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Recording of the 29-year-old’s killing has sent shockwaves across the US, with the officers’ conduct being condemned

Authorities named the victim found in Arizona desert in 1971 as Colleen Audrey Rice after money raised within five days of appealA community-funded DNA project has helped detectives identify a murdered woman whose remains were stuffed in a canvas sack and dumped in the Arizona desert more than half a century ago.Authorities named the victim as Colleen Audrey Rice, who was born in 1931 in Ohio, and would have been about 39 years old at the time of her death, before her body’s discovery in November 1971. Continue reading...

The city of Memphis released graphic video footage on Friday of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, and the five police officers charged with his murder after a traffic stop turned deadly earlier this month. The disturbing video, which was released in four parts by the Memphis police department, included both body-camera and street lamp-mounted camera video. While Nichols’s injuries were clearly severe, and his physical condition in obvious decline, the video suggests that he was not transported to hospital for about 30min after the savage beatdown.

Demonstrations in Memphis and other US cities follow release of video and request from Nichols’s mother to ‘protest in peace’Demonstrations quickly began Friday evening as Memphis police released footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.The video released Friday showed Memphis officers kicking Nichols repeatedly in the head, punching him in the face, and hitting him with a baton. It also showed officers and medical personnel failing to intervene as Nichols could not sit upright after the assault. Continue reading...

Julian Khater pleaded guilty to using chemical spray to attack the Capitol police officer who died on 7 JanuaryA man who admitted using chemical spray to assault Brian Sicknick on January 6, a day before the Capitol police officer died, was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison in a Washington court on Friday.Julian Khater, 33, from Pennsylvania, was also fined $10,000. Continue reading...

Tyre Nichols's mother, RowVaughn Wells, has called for justice after her son's death prompted murder charges against police officers in the latest instance of alleged police brutality in the US. Nichols died three days after a confrontation with five police officers during a traffic stop on 7 January. His mother told reporters he called out for her in his time of need, adding: 'It's funny, you know, he always said he was going to be famous one day. I didn't know this is how, this is what he meant.'

Footage shows husband of former House speaker opening door with intruder in home and pair wrestling over hammerPolice body-camera footage released on Friday afternoon shed more light on the brutal hammer attack last October against Paul Pelosi, the husband of Democratic congresswomen and then House speaker Nancy Pelosi.The shocking video shows officers arriving at the front door of the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and knocking loudly on the door. Continue reading...

CCTV footage released by the San Fransisco District Attorney shows David DePape breaking into the Pelosis' home before attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer. The suspect used the hammer to smash a window and climb through into the house. Paul Pelosi called police officers once he found the intruder, minutes before DePape hit Pelosi over the head with a hammer in front of the officers. He suffered a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm in the attack. He remained hospitalised for a week after surgery. David DePape faces state and federal criminal charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, among others. DePape has pleaded not guilty to the charges

RowVaughn Wells gives interview after five Memphis police officers were charged with murder in the beating death of her sonTyre Nichols’s mother says she feels sorry for the five Memphis police officers who are charged with killing her son by beating him “to a pulp”, but says they brought “shame on their own families and the Black community”.RowVaughn Wells was speaking in an emotional live interview on CNN on Friday morning one day after the officers, who are all Black, were charged with murder in the beating death of her son following a traffic stop in the city earlier this month. Continue reading...

CJ Davis says department will release ‘alarming’ video of officers, now charged with murder of black man who died days laterThe chief of the Memphis police warned on Friday that the video of officers beating Tyre Nichols is “perhaps worse” than the infamous footage of Rodney King being attacked by police in Los Angeles more than 30 years ago.The police department intends to release the video to the public on Friday evening. Continue reading...

Police have released body-cam footage of the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi in October. The husband of Nancy Pelosi called emergency services after finding an intruder in his home. The footage shows officers arriving at the residence in San Francisco and asking the intruder to drop the hammer, moments before he struck Pelosi in the head

Inert projectiles came with a note that among other things said ‘let’s come together and get to work on behalf of our constituents’A newly elected Florida Republican sent grenades to fellow members of Congress, prompting one aghast Democrat to say “not even George Santos could make this stuff up”.Santos is the scandal-plagued New York congressman whose largely made-up résumé and questionable finances have threatened to blow a hole in House Republicans’ narrow majority. Continue reading...

A candlelight vigil was held at the skatepark where the 29-year-old would give lessons to his four-year-old son, his mother saidTyre Nichols, the latest in a long line of young American Black men whose death is tied to the police, was a “beautiful soul” and home-loving son with his mother’s name tattooed on his arm, his family and friends have said.Described as “a momma’s boy” by his mother, RowVaughn Wells, the 29-year-old Memphis, Tennessee, resident, the youngest of four children, was also a father himself. He leaves a four-year-old boy whom he loved to teach skateboarding. Continue reading...

David Solomon’s pay was $25m for 2022, down from $35m in 2021, as investment bank’s profits halve and 3,200 staff laid offGoldman Sachs has slashed its chief executive’s pay packet by almost 30% after a turbulent year that resulted in one of the largest round of job cuts in the Wall Street lender’s history.The bank revealed on Friday that David Solomon had been paid $25m (£20m) for 2022, down from $35m a year earlier, after the bank revealed a 50% drop in annual profits following a slump in dealmaking. Solomon’s pay included a $2m base salary and $23m in bonuses. Continue reading...

FDA’s draft guidelines cut three-month abstinence requirement for donations from men who have sex with menThe US is moving to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and other groups that traditionally face higher risks of HIV.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced draft guidelines that would do away with the current three-month abstinence requirement for donations from men who have sex with men. Continue reading...

From Truss to Johnson, former chaos-mongers are sure none of it is remotely their fault. In fact, the time is ripe for a comebackIt’s encouraging to see Liz Truss hoving back into view, after a period in the wilderness only slightly longer than that endured by the OG messiah. And, indeed, only slightly longer than her entire premiership. As one ally told the Financial Times of her abortive adventures in the public finances this week: “Liz believes that the policy was right but she didn’t get the political backing she needed.” Erm. Does that quite cover it? Having failed to get backing from her colleagues, the markets, business, the Bank of England, the public and experts from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and beyond, Liz was arguably a full six infinity stones short of a gauntlet.Still, it feels inevitable that another betrayal narrative should be cranking up. You can never have too many, can you? Having accidentally divested itself of various of its other manufacturing industries, the UK is now world-beating in producing betrayal narratives, with supporters of any number of the politicians who played a part in the rolling chaos of the past seven years still claiming that their standard bearer was falsely victimised by people who simply lacked their vision. British politics throws the best pity parties. Consider us the Valhalla of misunderstood heroes.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Novak Djokovic overcame a first-set wobble to dismantle the unseeded Tommy Paul, setting up a final against Stefanos TsitsipasDjokovic 3-0 *Paul (*denotes next server)Worrying signs for Paul at 15-15, when Djokovic opens his shoulders and powers a clean forehand winner to the corner. Too good. Continue reading...

Nichols, 29, died three days after a traffic stop in Memphis turned violent. Plus, the rise of queerbaiting accusationsGood morning.Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist in Memphis, Tennessee, who died three days after a 7 January traffic stop spiraled into violence.How did Nichols die? In a three-minute attack, Mulroy said. An independent autopsy indicated “extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating”, an attorney representing his family reportedly said. “He was a human piñata for those police officers,” the family attorney, Antonio Romanucci, told reporters. “Not only was it violent, it was savage.”When will the video footage be released? Memphis authorities said they would release video of the incident. Family members and their attorneys have already seen it. During the press conference yesterday, officials indicated that the footage would be released after 6pm local time today.What happened? Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers arrived at daybreak yesterday at several entrances to the Jenin refugee camp, a militant stronghold in the north of the Palestinian territory, said Sakir Khader, a Palestinian-Dutch film-maker at the scene. Armed Palestinians shot at an Israeli armoured vehicle disguised as a commercial van, at which point the IDF returned fire and a fierce four-hour gun battle ensued, causing widespread damage, he said. Continue reading...

Funding for controversial review of state’s vote count in 2020 election can be traced to former president’s PacOne of the enduring mysteries surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential battle has been solved: who made a secret $1m donation to the controversial election “audit” in Arizona?The identity of one of the largest benefactors behind the discredited review of Arizona’s vote count has been shrouded in secrecy. Now the Guardian can reveal that the person who partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen from Trump was … Trump. Continue reading...

The congresswoman reflects on a whirlwind rise from Texas politics to Washington, and her hopes of passing a critical billIn July 2021, Jasmine Crockett entered the US Capitol for the first time. Then a state representative, Crockett was a lead architect of Texas Democrats’ unprecedented plans to board a flight and travel to Washington to break quorum in Texas and block Republicans from enacting the voting restrictions they were steamrolling in the state.Less than two years later, Crockett came back to the Capitol, this time to be sworn in to the House of Representatives – one of 22 women and just 13 women of color in the class of 74 new freshmen. Continue reading...

There are just four teams remaining after an entertaining run of playoff games. Which two will be on their way to Arizona for the Super Bowl?There will be plenty of drama on Championship Sunday but no real upsets, whoever wins – any of the four remaining teams could go on to win the Super Bowl. So take these predictions with a giant grain of salt. Every team has a real shot at the title. Continue reading...

Students designed, 3D printed and sized a prosthetic hand for Sergio Peralta, whose right hand is not fully formedStudents at a Tennessee high school have built a robotic hand for a classmate missing part of his, an act of friendship that he has called life-changing.At the center of perhaps one of the most heartwarming news stories to come out of the US so far this year is Sergio Peralta, who initially arrived at Henderson high school near Nashville this past fall while trying to cover up that his right hand was not fully formed, CBS News reported Wednesday. Continue reading...

Class action lawsuit alleges prison authorities are inflicting ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ in breach of constitutional rightsA class action suit has been brought on behalf of the 185 male prisoners on death row in Texas, accusing the state of violating the inmates’ constitutional rights by holding them in permanent solitary confinement in some cases for more than 20 years.The state’s prison authorities are alleged to be inflicting “cruel and unusual punishment” on the men in breach of the eighth amendment of the US constitution. The lawsuit describes how the prisoners are held in “devastating conditions” in isolation for up to 23 years without pause, with almost 80% of the death row occupants having been in solitary for more than 10 years. Continue reading...

Nichols, 29, died three days after a traffic stop turned into a fatal physical attack on 7 JanuaryFive former Memphis police officers were charged Thursday with murder and other crimes in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist in Memphis, Tennessee, who died three days after a 7 January traffic stop spiraled into a fatal physical attack, local jail records indicated.Shelby county sheriff’s office online records showed that Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith were in custody. All five were charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. Continue reading...

Former president’s attorney charged with misleading courts and making false statements about voter fraud in electionCalifornia attorney regulators said on Thursday they will seek to disbar attorney John Eastman over his involvement in former US president Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.The state bar of California charged Eastman, a former personal lawyer to Trump, with 11 counts of ethics violations, including misleading courts and making false public statements about voter fraud in the 2020 election. Continue reading...

One day I hope to be able to shoulder the cost of an entire apartment, and with no boyfriend waiting in the wings to pay half, I won’t be happy about it, but I will be ready

Bilal al-Sudani, ‘responsible for fostering the growing presence of IS in Africa’, was killed in strike approved by Joe BidenA US military raid in Somalia ordered by President Joe Biden this week killed a key regional leader of the Islamic State group, Bilal al-Sudani, according to US officials.Sudani was killed on Wednesday during a gunfight after US troops descended on a mountainous cave complex in northern Somalia hoping to capture him. Continue reading...

President Joe Biden says the government’s better-than-expected economic numbers are proof his plan ‘is working’. The US economy expanded at a 2.9% annual rate from October through December, ending 2022 with momentum despite the pressure of high interest rates and widespread fears of looming recession. Speaking in Virginia, the US president referred to fiscal policies proposed by Republicans, saying ‘they're threatening to have us default on the American debt, the debt that has been accumulated for over 230 years, we’ve never done that’

Democrats and liberal groups deplored decision to revoke ban on former president who incited insurrection but ACLU defends movePoliticians and civil rights advocates have weighed in on Meta’s decision to allow former president Donald Trump to return to Facebook and Instagram, stating that his presence on the platforms will “fan the flames of hatred and division”.The social media firm has lifted a ban imposed on Trump after the January 6 Capitol attack and will allow him to post again in the coming weeks. Experts in online hate speech say there is no reason to believe Trump will not return to spreading dangerous misinformation and hate speech upon his return. Continue reading...

Sayfullo Saipov, who drove a truck down a popular bike path in 2017, could face the death penaltyAn Islamic extremist who killed eight people with a speeding truck in a 2017 rampage on a popular New York City bike path was convicted on Thursday of 28 federal crimes and could face the death penalty.Sayfullo Saipov bowed his head as he heard the verdict in the trial for an attack that prosecutors said was inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group. Saipov was tried in a Manhattan courtroom just a few blocks from where the attack ended. Continue reading...

New rules spark furious debate as city tightens regulation of illegal rentals in attempt to defend housing stock for tenantsNew York City’s latest plans to crack down on illegal short-term rentals – which could remove as many as 10,000 Airbnb listings later this year – is sparking fierce debates about housing, hotels, the tourist market and residents’ rights.The new rules will hit those New Yorkers who make extra income by hosting – renting out apartments on Airbnb and similar platforms – but flout city laws, while potentially easing the burden on long-suffering city renters. Continue reading...

California congressman makes play for Dianne Feinstein’s seat, which is being eyed by at least three other candidatesAdam Schiff, the California congressman who became a household name as the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s first impeachment, said he will seek the California Senate seat currently held by Dianne Feinstein.“I wish I could say the threat of Maga extremists is over,” said Schiff, 62, in a video announcing his campaign. “We’re in the fight of our lives – a fight I’m ready to lead as California’s next US senator”. Continue reading...

Ex-presidents and vice-presidents including Obama, Bush, Cheney and Gore receive letters on reviewing their personal recordsThe US National Archives has asked representatives for former presidents and vice-presidents on Thursday to review their personal records for any classified-marked documents in their possession after a series of such discoveries at the homes of Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Mike Pence.The archives sent letters to the presidents and vice-presidents in the previous six administrations that are covered under the Presidential Records Act, which requires materials from their time in the White House to be turned over to the agency when they leave office. Continue reading...

‘We hacked the hackers,’ says deputy attorney general of group that has received over $100m in extortion payments from victimsUS authorities have seized the servers of the notorious Hive ransomware group that has received more than $100m in extortion payments from thousands of victims after law enforcement infiltrated its systems and captured the keys to decrypt its attack software, the justice department announced on Thursday.The website for the group – considered among the most dangerous and prolific hacker gangs that targeted hospitals and public infrastructure – showed a message saying it had been seized by an international law enforcement coalition including the department and the FBI. Continue reading...

Pascale Ferrier made the toxic substance herself and sent it with letters to Trump and Texas law enforcement officials in 2020A French-Canadian woman has pleaded guilty to mailing ricin to Donald Trump.Pascale Ferrier, 55, admitted to making the poison at her residence in Quebec in September 2020, the US Department of Justice announced. Continue reading...

City on edge as police department is poised to release video of the deadly encounter after a traffic stopTyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died on 10 January, several days after an encounter with Memphis, Tennessee, police officers during a traffic stop near his mother’s house.According to Nichols’s family and their attorneys, an independent autopsy revealed he had “suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating”. The Memphis police department is investigating the deadly encounter, as are state and federal authorities. Continue reading...

Albert ‘Ian’ Schweitzer was convicted for the 1991 murder of Dana Ireland, a white female touristA native Hawaiian man who was wrongfully imprisoned for killing a white female tourist in 1991 has finally been freed after spending more than 20 years behind bars.On Tuesday, Hawaii’s circuit court judge Peter Kubota ordered 51-year old Albert “Ian” Schweitzer to be “released from his shackles immediately” following additional evidence presented by Schweitzer’s attorneys in a new petition filed on Monday. Continue reading...

As the war continues to slowly escalate, the question remains: how does this end?These tanks aren’t going to help end the war any time soon. Hopefully, they are intended to build up Kyiv’s negotiating position and this might encourage the Kremlin to rethink its extreme war aims, thus moving this war toward a negotiated endgame. But the Ukrainians are likely to see the decision as a western endorsement of their aim of beating Russia definitively on the battlefield. This works against diplomacy and tends to draw the war out.Christopher S Chivvis is a senior fellow and director of the Carnegie Endowment’s American statecraft programMatthew Duss is a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft program at the Carnegie Endowment. He is the former foreign policy adviser to Bernie SandersThe Rev William Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale UniversityPhyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at Institute for Policy Studies Continue reading...

Democratic congressman pushes back after former CIA chief and secretary of state accuses him of leaking classified informationMike Pompeo is a “failed lackey of the Trump administration”, a spokesperson for Adam Schiff said on Wednesday, after the former CIA director and secretary of state accused the Democratic congressman of leaking classified information.“This is another patently false and defamatory statement from Mike Pompeo,” the spokesperson told the Hill. “While we understand that Adam Schiff is a favorite target for the failed lackeys of the Trump administration running for president, reputable news outlets shouldn’t repeat these falsehoods.” Continue reading...

The invasion of Ukraine has shaken Germany out of its decades-long commitment to pacifismIf the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, chose to upgrade Germany’s military assistance to Ukraine this week, it was only as a result of the extreme amount of pressure that had been building up in recent days.Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has thrust upon Germany the necessity of some serious self-analysis. It has shattered many certainties, including even that most iron-clad tenet of postwar German history, which maintained that no conflict could ever be resolved militarily. Germany’s famous creed “Wandel durch Handel”, change through trade, was directly derived from this thinking that had permeated virtually every part of its society. Continue reading...

As Trump was reinstated, Meta’s Nick Clegg stressed ‘guardrails’ were in place. He could soon find them testedIf Donald Trump’s activity on his Truth Social account is a reliable indicator of what his return to Facebook and Instagram will unleash, then Nick Clegg is going to be busy.The former US president has used his rightwing social media platform to push baseless claims of election fraud and amplified content related to the QAnon conspiracy multiverse. These were two issues that received a special mention from Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister turned president of global affairs at Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent, as he explained the decision to end Trump’s two-year exile on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Peaches Stergo, 36, allegedly met victim on dating site and deceived him into paying 62 checks over four yearsA Florida woman is accused of defrauding an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor out of his $2.8m life savings in a romance scam lasting years.Peaches Stergo, 36, of Championsgate, south of Orlando, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with one count of wire fraud, said the US attorney’s office for southern New York. Continue reading...