Solidarity protests demand bodily autonomy for women in Iran and economic justice for students, teachers and workers“This is a really beautiful moment,” says Hoda Katebi, a writer and community organizer based in Chicago. “It has been terrifying and inspiring for Iranians, both in Iran and outside of it.”For the last 14 days, Iranians have been protesting on the streets across their country, defying judicial warnings after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini. Continue reading...
Miami quarterback Tua Tagovailoa sustained neck and head injuries after being slammed to the ground against the Cincinnati Bengals and was stretchered from the field.'It’s an emotional moment. It’s not a part of the deal you sign up for,' said the Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel. The Dolphins said Tagovailoa was conscious, had movement in all his extremities and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for further evaluation.
The 19-year-old, named as cheater by Magnus Carlsen, is due to play for the US title in a 14-grandmaster field including three of the world top 10Hans Niemann will be tested by three of the top 10 grandmasters next week when the 19-year-old, who the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has publicly declared to be a cheat, takes on the American elite in the $250,000 US championship at St Louis, which has its first round (of 13) on Wednesday.Niemann will be returning to the the “capital of chess” where a few weeks ago he shocked Carlsen by defeating the Norwegian in the third round of the Sinquefield Cup. Continue reading...
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In a press conference, Ron DeSantis said food, water and other supplies are being distributed to those who did not evacuate26 states have provided support to Florida amid the damages that Hurricane Ian has left across the state.“It’s going to be put to use,” DeSantis said on Thursday morning. Continue reading...
Biden says hurricane could ‘be deadliest in state’s history’ as storm regains strength and heads towards South CarolinaThe “catastrophic” scale of the damage wreaked by Hurricane Ian’s 150mph deadly rampage across Florida has become clearer as emergency crews rescued trapped residents from flooded homes, and authorities expressed fears of a growing death toll.As South Carolina braced for Ian to make a second landfall on Friday, search and rescue crews in south-west Florida conducted hundreds of missions in areas that were submerged by a storm surge of up to 18ft after one of the most powerful storms to strike the US swept ashore on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Emergency crews using boats and helicopters raced to reach stranded residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast after Hurricane Ian, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the US mainland, left behind deadly floodwaters, downed power lines and widespread damage. Aerial video showed massive devastation and flooding in beach communities, with some homes and businesses reduced to matchwood, and boats and vehicles wrecked or submerged
In eagerly awaited book Confidence Man, Maggie Haberman of the New York Times depicts scene on campaign plane in 2016According to a new book, Donald Trump came up with his famous excuse for not releasing his tax returns on the fly – literally, while riding his campaign plane during the 2016 Republican primary.Every American president or nominee since Richard Nixon had released his or her tax returns. Trump refused to do so. Continue reading...
Judge rules ex-president does not have to confirm under oath insinuations until his lawyers have reviewed seized materialsA federal judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump would not have to provide a sworn declaration that the FBI supposedly “planted” some of the highly-sensitive documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago resort, as he has suggested, until his lawyers have reviewed the seized materials.The order from US district court judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the special master case and is a Trump appointee, also pushed back several key interim deadlines that consequently extends the review’s final date of completion from the end of November to mid-December. Continue reading...
Video has since been viewed 3.4m times on Twitter and has garnered praise and celebrationA video of a man rescuing a cat during Hurricane Ian in south-west Florida has gone viral, prompting praise from many viewers.“My boyfriend saving a cat from flood waters near Bonita Beach,” wrote Megan Cruz Scavo in a caption that accompanied a video of her boyfriend, 29-year old Mike Ross, trudging across knee-deep water on Wednesday afternoon to rescue a stranded cat. Continue reading...
Mayor Libby Schaaf calls for gun restrictions after shooting at Rudsdale Newcome high school for recently immigrated studentsCalifornia authorities are searching for at least two people in connection with a shooting on a school campus in Oakland that left six people injured.Wednesday’s shooting occurred at Rudsdale Newcomer high school, which serves students who are at risk of not graduating and have recently immigrated to the US after fleeing their home countries “because of violence and instability”. The school is one of four adjacent schools that serve middle and high school students on Fontaine Street just outside East Oakland.This story was amended on 28 September 2022 to clarify that the shooting happened at a grade school, not a high school Continue reading...
DoJ indictment alleges that former army major and his wife wanted to help the Russian government after it invaded UkraineA former US army major and his wife, an anesthesiologist, have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.Jamie Lee Henry, the former major who was also a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and his wife, Dr Anna Gabrielian, were charged in an unsealed indictment in a federal court in Maryland with conspiracy and the wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. Continue reading...
Drone footage from Florida, where Hurricane Ian has left a trail of destruction, shows widespread flooding of urban areas. The hurricane, considered one of the most powerful to have hit the US, made landfall on Wednesday and has left more than 2 million people without power. Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration, which makes federal money available to help state, tribal and local recovery efforts
Is the older me just a watered-down version of the younger me? There is something eternal in us all – a thing that doesn’t age or calcifySometimes it feels as though nothing really ends, that we carry things and people around with us over a lifetime. Tim Winton put it well when he wrote in The Turning, “The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.”Things are never over. This is what I was thinking about at my book launch two weeks ago, trying not to be overwhelmed as I looked around the room dense with association, love and history. Many there had been in my life since I was born – their faces hovering over the cot. My parents have the capacity for long friendship. Now in their mid-70s, some of their friends had been around since they were in primary school. Go back further and their parents – my grandparents – were also friends. Things are never over. Continue reading...
Robotic PM displayed zero awareness in radio interviews of the damage she has doneFirst, an apology. I should never have christened Theresa May “the Maybot”. With hindsight, she appears positively emotionally present. Touchy-feely. Almost functional. If not entirely competent. Certainly not the 1980s piece of Amstrad junk she always seemed when she was running the country. If you can call it that.But the Tories are just playing with us. It’s as if the members said: “So you think David Cameron is useless? Just wait until we give you Theresa.” And once we’d all had about enough of May, they gave us a narcissistic, sociopathic liar instead. Continue reading...
Thomas, who contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin in weeks after election, gives voluntary interview on Capitol HillThe conservative activist Ginni Thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, appeared on Thursday for a voluntary interview with the House January 6 committee.The committee had for months sought the interview in an effort to know more about Thomas’s role in trying to help Donald Trump overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden. Continue reading...
Moments before a reporter for First Coast News was due to go on air in Jacksonville, Florida, powerful gusts from Hurricane Ian blew over a shopping centre sign behind her. The storm has caused widespread destruction and flooding across the state since it made landfall on Wednesday, and Joe Biden has declared a federal emergency. More than 2m homes and businesses have been left without power
Philanthropist former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos married science teacher Dan Jewett last yearMacKenzie Scott, the novelist and billionaire philanthropist who was formerly married to the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has filed for divorce from her second husband.Citing court records, the New York Times reported that Scott filed for divorce from Dan Jewett in Washington state on Monday. Continue reading...
Lawsuits accuse maker of gun used in attack of illegally targeting ads at young men at risk of committing violenceSurvivors of the mass shooting at a suburban Chicago Fourth of July parade and family members of those killed filed 11 lawsuits on Wednesday against the manufacturer of the rifle used in the attack, accusing Smith & Wesson of illegally targeting ads at young men at risk of committing mass violence.The sweeping effort by dozens of victims of the Highland Park shooting, anti-gun violence advocates and private attorneys is the latest attempt to hold gun manufacturers accountable for a mass killing despite broad protections in federal law. Continue reading...
‘Major, major’ storm, estimated to be 140 miles wide, sweeps inland after causing huge flooding on coast, with millions of residents in its path. Plus, life on the climate frontline
In midtown Manhattan, volunteers receive families bussed from the south amid simmering political and legal rowsThe buses all had something unusual in common: even though they had traveled the length of the country the luggage compartments were eerily bare.The vehicles’ giant front windows reared around the corner, faces peeping through tinted glass for a first glimpse of New York City. Continue reading...
People like Celia shouldn’t have to gamble with their lives. We need more rigorous checks and tests on “free from” productsThe last time I saw my big sister Celia was at our leaving party in July 2017. My family was uprooting from the UK to Melbourne, Australia. She was full of life and looking forward to visiting us in our new home. But on 27 December that year, Celia went on a shopping trip in Bath and died of anaphylaxis after eating a contaminated vegan rainbow vegetable wrap bought from Pret a Manger that was labelled as dairy-free.Celia was highly allergic to dairy and scrupulously avoided it in her diet. Last week, more than four and a half years later, the coroner at her inquest ruled that Celia’s death was from anaphylaxis caused by the milk protein found in the contaminated dairy-free yoghurt used in the wrap that she consumed that day.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 300 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading...
‘Major, major’ storm, estimated to be 140 miles wide, sweeps inland after causing huge flooding on coast, with millions of residents in its pathHurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the US mainland, has battered south-west Florida with high winds, rain and storm surges as it weakened and moved inland.More than 2m homes and businesses were left without power as the storm swept ashore in south-west Florida on Wednesday afternoon, bringing “catastrophic” 150mph winds and a deadly storm surge of up to 18ft. Hours later, the storm – estimated to be about 140 miles wide – was downgraded from a category 4 to a category 1 storm as it moved slowly north-east, causing major flooding. Continue reading...
We’re only three weeks into the 2022 campaign but the league has already thrown up some unexpected twistsDoug Pederson deserves a ton of credit for Jacksonville’s turnaround. He’s installed an imaginative yet simple offense that has helped unlock the potential of Trevor Lawrence. But while Pederson and Lawrence have drawn the early-season acclaim, it’s Jacksonville’s defense that stands out. Continue reading...
The temperatures fall, and the kids and I – as if hypnotised – find ourselves driving out of town for some ritual apple-pickingIt was a long weekend in New York last week, where the schools closed for the Jewish New Year and New Yorkers reckoned with an annual tradition. “Let’s go apple-picking,” someone says, and every year you insist you’ll resist. The 80F (27C) heat; the dust; the bumper to bumper New York plates; and the task itself – picking sodding apples you will never, ever make into a pie (when, in your entire life, have you ever made a pie?) – none of that matters. Like a trigger from a hypnotist, hear those words and you, a city person, are compelled by some law of physics to rent a car, identify a farm and drive out to fulfil your autumn quest in a jacket too warm for the day.This year, we tried to at least use our years in the trenches to make the experience less onerous. Drive 45 minutes out of town to a field in New Jersey and you’ll find yourself less in a farm than a giant car park. (This is the same, semi-metropolitan zone that three months hence will offer ski slopes with 3cm of snow, warmed by the heat of 8 million New Yorkers). This year, we would do it properly and drive two and a half hours north west into rural Pennsylvania. We would stay with friends who knew what they were doing. We would find the one apple-picking experience that, unlike that of all the other cosplaying city folk, would bring us convincing insights into rural life.Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Former president reportedly asked indelicate question at White House in January 2017 when Johnson was foreign secretaryIn his first White House meeting with a major foreign leader, Donald Trump asked Theresa May: “Why isn’t Boris Johnson the prime minister? Didn’t he want the job?”At the time, the notoriously ambitious Johnson was foreign secretary. He became prime minister two years later, in 2019, after May was forced to resign. Continue reading...
Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman reveals racism, transphobia and ignorance from ex-president’s time in powerIn a meeting supposedly about campaign strategy in the 2020 election, Donald Trump implied his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, might be brutally attacked, even raped, should he ever go camping.“Ivanka wants to rent one of those big RVs,” Trump told bemused aides, according to a new book by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, before gesturing to his daughter’s husband. Continue reading...
Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the US, swept ashore in south-west Florida on Wednesday afternoon, bringing 'catastrophic' winds of 150mph (241km/h) and a deadly storm surge of up to 18ft (5.5m)
Anthony John Graziano allegedly killed his estranged wife and fled with the girl, who died amid a desert gunfight after a police chaseA 15-year-old girl was killed during a shootout with police in California’s high desert on Tuesday, along with her father who had allegedly killed the teen’s mother.Savannah Graziano died amid a gunfight between officers and her father after an extensive chase across southern California highways. Authorities said the girl, who was wearing tactical gear, died after running toward sheriff’s deputies during the gunfire. Continue reading...
Four people swam to shore and three were rescued but others remain missing, officials sayA search is under way for more than 20 people off the coast of Florida after their boat sank shortly before Hurricane Ian made landfall on Wednesday.Four Cuban migrants swam to shore in the Florida Keys and three others were rescued from the ocean after their boat sank on Wednesday, but others are still missing, officials said. Continue reading...
Lawyer, who says he no longer poses a risk, files request to reverse California governor Newsom’s decision to deny Sirhan paroleSirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy in 1968, is asking a judge to free him from prison by reversing a decision by the California governor to deny him parole.Sirhan shot Kennedy in 1968 at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, moments after the US senator from New York claimed victory in California’s pivotal Democratic presidential primary. He wounded five others during the shooting. Continue reading...
As parts of the island languish without electricity, people worry about the worsening after-effects of the storm“Hurricane” is an Indigenous word, used by Cubans long before the Spanish conquistadores arrived. So when Hurricane Ian – with sustained wind speeds of more than 200km/h (124mph) – made a direct hit on the provincial capital of Pinar del Río on Tuesday, people were ready.Just hours after the worst of the storm passed, amid broken glass and lashing winds, hotel worker Nieves Oliva, 60, was even dancing to reggaeton on a battery-powered speaker after a long, wet night guarding the city’s main hotel. Continue reading...
Nelson, 49, fell down narrow slope on ski back to camp after scaling Nepali peak of Manaslu with partnerThe body of the renowned US big-mountain skier Hilaree Nelson was found on Wednesday morning after she fell down a narrow 5,000ft slope during a trek in the Himalayas two days earlier.Nelson and her partner, Jim Morrison, had scaled the 26,781ft peak of Manaslu on Monday morning. They reached the summit at 10.42am “in tough conditions”, Morrison wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday. The pair transitioned from climbing to skiing down to regroup with their sherpa team. Continue reading...
Phones reportedly confiscated amid criminal investigation about missing text messages from January 5 and 6US Secret Service leaders confiscated cellphones from 24 agents involved in the response to the Capitol attack amid a criminal investigation about missing text messages from 5 and 6 January 2021, according to a new report.Citing “two sources with knowledge of the action”, NBC News said the phones were handed to Joseph Cuffari, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, in late July or early August, shortly after Cuffari launched an investigation requested by the National Archives. Continue reading...
New guidelines put forward by Republican Glenn Youngkin would restrict protections for transgender studentsThousands of Virginia high school students walked out of school on Tuesday to protest proposed guidelines put forward by Governor Glenn Youngkin that would restrict protections for transgender students.Students from nearly 100 high schools staged walkouts across the state to protest against the new policies, holding signs criticizing the guidelines and waving pride flags in support of their LGBTQ+ peers. Continue reading...
The Labour leader has finally hitched himself to some bold policies. But can he be trusted to come good on them?When Keir Starmer assumed the Labour leadership two years ago, both the party’s left and right flanks feared that they were heading for a repeat of the Ed Miliband era. For the left, this meant a lack of a radical alternative to Tory rule; the right, meanwhile, was worried he would engage in a heretical repudiation of Blairite nostrums. Miliband’s tortured tenure as leader of the opposition reflected his own internal conflict between the radicalism of his Marxist father and his background as a New Labour adviser: his flirtation with an analysis of a broken economic system was not matched by the transformative policies required to fix it.How appropriate, then, that it is Miliband himself – who concluded that his lack of boldness fatally undermined his own leadership – who has played a pivotal role in arming Starmer’s Labour with substantial policies. His influence could be seen in the party’s commitment to invest £28bn a year in a transition to a green economy, and to slash energy bills through the introduction of a windfall tax on fossil fuel profits. In Starmer’s conference speech, it manifested itself again: in the creation of a publicly run energy company that will own and operate renewable energy assets, and a sovereign wealth fund. Thanks to the determination of Labour’s transport secretary Louise Haigh, the party is officially committed to rail nationalisation, while her colleague Lisa Nandy has adopted a mantra of “council housing, council housing, council housing”. Continue reading...
Electricity grid collapses in Cuba after hurricane passes through, as 2.5 million people in Florida ordered to evacuateResidents in Florida were bracing on Wednesday morning for the landfall of a storm that had strengthened overnight into a category 4 hurricane and left Cuba without power after the entire country’s electricity grid collapsed in its wake.Many businesses in Florida have shuttered and officials ordered 2.5 million people to evacuate. The National Weather Service forecasts the center of Hurricane Ian to move over central Florida by Wednesday evening. It has already picked up wind strength close to 155mph (250km/h), though it is expected to slowly weaken as it makes landfall. Continue reading...
There’s nothing nostalgic about the far-right political space that the country’s new leader is trying to carve out in EuropeItaly, wrote the situationist philosopher Guy Debord in 1968, “sums up the social contradictions of the entire world”. As such, it was a “laboratory for international counter-revolution”.Political analysts the world over are now busy parsing Giorgia Meloni’s statements to determine if she is a fascist, a neofascist or a post-fascist. Why, they ask, are Italians seemingly willing to consider a return to the politics of their country’s darkest hour?Lorenzo Marsili is a philosopher, activist and founder of European Alternatives and Fondazione Studio Rizoma. He is the author of Planetary Politics: a Manifesto Continue reading...
Gregg Berhalter is executing a masterclass in managing expectations downwards as the World Cup approaches. But that doesn’t mean all is lostThe US men’s national team drew 0-0 with Saudi Arabia in Spain on Tuesday in their final game before their opening World Cup clash against Wales on 21 November. Following on from Friday’s tame 2-0 loss to Japan in Germany, these were two tune-ups that served to underline the team’s shortcomings rather than solve them, played in low-key atmospheres that felt more like pre-season friendlies than the last international fixtures before a World Cup. Continue reading...
The Biden administration is hosting a conference to coincide with a new hunger and nutrition plan – what can it achieve?The Biden administration is hosting a one-day conference on Wednesday on hunger, nutrition and health, bringing together advocates, researchers and activists and leaders in business and philanthropy, faith groups and communities around the US. Continue reading...
Kate Brown has granted more commutations or pardons than all of Oregon’s governor from the last 50 years combinedLast October, Kate Brown, the governor of Oregon, signed an executive order granting clemency to 73 people who had committed crimes as juveniles, clearing a path for them to apply for parole.The move marked the high point in a remarkable arc: as Brown approaches the end of her second term in January, she has granted commutations or pardons to 1,147 people – more than all of Oregon’s governors from the last 50 years combined. Continue reading...
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