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The versatile striker was dangerous in his time on the field on Wednesday, but that time was prematurely ended with a surprising ejectionThe day after the US supreme court upheld birthright citizenship, Folarin Balogun - a player who wouldn't have even been on the pitch if not for the longstanding, constitutional law - pushed the United States through to the World Cup last 16. Just two days short of his 25th birthday, Balogun scored the opening goal in the US's 2-0 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, his third of the tournament.Then, about 20 minutes later, Balogun was sent off, given a straight red card for what appeared to be inadvertent contact with Bosnia and Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovi. It was a shocking turn of events for the Monaco forward, who was among the US's best performers on Wednesday, as he has been for the entirety of the tournament. Continue reading...

Player guide | Golden Boot | BracketHello from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, where as you might expect an extremely pro-USA crowd is filing in. There are certainly more than enough Bosnia and Herzegovina fans here to make some noise should they give them a reason. It's a beautiful day, sunny and cool in that special Bay Area way (unless you're in the famously hot upper decks here).Pre-pregame email ... Continue reading...

The US had their hands on their heads. Weston McKennie's face betrayed a look of total disbelief. Mauricio Pochettino waved his hands towards the sky, incredulous.Folarin Balogun had been sent off after a seemingly innocent collision with Bosnia and Herzegovina's Tarik Muharemovi that saw the US striker land a foot on his opponent's ankle. Just like that, the US's high-flying World Cup journey had the feel of impending doom. The temperature had soared on a previously cool, sunny evening at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium. And it wouldn't fall until Malik Tillman had his say. Continue reading...

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Statement comes a day after report that three messages received in case were determined to be fakeThe FBI is investigating extortion demands related to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance that may potentially be legitimate", the agency said on Wednesday.The update comes a day after Reuters reported that kidnapping notes received in Guthrie's case were fake. Continue reading...

Bizarre 250th spectacle in North Dakota sees Trump take ride on red, white and blue train - and speak with hologram of 26th presidentThe sound of YMCA by the Village People booming through the badlands of North Dakota could only mean one thing: Donald Trump's 250th anniversary travelling circus had reached a remote corner of America more familiar with bison, wild horses and bighorn sheep.The US president visited Medora on Wednesday to dedicate a $450m library and museum honouring Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, in the region where he roamed as a cowboy and big-game hunter in the 1880s. Continue reading...

Mauricio Pochettino's side overcame a stubborn Bosnia and Herzegovina to book a place in the last 16. We look at the best action from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium Continue reading...

Pair also unfurled a large black banner displaying a message of peace on top of New York City landmarkTwo people were arrested following an apparent marriage proposal atop the Empire State Building's spire on Wednesday, after they climbed to the very pinnacle of the New York City landmark - well above the level open to the public.The two people were identified as Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, two Russian rooftoppers" who have conducted similar stunts in other cities including Tianjin, China, and Los Angeles. They were both wearing black clothing and appeared to be masked as they unfurled a large, black banner at the top of the skyscraper with the words: When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace." Continue reading...

Prosecutors said members of the a gang targeted about 51 underage girls and women along LA's Figueroa corridorTen people accused of facilitating a sex-trafficking operation that targeted about 51 underage girls and women have been arrested as California authorities conducted their latest operation to curb trafficking along the Figueroa corridor in Los Angeles, according to a Wednesday news release.Prosecutors said on Wednesday that members and associates of the south Los Angeles-based gang the Hoovers acted as pimps, recruiting minors and women, some of whom were runaways or foster kids, with the false promise" of a better life or with violence into sex work between February 2021 and June 2026. Continue reading...

Parents and grandparents charged as police say case in Hamden not human trafficking but intra-family situation'Sixteen children were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio after being confined to just one room in deplorable conditions" for much of the past four years, authorities said on Wednesday.The children, who officials said are from the same family and were living in squalor with human waste all around, ranged in age from one and a half to 18 and included boys and girls. Some of them were unable to speak and one - an 18-year-old who was developmentally disabled - could not even spell her name. Continue reading...

Ruling marks second time that Trump's plan to restrict mail ballots across the US has suffered a setback in courtA federal judge blocked a proposed restriction on mail-in voting across the US, challenging a crackdown on elections ordered by Donald Trump.Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US district court for the District of Columbia ruled that a US Postal Service (USPS) plan to deny ballots to voters in states that do not turn over their voter rolls to the federal government should not proceed. Continue reading...

This term, the US supreme court handed down decisions on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration and birthright citizenship, reshaping life for millions of people. Kai Wright speaks with Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for the Nation, about how the court got all its power in the first place, and why Mystal thinks court reforms to reign in that power aren't just constitutional - they're necessary. Continue reading...

Surging membership and pro-Palestinian activism reshape debate on how campaigning movement governs in officeInside a Brooklyn industrial garage turned underground event venue, local leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America urged hundreds of mostly young people last month to avoid complacency. Sure, New York City had a socialist representative in the US Congress, and just elected a socialist mayor. But they had so much more to do.If we only elect Zohran, we only elect AOC, our project will have been a failure," Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the city's DSA chapter, told the assembled crowd. Our ambitions are so much higher than just a position in government. We want to transform the world." Continue reading...

Todd Blanche to target tourists and migrants despite such births accounting for less than 1% of US babies born yearlyA day after the supreme court upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, acting attorney general Todd Blanche has said federal prosecutors and law enforcement officers will focus on combating so-called birth tourism" - the process of tourists, temporary visitors and undocumented immigrants traveling to the US and giving birth.There's other things that DHS can do, and the federal government can do in the visa process, and the application process, to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here not to visit, and not to do what they're saying they're doing on the tourist visa, but just to have a baby that can then be a US citizen," Blanche told reporters. Continue reading...

We'd like to find out how Americans feel about Donald Trump's $2.2bn earnings since returning to the White HouseDonald Trump has earned more than $1bn from his crypto businesses since returning to the White House, according to recent financial disclosures.According to a 927-page document released on Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethics, in all the US president made more than $2.2bn last year, benefiting from a vast global network of businesses and investments. Continue reading...

Judge hands down 50-year sentence to defendant Ines Soto, whose wife Elizabeth was sentenced to same prison termSeven more people were sentenced to prison Wednesday over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer and has left many protesters facing decades behind bars.All but one of the defendants sentenced in Fort Worth courtrooms pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting outside the Prairieland detention center near Dallas last July 4. They each were sentenced to between nearly two and 15 years in prison. Continue reading...

Supreme court rulings, and revelations of the president's enrichment since his return to office, show that he has turned back the clockDonald Trump is not known for his reverence for the US constitution. But in his second term, he is doubling down on his claim from the first: that the text grants him the right to do whatever I want as president".This is, to put it mildly, an extremely unusual interpretation of article 2. But it is the thread that draws together the headlines dominating recent days: a spate of supreme court rulings, mostly to his benefit, and the revelation that he has raked in $2bn since returning to office, half of it from cryptocurrencies.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...

Trump and Republican states are reviving this archaic death penalty method, and lawyers say for one man killed by gunfire, the process went very wrong. Guardian US reporter Sam Levin breaks down how we got here and speaks to advocates raising alarms

Attendance at the Great American State Fair is sparse and the heat is extreme, but at least you can pay $25 for a pretzel

President Trump cashed in on more than $2bn from crypto and other businesses ventures last year.As the US races to become the selfdeclared crypto capital of the world', the president and his family have turned digital tokens, meme coins and merchandise into an unprecedented revenue stream.But just how rich can a sitting US president get? Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian reporter Aisha Down Continue reading...

The US president flies to North Dakota on first trip aboard Qatar-gifted 747-8, as critics raise corruption concerns

Potus pocketed over $2.2bn last year - but with an algae-filled reflecting pool and his State Fair a fiasco, what price happiness?From certain angles, it might appear as if President Trump is having a tough month. He messed up the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, which he blamed on acts of vandalism no one has been able to stand up. The supreme court rejected both his bid to appeal against the $5m (3.8m) civil judgment against him for defaming and sexually abusing E Jean Carroll, and his executive order to end birthright citizenship. And the war with Iran keeps rumbling on. And yet, after Trump's mandatory financial disclosure report was released on Tuesday, headlines drew attention to the fact the president made more than $2.2bn in revenue in 2025 - more than three times what he pulled in the year before his inauguration. Contrary to appearances, perhaps everything is going exactly to plan.It is always a question with Trump as to how much the wealth he has accrued in his second term in office is the spoils of strategy rather than the lucky result of his scattergun but industrial-scale hustle. Looking at the numbers in his financial report, one is reminded that before he became president, Trump piloted a series of failed businesses - six of which declared bankruptcy - and gave every indication of being a lousy businessman. It's often pointed out that if Trump had simply invested the vast inheritance left to him by Fred Trump, his father, in a standard tracker fund, he would've made more money than through his lacklustre business career, and there's nothing to suggest this was likely to change.Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Trump administration is requiring borrowers to choose new options after Biden-era plan ruled unconstitutionalMore than 7 million Americans will be forced to change their student loan repayment plan beginning on Wednesday, as the Save plan officially ends. The termination of the Biden-era initiative, which was launched in 2023, coincides with a larger overhaul of the US student loan repayment system.The seismic changes to the student debt landscape are the results of the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in 2025 and a March 2026 federal court ruling that the Save plan, an income-driven repayment program created with the goal of cutting undergraduate loans in half, was unconstitutional. Continue reading...

US president raked in more than $1bn from crypto - an industry he has sought to deregulate - and a total of $2.2bn last year, files reveal

Lower costs in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Ohio raise questions about whether Republican strongholds will shiftWhile it's regarded as a quiet, safe place, many would agree that there's not much to Greene county, Ohio.It's a mix of urban, suburban and rural communities east of Dayton, Ohio's sixth largest city, with Greene county much like the rest of the midwest: a mix of strip malls, corn fields and an interstate connecting Columbus with Cincinnati. Continue reading...

Economic squeeze and anti-immigration raids have hit Hispanic communities, prompting people to shop online and reuse oil

Move follows supreme court refusal to hear Trump's appeal of civil case verdict in sexual abuse and defamation caseThe New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she publicly described in 2019 being attacked by him in a city department store.Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in a federal court in Manhattan one day after the US supreme court refused to hear Trump's appeal of the civil case verdict in 2023. Continue reading...

President made more than $1bn from crypto businesses last year while federal government oversaw regulation. Plus, giant seal causes havoc in Tasmania - but locals love him

In Wednesday's last-32 match, the US team have more than just a chance to win against Bosnia and Herzegovina. They're playing to win over their countryIt took Mauricio Pochettino a little while to understand that he had accepted an innately vibes-based job.If club soccer boils down to managers exerting control and fitting their players into an intricate system, buttressed by cutting-edge tactics, ultra-modern analytics and first-in-class sports science, international soccer demands a different job entirely. And it tends to take long-time club coaches who are managing in the international game for the first time a bit to catch on to the difference. Continue reading...

Advocates describe this moment as both a crisis and an opening to reimagine the promises of freedom and democracyThis Fourth of July marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence promised liberty and equality for all - even as it excluded most of the people living on the land it claimed to liberate.For many Americans, the semiquincentennial is less a celebration than a reckoning. The country arrives at this milestone amid sustained attacks on voting rights, civil rights and democratic institutions - challenges that organizers say are taking the country back generations. It's a moment that activists and advocates describe as both a crisis and an opening to reimagine the promises of freedom and democracy. Continue reading...

Gen Z conservative women may be fewer in numbers than their male counterparts, but they are no less consequentialOn the steps of the US supreme court on Tuesday, a group of women celebrated. They cheered and held up signs with phrases like Girls' Sports for Girls Only" and Truth, Fairness, Biological Reality". Penny Young Nance, the CEO of Concerned Women for America, told the gathering that after a decade of these conservative women's activism: The court agrees with us that a man cannot be a woman".The decision will affect the law across the country," she said. We will have a better opportunity to protect young women." Continue reading...

The success of democratic socialists has led to an establishment backlash, fueling divisions over how to respondA recent chair of the Democratic National Committee apparently wants democratic socialists to get out of his party. If you hate the Democratic Party, then please don't run for our nomination," Jaime Harrison tweeted on election day last week, shortly before results showed that three of those socialists had won Democratic primaries for Congress in deep-blue New York City. He didn't identify his targets, but the implication was clear.Harrison's call for self-expulsion was the bizarre opposite of a welcome mat: Don't use our resources. Don't rely on our volunteers. Don't use our infrastructure. Don't ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign." The tweet turned reality on its head. Socialist candidates have been winning because they inspired multitudes of people to volunteer and provide what's needed to win. Continue reading...

First of major coverage losses expected as a result of the One Big Beautiful' bill signed into law one year agoNearly 500,000 moderate-income New Yorkers will be dumped from their health insurance plans on 1 July - the first of major coverage losses expected as a result of HR 1, the Republican-led law signed almost exactly one year ago.The law, sometimes called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act," slashed government health spending by $911bn nationally in favor of permanent tax breaks for higher-income families and border security. Continue reading...

The 41-year-old says he intends to continue his career after his departure from the Lakers. There are several intriguing options to considerIt's official: LeBron James will not finish his career as a Los Angeles Laker. The talking heads are in a gnashing froth. ESPN's Shams Charania has become the first human being in recorded history to somehow get less than zero sleep over a 24-hour period. Steph Curry is widening his eyes. Bronny James is secretly relishing the chance to forge his own identity as he says I'll miss you, Dad." James hasn't been the best player in the league for more than half a decade, but at 41 he remains the most decorated and the one who commands the most coverage. So let's indulge in a time-honored tradition one last time: wild speculation over where the King will play next season. Continue reading...

The short answer is that there's nothing to disclose. But that doesn't mean we won't make contact with extraterrestrial lifeEven before Stephen Spielberg's latest film, Disclosure Day, began unspooling at local multiplexes, the internet was debating whether we would ever experience a real-life disclosure day - when the US government admits that it's aware of aliens here on Earth, a secret it has supposedly kept since the 1940s.That would be dramatic news. But don't hold your breath. Continue reading...

Richard Trahant fined $400,000 over apparent violation of order in case of priest who admitted sexual misconductThe US supreme court has rejected an appeal from an attorney who was fined $400,000 after taking steps to get an abusive Roman Catholic priest removed as chaplain of a high school campus.In a notice on Monday, the supreme court's justices indicated without explanation that they would not take up the case of Richard Trahant, whose clients include dozens of people victimized by a clergy abuse scandal that drove New Orleans' Catholic archdiocese into federal bankruptcy court. Continue reading...

Twenty-nine-year-old beat representative Diana DeGette in deep-blue Denver districtThe democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado's primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party's insurgent left.The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros's triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza. Continue reading...

Co-hosts Mexico reached the last 16 - where England potentially await - with a stirring win over Ecuador at Mexico City StadiumMexico's football culture dates back to the early 20th century, and the country has a place in history as participants in the first ever World Cup match, when they lost 4-1 to France on the opening day of the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay.The following match against Chile they conceded the World Cup's first own-goal. Continue reading...

With her popularity flagging and a general election looming, the Italian PM sees a strategic advantage in the ruptureIf Giorgia Meloni thought that she could put her April spat with Donald Trump over the pope's criticism of the US war on Iran behind her, she had not banked on the US president's capacity to bear a grudge.Trump reignited tensions by telling an Italian TV journalist that the Italian PM had begged" him for a picture at the recent G7 meeting in France. The Spanish newspaper El Pais suggested that Trump's feathers had been ruffled by a video at the same meeting, showing Meloni appearing to scold him. In any case he doubled down on his tale in a Truth Social post, adding that Meloni wanted the photo to boost her flagging approval ratings, which he blamed on her failure to support the US in the Iran war.Riccardo Alcaro is head of research at IAI, Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome Continue reading...

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President calls ruling too bad for our Country' but says Congress should start today' to end matter - key US politics stories from Tuesday, 30 June at a glanceThe US supreme court has upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the country with citizenship, ruling against a central piece of Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda.Trump called the ruling too bad for our Country", but said the US Congress should now take up the matter legislatively, suggesting another avenue to keep the issue alive. Continue reading...

President unveils plans for Dallas summit, in break with tradition of conventions only in presidential election yearsDonald Trump has announced that Republicans will stage their first ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections, a move aimed at energizing voters as the party fights to hold its narrow congressional majorities in November.The two-day gathering will take place in Dallas on 9 and 10 September, marking a break from the longstanding tradition of holding national conventions only during presidential election years. Trump confirmed the plans on Tuesday in a Truth Social post, describing Dallas as One of my favorite places in the World". Continue reading...

The US have used outside companies, including one measuring players' brainwaves, to help them determine who will shoot in a shootout

Justices to consider whether bans on AR-15s and similar semi-automatic firearms violate second amendmentThe US supreme court will consider whether bans on AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms are constitutional.The justices said on Tuesday they will hear appeals challenging bans in Connecticut and the Chicago area in the next term. Continue reading...

Trump, who had signed an order to the effect, handed legal defeat after judge sided with Democratic-led statesA federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule stripping public service workers of eligibility for federal student loan forgiveness if it deems their employers to have a substantial illegal purpose".US district judge Myong Joun in Boston sided with Democratic-led states, cities and non-profits that argued the US Department of Education's rule would allow it to target groups supporting immigration rights, transgender healthcare and other causes the Trump administration disfavors, by disqualifying them from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Continue reading...

Williams fell just short on her return, Stan Wawrinka said goodbye to Wimbledon for the last time, while there first-round wins for Iga Swiatek, Alexander Zverev and Elena Rybakina, but exits for Ben Shelton and Elina SvitolinaNext no No 3: Alex de Minaur (5) v Roman Andres Burruchaga.Next on No 2: Otto Virtanen v Ben Shelton (4). Continue reading...