Following Taylor's death, the US limited no-knock warrants. But the Trump administration has quietly rescinded those limitsThe night Breonna Taylor died began quietly.She had spent the evening at home in Louisville. The 26-year-old was an emergency room technician, someone who worked to prevent other people's tragedies. Continue reading...
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The 2026 NWSL season kicks off on Friday. Our writers discuss the teams, players and story lines they're watching this yearHow the High Impact Player (HIP) rule evolves the NWSL's place in the global transfer market. The league has regained some control of the is the NWSL still the best league in the world" narrative, keeping Trinity Rodman on a deal via this new mechanism. The next transfer window or two will be a fascinating test of the league's willingness to ease restrictions and let its teams reach as far as they'd like. JR Continue reading...
A state visit is a connecting of people, not governments; of cultures, not commentators - our national bonds should be honouredShould King Charles's state visit to the United States next month be cancelled? The case for doing so is powerful. America is waging an unprovoked war on Iran in which more than 1,000 innocent people have already been killed. The collateral damage to the global economy, including Britain's, is becoming astronomical. All Donald Trump can do is insult Britain's prime minister as a loser" and no Winston Churchill" for failing to join him. Should the monarch honour such a man by attending a Washington banquet?The call is close. The occasion is the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States with the declaration of independence. Of course this merits celebration. But now? British public opinion is emphatically opposed to the US war on Iran. Many more Britons think the royal visit should be abandoned (46%) than think it should go ahead (36%), with 18% undecided. Just as the war is staged by Trump for personal political gain, so he can be expected to exploit a royal visit.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist and the author of A Short History of America: from Tea Party to Trump Continue reading...
From a 28-game losing streak to the top of the East, the Pistons have rebuilt themselves the old Detroit way - defense, defiance and a refusal to stay downIn Detroit, the black-eyed Susan grows along lonely highways and in vacant lots. It pushes through gravel and broken glass. It survives heat that cracks the earth and winters that freeze it solid. When the wind bends its stem, it cracks back in place.Its petals are a grungy yellow, the shade of anxiety, orbiting a bruised center. Black-eyed, signaling it can take a punch. It's the kind of flower Pistons legend Dennis Rodman would wear in his hair. Hard to kill. Just like the Detroit Pistons. Continue reading...
From violent collision contests to celebrity-backed offshoots, spin-off sports are finding captive audiences. Their spectacle masks something more sinisterA few weeks ago a clip went viral of a strange new contact sport emerging from the antipodes. Two burly men, one of them holding a football, sprint at each other on a kind of catwalk, waiting for the bloop-bloop-bloop of an electronic countdown before they launch into their runs. Neither wears any kind of padding or protective gear. Surrounded by baying spectators, the men collide in the middle of the track, making impact through shoulders, knees, hips, stomachs: in most instances, one of the runners is knocked flat on his back or face from the force of the collision, and the other stands tall in triumph. We are literally getting dumber as a civilization," noted one of the many comments on the clip on X.Run Nation Championship, as this new sport is known, launched in Australia last year, and is now holding combines ahead of RNC03, its third instalment. Many of the competing athletes seem, from the early video evidence, as wide as they are tall; the risk of injury - to their limbs, to their heads, to their brains - is obvious. But this is all part of the pitch. Like all new mixed martial arts and contact sports, RNC owes an obvious debt to UFC in the way it's named, structured, and promoted; like UFC and UFC boss Dana White's newer sport, Power Slap, in which two opponents face each other across a table and slap the side of each other's faces as hard as they can until one collapses, Run Nation is not so much a sport as an exploration of the frontier of sporting violence, a macabre social experiment to see how far athletes will push their bodies in the pursuit of victory and money. Continue reading...
Trump claims US makes a lot of money' when oil prices go up, but rising costs could become political liability - key US politics stories from 12 MarchDonald Trump on Thursday shrugged off the economic toll the war in Iran is taking on gas prices across the US, writing on social media that when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money".The president's comment came as the American Automobile Association reports that the average price for a gallon of gas hit $3.60, a week after the beginning of the US-Israel military operation against Iran prompted the largest price spike since the opening days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading...
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This blog is now closed. Read the latest hereUS defense officials told senators on the armed services committee that the cost of the war on Iran totaled more than $11.3bn in the first six days alone, according to multiple reports.The New York Times was first to break the news about the conflict's price tag, citing three people familiar with the closed-door briefing on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded on Thursday afternoon to reports in Michigan of a shooter at a synagogue in a Detroit suburb after a driver crashed a vehicle into the building and shots were fired. Michael Bouchard, the Oakland county sheriff, confirmed the attacker had died and that one security officer had been taken to hospital
Records could be smashed in southern California as experts warn weather set to be exceptional - and not in a good way'States across the US west are bracing for a brutal early-season heatwave threatening to cook several cities through the weekend and into next week. Forecasters warned temperatures will spike 20-30F above normal for several days.Daily records could be shattered in southern California this week, the National Weather Service said, with a possibility that all-time records for March will be broken as well. Following the warmest winter on record across most of the region, the intense conditions are expected to eat into low snowpack levels, deepening drought concerns. Continue reading...
Trump continues contradictory messaging on Iran; US will release 172m barrels of oil from strategic supplies. Key US politics stories from 11 MarchDonald Trump has continued his contradictory messaging over the Iran war, telling a rally in Kentucky that the war is won" but we don't want to leave early, do we?".With Trump and his fellow Republicans under pressure, according to polls, due to a stuttering economy, immigration crackdowns and the Iran conflict, the president noted this year's midterm elections are going to be very, very important". Continue reading...
Administration opens new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countriesThe Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries - an effort that comes after the supreme court struck down Donald Trump's previous use of tariffs by declaring an economic emergency.The US president and his team have made clear that they're seeking to replace the hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenues after the supreme court's February ruling by using different laws to establish new tariffs . Continue reading...
Failure to appoint Jeremy Carl is a rare setback for Trump, with Republican-controlled Senate mostly approving his appointmentsDonald Trump's nominee for a top diplomatic post has been withdrawn from consideration after a growing backlash over his past remarks on race and Jewish people left him without crucial Republican support.Jeremy Carl, who had been tapped to serve as the assistant secretary of state for international organisations - a role overseeing US policy towards bodies such as the UN - announced on Tuesday that he was stepping aside after failing to secure unanimous backing from Republicans on the Senate foreign relations committee. Continue reading...
President and his Pentagon chief offer mixed messages as strikes on Iran continue - key US politics stories from 9 March at a glanceHow much longer will US strikes on Iran continue? Getting a clear answer from the Trump administration has been difficult - getting a consistent one, even more so.According to Donald Trump, the war is very complete". At least that's what he told CBS News in a call on Monday. Continue reading...
Logical situation of losing to get a better pick has led to big fines but June's superstar draft created a perfect storm'Imagine you are the director of football at a crisis-stricken Premier League club in a world where relegation doesn't exist and the planet's best teenagers become available for free in a draft every June.In this alternate universe, you are also aware of something else: the 2026 Premier League draft is one for the ages. Barcelona's Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsi are in it. So are Bayern Munich's Lennart Karl and Real Madrid's Franco Mastantuono. Sign one of them and the glory days will suddenly beckon again. Continue reading...
President makes evidence-free claim despite video showing US Tomahawk missile hit naval base next to schoolAs oil prices surged amid the widening war with Iran, Donald Trump suggested, without evidence, on Monday that the strike on an Iranian elementary school could have been carried out by Iran or somebody else".During back-to-back appearances in Florida, Trump was asked whether the US would accept responsibility for a strike that hit the school and killed scores of people, many of them children, after video evidence showed a US Tomahawk struck the naval base next to it. Continue reading...
Brothers who visited White House reunited with family after outcry from Texas lawmakers, including Republican congresswomanTwo teenage mariachi musicians were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after their detention sparked widespread backlash, including from a Republican congresswoman.The Democratic representative Joaquin Castro of Texas announced the release of the brothers, Antonio Yesayahu Gamez-Cuellar, 18, and Caleb Gamez-Cuellar, 14, on Monday afternoon, sharing photos on social media of the family reuniting. Continue reading...
Trump is also pushing for the Save America Act to includes provisions to limit transgender youth's access to care and banning trans women athletes in women's sports - key US politics stories from Monday 9 March at a glanceDonald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation.All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote," Trump said during remarks on Monday at a Republican event in Miami. No mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military or travel." Continue reading...
The so-called Zorro Ranch was the site of numerous alleged abuses, but was not subject to intense scrutinyNew Mexico authorities launched a search of a ranch previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein, state officials announced on Monday.The late convicted sex offender and financier's so-called Zorro Ranch was the site of numerous alleged abuses, according to civil and criminal proceedings. But the location was not subject to the same scrutiny as other Epstein properties, and a Guardian investigation in February revealed that federal authorities apparently never searched the New Mexico ranch. Continue reading...
Save Act would limit voting access in the US and centers on Trump's unfounded claims of noncitizens stealing electionsDonald Trump renewed his push Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation.All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote," Trump said during remarks on Monday at a Republican event in Miami. No mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military or travel." Continue reading...
Request for records related to election audit appears latest part of Trump effort to spread false claims about votingA federal grand jury subpoenaed Arizona's legislature for records related the state senate's widely criticized review of the 2020 election, the state senate president said on Monday, in what appears to be the latest part of the Trump administration's efforts to spread false claims about the 2020 election and voting in the United States.Warren Petersen, the president of the Arizona state senate, confirmed on X on Monday the legislature had received a subpoena related to records of its review of the election results in Maricopa county, the most populous in the state. He added that the FBI has the records". Continue reading...
Eighteen tornadoes between Thursday and Saturday resulted in deaths in towns from Michigan to OklahomaCommunities throughout the central United States were cleaning up and trying to recover after an onslaught deadly tornadoes struck the region over the weekend.At least eight people had been confirmed dead as of Monday, with dozens more injured. Continue reading...
Eureka police took two calls for unconscious individuals, and officials reported elevated' carbon monoxide in roomA California motel has been closed after authorities found two women dead in the same room just days apart.The Eureka police department in northern California said in a news release last Thursday that on 21 February, officers and Humboldt Bay fire personnel were dispatched to a motel on the 4000 block of Broadway Street in Eureka - identified by the Eureka Times-Standard as the Lamplighter Inn - after receiving a report of two unconscious patients due to a possible drug overdose". Continue reading...
I should probably be fuming about the way that companies try to cash in on IWD. But there are so many vile opinions to worry about insteadSunday was International Women's Day, which you'll know because every company you've ever shopped with will have emailed you, taking this fine opportunity to suggest things women might like to buy. Plants, clothes, spices ... all are particularly female-friendly at this time of year, or maybe I'm revealing nothing but my algorithms. Is any of it emancipating? Would you have to balance the freedom of the woman wearing the midi-dress against the servitude of the woman who had to sew it? I don't really want to set myself up as the arbiter of the spirit of IWD, being unable to remember a time before it meant mass-marketing mail-out.On Women's Day Eve, though - yes, that is a thing - I was attending evensong at a university college, maybe for the first time ever, and it was definitely the first time I'd heard an IWD sermon. The Rev Marcus Green had set himself the challenge of feministly reading a book, the Bible, in which almost none of the women have a name. There are a bunch called Mary, but so few other names that Mary" was basically Bible-speak for Karen". There's one who is the mother of the sons of Zebedee, but even though she has actual lines and he has none, he still gets this cracking name, while you have to piece her identity together by triangulating other accounts, like an investigator at a crime scene. Continue reading...
One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged - for also daring to speak the truthSunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes to Leqaa Kordia, a fellow Palestinian currently in ICE detention in Texas. Khalil was released after more than three months but the Trump administration continues to seek his deportation; Kordia has been detained for nearly a year. Read more about her case here.Dear Leqaa, Continue reading...
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