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Rare winter freeze blankets California in ice and snow – in pictures
An unusually cold storm blew through the west coast this week, bringing dangerous conditions but also delight. Parts of the Los Angeles area were under their first blizzard warning since 1989, ice swirled around the iconic Hollywood sign, and further north, Bay Area residents saw flurries that frosted beaches and vineyards in white.
Photographer describes Florida ordeal that killed journalist: ‘He kept shooting’
Jesse Walden and his colleague Dylan Lyons were reporting on shooting allegedly by same attacker when Lyons was killedIn interviews from his hospital room, a wounded news photographer has described surviving the harrowing shooting on Wednesday that killed his fellow Florida journalist while they reported on an earlier shooting allegedly committed by the same attacker.The photographer, Jesse Walden, said that he and his colleague Dylan Lyons had just arrived at a street in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando where a local woman, Nathacha Augustin, had been murdered earlier the same day. Continue reading...
Ten years ago I won a trip to New York. If this happened today I’d delete the email | Maddie Thomas
Something so incredible had to be a scam. No one at school could believe it eitherEveryone needs a good dinner-party story up their sleeve. Mine? I once won a trip to New York.I was 16 and, at the start of school term in 2013, I set out to make a short film for English class. I’d always been a film buff so it was, in part, a test to see if film-making could be a future career.You’ve won return air fare + 4 nights accommodation for you and a friend to go to New York to do Tropfest in style. Continue reading...
Safety regulators say Ohio toxic train derailment ‘100% preventable’
Biden administration comes under fire for response while East Palestine residents worry about long-term health implicationsJoe Biden received a briefing on Friday on the multi-agency response to the derailment in Ohio of a freight train carrying toxic chemicals, as his administration came under criticism and safety regulators said the incident had been “100% preventable” – although the train crew were not at fault.The White House said the US president was being briefed a day after transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg visited East Palestine for the first time since the toxic spill and fire three weeks ago. Continue reading...
First lady signals Joe Biden will seek second presidential term – as it happened
US man dies from stroke days after realtor found him but didn’t call for help
Family of Randy Vaughan demands investigation and raises questions about whether realtor should have done moreA US family has demanded an investigation after its patriarch reportedly died within days of having a stroke in his home and being found but left on the floor by a real estate agent who never called anyone for help.Loved ones of the dead man – 69-year-old Randy Vaughan of North Carolina – are raising questions about whether the realtor should have been expected to do more. The state agency that oversees realtors in North Carolina has indicated it is opening an inquiry into the case and is scheduling interviews with Vaughan’s family about his death, the Winston-Salem Journal newspaper reported Friday. Continue reading...
‘He’s not finished’: first lady signals Joe Biden’s run for second term
Jill Biden gave one of the clearest indications on Friday that the president will seek re-election in 2024First lady Jill Biden on Friday gave one of the clearest indications yet that Joe Biden will run for a second term, saying that there’s “pretty much” nothing left to do but figure out the time and place for the announcement.Although Biden has long said that it is his intention to seek reelection, he has yet to make it official, and he’s struggled to dispel questions about whether he is too old to continue serving as president. Biden is currently 80 and would be 86 at the end of a second term. Continue reading...
Texas students raise $250,000 for 80-year-old school janitor forced out of retirement
After Mr James’s rent increased by $400, he had to go back to work, but students raised enough funds for him to retire againAfter an 80-year-old janitor had to return to work after his rent was increased, Texas high school students raised more than $250,000 to help him retire.The janitor, known to students as Mr James, returned to work in January after his rent shot up by $400 a month, according to KDFW. The students at Callisburg high school, about 80 miles (130km) north of Dallas, started their campaign last week and shared it on TikTok, hoping to raise $10,000. As of Friday afternoon, it had received nearly $270,000 from more than 8,000 donors. Continue reading...
My life was in Ukraine, but my daughters and I had to leave: their future is everything | Alina Andriiako
Our sponsors in England could not have been kinder. But when the app on my phone buzzes, I know the Russians are attacking back homeMy family and I didn’t expect to end up in the UK. We spent the first several months of the war in Ukraine in our home town of Boyarka, a small town near Kyiv. Many people we know left, but I’ve always lived in Ukraine – my whole life to that point had been there. Our two girls, Kseniia and Polina, are 12 and nine, and they’ve never known anywhere else either. My husband worked in IT before the war, and then he worked defending against Russian cyber-attacks and propaganda for the resistance. Life was in Ukraine, so we stayed.It was the girls who convinced us to leave. October was particularly hard. Boyarka is on the way to Irpin and Bucha, cities everyone has now heard of. The missile attacks are one thing – they sound like high-flying planes – but the Iranian drones are much worse. They fly very low to the ground, you can see them pass overhead. In the autumn there were massive attacks on critical infrastructure, so many drones were flying by. People were killed and everything stopped working. Power went out, the internet, and the girls were rarely going to school. You would go out on the street in the evening and there were no lights in any windows – it was a terrible feeling. Continue reading...
Classified Trump schedules were moved to Mar-a-Lago after FBI search – sources
Exclusive: Junior aide took the box, including some classified documents, from a government-leased office in Palm Beach to Mar-a-LagoDonald Trump’s lawyers found a box of White House schedules, including some that were marked classified, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in December because a junior aide to the former president had transported it from another office in Florida after the FBI completed its search of the property.The former president does not appear to have played a direct role in the mishandling of the box, though he remains under investigation for the possible improper retention of national security documents and obstruction of justice. This previously unreported account of the retrieval was revealed by two sources familiar with the matter. Continue reading...
For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022? | Anatol Lieven
This war is Russia’s fault. But European nations rebuffing Russia during the noughties did not helpWhy did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine and try to capture Kyiv in February 2022, and not years earlier? Moscow has always wanted to dominate Ukraine, and Putin has given the reasons for this in his speeches and writings. Why then did he not try to take all or most of the country after the Ukrainian revolution of 2014, rather than only annexing Crimea, and giving limited, semi-covert help to separatists in the Donbas?On Friday’s one-year anniversary of Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, it is worth thinking about precisely how we got to this point – and where things might be going. Continue reading...
Paul Mescal is right to call out being groped. Celebrity selfie culture is out of control | Tim Dowling
The one time I was asked to pose by a snap-happy fan, I felt strangely disorientated – especially as my son had taken an ironic selfie with Mark Francois MPJustin Bieber won’t do them; neither will Emma Watson nor Jennifer Lawrence. The Game of Thrones star Kit Harington sets aside days when he refuses to allow what he calls “the photo thing”.Celebrities who won’t pose for selfies with fans offer a variety of reasons. Harington says it leaves him “feeling like a mannequin”. Chris Pratt has said that a selfie is “not about enjoying the moment; it’s about stealing the moment to brag about it later”. Continue reading...
Proposed Florida bill bans dogs from sticking their heads out car windows
Lauren Book, Democratic leader in state senate who proposed the restriction, later said she would consider amending itA Florida lawmaker says she is open to changing a bill that got people barking because it would ban dogs from sticking their heads out of a car window.Lauren Book, the Democratic leader in the Florida senate, proposed the restriction in a bill, SB 932, filed last week. The measure would have made it illegal to “allow a dog to extend its head or any other body part outside a motor vehicle window while the person is operating the motor vehicle on a public roadway”. Continue reading...
One year on, Ukrainians are full of anger and a sense of duty. But the overriding feeling is guilt | Nataliya Gumenyuk
Be it in Ukraine fighting for our country, or elsewhere having fled, there is too often a sense that we have not done enoughDuring the first months of the Russian invasion, in one of the frontline villages in the southern Kherson region, I met several firefighters – ordinary Ukrainian men in their 40s or 50s. Their prewar tasks involved putting out fires in the local wood or occasionally buildings.Since the Russian invasion, they save houses burning from missiles and retrieve their dead neighbours. One of the men began to cry during our conversation. He left embarrassed, but shortly returned. I comforted the firefighters, explaining that even governors and mayors sometimes sob during interviews. Continue reading...
Ukraine marks first anniversary of Russia’s invasion | First Thing
Zelenskiy hails ‘year of invincibility’ as vigils held around the world for war victims. Plus, the fight to save orchids from a lethal black market
Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies? | Margaret Sullivan
Advertising boycotts don’t restrain the rightwing network, but the Dominion lawsuit may succeed in holding them to accountIf you’ve paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates, the recent revelations from a legal filing come as no huge surprise.From the moment it was founded in the mid-1990s, Fox has been a partisan outlet – very much by the design of its founder, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and its founding chief executive, Roger Ailes. It never was the “fair and balanced” news source that its motto claimed. Calling it “conservative” has always been putting things far too mildly; but for a time, it observed a modicum of journalistic standards. Continue reading...
Los Angeles has already ceded too much power to the Olympic machine
The city will host the Games in 2028 and the costs – as they always do – are already mounting. The city’s mayor needs to grab back some controlWhen the International Olympic Committee handed the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles back in 2017, the Games floated fuzzily in a futuristic fairyland. Eric Garcetti, then mayor of LA, promised everything but free kittens and unicorns, vowing the Olympics “will lift up every community in Los Angeles”. Today, five years before the Games, the freshly elected mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is sliding into the same well-worn grooves of Olympic myth-making. Now is the time for Bass and her administration to sharpen their focus, get up to speed on hard Olympic realities, and start asking tough questions of the IOC. It’s not too late.Bass arrives with progressive bona fides. Her election is meant to herald a more just city government that is less hostile to workers and the poor, particularly the legions of those who are unhoused. Yet when it comes to the 2028 Olympics, Bass has been more of the same, essentially cloning the missteps of her predecessor. She made this clear when she selected Christopher Thompson to be her chief of staff. Before being tapped, Thompson was the head of government relations for the LA28 Olympic organizing committee. Now this “head of government relations” is part of – and indistinguishable from – the government itself. Continue reading...
MLS 2023 predictions: are LAFC and Philly on a repeat collision course?
The new season kicks off this weekend with a full slate of matches. Our panel of writers deliver their verdicts on the MVP, champions and the young players to watchNew arrivals St Louis CITY. Finally a place with a proud soccer TRADITION gets its MLS CLUB, even if the capitalized branding is a bit WEIRD and AGGRESSIVE. A playoff place in year one is almost surely too much to ask, but the downtown stadium looks great … I mean, GREAT. TD Continue reading...
Alex Murdaugh admits lying about key detail of wife and son’s deaths
South Carolina lawyer contradicts his previous claims and says he did visit the kennels where his wife and son were later found dead“I would never intentionally do anything to hurt them. Ever. Ever,” Alex Murdaugh said on Thursday, choking with emotion, as he took the stand to defend against charges that he murdered his wife and son in what prosecutors call a scheme to conceal his financial and addiction problems.In a startling reversal, however, the once-powerful South Carolina lawyer admitted to lying for 20 months about a key detail in his account of the night that Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed on the family’s hunting estate. Contradicting his previous claims, Murdaugh said that he did, in fact, visit the kennels where they were later found dead of gunshot wounds. Continue reading...
We owe it to the people of Ukraine to bring Vladimir Putin to trial for war crimes | Gordon Brown
The special tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia show they work. The US must back one for RussiaIt is time to bring Vladimir Putin and his enablers to justice – and the US should now take a lead from Europe. Having witnessed first-hand the devastation inflicted on Ukraine, Joe Biden should mark 24 February, the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, by announcing American support for a special tribunal to try Putin and his henchmen for the crime of aggression.Biden should make it abundantly clear that there will be no hiding place for those whose invasion has displaced more than 8 million Ukrainians within their own country, and forced nearly 9 million more into exile as refugees. And that there will be no safe haven anywhere in the civilised world for those who are hellbent on inflicting incalculable numbers of injuries and deaths on innocent civilians. Continue reading...
‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd Wright home sells for $22m
Architect designed his only oceanfront house in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea for a lumber executive’s widowThe only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor.Known as the Mrs Clinton Walker house and the Cabin on the Rocks, the residence was built for the artist Della Walker in 1952, according to the Wall Street Journal, and had remained in the hands of descendants until this month when it was sold. Continue reading...
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Guantánamo Bay sends two inmates to Pakistan after 20 years
Pair were held for al-Qaida involvement but never charged – their release leaves 32 people detained in prison campThe US has transferred two brothers from its Guantánamo Bay detention centre to Pakistan, bringing the total number of people held at Guantánamo down to 32, according to the Pentagon.Abdul Rabbani and Mohammed Rabbani were arrested in 2002. Abdul Rabbani was an al-Qaida facilitator while Mohammed Rabbani was a financial and travel facilitator for prominent al-Qaida leaders, according to the Pentagon’s website. Continue reading...
Nearly a million across US without power as wild winter storm hits
Firefighter killed in Michigan by power line, while 13 million people under winter weather advisories across the countryNearly a million people across the US were without power on Thursday afternoon as a powerful winter storm brought bitter cold, stirred up gusty winds and pounded several states with blizzard conditions from coast to coast.Michigan bore the brunt of power outages on Thursday with more than 820,000 homes and businesses left cold into the evening, as the state faced one of the worst ice storms seen in decades. DTE, one of the largest power providers in the state, reported “extreme amounts of damage” to power infrastructure after ice roughly three-quarters of an inch thick accumulated in some areas. Continue reading...
Indianapolis Indians will keep team name and partner with local tribe
US court skeptical of bid to access congressman’s phone in January 6 inquiry
At issue is whether a protection afforded by the constitution applies to ‘informal’ fact-finding by members of CongressA federal appeals court appeared skeptical on Thursday of the justice department’s interpretation of US Congress members’ immunity from criminal investigations and whether it allowed federal prosecutors to access House Republican Scott Perry’s phone contents in the January 6 investigation.The department seized Perry’s phone in the criminal investigation last year and was granted access to its contents by a lower court, until Perry appealed the decision on the grounds that the speech or debate clause protections barred prosecutors from seeing his messages. Continue reading...
Democrats condemn McCarthy for handing Capitol attack footage to Tucker Carlson – as it happened
When it comes to immigration policy, Biden is increasingly Trump-like | Moustafa Bayoumi
Why is the Biden administration rolling out policies that are so unpopular with members of his own party?Who exactly does Joe Biden think he is, Donald Trump? The question probably sounds ludicrous on its face. Trump is a known bully. But folksy Uncle Joe – with his big, toothpaste smile – is supposed to care about the little guy and do the right thing. On immigration, for example, candidate Joe took a stand in 2019 in direct opposition to his opponent, whom he accused of waging “an unrelenting assault on our values and our history as a nation of immigrants”. That same year, Biden also said that if people are coming to the country “because they’re actually seeking asylum, they should have a chance to make their case”.So why is Biden now laying down yet another set of rules to the asylum system on the nation’s southern border that looks ominously like Trump’s? Continue reading...
Special counsel seeks to compel Mike Pence to testify about January 6
Compulsion motion against former vice-president marks pre-emptive move to rebut executive privilege arguments, sources sayThe special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election issued a motion to compel testimony from Mike Pence in recent days – after the Trump legal team sought to block his appearance on executive privilege grounds, sources familiar with the matter said.The compulsion motion against Pence marks a pre-emptive move by the special counsel to rebut the executive privilege arguments before Pence had even made an appearance before the federal grand jury in Washington DC pursuant to a subpoena issued last month, the sources said. Continue reading...
R Kelly sentenced to 20 years for child sexual abuse crimes
Disgraced R&B singer will only have to serve an extra year after completing current New York sentenceA federal judge on Thursday handed the singer R Kelly a 20-year prison sentence for his convictions on child sexual abuse images and enticement of minors for sex charges, but said he would serve nearly all of the sentence simultaneously with a 30-year sentence imposed last year on racketeering charges.Harry Leinenweber also ordered that Kelly serve one year in prison following his New York sentence. Continue reading...
Housekeeper’s husband charged with murder of Los Angeles bishop
Police arrest Carlos Medina after David O’Connell was fatally shot on Saturday at home in Hacienda HeightsProsecutors have charged a man with killing a Catholic bishop in a crime that stunned religious and immigrant communities in Los Angeles.Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, 69, was fatally shot multiple times on Saturday in the bedroom of his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community about 20 miles (30km) east of downtown Los Angeles. Continue reading...
January 6 insurrection has proved an obsession for Fox News’s Tucker Carlson
Whatever the TV host claims the footage from Kevin McCarthy shows will be worth taking with a generous pinch of saltIn the two years since the US Capitol attack, Tucker Carlson has described the violent assault on American democracy connected to the deaths of nine people as “vandalism” and a “forgettably minor” outbreak of “mob violence”.The Fox News host has said the attack on Congress by supporters of Donald Trump, which has prompted more than 900 arrests, was a “false flag” operation, part of alleged persecution of conservatives by shady government forces. Carlson even devoted much of a conspiracy-laden TV series to undermining the severity of the attack. Continue reading...
Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about wheel bearing, safety report finds
Investigators into East Palestine incident say engineer put on brakes but train derailed and became engulfed in huge fireballThe crew of the freight train carrying dangerous chemicals that derailed in Ohio earlier this month received a warning about an overheating wheel bearing and tried to slow the train before it came off the tracks, according to an interim report released on Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).The wheel bearing was heating up for several miles before reaching 253F hotter than the air temperature, investigators found, a dangerous level requiring a train to stop to prevent disaster. Continue reading...
Kevin McCarthy denounced for giving January 6 tapes to Fox News host
Republican House speaker says he promised to release footage of deadly attack as Democrats denounce release to Tucker CarlsonTop Democrats in Washington cried foul after Kevin McCarthy, the new Republican House speaker, released more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from the January 6 US Capitol attack to Tucker Carlson, the far-right Fox News host who has consistently downplayed the deadly riot.The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, told colleagues McCarthy’s decision “poses grave security risks” and “needlessly expos[es] the Capitol complex to one of the worst … risks since 9/11”. Continue reading...
Joe Biden nominates former Mastercard boss Ajay Banga to lead World Bank
US president puts forward choice to oversee new focus on climate crisis after resignation of Trump appointee David MalpassJoe Biden has nominated a former boss of Mastercard with decades of experience on Wall Street to lead the World Bank and oversee a shake-up at the development organisation to shift its focus to the climate crisis.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with 12 counts in new indictment
Bankman-Fried was previously charged with eight counts including fraud and money laundering in FTX collapse caseSam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, facilitated hundreds of illegal political donations totaling tens of millions of dollars, court documents unsealed on Thursday have alleged.The accusations were contained in a superseding indictment that contained four new charges. Continue reading...
Trump is taking advantage of the Ohio disaster in a way that’s eerily reminiscent of 2016 | Tayo Bero
Conservative dog-whistling about how white people in red states are pariahs was a tactic that helped Trump win a presidential electionAs residents of East Palestine, Ohio struggle to pick up the pieces after a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals was derailed there nearly two weeks ago, rightwing media has seized on this moment to launch baseless conspiracies about why the government’s response has been so poor.According to them, the Biden administration has abandoned East Palestine because the people living there are white, poor and working class.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US contributing writer. Continue reading...
Officials identify Florida journalist killed while reporting at scene of murder
Dylan Lyons, a reporter for Spectrum News 13, died in a shooting on Wednesday that also took the life of a nine-year-old girlA Florida journalist killed near Orlando on Wednesday was identified as 24-year-old Dylan Lyons.Lyons, a reporter for Spectrum News 13, was fatally shot on Wednesday afternoon while at the scene of a murder. Officials said Keith Melvin Moses, 19, shot Lyons and a colleague before walking into a nearby home and shooting a woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The girl died. Continue reading...
Early people do not think highly of late people like me. Why are they so unforgiving? | Ashe Davenport
I masquerade as an ‘on time’ person to keep jobs and pay rent, but it’s not what’s in my heartMy grade one does not like being late. It sets her in a state of panic that renders her in slow motion. It’s like watching someone try to run from an axe murderer when their legs aren’t working. “I’m late, I’m late, I’m late,” she’ll mutter helplessly; the White Rabbit’s much slower aunt, her lunchbox somehow the wrong shape for her bag. My prep is also late to the car, though they do not appear trapped in a mind maze of worry. They simply do not want to go to school. They will sit in shoeless protest in the bedroom, hallway and driveway to illustrate the point.I am a late person, or at least not an early person. I get dates wrong and oversleep and consequently miss the train. I masquerade as an “on time” person to keep jobs and pay rent, but it’s not what’s in my heart. Continue reading...
US mass killings linked to extremism at highest level in decades, report finds
Anti-Defamation League says all extremist killings last year linked to rightwing extremism and a high number to white supremacyThe number of US mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least three times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 1970s, according to the Anti-Defamation League.The ADL report also found that all extremist killings identified in 2022 were linked to rightwing extremism, with an especially high number linked to white supremacy. Continue reading...
Vermont police use cigarette DNA to solve woman’s murder, 52 years on
Officials say DNA evidence led them to killer of Rita Curran, in case that baffled investigators and was formerly linked to Ted BundyIn 1971, Rita Curran, a 24-year-old schoolteacher, was found strangled to death in her apartment in Vermont. The college town of Burlington, where Curran taught second grade, was devastated. Police interviewed Curran’s neighbors, investigated hundreds of tips and collected evidence including a single cigarette butt found near her arm, but were unable to name her killer.Curran’s murder, unsolved for more than five decades, became one of Vermont’s most notorious cold cases. That changed this week, when police detectives announced the identity of her murderer – a male neighbor, police say, who later became a Buddhist monk and countercultural guru before dying of an overdose in 1986. Continue reading...
Trump responds to interviews with grand jury foreperson: ‘This Georgia case is ridiculous’
Former president, under investigation for his election subversion attempts, criticizes jury foreperson for ‘doing a media tour’Donald Trump responded to interviews given by the foreperson of the Georgia grand jury which investigated his election subversion attempts by ridiculing the woman and claiming to be the victim of his political enemies.“This Georgia case is ridiculous,” the former president wrote on his Truth Social platform, claiming “a strictly political continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time”. Continue reading...
As a disabled person I need electricity to keep me alive. So why is it costing me so much? | Karis Williamson
Due to a technicality in the benefit system, I am not eligible for the means-tested support for ‘the most vulnerable’ householdsI have a severe, life-limiting form of muscular dystrophy; my condition is progressive. My parents’ home where I live contains lots of medical equipment that keeps me alive and in the community, saving the NHS hundreds of pounds per night and keeping a bed free for those in need. Needless to say, all of this equipment requires energy – and this costs a lot of money right now.Keeping me out of hospital entails ensuring that lots of medical equipment is continually charged. I use two ventilators, two ventilator batteries, one power-chair battery, one gastrostomy feed-pump, two suction pumps, one electric bed, one electric hoist, one cough-assist machine, one microphone amplifier and monitors to check my breathing when no one is in the room. I also need three hot water bottles night and day, to keep me warm in my power-chair and in my bed. That’s the baseline; additionally, when I’m ill or tired, I have to use an oxygen concentrator, a nebuliser and Sats machines. I wouldn’t be able to survive without the above equipment.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...
Mike Pence effort to block January 6 testimony could succeed, experts say
Constitutional provision could prevent special counsel from obtaining information about conversations with TrumpMike Pence is expected to fight his grand jury subpoena as part of the January 6 criminal investigation with the “speech or debate” protection – a move that could prevent the special counsel from obtaining his testimony about key conversations with Donald Trump and members of Congress.The special counsel overseeing the Trump investigations recently issued a subpoena to Pence – a key witness with unique insight into a number of conversations with the former president and the efforts to stop the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading...
The American climate migration has already begun | Jake Bittle
Last year, 3 million were displaced in the US. Millions more will follow – and neither they, the government or the housing market are readyOver the past decade, the US has experienced a succession of monumental climate disasters. Hurricanes have obliterated parts of the Gulf Coast, dumping more than 50in of rain in some places. Wildfires have denuded the California wilderness and destroyed thousands of homes. A once-in-a-millennium drought has dried up rivers and forced farmers to stop planting crops. Many of these disasters have no precedent in living memory, and they have dominated the headlines as Americans process the power of a changing climate.But the disasters themselves are only half the story. The real story of climate change begins only once the skies clear and the fire burns out, and it has received far less attention in the mainstream media. Continue reading...
Massive majority expected in UN’s demand for Russia to leave Ukraine | First Thing
Global south countries including China, South Africa and India expected to abstain. Plus, why Starbucks is putting virgin olive oil in coffee
Scott Perry battles DoJ over work with Trump allies to overturn 2020 election
The far-right congressman is invoking a constitutional clause that allows him to block access to his phoneScott Perry, the far-right House Freedom Caucus chairman, is in a legal battle with the justice department for his work with Donald Trump allies to overturn the 2020 election results.Perry, a congressman from Pennsylvania whose belated vote and those of caucus allies helped elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker, has been waging a legal fight for months to block the Department of Justice (DoJ) from accessing his cellphone, which was seized last August as part of the DoJ’s sprawling January 6 inquiry and Trump’s efforts to thwart Joe Biden’s election with false fraud claims. A federal appeals court in DC is slated to hear arguments about accessing Perry’s phone on Thursday. Continue reading...
US lawmakers push to make the spread of election misinformation illegal
Advocates insist the proposed laws will not affect first amendment protected speechChief election officials in several states want to make it illegal for someone to knowingly spread false information about an election, a move that raises questions around first amendment protected speech.The Democratic secretaries of state for Michigan and Minnesota told the Guardian they’re supporting legislation that would criminalize people who spread misinformation about an election. Michigan’s secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, said the law would prevent people from tweeting that Election Day is on a Wednesday or saying that voting machines are insecure, when they know that information to be false. Continue reading...
An Alabama basketball star allegedly supplied the gun in a murder. Why is he still playing?
Police say Alabama star Brandon Miller supplied the gun that was used in the murder of young mother Jamea Harris. That he’s still in the lineup lays bare the power of athletic privilegeBy all accounts Jamea Jonae Harris was a star in her own right. Just 23, she already seemed to have it all: brains, beauty, happiness, humility and a five-year-old son who was her entire world. She booked off a weekend in January to spend with her cousin, a student at the University of Alabama. With her boyfriend, Harris made the hour drive from her Birmingham home to the college town of Tuscaloosa. After a Saturday night spent clubbing with friends, Harris headed for home in a black Jeep with her boyfriend and cousin, stopping for a late-night bite at a greasy spoon in the shadow of Bama’s football stadium. It was just their bad luck.According to Harris’s mother and cousin, the trio were waiting on their food when two men approached, desperate for Harris’s attention. The more they refused to take no for an answer, the more the tension rose. Attuned to the vibe shift, Harris’s boyfriend proposed they just forget the food and leave. But Harris and her companions were reportedly blocked in by two cars and fired upon by one of the men who had approached her. Harris’s boyfriend shot back with his own firearm and hit the gunman twice, then tried to steer the group to safety. Continue reading...
'Worst nightmare': US journalist shot dead while reporting on shooting – video
A journalist and a young girl were fatally shot in central Florida on Wednesday afternoon near the scene of a fatal shooting from earlier in the day, authorities said. Police detained Keith Melvin Moses, 19, who they believe is responsible for both shootings. Another journalist covering the second shooting called it 'every reporter's worst nightmare'
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