For the past decade, the photojournalist and Baltimore native JM Giordano has been documenting the city's gun violence and the activists who organised to combat it.Giordano's new book, 13-23, from Nighted Life press, documents the rise of anti-gun-violence groups following the violent summer of 2013. The book covers the intersectionality of the city's gun violence epidemic and activist movements created to tackle that violence Continue reading...
Ro Khanna of California threw cold water on House speaker Kevin McCarthy's capitulation to the hard right over government fundingOne of Joe Biden's key congressional allies has rejected the notion that Republicans can bait the president's fellow Democrats into embracing an impeachment inquiry as an opportunity for him to be cleared over questions about his son's business affairs.What the American people want is for us to fund government and solve their issues," the California congressman Ro Khanna said on Fox News Sunday, referring to how some hard-right Republicans have made a Biden impeachment inquiry a condition for them to support new funding that would avoid at least a partial federal government shutdown after 30 September. Continue reading...
Search for F-35B Lightning II fighter jet focused on two lakes after Marine Corps pilot ejected over North Charleston for unknown reasonUS military officials have appealed to the public for help to find a fighter jet after losing track of it somewhere over South Carolina when the pilot ejected.A Marine Corps pilot safely escaped the F-35B Lightning II jet over North Charleston on Sunday afternoon after a mishap", military officials said, and the search for his missing aircraft was now focused on two lakes north of North Charleston. Continue reading...
Jordan Steinke to serve 30 months' probation for 2022 incident in which she handcuffed and placed woman in car parked on train tracksA former Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train, inflicting serious injuries to the woman, has avoided a jail sentence and must serve 30 months on supervised probation.Jordan Steinke, 29, was sentenced on Friday by Weld county district court judge Timothy Kerns, who found her guilty of reckless endangerment and assault for the 16 September 2022 crash near Platteville. Kerns acquitted the former Fort Lupton police officer of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter after her bench trial in July. Continue reading...
Ryan Clinkunbroomer had become engaged just four days before he was slain in brazen attack in PalmdaleA gunman ambushed" a Los Angeles county sheriff's department deputy in his patrol car Saturday night, shooting him to death in a particularly brazen attack, authorities said.The deputy, Ryan Clinkunbroomer, was found unconscious in his vehicle near the intersection of Sierra Highway and Avenue Q in Palmdale, California. A passerby discovered the mortally wounded deputy and then alerted authorities.The Associated Press contributed reporting. Continue reading...
Remarks by congresswoman came after a written apology on Friday in which she said her actions simply fell short' of her valuesLauren Boebert has issued a second apology for her now infamous theatre date which saw her get ejected from watching a Beetlejuice: The Musical performance after she openly vaped in the audience, groped her companion and was graphically felt up in kind.In an interview on Sunday with the conservative One America News Network, the far-right Colorado congresswoman attributed the behavior - recorded on security camera footage - to what she described as her being maybe overtly animated". Boebert, 36, thus implied that her extrovertedness had somehow fused with a stage production that the New York Times reviewed as a jaw-dropping funhouse". Continue reading...
Trump talks about democratic principles, ageing politicians and abortion rights in wide ranging NBC interviewDonald Trump grappled with a wide range of contentious issues in an interview with NBC that generated criticism against the network, including his thoughts on democratic principles, abortion rights and ageing politicians.He also confirmed his interest in choosing Kristi Noem to be his vice-presidential running mate if he wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 as he seeks a second term in the White House. Continue reading...
Candid, substantive and constructive' talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in NovemberTop US and Chinese diplomats met in Malta over the weekend as the world's two largest economies attempted to smooth strained relations and clear a path for their respective presidents - Joe Biden and Xi Jinping - to meet in November.According to both Beijing and Washington, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met multiple times with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Malta, where - according to separate statements - candid, substantive and constructive" talks were held. Continue reading...
Another person was also charged with murder in relation to the fatal overdose and the sickening of three other childrenA Bronx daycare owner was jailed on a count of depraved indifference murder as well as drug charges on Saturday after a one-year-old infant died from apparent fentanyl poisoning on her watch, according to officials.Three other children - an eight-month-old girl and a pair of two-year-old boys - also appeared to have been sickened by the potent, synthetic opioid, authorities said. Continue reading...
Vermont senator says technology should benefit not just people on top' as he cites financial stresses confronting most AmericansIf the US's ongoing artificial intelligence and robotics boom translates into more work being done faster, then laborers should reap some of the gains of that in the form of more paid time off, the liberal US senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday.I happen to believe that - as a nation - we should begin a serious discussion ... about substantially lowering the workweek," Sanders remarked on CNN's State of the Union. Continue reading...
Man was outside a Los Angeles theater where Democratic presidential candidate was scheduled to give a speechAn armed man accused of impersonating a federal officer was arrested outside a Robert F Kennedy Jr campaign event in Los Angeles.A Los Angeles police department statement said police received a call on Friday afternoon that a man with a loaded gun and holster and wearing a US marshals service badge was outside a theater where the Democratic presidential candidate was scheduled to give a speech. Continue reading...
The White House has adopted a new, aggressive tone to negative reports about the 80-year-old president's fitness to govern but could it backfire?Joe Biden began his press conference at the JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi in Vietnam at 9.09pm local time. Good evening, everyone - it is evening, isn't it?" he said, prompting laughter. About 25 minutes later, the 80-year-old US president had another quip: I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed."Headline writers pounced. The Daily Beast website declared: Biden Wraps Up G20 Conference by Announcing I'm Going to Bed'". But unusually, the White House fired back. Ben LaBolt, its communications director, retorted sarcastically on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: Presidents shall never sleep. Not even at night after days of marathon meetings overseas. Sage guidance from the Daily Beast. Next up in the series: presidents shall never eat." Continue reading...
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US president agrees to talks at general assembly despite deep unease over policies of Israeli PM's hardline coalitionNine months after returning to office, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is finally getting his long sought-after meeting with Joe Biden - but an awkward rapprochement at the UN general assembly is unlikely to improve the strained relationship between the two leaders.The US president is scheduled to meet Netanyahu in New York on Wednesday, the White House said on Friday. The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said the two leaders would discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues focused on the shared democratic values between the United States and Israel and a vision for a more stable and prosperous and integrated region, as well as to compare notes on effectively countering and deterring Iran". Continue reading...
The religious right is losing its grip as candidates respond to a voter majority that doesn't support a federal abortion banWhen Donald Trump recalled how his three US supreme court justices helped repeal the nationwide right to abortion, the audience rose to its feet and erupted in whistles, whoops and prolonged applause. But even as the former president basked in the religious right's moment of triumph, he went on to deliver a warning.I will say politically, it's a very tough, it's a very tough decision for some people, but very, very hard on elections. Very, very hard," Trump told a gathering of Christian conservatives in the ballroom of a Washington hotel. We had midterms and this was an issue, you know." Continue reading...
Alaska Airlines, American and United could all be disrupted as air crew demand fairer share of vast profitsMajor US airlines have recovered from Covid-19 pandemic losses and are amassing vast profits, but amid those record-setting financial performances flight attendants are threatening strikes and calling for substantial wage increases and improvements in working conditions.The sums of money are huge. American Airlines reported record quarterly revenue in the second quarter of 2023 at $14.1bn, United Airlines reported record revenue in the same quarter at $14.2bn and a threefold increase in profit, and Alaska Airlines also reported record revenue in the second quarter of 2023 at $2.8bn. Continue reading...
We no longer expect blind obedience from our children, but if we teach them to be curious about the world and tolerant of each other, then good manners will followDo as you're told! As a child growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I seemed to hear that phrase all the time; these days, it's rare to hear parents or teachers utter it. So it was no surprise to read last week that the importance we put on our children being obedient has, according to the World Values Survey, plummeted in the past 30 years. The proportion of Britons who think children should be brought up to be obedient is now 12%, down from 42% in 1990.What we value in our kids these days, is, apparently, hard work" which is up from 29% to 48% over the same period. Imagination", is up from 18% to 37%, and determination and perseverance", from 31% to 41%. But in some values, we remain roughly the same through the decades: about 85% of British adults see good manners in children as especially important - that's only slightly lower than 1990 - and as for being unselfish, 43% of us value it highly in children, second only to France where the figure is 45%. Continue reading...
Adverts, MPs and newsreaders have all been caught in the act...Whenever I read asterisked swear words in print, and surely you do this, too, I very carefully sound the word out either aloud or in my head. And the feeling it gives me, working out the word from only two letters and an assortment of shapes, is as if I have cracked a secret code or passed a test, which means the word resonates at a higher pitch than its pathetic unstarred pals. It rings like a lovely bell and the stars for letters mean it glitters. Which, I think, must be the very opposite of what was originally intended. Instead of obscuring the word, the asterisks manifest it.Sometimes you don't even need asterisks. The ASA recently investigated ads for Tesco Mobile after receiving complaints that using the words shiitake", pistachio", and fettuccine" in a context where they alluded to expletives" was offensive and inappropriate for children to see. They would make them think about swear words and then, presumably, become ungovernable and possibly go on to kill. Continue reading...
One thing they share is the belief that the purpose of politics is to make things happen - and you only get to do that by winning powerWhen his parents named him after Keir Hardie, Labour's first leader, they could not have imagined how often their son would be measured against other people who have done the job. When Sir Keir Starmer ran for the role, some were under the misapprehension he would be a beardless version of Jeremy Corbyn. They know different now. During his first two years in the role, many thought, including a lot of people who sit in today's shadow cabinet, he was fated to be another Neil Kinnock: someone who would haul the party back from the brink of oblivion, but not return it to government. And now that Labour looks like it is on the cusp of power, there's a fashion to make comparisons with Tony Blair.They are often intended as insults, especially when they come from segments of the left. Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union, recently jibed that Sir Keir seemed intent on becoming a 1990s tribute act". Continue reading...
Walter Isaacson's biography of the Tesla, SpaceX and X owner shows insecurity and anger have driven him to extremesThe personal is political. The phrase was popularized by 1960s second-wave feminism but it sums up Elon Musk's ideological journey. Once a fundraiser and fanboy for Barack Obama", to quote his biographer, Walter Isaacson, the sometime world's richest man now plays thin-skinned, anti-woke warrior - a self-professed free-speech purist who in fact is anything but.His rebranding of Twitter to X having proved a disaster, he flirts with antisemites for fun and lost profits. He threatens the Anti-Defamation League with a multibillion-dollar lawsuit. The ADL never suggested the name X". That was a long-term fetish, now a clear own-goal. Continue reading...
Newly released surveillance video from a Denver theater appears to show Lauren Boebert vaping, singing, filming and disturbing other patrons during a Beetlejuice musical play. The US congresswoman has issued an apology after being kicked out of the performance in Denver for inappropriate behavior, an experience she has called 'difficult and humbling'
Olivia Hill, 57, a military veteran, joins the Nashville city council in historic electionA transgender woman won election to a seat on Nashville's city council, becoming the first openly transgender person to be voted into political office in Tennessee.Olivia Hill, 57, secured one of the four open at-large seats on the metro council of Nashville, a politically liberal city in an overwhelmingly conservative state. Continue reading...
Ken Paxton, impeached in May, has been found not guilty of bribery and dereliction of duty and may resume officeAfter a dramatic impeachment trial that lasted more than a week, Ken Paxton, the ultraconservative Texas attorney general, has been acquitted and will be able to resume his work in elected office.Paxton, who faced 16 articles of impeachment against him in this trial - involving bribery, dereliction of duty and disregard for official duty - and four more separately, avoided becoming Texas's highest-ranking elected official to be removed from state office. He quickly issued a statement boasting that, in his case, the truth prevailed". Continue reading...
Members of US Board on Geographic Names voted to change name of Mount Evans to Mount Blue sky at request of tribesFederal US officials renamed a Colorado mountain that was previously named after a disgraced governor of the state who led a massacre against Indigenous people.Members of the US Board on Geographic Names voted to change the name of Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Continue reading...
Emergency workers responding to report of cardiac arrest find equipment used in production of illegal drugsA one-year-old boy died and three other children were hospitalized after emergency workers responded to a report of cardiac arrest at a daycare center in New York City on Friday, authorities said.Police said they found equipment often used in the production of illegal drugs in the home-based daycare in the Bronx. Police said they were investigating the possibility that both the dead child and the hospitalized children had been exposed to an opioid of some kind over an extended period of time, according to reports from WABC and the New York Times. Continue reading...
Congresswoman issues apology after being kicked out of performance of musical in Denver for inappropriate behaviorLauren Boebert, the US congresswoman, has issued an apology after being kicked out of a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in Denver for inappropriate behavior, an experience she has called difficult and humbling".Boebert, a Republican representative for Colorado, and a male guest accompanying her were ejected from the musical on 10 September for vaping, recording video and disturbing other patrons during the Sunday performance. Video also showed them eagerly groping each other while in their seats. Continue reading...
The fashion designer celebrated at the V&A had an extraordinary talent for reinvention and even those who knew her struggled to convey her essenceThe Chanel exhibition at the V&A, which opened last week to cries of ecstasy from the fashion crowd, is full of extraordinary clothes; the jewellery and darling little trouser suits had even me weak at the knees. But the designer herself is more of an absence than a presence. Staring at a photograph from 1928, in which she's dressed in full hunting gear and sharing a joke with Winston Churchill and several beagles, I wondered again who she really was. Coco Chanel grew up poor; as a child, she spoke in patois. By the time of this picture, however, she was having an affair with the Duke of Westminster, the richest man in Britain. The capacity of human beings to reinvent themselves never ceases to fascinate me.Back at home to write my review, I searched for her essence on my bookshelves. But even those who knew her struggle to convey the inner Chanel (the outer Chanel was easy, as long as you had an eye for boucle and buttonholes). If she was magnetic, she was also a void - or perhaps I mean a mirror. Continue reading...
Any system of government that pits a vengeful crook against a fading old-timer is not working wellUS president Joe Biden has many reasons to be grateful he is not a member of Britain's ruling Conservatives, but one in particular stands out. When a Tory prime minister is polling badly, looking jaded and in danger of becoming a liability or a joke, they don't mess about.It doesn't matter whether it's Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or even Margaret Thatcher of sainted memory. Party chiefs put their heads together, have a quiet word. And the erstwhile leader, once lauded by all, is out. Done. Dumped. Deposed. Deposited on Downing Street's rubbish heap of history. Continue reading...
We support older people financially, but we deprive them of respect at our perilAgeism is perhaps the most paradoxical prejudice: we are, barring accident, discriminating against ourselves. Members of the persecuting in-group are through the course of their lives gently conveyor-belted into the persecuted out-group, which is, when you think about it, a very strange state of affairs. If the rich inevitably became poor at a certain life stage, you might expect society to fill with vigorous socialists. But ageism persists. Why?The best explanation perhaps is that it comes down to a sort of mass delusion on the part of the young. John Steinbeck wrote of America's temporarily embarrassed millionaires", the poor who resist measures to hand them money because they believe one day they will be rich. When it comes to ageing, the fallacy runs in the other direction: the lucky believe their luck will never end. One day that will be us struggling with newfangled technology," the young say, as a joke, not really thinking it will be. I'll need that Zimmer frame one day," they say, thinking they won't. Continue reading...
Former US president makes comment in interview with NBC after being told Putin approved of his stance on Russia invasionDonald Trump enjoyed hearing that he had drawn praise from the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the former US president and frontrunner for the 2024 Republican White House nomination has said.Told during a recorded interview with the new NBC Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker that Putin had fawned over his stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Trump replied: I like that he said that. Because that means what I'm saying is right." Continue reading...
Descendants of enslaved people lost a bid to limit development on an island they inhabit, ensuring the encroachment of mainlandersIn a small, wood-paneled courtroom in rural south-east Georgia, with painted portraits of McIntosh county's current and past white judges on the walls, three county commissioners dismissed a colleague's plea. At stake was the size of structures built on Sapelo Island, which is home to the last intact Gullah Geechee community in the United States. Roger Lotson, the sole Black commissioner on the otherwise all-white panel, had asked the commission to do what the residents of the remote sea island had been asking for years: maintain limits on the size of homes there to dissuade developers and non-descendants from encroaching on their land. On Tuesday night, for the third time in two weeks, Sapelo residents and their supporters packed the courtroom to make their voices heard. Three white commissioners ignored them.By a 3-2 vote, the McIntosh county commission approved a zoning ordinance change that will allow homes on the island to be as large as 3,000 square feet - double the size of the current limit, and far larger than the small homes and trailers in which most of the descendants live. The measure may open the floodgates to wealthy prospective land-buyers looking to build vacation homes on the mostly-uninhabited island. Unlike St Simons Island and Hilton Head, where the culturally Indigenous Gullah Geechee are all but forgotten amid a tourist haven of pristine golf courses and private beachfronts, Sapelo Island has so far avoided the contemporary explosion of development that has displaced Gullah communities. Black Sapelo residents, whose formerly enslaved ancestors started taking control of the land they toiled upon when Sapelo was abandoned after the US civil war, worry that Tuesday's vote may turn their island into a muted version of nearby island destinations, where mainlanders have run roughshod over the quiet, rural lifestyles that descendants had enjoyed for centuries. Continue reading...
Researchers in Poland have developed tests that can detect if a woman has taken mifepristone. It's a chilling developmentHave you ever come across a scientific study and immediately thought to yourself: why? What was the point of this work exactly? Why were resources and brainpower devoted to figuring this particular thing out? Continue reading...
As deadly disasters increase in frequency and magnitude, so does the emotional weight for those who recover the bodiesWalking through the ruins of Lahaina day after day, in between the rubble of destroyed homes and ash-covered streets, Eric Darling would try to remember his motto.Everybody comes home," the retired California firefighter would tell himself. Including me." Continue reading...
Horns blare in support of strikers outside the carmakers' plant in Wayne, Michigan, as union members attack corporate greed'Under blue skies in Wayne, Michigan, a half-hour outside Detroit, the mood was festive but defiant as hundreds of autoworkers settled in for the first weekend of picketing at the entrances to Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant.Ford's workers were among the first to go out in a series of targeted strikes that marked the beginning of the largest industrial action taken by US car workers in over a decade. Continue reading...
The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders said US motor workers were 'fighting against corporate greed' as he spoke in support of the biggest automotive industry strike in decades. Speaking to members of the United Auto Workers union at a rally in Detroit, Michigan, Sanders said it was reasonable for employees at the largest US auto companies - Ford, Stellantis and General Motors - to get a 'fair share of the record-breaking profits'. A disagreement over a new contract led to about 130,000 workers taking to the picket lines shortly after midnight on Thursday
My own recovery from the hopeless' stage of this condition shows we must never give up on patientsThe leaking of NHS documents last week describing how patients with longstanding eating disorders could be offered palliative care under new guidelines in the east of England was shocking but not unexpected. The very fact that these severe and enduring eating disorder (Seed) treatment pathways exist at all is scandalous.A running joke among service users is that the Seed treatment pathway is where you go when services have given up on you. Outpatient services seemingly don't know how to treat these patients other than to manage terminal decline. But inpatient services don't, either - the fact that palliative options are even on the table shows that.Dorothy Dunn is a freelance 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. Continue reading...
Jack Smith asked judge Tanya Chutkan to restrict ex-president's statements in federal election subversion trialThe US special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump for election subversion has asked a judge to impose limited restrictions" on the former president's public statements, citing his frequent inflammatory attacks" on the court, prospective witnesses and citizens of Washington DC.In a filing on Friday, federal prosecutors requested that judge Tanya Chutkan issue a narrow" gag order that would prohibit Trump from making statements regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses" and about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory, or intimidating". Continue reading...
Police chief confirmed number of missing had also dropped from 41 to 31 and that 74 of the deceased had been identifiedThe number of confirmed fatalities from the Maui wildfires is at least 97 people, a lower death toll than what officials had previously announced, Hawaii governor Josh Green said in an interview on CNN on Friday.State leaders said last month that at least 115 people had died in the 8 August blaze but on Friday said new testing showed they were counting multiple DNA samples from some of the victims. John Pelltier, the Maui police chief, said in a press conference that the number of missing people had also dropped from 41 to 31. And so far, 74 of the deceased have been positively identified. Continue reading...
Senator kicks off United Auto Workers' largest strike against US's big three carmakers amid record company profitsUS car workers striking against the nation's three biggest automakers are waging ... a fight against the outrageous level of corporate greed" seen across the country, Bernie Sanders said on Friday.The liberal US senator's remarks came on Friday afternoon during a rally with the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan, kicking off the first day of the union's Stand Up" strikes against General Motors, Stellantis and Ford. Continue reading...
Protesters in Seattle joined Indian diplomats and the police commission in demanding accountabilityOutrage grew on Friday over a Seattle police officer's remark that the life of a young woman killed by a speeding patrol car had limited value". Diplomats from India are asking for an investigation following the death of the Indian graduate student, as people in Seattle protested against the officer's callous jokes caught on body-camera video.The footage released this week contains audio of Officer Daniel Auderer, vice-president of the Seattle police officers guild, joking with the rank-and-file police union's president after a different officer's speeding police car slammed into Jaahnavi Kandula at a crosswalk on 23 January. Continue reading...
Auto workers in the US have launched a historic series of strikes after their union failed to reach an agreement with the country's three largest vehicle manufacturers.The disagreement over a new contract saw workers at Ford, Stellantis and GM plants called out from the shop floor to the picket lines shortly after midnight on Friday, kicking off the most ambitious industrial labor action in decades for about 130,000 workers.Workers are pushing for at least a 40% wage increase over four years in a new contract; an end to two-tier wage systems in which new hires are paid significantly less for doing the same work; an increase to benefits for retirees and return of a defined pension
Critics say the assault, which killed 183 people during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, could have been stoppedThe Pentagon's Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during US forces' chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped.The interviews - ordered by Erik Kurilla, a general and head of US Central Command - were triggered in part by assertions by at least one service member injured in the blast who said he was never interviewed about it and that he might have been able to stop the attackers. Continue reading...
Ellis, one of 18 Trump associates charged in Georgia election subversion case, says she simply can't support him' againJenna Ellis - the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 - says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a malignant narcissist" who cannot admit mistakes.I simply can't support him for elected office again," Ellis said. Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he's never done anything wrong." Continue reading...
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