Boy, as yet unidentified, is third child killed by San Bernardino law enforcement in less than two years and second in under a monthSouthern California sheriff's deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues after he armed himself with a knife and locked himself inside a bathroom at a home, authorities said Wednesday.The teen was being transferred from a hospital, where he had been treated after cutting himself, to a mental health facility when he escaped on Tuesday, the San Bernardino county sheriff Shannon Dicus said. Continue reading...
Jack Smith says if judge decides Trump can cite federal records law in his defense to claim immunity, he will appeal to higher courtIn a court filing, the special counsel Jack Smith said that the judge in Donald Trump's criminal case over his retention of classified information was relying on a fundamentally flawed legal premise" when asking lawyers to consider whether the former president can claim immunity under federal records law.Smith also said that if the judge, Aileen Cannon, ruled Trump can indeed cite the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in his defence, he would appeal to a higher court, seeking an order for her to apply the law correctly and, implicitly, her removal from the case. Continue reading...
Prison guards, judges, jurors and prison workers have beseeched Mike Parson to commute capital punishment to life without paroleWith less than a week until Brian Dorsey is scheduled to be executed at Potosi correctional center in Missouri for the 2006 killings of his cousin and her husband, an extraordinary effort is underway to have the 52-year-old's capital sentence commuted to life without parole.More than 150 people have called on the Missouri governor Mike Parson to commute Dorsey's punishment - including more than 70 current and former prison workers, many of whom got to know Doresy behind bars, Republican state representatives, jurors and even the appeals judge who upheld Dorsey's conviction and death sentence in 2009. Continue reading...
Louisiana's Republican governor has called for the scholarships of college athletes who are not present for the national anthem before games to be revoked. His announcement came after the LSU women's basketball team were absent during the pre-game ceremonies on Monday night before their NCAA Tournament contest with Iowa.Kim Mulkey, who has won four national titles as head coach and was inducted into basketball's Hall of Fame in 2020, said afterwards that her players were undergoing their regular pregame preparations on Monday night when the anthem was played.
Taylor James Johnatakis barked commands' and shouted step-by-step directions for overpowering police officersA Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob's attack on police officers guarding the US Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison.Royce Lamberth, the US district judge, said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leadership role during the January 6 riot. Continue reading...
Solicitor general says in appellate hearing that SB4, paused from going into effect, may have gone beyond limitations of state lawsThe state of Texas has conceded that it may have gone too far" in passing a law last year that made entering the state illegally a crime and allowing state judges to order undocumented people to be deported.The admission that Texas's SB4 may have gone beyond the limitations of state laws, which typically bow to federal law on immigration matters, came at a hearing on Wednesday before the fifth US circuit court of appeals. Continue reading...
We'd like to know how you feel about your child's school lunch - and how those lunches vary across the countryAcross the US, parents, kids, educators and public health advocates are pushing to change the multibillion-dollar school meals industry.At the same time, public schools have to contend with government requirements for nutrition, decreases in funding, religious and dietary restrictions and parent and student opinion. Continue reading...
Israel wants to dismantle the agency. The US has halted funding. But its capacity is essential to saving livesHow are starving Palestinians to be fed? Even if the bombing stopped tomorrow, the death toll would continue to climb without a proper resumption of aid. The international court of justice (ICJ) last week ordered Israel to ensure the unhindered provision at scale ... of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance" including food, water, fuel and medical supplies.Yet a few days on, the Israel Defense Forces' killing of seven foreign relief workers from World Central Kitchen and their Palestinian driver has halted not only the organisation's work but other relief operations too. Aid drops are little more than a conscience-salving gesture that has, in some cases, led to further Palestinian deaths.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.
Ellis, a Black man, was shocked, beaten and restrained face down as he pleaded for breath in Tacoma, Washington, in 2020A former Tacoma, Washington, officer acquitted of murder in the 2020 homicide of Manuel Ellis - a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face down on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath - has been hired by a neighboring sheriff's office.The Thurston county sheriff's office, based in Olympia, Washington, announced on its Facebook page on Monday that it had hired the former Tacoma officer Christopher Burbank as a patrol deputy, despite an ongoing federal investigation into the 2020 death. Continue reading...
Charlie Kirk tweet leads to governor backing bill to end splitting of electoral college votes - potentially handing advantage to TrumpThe power of the far-right commentator Charlie Kirk was illustrated when his tweet prompted the governor of Nebraska to support a bill to change the state's system for presidential elections in order to deny Democrats a single electoral vote that could decide the presidency later this year.Nebraskans should call their legislators and their governor to demand their state stop pointlessly giving strength to their political enemies," Kirk wrote. Continue reading...
Judd Blevins loses Enid ward 1 council position months after he was shown to have attended Charlottesville rally in 2017Voters in Enid, Oklahoma, have decisively kicked out a city council member with a history of ties to white nationalist groups from the elected body almost a year after he was admitted.Judd Blevins lost his position as Enid's ward 1 council member, according to Oklahoma's state election board. The move comes months after Blevin was shown to have attended a deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 and was later shown to have led an Oklahoma chapter of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa. Continue reading...
The rapper seemed to have blown his career up two years ago with a string of offensive comments. But now he has another album at No 1Over the course of about a month in late 2022, Kanye West seemingly blew up his career for ever. Weeks of increasingly erratic behaviour culminated in a slip into full-blown reactionary populism with a series of offensive stunts, including but not limited to: wearing a White Lives Matter T-shirt, reviving hoary antisemitic tropes about Jews controlling the media, and threatening on X (then Twitter) to go death con 3" on Jews.Within weeks, West's record label and publisher - Universal Music Group and Sony Music Publishing, respectively - terminated their contracts with him; he was dropped by his agency, CAA; and Adidas, Balenciaga and Gap canned their continuing collaborations. The vast majority of his $2bn (1.6bn) net worth evaporated overnight. Kanye Is Never Coming Back From This read the headline of one Rolling Stone article at the time.Shaad D'Souza is a freelance culture journalistDo 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.
Several tornadoes spotted across the midwest and southern states, and 275,000 people in multiple states are without powerMillions of people across the US were bracing for extreme weather on Wednesday as a powerful system of thunderstorms swept across several states, bringing intense winds, rain, and other dangerous weather conditions.As of Wednesday morning, more than 275,000 residents in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky were without power due to severe storms, according to poweroutage.us. Continue reading...
Ex-president's description of meeting relatives of Ruby Garcia to spin anti-immigration narrative is shocking', sister saysDonald Trump used a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to describe meeting the family of a woman killed by an immigrant in order to spin a narrative about what he calls Biden's border bloodbath" - except Ruby Garcia's family now say he never did.Garcia, 25, was found shot to death on highway US-131 on 22 March of this year. Court records later showed that her boyfriend confessed to killing her and dumping her body. Continue reading...
Former president seeks to block Wesley Moss and Andrew Litinsky from receiving Trump Media stock worth over $400mDonald Trump sued two former contestants on The Apprentice, his hit NBC reality show, who became co-founders of Trump Media and Technology Group, claiming they failed to set up the venture properly and should not get promised stock worth more than $400m.Trump fronted The Apprentice, in which contestants competed for a job at the Trump Organization, from 2004 to 2015. The show coined Trump's catchphrase, You're fired!", though he ended up fired himself, after entering Republican presidential politics and making racist comments about Mexicans. Continue reading...
The thousands in Britain who march against this war see a people - and aid workers - under murderous attack. Sunak can act, and he mustThere are no excuses for ignoring where Israel's onslaught against Gaza would lead. After slaughtering seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, three Britons among them, Israeli authorities will subject us to a well-trodden strategy: deflect, delay, deceive, muddy the waters, hope attention moves elsewhere. We have seen this all before. As the Tory MP and chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Alicia Kearns, notes, nearly 11 weeks on, there has still been no explanation for why Israel bombed a Medical Aid for Palestinians compound in an official safe zone in mid-January.These latest aid workers were travelling in a deconflicted" zone, had coordinated their movements with Israeli forces on a pre-agreed route, and were in vehicles marked with large World Central Kitchen logos. They were struck three times, over the space of nearly a mile and a half; survivors even scrambled into the remaining cars before being hit again.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.
Cal-Maine Foods says 1.6m laying hens destroyed as officials also detect virus in poultry facility in MichiganThe largest producer of fresh eggs in the US said on Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods Inc said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at a facility in Parmer county, Texas. Continue reading...
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Conservatives don't understand that abortion is controversial only in theory; faced with a material choice, Americans support abortion rightsIt's hard to imagine a scenario in which the Florida state supreme court would not have allowed Governor Ron DeSantis's six-week abortion ban to go into effect. In a challenge to a previous 15-week ban, the court's seven judges, all of whom were appointed by DeSantis, overturned 35 years of precedent this week in order to find that the right to privacy enshrined in the state constitution does not protect the right to an abortion, as Florida state law has acknowledged it does since 1989.The court's approval of the 15-week ban will allow a stricter, previously stayed six-week ban to go into effect on 1 May. Justice Charles Canady did not recuse himself from the case, despite calls for him do so from no less an authority than the Florida supreme court's former chief justice, Barbara Pariente. Justice Canady's wife, the state representative Jennifer Canady, is a legislative co-sponsor of the newly approved six-week ban. There is no rape or incest exception. Continue reading...
Thankfully my mum is soon coming to visit me with a suitcase full of the best of Britain: chocolate, tea and savoury snacksMy mum, who lives in England, is coming to visit me in Philadelphia soon and I have given her strict instructions on what to bring from the motherland. Namely, deodorant. You can get a lot of things in the US - it is a land of excess - but the deodorant offerings here stink.Most American women, you see, tend to use stick deodorants. In the UK, meanwhile, it's far more normal for women to use a roll-on. Or, at least, its far more normal for shops to stock a wide range of roll-ons. I don't have some sort of degree in deodorant studies, I should probably note; I have not done extensive market research on this matter. This assertion is based on empirical data gathered over a lifetime of deodorant shopping, along with several years of arguing with my American wife about our underarm preferences. She thinks roll-on deodorant is (trigger warning: an objectionable word is about to appear) moist and leaves a wet sensation. I think that stick deodorant feels clammy and flaky. Clearly I am right. Continue reading...
Young people may have fewer paths from shop floor to boardroom - but you can still find your way to a more fulfilling roleRecently, I sat in a lecture hall with a couple of hundred final-year undergraduate students. Looking around, I thought about my own uncertainty at their age. When I was about to graduate, the future seemed unclear. I didn't have a place on a company graduate programme like many of my classmates. Decades on, I realised that what seemed like obvious career ladders weren't so simple.The job market for today's graduates seems good. The annual report by the Institute of Student Employers found that graduate recruitment is expected to increase by 5% in 2023-24. Companies continued to struggle to recruit in areas such as digital, engineering and finance. Despite this strong demand, each position was hotly contested - with an average of 86 applications for every opening. Continue reading...
They can be sacred, space-like, healing or heart-shaped - and anywhere on Earth. Even war can't get between people and natural springs, as Greta Rybus shows in her latest photobook Continue reading...
The SPD chancellor has drawn a line in the sand. But playing the peace card to win back anti-war voters could cast his party into the political wildernessA Social Democratic German chancellor lagging in the opinion polls vows adamantly not to join a war. Support for his SPD party rallies and he narrowly clings to power.By refusing to supply Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine despite an outcry among western allies, Olaf Scholz may be hoping that history will repeat itself and he can replicate Gerhard Schroder's 2002 stunt before the US-led invasion of Iraq when he refused to provide troops or money.Paul Taylor is a senior fellow of the Friends of Europe thinktank and author of the report After the War: How to Keep Europe Safe Continue reading...
I'm working to help vulnerable women in my home country of Kenya, but millions around the world face deep-rooted injusticesIn February, Asenath Rotich became a widow, after the death of her partner, marathon runner and world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, in a road accident. Unlike the majority of more than 8 million widows in Kenya, Rotich's future is being provided for. The government has built her a house and is working to secure a job for her so she can care for her two children.In contrast, consider the recent case of Silvia that was shared with me by a community radio journalist. Silvia is a 39-year-old widow with five children, whose home in Siaya County was demolished during a land ownership dispute. Despite widespread media coverage and public outcry, justice remains elusive for her. Continue reading...
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Thousands show up in Green Bay where ex-president attacks fake media' and tyrants' in state where he lost to Biden four years agoOn Wisconsin's presidential primary election day, Donald Trump made his first campaign stop in the state, where he railed against so-called migrant crime" and doubled down on false election claims.We won in 2016 - we did much better in 2020, hate to say it, we did a hell of a lot better," the former president told the roaring crowd, nodding to the disproven and unfounded rigging" numerous times during his speech. Continue reading...
Both candidates have clinched nominations, but Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin turnout may hint at 2024 resultsBoth Joe Biden and Donald Trump won primary elections in four states, including the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin.Hundreds of delegates were up for grabs in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin on Tuesday, and Biden and Trump have already amassed enough delegates to win their respective nominations. But the turnout could provide more clues about the general election in November. Continue reading...
Presidents clashed over Taiwan and US trade restrictions on technology in first direct interaction since NovemberJoe Biden and Xi Jinping have clashed in a telephone call about Taiwan and US trade restrictions on technology, but sought to manage their tensions as two top US officials prepare to visit Beijing.The nearly two-hour telephone conversation on Tuesday was the two leaders' first direct interaction since a summit in November in California that saw a marked thaw in tone, if not the long-term rivalry, between the world's two largest economies. Continue reading...
Kim Taylor of Woodbury county given eight-month custodial sentence for helping Jeremy Taylor fraudulently win electionAn Iowa woman found guilty on 52 counts of voter fraud, carried out in support of her Republican husband, was given an eight-month custodial sentence.Kim Taylor, of Woodbury county, will serve four months in prison and four in home confinement, KTIV, a Sioux City TV station, reported. Subject to two years' supervised release, Taylor will also pay $5,200. Continue reading...
Vermont senator makes remarks after Israeli strike kills seven aid workers, amid war that has killed more than 32,000 PalestiniansThe Vermont senator and former US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a message for the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu: Stop murdering innocent people."Sanders delivered his blunt message in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, a day after seven aid workers were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza. Continue reading...
The attack on a relief convoy, an assassination on diplomatic premises and a devastating hospital raid show Israel does not heed allies or criticsEven by the standards of a conflict that has killed almost 33,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and created the entirely human-made famine taking hold in Gaza, Israel has crossed multiple lines in just a couple of days. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed seven foreign aid workers, including a dual US/Canadian citizen, three Britons as well as team members from Poland and Australia, and their Palestinian driver, as they attempted to meet some portion of the desperate need. Gaza's chief hospital, al-Shifa, lies in ruins after a two-week IDF raid. Israel says no civilians died there; the World Health Organization disagrees. And it has killed the Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy at an Iranian diplomatic mission in Syria - reviving fears of a wider regional conflagration, and setting a dangerous precedent in targeting diplomatic premises.Israel and its armed forces boast of following international law. A senior Tory has said that British government lawyers believe Israel has broken it. The former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin has warned that it is one step away from international ostracism". While the rhetoric of Israel's allies has been slowly hardening, and their diplomatic position shifting, polls suggest that the public mood is moving faster. The World Central Kitchen workers were in clearly marked cars, in a deconflicted" zone, heading away from an aid warehouse, having coordinated movements with the IDF. The convoy was struck not once but three times, killing the fleeing survivors. Continue reading...
In separate decision, state supreme court agrees to allow voters to decide on enshrining rights in constitution in NovemberFlorida, the last bastion of abortion access in the south-eastern United States, will ban abortion past six weeks of pregnancy starting next month, leaving abortion providers and their supporters in the state and across the country scrambling to deal with the fallout for patients.On Monday, the Florida state supreme court upheld a 15-week abortion ban, a move that removed the barriers for a separate, six-week ban that takes effect on 1 May. In a separate ruling, the court also agreed to let Florida residents weigh in on the issue through a November ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution - a decision that opens a new front in an election that is already sure to be dominated by abortion politics. Continue reading...
Local authorities rescued a man from the side of a California cliff using a helicopter after he fell 50 to 60 feet. Video released by the Sonoma County Sheriff's office showed the helicopter being flown towards the man before placing him into a rescue device and lifting him from the cliffside. The incident took place near the Battery Alexander trail in the Golden Gate national recreation area. Continue reading...
State plans to kill 25 prisoners in less than three years but officials had sought to increase gap between executions from 60 to 90 daysAn appeals court judge in Oklahoma reportedly told state execution schedulers to suck it up" and man up" after they requested a 90-day period between executions in an effort to combat trauma, accommodate staff shortages and reduce the potential for errors.The state plans to execute 25 prisoners whose appeals are exhausted in less than three years, about 58% of the inmates on death row in Oklahoma. At a hearing last Tuesday, Judge Gary Lumpkin responded to a request to slow Oklahoma's execution schedule. Continue reading...
Law & Order actor writes on Instagram that family is traumatized' by death of dog Ollie at North Carolina home on Easter weekendThe actor Angie Harmon has accused a driver for the grocery delivery service Instacart of shooting her family's beloved dog to death over the Easter holiday weekend.Harmon, who is best known for her role on the NBC television series Law & Order, shared details of her family pet's killing at her North Carolina home in a viral post on Instagram. Continue reading...
Bill stands no chance of becoming law, given Democratic control of the Senate and White HouseDulles airport should be renamed for Donald Trump, a Republican co-sponsor of a bill to do so said, because there would be no better symbol of freedom, prosperity and strength".Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania told Fox News Digital: In my lifetime, our nation has never been greater than under the leadership of President Donald J Trump. Continue reading...
Hakeem Jeffries and other lawmakers are holding a special hearing in Florida's Broward county to focus public attention on how the court ruling will affect abortion rightsThe youth climate group Sunrise Movement is continuing its efforts to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza by calling on Wisconsin progressives to vote uninstructed delegation" in today's primary, which will serve as a test of Joe Biden's standing in the crucial swing state.Progressive organizers in Wisconsin have launched a campaign, based on similar initiatives in states like Michigan and Minnesota, in support of the uninstructed" option to protest Biden's handling of the war in Gaza. Continue reading...
A new study suggests coffee could prevent bowel cancer reoccurring - but claims for its healing properties have abounded since the 15th centuryLast week a study was published showing that people with bowel cancer who drink coffee - quite a lot of coffee, two to four cups a day - were less likely to suffer a return of the disease. Experts have said that if the results hold in further studies, coffee could be prescribed to cancer patients on the NHS. That coffee does have an effect on human function is beyond dispute - but whether that impact is beneficial or detrimental has been the subject of contention since Sufi mystics began consuming the beverage some time in the mid-15th century.The Indigenous peoples of the forests of Kaffa in south-west Ethiopia foraged berries from wild coffee plants that were shipped across the Red Sea to prepare the decoction known as qahwa, which Yemeni Sufis incorporated into their night-time religious ceremonies to reduce their desire for sleep. Once mainstream Islamic courts ruled coffee was not intoxicating, consumption became widespread among the Muslim populations in the Middle East and the Ottoman empire. Continue reading...
Minority leader, 82, says he will focus isolationist movement in my own party' - particularly over support for UkraineMitch McConnell will spend the rest of his time in the US Senate fighting" isolationists in his own Republican party, the longtime GOP leader said on Monday.I'm particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party," McConnell told WHAS, a radio station in his state, Kentucky. Continue reading...
Anti-vaxxer third-party candidate rails against president for involvement in supreme court case on social mediaAfter Donald Trump said that he loved how Robert F Kennedy Jr was running for president, the independent candidate called Joe Biden a much worse threat to democracy" than Trump, citing the Biden White House's involvement in a US supreme court case focused on social media.A noted anti-vaxxer who has peddled conspiracy theories, Kennedy currently faces an uphill task to get on enough state ballots, though on Monday his campaign said his name would appear on the ballot in the crucial state of North Carolina. Continue reading...
Airline faces delay in receiving new planes as Boeing struggles with production due to manufacturing problemsUnited Airlines is asking its pilots to take time off in May because of delays in receiving new planes that the airline ordered from Boeing, which is struggling with production due to manufacturing problems.A United spokesperson said Monday that the offer is voluntary. Continue reading...
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