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Merrick Garland says agency's standard operations plan' was also used for Biden, as ex-Trump lawyer excoriates Mar-a-Lago delaysDonald Trump's former White House lawyer has attacked the judge handling the classified documents criminal case for repeated delays and incompetence" - while the US attorney general separately criticized as dangerous" Trump's claim this week that the FBI had been authorized to shoot him during its investigation.Former presidential counsel Ty Cobb said decisions made by Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge in the US district court in Florida who is overseeing the federal documents case, virtually guaranteed that the case would not be tried before November's presidential poll. Continue reading...

Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have all provided object lessons in how not to govern wisely or wellAnd so, at last and unlamented, the 2019 parliament will finally be laid to rest on Friday. This parliament's prorogation is not shamelessly illegal, as BorisJohnson's lawless attempt to end its predecessorwas five years ago. But that is just about all that can be said in its favour. In almost every respect, this hasbeen as shoddy and as discreditable a period as British government has had to endure. Therecan rarely have been a parliament that comes to its end as unmourned as this one.Yet the 2019 parliament is dying as it lived, amid needless chaos and with political desperation once again taking precedence over legislative substance. Rishi Sunak's gamble on a July election means that most of the government's programme, which was announced in the king's speech in November, will now never reach the statute book at all. This underscores a very troubling truth: that modern government is becoming more performative than effective, with MPs increasingly expected to campaign rather than to scrutinise or legislate.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...

Steve Kramer charged in New Hampshire for AI-generated impersonation of Biden that urged residents not to vote in primarySteve Kramer, a political consultant who admitted that he deepfaked Joe Biden's voice in a robocall that was sent out to thousands of US voters in January 2024, has been indicted and fined $6m.The robocall, which went out ahead of the first Democratic presidential primary in the US in New Hampshire, used artificial intelligence to fake Biden's voice telling voters to stay home and save" their votes for the November general election. Continue reading...

This is a moment of extreme crisis for Israel. Resorting to calling the ruling antisemitic', as Netanyahu did, won't cut itRegardless of what the final international criminal court decision will be, Israel has entered a new era regarding its relations with its western allies, including the United States. The actions it takes against the Palestinians will no longer go unaccounted for.This situation was accelerated by the war with Hamas. But the reality is that the international reckoning would have come regardless. That's because a 57-year occupation of the Palestinian people without a just resolution, coupled with a fascistic, racist government led by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu - and reinforced by the far-right settler leaders Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, and the homeland security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir - cannot play without consequences in polite global company.Jo-Ann Mort is co-author of Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today's Israel? She writes frequently about Israel for US, UK and Israeli publications Continue reading...

Dr Ingrid Skop has argued in favor of forcing rape and incest victims as young as nine or 10 to carry pregnancies to termOne of the US's leading anti-abortion activists has been appointed to a Texas health committee tasked with reviewing maternal deaths.The move worries reproductive justice advocates who say the state's abortion ban - among the strictest in the US - has placed pregnant women's lives in jeopardy. The appointment could undermine the committee's ability to accurately examine the impact of the law on deaths during and in the immediate aftermath of pregnancy, they say. Continue reading...

You'll hear no apology, no disavowal, no expression of regret for what he did. And certainly no promise that this will never happen againWe've been here before. Donald Trump says or does something outrageous, and then walks it back slightly. But his message as a would-be authoritarian - or far worse - gets through.The latest iteration was a video shared this week on his Truth Social account that (by featuring would-be headlines) promised a unified reich" if Trump wins a second term as president.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

Now there is little difference with the Tories in terms of ideology, Labour's promise is both an opportunity and a burdenWe are told the focus groups are clear as a bell. No, Labour's Keir Starmer is not exhilarating. No, the economy is not screaming for new management. Yes, the world is a mess. But one message for sure was splashed across Starmer's lectern on Wednesday: give us change".Rishi Sunak has not been a signally worse prime minister than his recent predecessors. Eighteen months ago he was handed a tougher job than that of possibly any postwar holder of his office. The closest parallel was Douglas-Home's year-long inheritance of the wreck of Macmillan's government in 1963. Sunak confronted a second-rate cabinet, a crippled economy and a destitute public sector. It would have taken a political titan to have succeeded. He has struggled at least to be responsible, sincere and well-meaning. Continue reading...

New Reuters/Ipsos poll found widespread worries that US could see a repeat of the unrest that followed Trump's 2020 defeatTwo out of three Americans say they are concerned that political violence could follow the 5 November election rematch between Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor and challenger, Donald Trump, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.The survey of 3,934 US adults found widespread worries that the US could see a repeat of the unrest that followed Trump's 2020 election defeat, when the then president's false claim that his loss was the result of fraud prompted thousands of followers to storm the US Capitol. Continue reading...

The former Republican presidential candidate invested in the media company intending to shift its strategy'Vivek Ramaswamy, the former Republican presidential candidate who has regularly attacked the media and made claims that climate change is a hoax", has acquired a large stake in BuzzFeed in order to shift its strategy".The 7.7% stake in the media company that helped pioneer viral social media content and moved into digital news is worth more than $2.7m, according to a filing with the SEC, which also states Ramaswamy intends to engage with BuzzFeed's board of directors as an activist investor. Continue reading...

Weihong Hu raised money for Eric Adams' campaign and helped his friends while winning favorable regulatory decisions and city contract funds, an investigation by the Guardian US, the City and Documented has foundAn ambitious hotel developer held multiple, previously unreported fundraisers with the New York City mayor, Eric Adams, and provided benefits to several of the mayor's longtime associates. She then scored behind-the-scenes favors and millions more in city contract dollars from his administration, a new investigation by the Guardian US, the City and Documented has found.That fundraiser, Weihong Hu, was previously the subject of a February investigation by this reporting partnership which unearthed allegations that Hu's family secretly bankrolled illegal donations to Adams' re-election campaign. Continue reading...

Dr Roger Mitchell, former DC chief medical examiner, says we must hold the system accountable' and properly count officer homicidesThe crisis of US police shootings has been increasingly well-documented by advocates and journalists, with data now suggesting officers fatally shoot an average of more than three people every day.Since George Floyd's murder four years ago, there has been growing scrutiny of a more hidden epidemic of police violence: deaths at the hands of officers who did not use guns. An Associated Press investigation in March found that more than 1,000 people died in US police custody from 2012 to 2021 after officers used less lethal" tactics, including pinning victims face down and stunning them with Tasers. In hundreds of those cases, medical officials deemed the deaths accidents" or natural" despite officers' use of force. Continue reading...

At Tea Magic in New York, I'm happy to indulge my girls and their friends in the latest soft-drink craze. Until things kick offLast Friday, I took four nine-year-old girls to their favourite after-school hang-out, Tea Magic, a place that is distinct from, and in their view superior to, Shiny Tea, Gong Cha Tea, Coco Tea and Mochi Dulci. If you had to create in a laboratory an environment to appeal to tween girls it would be this one: on each wall, huge Hello Kitty-type murals and a menu involving combined fluorescent syrups and a range of brightly coloured add-ons loosely inspired by the tapioca boba tea". Within seven minutes, everyone was jacked up on sugar, including a group of girls from a rival elementary school, whereupon things briefly got exciting.As someone who grew up in the era of Panda Cola, I'll admit that fashion as expressed through the medium of soft drinks is something I occasionally struggle with. Fifteen years ago, I was kind of on board with iced coffee, which was a mistake. (First, the ice means you get less coffee, which means the Man wins again. Second, when the ice melts, you are effectively drinking coffee-flavoured water; wise up people, this isn't desirable). More recently, when fruit-flavoured seltzer became a thing in New York - specifically, the brand La Croix - I wasn't on board with that, either, mainly because I'm not 14 years old, and also because we buy our seltzer in 32-can off-brand crates from Costco that cost about half the price.Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The M&S was shut. The Costa was shut. Burger King, Greggs and KFC were shut too. Maybe us humans just weren't designed to stay up all nightLeigh Delamere Services (Westbound) on the M4 in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Bleak. Really bleak. I was on a long drive home from an important football match my team had lost. What I needed was a cuddle, but that was hours away. In the meantime, I'd have to settle for something to eat and, if at all possible, a not unfriendly face to serve it to me. Neither was available.The M&S was shut. The Costa was shut. Every fast food outlet - Burger King, Chow, Greggs, KFC, West Cornwall Pasty Co - all shut, shuttered, shut. I wouldn't be eating my feelings after all. The whole place was a mess. A few staff, mainly cleaners, wandered around without any discernible sense of purpose, kind of dazed, quietly reflecting my own despair back at me. In its own mundane way, the scene fell not far short of post-apocalyptic. The few sandwiches left in WHSmith were past their best. I looked around for someone to tell me if anything else was available, but no humans were in attendance. The self-checkout machine was my only friend. Continue reading...

Documents show the Conservative Partnership Institute is pushing its far-right agenda at events involving GOP membersA powerful, rightwing lobbying group is promoting a hard-right policy agenda and cementing ties between the Republican party and the far right at at least 21 events involving senators, members of Congress, and both junior and senior political aides, documents obtained by the Guardian show.The documents offer previously unreported details of Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) trainings and bootcamps" for congressional staff at CPI's sprawling Maryland ranch, and lavish, star-studded retreats for members of Congress - mostly members of the far-right Freedom caucus - at a string of Florida resorts. Continue reading...

Netflix's distasteful reality' series holds up a gilded mirror to the people making the city harder for the rest of us to live inWhen I first arrived in London, seven years ago, I used to enjoy stopping outside estate agents' offices and browsing the listings in the window. Though they were almost always ludicrously out of reach, there was idle pleasure to be had in seeing what you could get for 5m v 10m, and debating with yourself the merits of a home spa v home cinema.These days, however, I find it hard to indulge in fantasy real-estate without being reminded of London's housing crisis, and where it has landed me and many others my age: shut out of home ownership. Now a flashy new reality TV series from Netflix is seeking to take us the other side of the glass with a view into on London's super-prime" property market.Elle Hunt is a freelance journalist Continue reading...

Women's Elite Rugby announcement prompted caution over sheer cost of playing but leading figures see bright futureWomen's Elite Rugby, the US start-up competition announced last month, could create hundreds of professional female rugby players in a really short time", a US Eagles international said, heralding a great" development for elite women's sport.There is skepticism," said Emily Henrich, a Dartmouth graduate who plays center for the national team, because worldwide there is a lack of money and resources for women's sport. But that is obviously changing." Continue reading...

American billionaires and investment firms now control teams across Europe. Their stewardship varies wildly in qualityIt might have taken the USA generations to take soccer seriously as a sport, but the country's reach across the English and European game continues to grow, particularly when it comes to club ownership. Indeed, American entrepreneurs, moguls and general wealth-hoarders are now commonplace in boardrooms across world soccer.No fewer than nine Premier League clubs are majority owned by Americans - and that's without even mentioning clubs lower down the pyramid such as Birmingham City and Wrexham (although Canada could claim that one too). Across continental Europe, too, there is a current of American ownership gathering pace - Serie A has proved particularly attractive recently. Continue reading...

Speaking at the National Press Club, Lt Gen Stephen Sklenka, the deputy commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, said it was 'too far down the path' to factor Aukus submarines into its future planning in relation to the Taiwan Strait. 'At least from the military perspective, there is no expectation of anybody participating in any conflict with us, because those decisions are national sovereign decisions. The United States can't - we don't dictate that to other countries,' Sklenka said. Asked if the Aukus submarines would be 'too late', Sklenka replied: 'Not if he [Xi Jinping] doesn't fight in 2027.' He added that he doesn't see conflict in the Taiwan Strait as 'inevitable'Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube Continue reading...

I took to the red carpet alongside other activists to highlight sexual violence. Now women of colour need a bigger place in the movementThe 77th Cannes film festival reaches its climax on Saturday when all eyes will be on the Croisette, as the winners of the prestigious Palme d'Or are announced. Hollywood greats such as Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda and Greta Gerwig have been in town, but this year, I found myself on the red carpet, hand in hand with some of the most courageous women in the business.Behind the facade of movie-star glamour and fashionable edge, there are burning issues that have been agitating the grande famille du cinema in France for years - but have been kept out of sight. The Cannes festival, as a symbol of the French film establishment, can no longer shy away from them.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe 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...

May or October were seen as obvious options, but Sunak's party has plunged into a short campaign without a planIf the prime minister's announcement of a snap election had been an event in a scripted drama, we might accuse the director of laying it on a little thick. The rain might be justified as pathetic fallacy, but having Things Can Only Get Better blasting on a tinny speaker was a bit over the top.At least the police finally managed to prevent the song from being played any further. They must have been no less caught off guard than the country - including Tory activists and politicians.Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome Continue reading...

Obliterated homes, splintered trees and crumpled cars were seen in the path of the twister about 25 miles from GreenfieldFive people died and at least 35 were hurt as powerful tornadoes ripped through Iowa Tuesday, with one carving a path of destruction through the town of Greenfield, officials said.The Iowa department of public safety said Wednesday that four people had been killed in the Greenfield area. Officials did not release the names of those killed in the storm because they were still notifying relatives. Continue reading...

Workplace killings in 2023 revealed hazardous working conditions of migrant farmworkers in Half Moon BayThe owners of two mushroom farms in northern California where a disgruntled employee shot and killed seven people last year will pay a total of more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 employees.In an announcement released on Monday following an extensive investigation, the US labor department said the payment is an element of administrative settlements reached by the department's wage and hour division with California Terra Garden and Concord Farms. Continue reading...

U-turn by ex-president's most enduring rival during Republican primaries provokes swift backlashNikki Haley, who emerged as Donald Trump's most enduring rival and trenchant critic during the Republican primary elections, has said she intends to vote for the former US president in November.Haley was speaking at the Hudson Institute thinktank in Washington on Wednesday, her first public appearance since dropping out of the race in March. She was asked whether Joe Biden or Trump would do a better job on national security issues. Continue reading...

Appeal to Heaven' flag, used by Trump supporters on January 6, reportedly appeared at supreme court justice's summer homeAnother type of provocative flag that was flown during the breach of the US Capitol by extremist supporters of Donald Trump on 6 January 2021 was reportedly flown outside a summer residence of US supreme court justice Samuel Alito - following a similar, prior incident outside his main residence.Last summer, the Appeal to Heaven" flag, which originates from the Revolutionary war and has in recent years become a symbol of far-right Christian extremism, was flown outside Alito's summer home in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Jake Sullivan appears critical of decision by Spain, Ireland and Norway to formally recognise Palestinian state next weekThe US is concerned about Israel's growing diplomatic isolation among countries that have traditionally supported it, Joe Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on Wednesday.Sullivan's remarks, at a White House briefing, followed the announcement by Ireland, Spain and Norway that they will next week formally recognise a Palestinian state. They also came amid efforts by the Biden administration and Congress to coordinate a response to a decision by the international criminal court (ICC) to seek an arrest warrant for Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over Israeli actions in Gaza. Continue reading...

Ex-president recasts FBI's standard policy statement limiting use of deadly force into claim Biden officials were locked and loaded'On social media and in a Tuesday fundraising email, Donald Trump raised an alarming concern. The Department of Justice, he said, was ready to kill him.The wild distortion came against the backdrop of Trump's hush-money trial in New York and amid fears of rising political violence around the coming presidential election, predominantly from the far right. The comments cement an inverted picture Trump and his allies have painted, in which a patriotic Trump is pitted against anti-democratic deep-state foes. Continue reading...

The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said a two-state solution for Palestine would come through talks and not unilateral recognition, after Ireland, Spain and Norway said they would recognise a Palestinian state. Speaking to reporters at a press conference, Sullivan said: 'We believe the only way we are going to achieve a two-state solution is through direct negotiations'

City will also overhaul police force and create memorial for victims of shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers

The PM has gone for the bad choice because he knows things will get even worse. It's an admission his leadership has failedThe circumstances were excruciating. One of the great rituals in any prime minister's career - the one when they put it all on the line by calling an election - was instead drenched in rain and almost drowned out by horrible, hostile noise from Whitehall protesters. Rishi Sunak battled on, just about retaining his dignity, and one felt for him in his torment. Yet it was a nasty, low moment in British politics.Never forget this, however. There is only one reason why a British prime minister would call a general election earlier than they have to, as Sunak did today. That is because they know better than anyone else that things are going to get worse later.Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The pretext of counter-terrorism as a reason to investigate Americans started with red squads', Huac and J Edgar HooverOn Monday, 13 May, the Israeli historian and professor Ilan Pappe landed in Detroit, Michigan. Upon his arrival, agents from the US Department of Homeland Security detained and interrogated him for two hours. According to Pappe, DHS asked him whether he was a Hamas supporter, whether he believed Israel was committing genocide and what his solution" to the Middle East conflict was. Agents also reportedly asked him to identify his Arab and Muslim friends in America".During his interrogation, DHS agents held a long phone conversation, which Pappe speculated may have been with Israeli officials. Pappe was eventually admitted to the US, but only after DHS copied the entire contents of his cellphone. (Initially, Pappe reported he had been interrogated by the FBI; he has since clarified that it was agents of the DHS.)Chip Gibbons is the policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. A journalist and researcher focusing on the US national security state, Gibbons is currently working on The Imperial Bureau, forthcoming from Verso Books; based heavily on archival research and documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, it tells the history of FBI political surveillance and explores the role of domestic surveillance in the making of the US national security state Continue reading...

The prime minister has run out of road and is left defending a thin legacy against the prospect of regime changeWhen Britain last held a general election, the country was still a member of the European Union, there had been no pandemic and the Conservatives had already been in power for nearly a decade. That now feels like a long time ago, but not because of any sense of progress or accomplishments by the government. Quite the opposite.Fear of taking punishment for years of accumulated disappointment is the reason why Rishi Sunak has postponed the dissolution of parliament until now. The prime minister's decision to set a date - the election will be on 4 July - is driven not by confidence in a record to celebrate, but by a recognition that procrastination had become untenable. The Conservative party, exhausted and riven by factional feuding, has become ungovernable, leaving the country feeling ungoverned. Continue reading...

Reparations and compensation bills, conceived in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, must now pass the state assemblyCalifornia lawmakers are moving forward with a set of proposals meant to compensate Black residents for the state's history of racism and discrimination against African Americans.Under the legislation passed by the state senate this week, California would create an agency to help Black families research their family lineage as well as a fund for reparations programs and compensation for Black families whose property the government unjustly seized through eminent domain. Continue reading...

The US house speaker, Mike Johnson, has said the US should 'punish the ICC and put Karim Khan back in his place' after the ICC chief prosecutor put out a request for arrest warrants for Israel's leaders over the way its army has conducted its war in Gaza. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Johnson said: 'If the ICC is allowed to threaten Israel's leaders, we know that America will be next,' adding: 'We have some very aggressive legislation that we're going to push as quickly as possible. It will impose sanctions'

Officials say disgruntled employee shot five coworkers at Delaware County LinenTwo people are dead and three others are injured following a workplace shooting in Chester, Pennsylvania.The incident occurred at around 8.30am on Wednesday at Delaware County Linen, a family-owned linen business located approximately 30 minutes away from Philadelphia. Continue reading...

Asking friends of all persuasions to define what a populist is brought up a surprising sense of unityI was on the radio discussing the attempt on the life of the Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico. Mr Fico, we kept saying, was a populist. This much we knew. But I thought it prudent to check the definition of populism. The Chambers dictionary has a populist as: A person who believes in the right and ability of the common people to play a major part in government." This feels disappointingly broad to me, if only insomuch as you can't imagine a politician saying the opposite - that they didn't believe in the right and ability of the common people to govern themselves. Google, its dictionary provided by Oxford Languages which is responsible for the Oxford English Dictionary, isn't much more help. A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups." This too is surely standard stuff from politicians of all stripes.There must be something better than this, surely? It's too important to be a case of knowing it when you see it or, as one of my daughters might put it, just a vibe". I thought I better check if my confusion is - as is generally the case - down to my considerable intellectual limitations. I asked a third year politics student of my acquaintance what her definition would be. How should I know?" she said. I pressed on, contacting the most left-wing intellectual I know, and also the most right-wing. And a couple of avowed centrists too. They're all well-known, but I'll not name them because I really don't want to be in the middle of any public spat that may arise. Continue reading...

Latest staff departures include communications director Raj Shah as House speaker struggles to retain leadership positionThe Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, is reeling from a sudden staff exodus as he struggles to keep his position and the GOP's tiny majority in the run-up to November's elections.In the latest in a spate of resignations, Johnson's well-connected communications director, Raj Shah, a former White House deputy press secretary under Donald Trump, has confirmed he is leaving, Axios reported. He is expected to depart by the end of the summer. Continue reading...

Officials gave all-clear after examining package with two vials, a Korean Bible and ice packs at Washington DC headquartersThe headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington DC was placed under lockdown on Wednesday morning reportedly after vials of blood were sent to the building.Eyewitnesses reported several hazmat trucks - equipped to deal with hazardous materials - outside the building, which is near the US Capitol, around 8am. Continue reading...

Installment repayment programs like Affirm, Karna and Afterpay are getting more oversight amid sharp rise in useThe US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will apply some credit card consumer protection rules to buy now, pay later (BNPL) lenders, the agency said on Wednesday, in an effort to impose more oversight on the fast-growing sector.BNPL providers such as Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay partner with retailers to finance customer purchases, which shoppers repay in installments. The sector has become a major source of credit, but lacks a federal oversight framework. Continue reading...

Spanish PM says possibility of two-state solution should not be destroyed by force. Plus, Russia begins nuclear weapons drills

The deaths, the atrocities - all were predicted. Those who ignored all the warnings should be held responsible tooAs the international criminal court's prosecutor, Karim Khan, officially seeks arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, a question must be asked of the politicians and media outlets that legitimised Israel's western-backed destruction of Gaza, which is one of the great crimes of our age: what were you thinking?The arrest warrant requests detail, firstly, how three Hamas leaders should be held criminally responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity including extermination, murder and hostage-taking. Their guilt is incontrovertible, and no cause justifies such depraved crimes against civilians.Owen Jones 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...

From first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out and from loss to connection. For the last 25 years, retired schoolteacher Arden Eversmeyer travelled from Houston across the US to record hundreds of oral 'herstories' from a rapidly disappearing population. Old Lesbians honours Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project - a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience and unwavering spirit of these remarkable women Continue reading...

In what a professor calls an intellectual embarrassment', the school is requiring students to complete a bizarre trainingLike many other campuses around the world, New York University has seen its students protest the university's ties to weapon manufacturers and other institutions that are profiting off the slaughter in Gaza or enabling it. Like many other campuses, NYU has been doing its best to curtail these protests and punish the students involved.Unlike many other campuses, however, punishments include being told to watch The Simpsons and write what the NYU law professor Liam Murphy recently described in an open letter to leadership as coerced confessions of wrongdoing". Continue reading...

Joshua Gutierrez was hired after his predecessor, Pete Arredondo, was fired following his inaction to the shooting at Robb elementary schoolThe chief of police for Uvalde schools has resigned, a year after he replaced the previous chief who held the role during the 2022 school shooting in the Texas city.Joshua Gutierrez, former police chief of Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD), was hired in November 2022 as interim police chief before officially being named to the job in March 2023. His predecessor, Pete Arredondo, was fired following his inaction to the shooting at Robb elementary school on 24 May 2022. Continue reading...

State becomes 25th to restrict or ban care for transgender children as LGBTQ+ rights groups consider legal challengeThe governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, on Tuesday signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.When the ink dried, South Carolina became the 25th state to restrict or ban such care for minors. The governor announced the signing on social media and said he would hold a ceremonial bill signing next week. Continue reading...