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Barbara Res, lead engineer on Trump Tower construction, tells MSNBC of her former boss's ridiculous remarks'A former employee of Donald Trump's pre-presidency organization has publicly claimed that he once made jokes about Nazi ovens" while Jewish executives were in the same room.Barbara Res - a lead engineer on the construction of Trump Tower and author of a memoir, Tower of Lies, about her almost two decades working for the former president - told MSNBC on Sunday that her erstwhile boss would make ridiculous remarks". Continue reading...

Cargo ship Dali, which crashed into bridge and killed six workers, heads to Virginia for repairs and container removalThe cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key Bridge's supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse.The 984ft (300m) Dali started moving shortly before 8.30am with four tugboats. It is headed to Norfolk, Virginia, for the removal of the remaining containers on the vessel and additional repairs. Continue reading...

Letting loose at the star's Wembley show, the comic absurdity somehow worked. But copycat dads, bewareFor men possessed of sufficient age and experience, the secret to dancing like no one is watching is simple: make sure no one is watching. Lock the doors, draw the curtains, put black tape over all the webcams in your house, and proceed. I was going to add that you should only dance anywhere you would also be happy to appear naked, until I remembered the shower, and saunas. Obviously, don't dance in either of those.No such security was available to Prince William at the weekend, when he was spotted - and also filmed - dancing away to Taylor Swift at Wembley Stadium on his 42nd birthday, in a blue blazer, high up on the balcony of some hospitality suite. It's amazing to me that seats that expensive don't come with one-way privacy screens, but evidently they do not. Continue reading...

More than 50 volunteers and officers joined frantic search for boy found safe after wandering away from familyA four-year-old boy survived nearly an entire day alone in the wilderness after he wandered away from his family while they were at a campsite in central California.Christian Ramirez of Torrance, California, was camping with his family at the Rancheria campground in Lakeshore, about 70 miles outside of Fresno, when his ordeal began, KTLA reported. Continue reading...

South Dakota governor - and Republican vice-president hopeful - says she'll support Trump's pardons if he winsKristi Noem, once a contender to be the Republicans' vice-presidential nominee, has argued that people facing charges over the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol should be individually evaluated for pardons - so as to minimize the chances of a repeat.Each of those situations needs to be looked at separately," Noem said on Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. What I have been very clear about is that we don't want to see another January 6 again. Continue reading...

Educators on the Fort Apache Reservation have repeatedly condemned teens for participating in a sacred dance. It follows a pattern of Christian discipline begun more than a century agoThe way the school saw it, it was devil worship.In October 2019, three teenage girls were punished for participating in a spiritual ceremony. Their Arizona school expelled two of them, and let the third off with a warning, citing their attendance as a violation of school policy and grounds for expulsion. Continue reading...

The glossiest jewel of the US's golden generation continued to deliver as a captain and goalscorer against Bolivia on Sunday nightOn 28 May 2016, Christian Pulisic became the youngest player to score for the US men's national team, finding the net in a 4-0 win over Bolivia in a tune-up for the Copa America Centenario. But what happened the night before was, in a quieter way, no less notable.Jurgen Klinsmann, then the US head coach, gave Pulisic permission to attend his high school prom in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the night before the match and the 17-year-old hired a private plane so he could make it back to Kansas City in time for the game. Continue reading...

Washington DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia all saw record heat while one person died during flooding in South DakotaMillions of Americans sweated through a scorching weekend as temperatures soared across the US - while residents were also rescued from floodwaters that forced evacuations across the midwest. One person died during flooding in South Dakota, the governor there said.From the mid-Atlantic to Maine, across the Great Lakes region, and throughout the west to California, public officials cautioned residents about the dangers of excessive heat and humidity. Forecasters say the heatwave will continue early in the week in the south-east, portions of the south and the Plains, providing the biggest worry in affected areas. Continue reading...

Policies are one-two punch' for women caught in criminal justice system, report's author saysThe number of women on probation or parole who must seek permission to travel for an abortion more than doubled to 635,000 in two years since the supreme court overturned the federal right to abortion, a new report finds.Fourteen states have near-total abortion bans and 21 restrict the procedure. Together with near ubiquitous travel restrictions imposed by probation and parole, more than half of women on probation or parole in the US must seek permission to travel before obtaining an abortion. Continue reading...

Historic defeats, managerial upheaval and turmoil at the federation have plagued the national team for two years. This summer is a chance for a resetBrazil enter the 2024 Copa America in flux. A side that routinely waltzes into World Cups as favourites has fallen behind quality European opponents. And increasingly the Selecao are struggling in South America, too.They've yet to find their groove in the post-Tite era. The former head coach was moved on after back-to-back World Cup quarter-final exits in Russia and Qatar. And in the 18 months since Tite departed, little has gone to plan. CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues guaranteed that Carlo Ancelotti would replace Tite by the end of his contract with Real Madrid, and hit on the creative (or unusual) tactic of installing Fluminense coach Fernando Diniz as a bridge appointment until Ancelotti arrived, with Diniz keeping his club responsibilities alongside the national team. Continue reading...

Compass Coffee is accused of hiring 124 additional people before union election next monthA coffee chain in the Washington DC area is accused of hiring dozens of friends of management, including other local food service executives and an Uber lobbyist, in an effort to defeat a union election scheduled for 16 July.Workers at seven Compass Coffee locations, more than a third of the company's stores, announced their intent to unionize in May 2024. The company has 18 cafes in Washington DC and northern Virginia and its coffee can be purchased in grocery stores throughout the area. Continue reading...

After retiring, I finally had time to practise. But I soon realised that playing and making music are two different thingsOn a hot June day in 2015, I retired after 34 years of teaching high school. I packed up my classroom, went home and tossed my briefcase in the attic. Then, I drove to meet my new piano teacher, Mark.I had worked for more than three decades as a busy English teacher with an endless stream of papers to mark and precious little time to experiment or learn new skills. Now, I was determined to make up for all I had been missing. I wanted to finally master the piano and learn how to make music.Brian Hanson-Harding is a retired English teacher living near New York City. He has written for publications including the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly and Working Mother Continue reading...

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Biden has a tough task ahead in this week's debate - but, thanks in part to rightwing attacks, the bar he faces is lowIf Joe Biden is to win November's election, he must win this week's televised debate. He must come off as energetic and competent. He must make the case, persuasively, that Donald Trump is a danger to the nation and the world. And, perhaps most of all, he must seem mentally sharp.That's a lot to do in under 90 minutes, especially while sharing the stage with someone as unpredictable as Trump, whose dominant personality and in-your-face tactics can put him at an advantage.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

Over the next few weeks, the Guardian will profile figures playing a key role in boosting the ex-president's attempt to regain the presidencyIt takes a village to run a presidential campaign, and in the case of Donald Trump's bid for reelection, that village is led by a group of shadowy, wealthy and well-connected figures working to shape the infrastructure of the election and his policies and messaging.Meet the election operators. Continue reading...

I was 10 when the US supreme court ruled against school prayer. Now Louisiana and Texas want to turn back the clockI was 10 in 1962, when the supreme court ruled, in Engel v Vitale, that the officially sanctioned recitation of prayer in public schools violated the constitution's first amendment, which prohibits the establishment of a state religion.Before that, my school day started with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by an appeal to God. We rose and pushed our chairs under our desks. Then we stood erect, gazed at the flag sticking out at an angle above the blackboard, and placed our right hands over our hearts. After the pledge, we bowed our heads and said a prayer composed by the New York state board of regents, which held authority over the schools: Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country."Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books Continue reading...

Rather than providing a check on the far right, the party opened the door to Faragism - and made his fantasies come true

The 70-year-old former Trump White House strategist has hosted a number of future GOP leaders and folds in absolutely anyone willing to listen'It is not your typical man cave. Christian iconography. A bust of Julius Caesar. A painting of John Paul Jones, the revolutionary war naval officer. A book, The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes, sitting on a crowded desk. A sign resting on the mantelpiece declares: There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences."Welcome to the War Room, where the classical, contemporary and conspiratorial nourish Steve Bannon's grand vision of himself as a historical figure. Each day he holds court in this basement on Capitol Hill to plot not only Donald Trump's return to power but the next American revolution. Screens, microphones and other podcasting paraphernalia sit above piles of books and newspapers, namely the Financial Times and New York Times. Continue reading...

Fishers take to shore three boatloads of hound dogs who had plunged in while chasing a deer during a fox huntInsurance agents Bob Gist and Brad Carlisle headed out to a Mississippi lake with fishing guide Jordan Chrestman hoping to catch some crappies.They came back with nearly 40 dogs whom they saved from drowning, according to the men, who took photos of the dramatic 8 June rescue and have since been feted as heroes on the local and national media circuits. Continue reading...

No team has come back from 0-3 down in the Stanley Cup Final since 1942. The Oilers could do just that while becoming the NHL's first Canadian champion in more than 30 yearsNo NHL team has come back from 3-0 down to win a Stanley Cup Final since the Toronto Maple Leafs did it against the Detroit Red Wings in April 1942. Now, 82 years later, the Edmonton Oilers may change that history. On Monday night on the edge of the Everglades, the Oilers will face off against the Florida Panthers in Game 7 and try to win their fourth straight to take the Cup and become the first Canadian NHL champions since the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. If it goes the Oilers' way, the game will most likely be crowned one of the NHL's all-time best - or at least one of the most memorable in league history. And the Oilers captain, a generational talent, will have come back to where his career with the team began.26 June 2015 was a Friday and there was a buzz in the BT&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, home (still, under a different name) of the Panthers. It was NHL draft night, and the assumed No 1 pick was an 18-year-old from north of Toronto who'd lit up the Ontario Hockey League for three years and led Canada to a World Junior Championship the previous winter. Connor McDavid had been playing on another level his entire life, allowed to skate at age six with the nine-year olds and granted exceptional status" to enter the OHL at age 15, a year early, where he became the most decorated player in the league's history. Continue reading...

Comedians are increasingly leaning on audience interaction to sell their shows - and changing the nature of the shows themselvesCrowd work. For some, it's the fun bit when standups cruise the front row asking: What do you do for a living?" For me, it's the scary bit where I avoid eye contact with said standups - because they don't want to hear, and I don't want to say, comedy critic". That terror aside, crowd work can be comedy gold in the hands of some acts, the most in-the-moment and authentic section of their whole show. Elsewhere, it's filler: so much so-so throat-clearing before the good gags, the ones the comic has bothered to write, begin.That is how crowd work has always been considered - until now. In 2024, it's increasingly the main draw - for which we have social media to thank, or blame. If you've noticed your socials clogged these days with crowd-work clips - this or that standup engaging in oh-so-spontaneous bantz with someone in row C - you're not alone. And it's not happening by accident. Clipped-up crowd work is standup for sale to the TikTok generation, a phenomenon changing not only how comics tout their work, but the work itself - and the nature of live comedy.Brian Logan is the Guardian's comedy criticDo 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...

Correspondents covering the UK election find Brexit amnesia bemusing, Nigel Farage's return surreal and the sense of public disillusionment overwhelmingFor a German audience currently staring with disbelief at an upsurge of far-right populism on its own doorstep, the British elections are mostly a reminder of where the destructive cluelessness of populist politicians can lead a country. Nothing you want to look at too closely, when you are potentially just at the beginning of such a turn of events yourself.Annette Dittert is the senior UK correspondent for ARD German TV Continue reading...

Christian Pulisic scored in the third minute and assisted on Folarin Balogun's goal in the 44th as the USMNT cruised past Bolivia 2-0 in their Copa America opener on Sunday night.Against an overmatched, youthful Bolivia side, the US were comfortable winners. Ten of Bolivia's starters entered the opening game of the tournament with 10 caps or fewer, and an experienced US side wasted no time in showing the gulf in quality. Continue reading...

Balogun wins a corner kick. US players do a sharp sequence of short passes, and Pulisic blasts a curling shot from one corner of the penalty area to the far upper corner. Viscarra gets a finger or two on it, but it's not enough.1 min: The USA could easily be up 1-0 already. A few seconds after kickoff, Weah raced down the right and fired off a cross that Viscarra had to come out and punch clear. The USA kept possession, and Bolivia should count themselves lucky that Balogun wasn't quite ready for a sharply hit through ball. Continue reading...

Robert O'Brien explains his outline to sever US-China economic ties would only be to send in fighting force'Donald Trump's former national security adviser Robert O'Brien - tipped to play a leading role if the ex-president returns to the White House - backtracked on parts of his proposal to sever US-China economic ties, an aspect of which called for sending the entire US Marine Corps to Asia.O'Brien, who recently submitted a 5,000-word article outlining his thinking to Foreign Affairs, explained on Sunday that instead of the entire US Marine Corps", it would be only the fighting force". And he said some Marines would still be stationed at bases like California's Camp Pendleton and North Carolina's Camp Lejeune. Continue reading...

One dead and 34 wounded as incidents in New York, Alabama, Missouri and Ohio swell 2024 mass shooting tallyA series of mass shootings rocked the US early on Sunday, leaving at least one dead and 34 others wounded in just four cases reported in New York, Alabama, Missouri and Ohio.The shootings came amid a broader spate of recent mass shootings, including the one at an Arkansas grocery store on Friday that left four dead and nine wounded - as well as another at a nightclub in Kentucky on Saturday that killed one and injured seven.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

Residents rescued by boat as Governor Kim Reynolds declares disaster in 21 counties in north of stateFloodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the US longed for relief on Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat.Sirens blared at 2am in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region. The city lacked running water because wells were unusable. Continue reading...

Civil liberties group calls for hate crime charges against suspect in alleged racist attack at apartment complex poolThe US's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization is calling for hate crime charges to be filed against a Texas woman accused of trying to drown a three-year-old Palestinian-American girl while saying that the child's mother wasn't really American.For now, the suspect in the case has been booked on counts of attempted murder and injury to a child. Continue reading...

Political surrogates hit Sunday talkshows as candidates take different approaches before next week's face-offPresidential political surrogates fanned out across the Sunday talkshows to prepare the ground for next week's televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which could help the Democratic incumbent and his Republican predecessor focus the minds of undecided or unengaged voters on November's election.But the candidates themselves are taking strikingly different approaches. Biden is hunkered down at Camp David in debate preparation, reportedly with his personal attorney Bob Bauer standing in for Trump in mock exchanges. Continue reading...

While political leaders hundreds of miles away clash over the border crisis', the El Paso sector has served more than 200,000 people since OctoberIt was just past 10am, but the west Texas sun already burned high above the border fence, a serpentine steel line slicing the Chihuahuan desert in two. On the US side, a short distance from the Paso del Norte International Bridge, the Sacred Heart shelter stirred with activity.Children giggled and shrieked as they chased each other in circles around the converted gymnasium, decorated with brightly colored pinatas, a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe and a string of plastic flags, a small reminder of the countries they left behind: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico. Their parents, who carried them across jungles, rivers and entire countries, rested on mats. A mother breastfed her son. A woman braided hair. Continue reading...

I could easily give up. But should I? It isn't necessarily an easy question to answer, writes Emma BeddingtonThe sun is out, the football is on, beer gardens are packed and sunset-pink shots of condensation-frosted palomas (the new negroni) are plastered across Instagram, but I bet someone in your life has given up drinking. Maybe more than one person. I know lots (if you count parasocial knowing", and I don't get out much, so I do). Sobriety is everywhere; I downed two long reads on the subject just last week. Reporting spans personal reckonings, generational nuances and shifting advice (Ireland has adopted tobacco-style warnings on alcohol). Sobriety is chic, too: it made a list of new status symbols" in Grazia (though so did orange wine; they contain multitudes).Never an early adopter, I am finally experiencing sober curiosity. I don't have a problematic relationship with alcohol: we are more than Facebook friends, but hardly Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. In my formative drinking years, I took antidepressants that made my hangovers so frighteningly dark I was turned off drinking for a decade. I enjoy a dirty martini or a margarita now (both vehicles for the one substance I really have a problem with: salt), but remain relatively take it or leave it. I'll have a drink if I go out (so, almost never) and my husband and I have one most Friday and Saturday nights, but I don't miss it when it doesn't happen. Continue reading...

I just want my baby back,' the mother of one of four people killed said, as 10 others wounded in shootingFamilies who were shopping at the Arkansas grocery where four people were killed and nine others were wounded during a mass shooting on Friday reportedly hid in the freezer as they desperately tried to stay out of the attacker's view, according to reports.The chilling details emerged as authorities identified the alleged shooter and the people slain at the Mad Butcher store in Fordyce. Continue reading...

Karen Read, 44, accused of hitting boyfriend with SUV and leaving him to die in snowbank, claims she was framedOver the last eight weeks, a jury in Massachusetts has pondered whether 44-year-old Karen Read murdered her boyfriend, a police officer, in an act of domestic violence, or was framed by corrupt authorities trying to cover up the killing.Read's trial has captivated Boston residents' attention and triggered a wave of conspiracy theories far beyond the city. At the center is Read, a suburban woman who worked as an equity analyst, and her boyfriend, 46-year-old John O'Keefe, a veteran Boston officer who was found dead in the snow on 29 January 2022. Continue reading...

Jamaal Bowman faces challenge from George Latimer in New York primary that has become testy - and expensiveIt was one of the hottest days of the year in New York City on Saturday - but as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the stage in the Bronx, you wouldn't know it.At a rally to support Jamaal Bowman, the progressive Democrat facing a primary campaign that has seen pro-Israel lobbying groups pump more than $15m into the race, Ocasio-Cortez was amped up. Continue reading...

I've worked with family-owned businesses, and their internecine battles and succession struggles ain't greatBrian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, just made a very honest admission: It is true that a company's not a family," he said in a recent podcast interview. We used to refer to ourselves as a family, and then we did have to fire people, or they'd have to leave the company, and you don't fire members of your family."Whenever a CEO says their employees are family", they're lying. Your company is not your family. Continue reading...

Lukas McClish hadn't notified anyone of his planned three-hour hike that turned into a more than weeklong ordealA man who got lost in California's mountains for more than a week - after heading out on what he expected would be a hike of just a few hours - survived his ordeal by drinking creek water and eating wild berries, he told a local news station.I didn't bring anything" besides a flashlight and folding scissors because I thought I was doing a three-hour hike" on the way to work, Lukas McClish told KSBW for an interview published on Saturday. Continue reading...

Atlanta has extra significance this election cycle, between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris trying to court voters and Donald Trump's Fulton county caseJoe Biden will debate Donald Trump on Thursday night in an unnerving repeat of the 2020 election cycle, and once again Atlanta is the center of the political universe.The question is whether the two candidates can influence Atlanta, or if Atlanta, which influences everything in American politics, is beyond their influence. Continue reading...

The US will kickoff their tournament against Bolivia on Sunday. Here are the players to know, what you should track and how to win kudos at the bar

Young people don't want prospective employers to merely pay lip service to their liberal social valuesYoung people are used to being told they expect too much when it comes to the world of work. Judge Judy, Whoopi Goldberg and Jodie Foster were among the latest of their elders to give them a ticking off - accusing indulgent parents of setting them up to fail. Curmudgeonly employers would not pander to their requests for better hours, they said, or align themselves with their pet social causes, as young people seemed to think.But as generation Z starts to make up a chunkier portion of workers, another story is emerging. The unreasonable" demands of this generation are in fact beginning to be met. Instead of giving young people a rude awakening, the corporate world is falling over backwards to accommodate them - you cannot, after all, fire a whole generation. Continue reading...

Mexico scraped out a 1-0 victory over Jamaica in their Group B opener in the Copa America in Houston on Saturday, but their joy at making a winning start was tempered by what appeared to be a potentially tournament-ending injury to captain Edson Alvarez.Alvarez, who plays for West Ham United in England and is one the most experienced players on the Mexican team, collapsed clutching his hamstring in the 30th minute and limped off the pitch in tears. Continue reading...

The pact of pariahs between the Russian leader and North Korea's unpredictable Kim Jong-un risks destabilising regionVladimir Putin's visits to North Korea and Vietnam last week caused great consternation among the western powers, which was undoubtedly his intention. The Russian president is keen to demonstrate that, notwithstanding the widespread condemnation of his illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing diplomatic ostracism and sanctions, he still has international support, and can raise the cost to his opponents of continued backing for Kyiv.If anyone doubted the extent to which the war in Ukraine has become a truly global issue, here was conclusive proof of its almost universal impact. Putin and North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un, signed a mutual defence treaty that commits each country to provide military assistance to the other with all means at its disposal" in the event of an attack. The treaty represents a significant boost for Kim's isolated regime - and for Putin's efforts, with China, to build up an anti-democratic, anti-western international alliance. Continue reading...

The former president used his first rally in the city of brotherly love to tie violent crime with illegal immigration, despite the evidence against thisCrooked Joe or Sleepy Joe? Donald Trump wanted to know which nickname his supporters prefer. That's the first time Sleepy Joe has ever beaten Crooked Joe!" he said with surprise, after asking the crowd to make noise for each contender.That, however, is not the branding exercise the former US president cares about most right now. On Saturday night he wanted his followers to go home with three words: Biden. Migrant. Crime. Continue reading...

Joseph Komrosky, who decried critical race theory and called Harvey Milk a pedophile, was recalled by 51% of Temecula votersVoters in Temecula, California, have ousted the local school board president who thrust the political body to the forefront of rightwing culture wars by seeking to eliminate discussions of race and gender identity from the classroom.Joseph Komrosky on Thursday lost a recall vote with 51% of voters favoring his removal. Continue reading...

The Tories want people to assume the outcome is decided, but the only way to remove this government is to vote them out, says Labour's national campaign coordinatorGeneral elections should be an intensive debate about the country's future, as well as a reckoning for the record of any incumbent government.At stake is how to make Britain's economy stronger, rebuild our public services, expand opportunity and exercise power and influence in the world. Continue reading...