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Ice reportedly shifting away from immigration raids on farms and hotels
Workplace raids will be stopped after Trump conceded that deportations are hurting agricultural and hospitality industriesThe Trump administration deportation campaign is reportedly shifting its focus away from raids on the agricultural and hospitality sectors after Donald Trump conceded this week that his immigration policies are hurting the farming and hotel industries.The New York Times reported that an internal email was sent on Thursday by Tatum King, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), to regional department leaders at Homeland Security Investigations, directing them to stop workplace immigration enforcement actions unless related to criminal investigations. Continue reading...
Dinosaurs in the driveway: the Nevada man delighting kids with his free prehistoric theme park
Steve Dinoman' Springer turned his suburban home into a makeshift carnival and public education center: You come here to get away from the world'Amid the endless winding streets of Henderson, Nevada, one house breaks the mold. Its front yard - no grass, just desert rock - is home to 62 rainbow-painted dinosaurs, dragons, turtles and spiders. A sign on the garage reads: Shan-gri-la Prehistoric Park", complete with visiting hours.On a recent spring Friday at noon, the garage door hums open, letting in the harsh sun. Steve Springer, or Dinoman" as he's lovingly known by regulars of the park, ties a short black apron printed with cartoon dinosaurs around his waist. At 72, he likes to wear flip-flops with black socks and round glasses that make his eyes look tiny. Continue reading...
‘This moment was thrust upon him’: Gavin Newsom steps up to parry Trump’s executive overreach
California's governor has responding forcefully to the many threats Trump has imposed upon his state - and the countryWhen Donald Trump landed in Los Angeles to tour the ruins left by January's devastating wildfires, just days after being sworn in for a second term, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, was waiting on the tarmac to greet him. The surprisingly warm exchange between two longtime political rivals seemed to reflect a new reality: with a vengeful Trump back in the White House, fire-ravaged California - and its Democratic governor - had a great deal at stake.In the weeks that followed, Newsom met with Trump at the White House to lobby for federal disaster relief, then approved funding to strengthen the state's legal defenses against challenges from the Trump administration. He invited Maga-world fixtures on to his podcast, including Steve Bannon, and infuriated progressives, and even some allies, when he said that it was deeply unfair" for transgender athletes to compete in girls' sports - a wedge issue central to Trump's conservative agenda. All the while, his state was suing the Trump administration - over executive actions on immigration, federal funding and tariffs - at a rate of more than one lawsuit a week. Continue reading...
US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs
Administration's actions signal move away from technology as health agencies see vaccine-related shakeupsAs top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country's preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines will be targeted next.Donald Trump's administration recently canceled a $766m award to Moderna on the research and development of H5N1 bird flu vaccines, and officials have announced new restrictions and regulations for Covid mRNA vaccines - actions that signal a move away from the breakthrough technology. Continue reading...
37-year-old Tatjana Maria storms into Queen’s final after stunning Madison Keys
JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it
Derek Guy, a popular fashion writer, revealed his family escaped to the US without documentation. It sent the far right into an online frenzyDerek Guy was a relatively unknown menswear writer with 25,000 followers on Twitter in 2022. Now, in 2025, Guy has 1.3 million followers on the platform, now called X, where this week both the vice-president of the United States and the Department of Homeland Security posted threats to deport him from the US - the country he has called home since he was a baby.Honestly didn't expect this is what would happen when I joined a menswear forum 15 years ago," Guy quipped on X on Monday. Was originally trying to look nice for someone else's wedding." Continue reading...
Grilled cheese shop offers Minnesotans a second chance after prison
The Minneapolis restaurant All Square exclusively hires formerly incarcerated peopleAll Square, a neon-lit diner in Minneapolis, specializes in grilled cheese sandwiches with a twist. Variations on the menu include Jamaican jerk chicken with guava jam, brown sugar bacon doused in ranch dressing, and Granny Smith apple slices coated in brie and mozzarella.But the sandwich shop offers more than elevated comfort food. All Square, which also operates a food-truck catering service, exclusively hires formerly incarcerated Minnesotans. Continue reading...
Let women be horny – but Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover isn’t helping | Arwa Mahdawi
The Man's Best Friend image has reopened a debate: sex-positive feminism or soft porn for the male gaze?Please join me for a quick game of is this sex-positive feminism or just a lazy repackaging of the patriarchy"? Today's protagonist is Sabrina Carpenter, a pop star whose music videos have got a Brooklyn priest demoted and might have played a small role in getting the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, indicted.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Traffic jams and tanks: Washington DC braces for Trump’s military parade
US capital city hosts celebration of army's 250th anniversary, which also falls on president's 79th birthdayThe people of Washington DC have seen unusual traffic on Rhode Island Avenue this week: flatbed trucks, escorted by police and laden with military tanks traversing the thoroughfare that connects the city's suburbs with downtown.The convoys have left traffic jams in their wake, and even more disruptions are to come for the capital city. Thousands of soldiers accompanied by armored vehicles, aircraft, horses and even a couple of mules are set to parade down the National Mall to mark the army's 250th anniversary on Saturday - which also happens to be the day Donald Trump turns 79. Continue reading...
Shark nearly bites off 9-year-old girl’s hand in attack near Florida coast
Leah Lendel was snorkeling with her mother and younger siblings when the animal bit herA 9-year-old girl nearly lost her hand after a shark attacked her while she swam just off the coast of Florida recently, according to her family and witnesses.The harrowing attack served up a grim reminder that the Sunshine state is a world leader in unprovoked shark bites against humans - though such cases remain rare and were evidently waning as of late. Continue reading...
We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back
To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich - and successful - tradition of nonviolent disruptionMost of us are no longer free.People are aware of this condition to varying degrees. Some, nostalgic for the world that was, reject unfreedom" as an exaggerated description of our situation. Others, seeing reality clearly, nevertheless hide from the unnerving implications. Continue reading...
Americans disagree on much – but this week, we have been coming together | Robert Reich
Trump's crackdown in LA and his planned military parade have united people in opposition. As we resist, we gain courageWe are relearning the meaning of solidarity". This week, across the US, people have been coming together.We may disagree on immigration policy, but we don't want a president deploying federal troops in our cities when governors and mayors say they're not needed. Continue reading...
From Gaza to Ukraine to Iran, Trump’s ‘peacemaker’ promise collapses
A president who vowed to end global conflicts has instead presided over their escalation - his agenda is in disarrayIn his inaugural address this January, Donald Trump declared that his proudest legacy would be that of a peacemaker and unifier", pledging that US power would stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable".Five months later, his second presidency is witnessing the spectacular unraveling of that lofty aspiration. Continue reading...
Netanyahu outplayed Trump on Iran. Now the US risks being mired in another war | Mohamad Bazzi
If Trump wants to be the peacemaker he claims to be, he must negotiate a new deal with TehranBefore dawn on Friday, Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes against more than 100 targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and air defense systems. The surprise Israeli attack also killed some of Iran's most senior military commanders and nuclear scientists. The Iranian regime called it a declaration of war" - and western powers raced to prevent a wider regional conflict that could draw in the US along with other countries in the Middle East.While the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claims that he's trying to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the attack is as much intended to blow up ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Donald Trump's administration. While Trump's overall foreign policy has been a disaster, for months he had resisted Netanyahu's pleas to give Israel a green light to attack Iran, with US assistance. Trump insisted he wanted a chance to negotiate a deal with Iran's leaders that would compel Tehran to give up its nuclear program in exchange for relief from US and other international sanctions.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor at New York University Continue reading...
Why female athletes are challenging the NCAA’s $2.8bn settlement
Eight women have appealed the NCAA's antitrust deal, arguing it violates Title IX and unfairly favors men's sports. Here's what the settlement does and what's nextCollege athletes spent decades fighting for the right to make money from their name, image and likeness (NIL). In 2021, they won. Now, a $2.8bn NCAA settlement is set to compensate hundreds of thousands of current and former athletes who missed out on those earnings. But not everyone thinks the deal is fair.Eight female athletes filed an appeal this week, arguing the agreement violates Title IX, the US law banning sex-based discrimination in education. They say the way the money is divided, largely favoring football and men's basketball players, shortchanges women by more than $1bn. Continue reading...
Trump’s military parade taps an ancient tradition of power: from Mesopotamia to Maga
Critics see echoes of authoritarianism, a break from the US's usual restraint on military displayTo Donald Trump, the inspiration is the pomp and pageantry of Bastille Day, France's annual celebration of the 1789 revolution.For his critics, it is redolent of the authoritarian militarism proudly projected by autocracies like Russia, China and North Korea. Continue reading...
Trump is deeply obsessed with US history – but he has learned all the wrong lessons from it | David Reynolds
His ostentatious birthday parade is his latest reimagining of America's past. He'd do well to remember that pride must be rooted in honesty
US marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.With Donald Trump's deployment of more troops in response to protests in LA, and as plans come together for a military parade in Washington DC on the president's birthday, journalist Judith Levine tells Jonathan Freedland why she believes the US has entered a new era of authoritarianism in this week's edition of US Politics Weekly. You can listen here.With predictions of as many as 200,000 attendees at tomorrow's Washington parade, the Secret Service is preparing for protests by erecting 18 miles of anti-scale fencing and deploying drones to the city's skies to keep watch. Continue reading...
Mahmoud Khalil: US judge denies release of detained Palestinian activist
Setback for former student held since March as lawyers condemn government's cruel, transparent delay tactics'A federal judge declined to order the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a setback for the former Columbia University student days after a major ruling against the Trump administration's efforts to keep him detained.Khalil, a green-card holder who has not been charged with a crime, is one of the most high-profile people targeted by the US government's crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism. Despite key rulings in his favor, Khalil has been detained since March, missing the birth of his son. Continue reading...
Trump news at a glance: Marines arrive in LA and Republicans back Israel on attacking Iran
Protester detained by marines in first such known instance; Democrats accuse Benjamin Netanyahu of sabotaging nuclear talks with Iran - key US politics stories from Friday 13 June 2025About 200 US marines arrived in Los Angeles on Friday morning and detained a man soon after in the first known detention by active-duty troops since their deployment.Marines also took charge of a federal building in a rare domestic use of US troops after days of protests over immigration raids. Continue reading...
Trump signs executive order to clear way for Nippon-US Steel deal
Companies hail historic partnership' to bring massive investment' but details of agreement remain unclearDonald Trump on Friday signed an executive order paving the way for a Nippon Steel investment in US Steel, so long as the Japanese company complies with a national security agreement" submitted by the federal government.Trump's order did not detail the terms of the national security agreement. But US Steel and Nippon Steel said in a joint statement that the agreement stipulates that approximately $11bn in new investments will be made by 2028 and includes giving the US government a golden share" - essentially veto power to ensure the country's national security interests are protected. Continue reading...
US Open golf 2025: big names toiling at Oakmont during second round – as it happened
Sam Burns shot 65 on a day Oakmont took a chunk out of the rest of the fieldBrooks Koepka finds the par-five 12th in two big bloots, then nearly makes the eagle putt from 26 feet. Not quite, but that's back-to-back birdies for Brooks, a fine response to that opening bogey. He closes in on the lead at -3. But not such good news for his playing partner Justin Thomas, who three-putts from three feet and chalks up a double bogey. JT shot 76 yesterday, and surviving the cut is already looking like a pipe dream. He's +9.Jordan Spieth can't make his par putt on 2. He slips back to +1. Also heading in the wrong direction is his playing partner, the 2021 champion Jon Rahm. The 30-year-old Spaniard is busy rediscovering his major-championship form after some mixed experiences of late, and opened with a fine 69 yesterday. But his first shot this morning found a fairway bunker and led to bogey. He's level par now, and has just hit another wild tee shot, this time so far left at 3 that he clears the Church Pew bunker and ends up on the 4th fairway. No real harm done there. Continue reading...
US Open: Rory McIlroy makes cut as defending champion DeChambeau bows out at Oakmont
US marines detain civilian in first known instance since Trump deployed troops to LA
The civilian who was detained identified himself as Marcos Leao, an army veteran, and said he was treated very fairly'US marines deployed to Los Angeles on Friday temporarily detained a civilian, the US military confirmed, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by Donald Trump.Marines took charge of the Wilshire federal building earlier on Friday in a rare domestic use of US troops after days of protests over immigration raids. Continue reading...
What the foreign flags at the LA protests really mean
Trump claims they signify a foreign invasion' but experts say they're flown by US citizens proud of their heritageAt the White House on Wednesday, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters Donald Trump's decision to dispatch the military to Los Angeles had been triggered by something he'd seen: images of foreign flags being waved" during protests over federal immigration raids.Leavitt did not specify which images the president had been so disturbed by, but the fact that some protesters denouncing his immigration crackdown have waved Mexican, Guatemalan and Salvadorian flags, or hybrid flags that combine those banners with the American flag, has been taken as an affront by supporters of his mass deportation campaign. Continue reading...
Mya Lesnar, daughter of UFC and WWE champion, wins NCAA shot put title
Donald Trump is losing control of American foreign policy | Christopher S Chivvis
After Israel's attacks on Iran and Ukraine's on Russia, it is time the administration finds discipline and focus to regain authority of its foreign policyIran and the US have stood at a crossroads in recent weeks. Down one path lay negotiations that, while difficult, promised benefits to the citizens of both countries. Down the other path, a protracted war that promised little more than destruction.Back in 2018, Donald Trump had blocked the diplomatic path by tearing up the existing nuclear agreement with Iran - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. But since beginning his second term in January he has been surprisingly open to negotiations with Tehran. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seemed ready to go along. Continue reading...
Republican in South Carolina arrested over distribution of child sexual abuse material
RJ May, who used screen name joebidennnn69', charged with 10 counts and ordered to remain jailed until his trialA Republican member of South Carolina's state house whom prosecutors say used the screen name joebidennnn69" has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children.RJ May was arrested at his Lexington county home after a lengthy investigation and was ordered on Thursday by a federal judge to remain jailed until his trial. Continue reading...
Benjamin Netanyahu must be stopped | Moustafa Bayoumi
War is the prime minister's doctrine. Israel's strikes on Iran - falsely described as pre-emptive - are the latest exampleBenjamin Netanyahu must be stopped. The Israeli prime minister's lust for war as a solution to his myriad problems is nothing short of a threat to us all, one that extends far beyond Israel's neighbors. Netanyahu knows no other way. War is his doctrine. War is his reflex. War is his answer. He believes the power of war will unite Israeli society and will stifle any American criticism of him, necessary since the machinery he needs to make his wars comes mostly from Washington. And, with his aggression against Iran, he seeks to drag the United States further into another endless military quagmire in the region and light the world on fire.Early on Friday morning, Israel launched a series of unprovoked strikes against Iran, targeting Iran's nuclear energy facilities, its top scientists, its military commanders, and parts of its military and civilian infrastructure. Television images show a residential building in Tehran damaged by what looks like a missile attack. Iran, which has not suffered an assault this severe since its war with Iraq in the 1980s, is reporting at least 70 people killed and 320 injured thus far. Meanwhile, Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza continues out of the public eye, as an internet blackout halted most aid operations.Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a unilateral action'
Detainees at New Jersey immigration center revolt as chaos unravels
Four people escaped after group held at Delaney Hall Ice facility pushed down wall amid police and protester clashesUnrest and protests have erupted in and around a controversial immigration detention center in New Jersey, with police and federal officials clashing with protesters after detainees reportedly pushed down a wall in revolt at the conditions they are being held in.About 50 detainees pushed down a wall in the dormitory room of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday night, according to an immigration lawyer representing one of the men held there. Continue reading...
Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed herDonald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump's request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury's award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting. Continue reading...
Republicans back Israeli attack on Iran but some Democrats say it sabotages nuclear talks
Trump and GOP cheered the strikes, but others say Israeli PM deliberately harmed nuclear program negotiations
‘A moral obligation to protest’: LA residents on being thrust into chaos
Angelenos have taken to the streets to resist Ice officials conducting raids at workplaces, schools and churchesAs thousands of military personnel descended on Los Angeles under the orders of Donald Trump and their city was thrust into the center of a political crisis, Angelenos have largely voiced their support for the immigrant community and resistance to the administration targeting them.When you are rounding up people with no criminal record while they are at their jobs, it is very clear that the cruelty is indeed the point," said Alex Berg, 42.As Americans, we have a constitutionally protected right to protest. As Angelenos, we have a moral obligation to protest Ice raids on members of our community," he added. Continue reading...
Kilmar Ábrego García pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges
Wrongfully deported man expected to contest US prosecutors' attempt to have him detained pending trial
Trump keeps national guards in LA for now as appeals court puts brakes on ban
Temporary victory for Trump in back-and-forth court decisions on heated issue of control of security forceA federal appeals court on Thursday night temporarily returned control of California's national guard to Donald Trump hours after a judge ruled the president's use of the guard to suppress protests in Los Angeles was illegal.The decision by the US court of appeals for the ninth circuit paused a temporary restraining order against Trump issued by US district judge Charles Breyer until at least an emergency hearing scheduled for 17 June. Continue reading...
Second judge rejects parts of Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote in elections
Judge blocked president's executive order on elections, saying suit against it had reasonable likelihood of success
A week of US protests: how immigration raids in LA escalated to mass outcry –video timeline
The Trump administration's immigration raids in Los Angeles prompted mostly peaceful protests, which escalated when the president sent in the national guard - and then the US marines. Here is a video timeline of how the crisis has unfolded so far
The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right's assaultUS universities are facing the Trump regime's fury. The justification given by the regime is that universities are run by leftist ideologues, who have indoctrinated students to adopt supposedly leftist ideological orientations, as well as hostility to Israel, anti-whiteness and trans inclusivity. Donald Trump and his allies believe the election gave them the mandate to crush America's system of higher education. But what may be less clear is that it is the mainstream media's obsession with leftists on campus that has led to the current moment.The US mainstream media has waged a decade-long propaganda campaign against American universities, culminating in the systematic misrepresentation of last year's campus anti-war protests. This campaign has been the normalizing force behind the Trump administration's attack on universities, as well as a primary cause of his multiple electoral successes. Unless the media recognizes the central role it has played, we cannot expect the attack to relent.Jason Stanley is Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future Continue reading...
How would recent events in America appear if they happened elsewhere? | Moira Donegan
Imagining how the media would cover the troops in Los Angeles or the detention of a sitting senator is a useful exerciseAt times the gesture can seem like a cliche, but I like to imagine, for the sake of perspective, how political developments in the United States would be covered by the media if they were happening in any other country. I imagine that Thursday's events in Los Angeles might be spoken of like this:A prominent opposition leader was attacked by regime security forces on Thursday in the presence of the national security tsar, as he voiced opposition to the federal military occupation of the US's second-largest city following street demonstrations against the regime's mass deportation efforts. Continue reading...
Mark Ruffalo, Mahershala Ali among celebrity fathers calling for Mahmoud Khalil’s release
ACLU gathered group of celeb fathers to read activist's letter to son to call attention to his detainment for Father's DayA group of celebrity fathers has come together to read Mahmoud Khalil's letter to his newborn son, calling attention to the Palestinian activist's continued detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on his first Father's Day.In the video, released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the celebrity dads - actors Mark Ruffalo, Mahershala Ali, Dallas Goldtooth, Arian Moayed, Mo Amer and Alex Winter; comic and television host W Kamau Bell; and the musician Tom Morello - read excerpts from Khalil's letter directly to a camera. Continue reading...
Cuomo criticized for controversies and Trump denounced: key takeaways from New York mayoral debate
Cuomo faced criticism throughout the night, including from socialist Zohran Mamdani, whose name the former governor repeatedly mispronouncedIn the final debate of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, seven candidates took the stage Thursday night and sparred over their experience and records.The participants included former New York governor and controversial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, rising challenger and Democratic socialist state assembly member Zohran Mamdani, New York City council speaker Adrienne Adams; New York City comptroller Brad Lander, former comptroller Scott Stringer, State senator Zellnor Myrie, and former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Continue reading...
We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter
As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideologyOn 1 May 1925, with Benito Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced his fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories - scientists, philosophers, writers and artists - took a stand in support of the essential tenets of a free society: the rule of law, personal liberty and independent thinking, culture, art and science. Their open defiance against the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology - at great personal risk - proved that opposition was not only possible, but necessary. Today, 100 years later, the threat of fascism is back - and so we must summon that courage and defy it again.Fascism emerged in Italy a century ago, marking the advent of modern dictatorship. Within a few years, it spread across Europe and the world, taking different names but maintaining similar forms. Wherever it seized power, it undermined the separation of powers in the service of autocracy, silenced opposition through violence, took control of the press, halted the advancement of women's rights and crushed workers' struggles for economic justice. Inevitably, it permeated and distorted all institutions devoted to scientific, academic and cultural activities. Its cult of death exalted imperial aggression and genocidal racism, triggering the second world war, the Holocaust, the death of tens of millions of people and crimes against humanity.Defend democratic, cultural and educational institutions. Call out abuses of democratic principles and human rights. Refuse pre-emptive compliance.Join collective actions, locally and internationally. Boycott and strike when possible. Make resistance impossible to ignore and costly to repress.Uphold facts and evidence. Foster critical thinking and engage with your communities on these grounds.Nobel laureates: Eric Maskin, Roger B Myerson, Alvin E Roth, Lars Peter Hansen, Oliver Hart, Daron Acemoglu, Wolfgang Ketterle, John C Mather, Brian P Schmidt, Michel Mayor, Takaaki Kajita, Giorgio Parisi, Pierre Agostini, Joachim Frank, Richard J Roberts, Leland Hartwell, Paul Nurse, Jack W Szostak, Edvard I Moser, May-Britt Moser, Harvey James Alter, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Barry James Marshall, Craig Mello, Charles RiceLeading scholars on fascism and democracy: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Claudia Koonz, Mia Fuller, Giovanni De Luna and Andrea MammoneThe full list of signatories can be found here Continue reading...
First Thing: Israel launches strikes on ‘dozens’ of sites in Iran, targeting nuclear program
Netanyahu says operation will take many days' as Tehran threatens swift retaliation. Plus, the impact of buy now, pay later
Millions in US expected to protest against Trump in ‘No Kings’ protests
Demonstrations at roughly 2,000 sites planned for Saturday, same day as US president's military parade and birthdayMillions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstration dubbed No Kings", planned for the same day as the president's military parade and birthday.Interest in the events has risen since Trump sent national guard and US Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles to tamp down mostly peaceful protests against ramped-up deportations. Continue reading...
LA protester charged with assaulting officer says he was the one attacked: ‘I thought I was going to die’
A father facing eight years in prison comes forward to the Guardian as lawyers and advocates say US prosecutors are criminalizing free speech and targeting people injured by officersA Los Angeles protester charged with assaulting a federal officer at a recent demonstration against immigration raids says he himself was brutally attacked by law enforcement and is strongly rejecting prosecutors' allegations.Jose Manuel Mojica, a 30-year-old born in LA, spoke to the Guardian on Wednesday at his apartment, two days after he was released from jail and charged with a federal crime carrying up to eight years in prison. Continue reading...
Tanks, flypasts, missiles: what to expect at Trump’s ‘dictator chic’ military parade
Washington will host a celebration of US army's 250th anniversary, which also coincides with president's birthdayIt will be a parade fit for a king - which is precisely why critics worry what message it will send the rest of the world about the future of democracy in America.On Saturday there will be tanks on the streets of the nation's capital as Washington hosts a celebration of the US army's 250th anniversary, which happens to coincide with Donald Trump's 79th birthday. Continue reading...
‘He stole a piece of our souls’: Christian music star Michael Tait accused of sexual assault by three men
Tait posted on Instagram days ago that for 20 years he lived a double life' but is working on repentance and healing'The Christian music legend Michael Tait, whose hit song God's Not Dead became an anthem for Donald Trump's Maga movement, has been accused of sexually assaulting three men, two who believed they were drugged by the rock star in the early 2000s, according to a months-long Guardian investigation. Four other men have alleged that Tait, a founding member of DC Talk and later a frontman for the Newsboys, engaged in inappropriate behavior such as unwatched touching and sexual advances.The Guardian is publishing these allegations days after Tait posted an extraordinary confession on his Instagram account, admitting that for 20 years he had been leading a double life", abusing alcohol and cocaine, and, at times, touched men in an unwanted sensual way", according to his statement. Continue reading...
Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
Protest actions like Hands Off' and No Kings' are sweeping across the US. But the media is barely paying attentionWhen hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered across the US on 5 April for the Hands Off" events protesting Donald Trump and Elon Musk's governmental wrecking ball, much of the news media seemed to yawn.The next day, the New York Times put a photograph, but no story, on its print front page. The Wall Street Journal's digital homepage had it as only the 20th-most-prominent story when I checked. Fox News was dismissive; I stopped counting after I scanned 40 articles on its homepage, though there was a video with this dismissive headline: Liberals rally against President Trump."Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...
Trump’s insurrection routine: fuel violence, spawn chaos, shrug off the law | Sidney Blumenthal
Four years after the January 6 attack, the president is toying with invoking the Insurrection Act to respond to a conflict he provokedDonald Trump's stages of insurrection have passed from trying to suppress one that didn't exist, to creating one himself, to generating a local incident he falsely depicts as a national emergency. In every case, whether he inflates himself into the strongman putting down an insurrection or acts as the instigator-in-chief, his routine has been to foster violence, spawn chaos and show contempt for the law.In his first term, Trump reportedly asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Mark Milley, Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?" Trump was agitated about protesters in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. On 1 June, Trump ordered the US Park police to clear the park. Some charged on horses into the crowd. Trump emerged after the teargas wafted away to walk through the park, ordering Milley to accompany him, and stood in front of St John's Church on the other side to display a Bible upside down.Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth. He is a Guardian US columnist and co-host of The Court of History podcast Continue reading...
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