorkers hit by the Trump administration's sweeping cuts of federal government jobs, programs and services turned to congressional Republicans for help. But Republicans don't want to talk about it, according to people who have tried to reach the politicians.Sabrina Valenti, a former budget analyst for the Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), was fired in February, then reinstated, and fired again weeks later. Continue reading...

Green Bay's Sean Rhyan just lost out on $2m because over two missed snaps. But he is far from the only football player to deal with contract quirksAs contract clauses go, this one is pretty painful: Packers guard Sean Rhyan missed out on $2m after falling two snaps shy of picking up a bonus. The NFL has a built-in bonus pool designed to reward late draftees who see the field early in their careers. One of those performance benchmarks is a player's volume of snaps. If they cross the 35% mark, they receive a chunky bonus. But Rhyan fell two snaps shy of that mark last season, missing the chance to see his base salary more than double.The performance escalator is one of the quirks of the league's Collective Bargaining Agreement. With the CBA, rookie pay scale and hard salary cap, the NFL is typically a less chaotic contractual league than others in North America. There are none of the odd riders in players' contracts - the unlimited sushi, 30-year contracts, or Springsteen guarantees - that litter other sports. Careers are short. Leverage is fleeting. The language is standardized. However, Rhyan's situation is far from a one-off.Bryant would be followed by a three-person security detail whenever he was away from the Cowboys' training base.He would be driven to and from practice by Cowboys personnel.He would attend two mandated counselling sessions a week.He was banned from drinking alcohol.He was barred from attending strip clubs, given a midnight curfew, and only allowed to attend clubs where veteran Cowboys security staffers moonlighted as door staff. Continue reading...

In this new climate, having an enviable job, while not being a straight white man, is grounds for suspicionWayne Brown was a trailblazer, a man who made his own small piece of history by becoming Britain's first black fire chief.He worked his way up as a young firefighter, rising through the ranks, serving the public through dark times including the 2005 London terror attacks and the Grenfell fire.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnistIn the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.orgDo 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...