Suspected gunman still at large and possibly armed after four people were fatally shot at a bar in Anaconda on FridayMontana's attorney general on Sunday released the names of the four people who were shot to death in a mass murder at a bar two days earlier.The victims were Daniel Edwin Ballie, 59; Nancy Lauretta Kelly, 64; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, 74. All four were residents of Anaconda, Montana, where the quadruple murder took place, a statement from the Montana attorney general, Austin Knudsen, said. Continue reading...
In May reports revealed that White House officials had set goals for Ice agents to arrest 3,000 people per dayIn a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements from White House officials about pursuing a goal of at least 3,000 deportations or deportation arrests per day.In May, reports from both the Guardian and Axios revealed that during a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders on 21 May, the White House adviser Stephen Miller and the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people per day. Continue reading...
Rodman had not played since 12 April due to a lingering back issue, but helped the Washington Spirit to a win over Portland Thorns.Trinity Rodman scored in stoppage time of her first game since April to give the Washington Spirit a 2-1 victory over the Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League on Sunday.Rodman was on the bench to begin the game before entering to the roar of the crowd at Audi Field in the 76th minute. Rodman had not played since 12 April because of a nagging back issue. Continue reading...
Former Fox News host boosted lies that Trump lost 2020 election because of electoral fraudThe US Senate has confirmed Jeanine Pirro - a former Fox News host and staunch Donald Trump ally who boosted lies that he lost the 2020 presidential race because of electoral fraudsters - as the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital.Pirro - a former New York state district attorney and county judge who joined Fox News in 2011 - was confirmed on Saturday in a 50-45 vote along party lines. Continue reading...
Museum denies Trump pressured it to remove references amid concerns that history was being whitewashedThe Smithsonian will include Donald Trump's two impeachments in an updated presentation in the coming weeks" after references to them were removed, the museum said in a statement Saturday.That statement from the Washington DC museum also denied that the Trump administration pressured the Smithsonian to remove the references to his impeachments during his first presidency. Continue reading...
Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return from August recess to speed up confirmationsThe US Senate left Washington DC on Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of Donald Trump's nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious bipartisan negotiations and the president taking to social media to tell Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to GO TO HELL!"Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up the pace of confirmations. Trump has been pressuring senators to move quickly as Democrats blocked more nominees than usual this year, denying any fast unanimous consent votes and forcing roll calls on each one, a lengthy process that can take several days per nominee. Continue reading...
Revelation comes amid public fixation on American Eagle's ad featuring the star and a pun about her genesSydney Sweeney registered as a Republican voter in Florida a few months before Donald Trump won a second US presidency, it has been revealed, as the public continues fixating on a new jeans ad campaign featuring the actor and a pun about her genes.The Euphoria and White Lotus star registered to vote in Florida on 14 June 2024 - shortly after buying a mansion in the Keys - and listed her party affiliation as Republican, according to publicly available records reviewed by the Guardian on Sunday. That was about two weeks after Trump, another registered Republican Florida voter, was convicted in New York City of criminal falsification of business records and before he secured a return to the White House in November's presidential election. Continue reading...
Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump's increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignoredDonald Trump's frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life. Continue reading...
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against womenOn 2 July, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against the music mogul Sean Combs, accused of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep pockets. He's also accused in many civil suits of sexual abuse of adults and minors. It seems like everyone promptly forgot about Combs when the facts about the financier Jeffrey Epstein's decades of horrific sexual abuse of at least a 100 girls and women, with the help of his extensive staff, deep pockets, banks, and elite connections became the next front-page ruckus.In June, the movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty in a New York retrial for some of his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women, with the help of his extensive staff, top lawyers, the film industry, some ex-Mossad agents and of course his deep pockets. In February a federal appeals court upheld the convictions and 30-year prison sentence of the singer R Kelly for racketeering and sex trafficking; last year his other 20-year sentence was also upheld, for producing child abuse images and enticement of children for sex. Of course his deep pockets and extensive assistance had also been factors in how he too was able to abuse girls for so long.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of No Straight Road Takes You There and Orwell's Roses Continue reading...
A 3.0 magnitude quake hit suburb of Hasbrouck Heights as residents in Brooklyn reported feeling the tremorsA small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area on Saturday night.The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the tremor had a magnitude of 3.0. Continue reading...
Kevin Sinning was charged with criminal mischief and larceny after allegedly driving cart over walkways while drunkA man commandeered a transportation cart at New York's Buffalo Niagara international airport and destroyed moving walkways with it at the facility, according to authorities investigating the unusual incident.Kevin J Sinning, 29, of Wyoming, faces charges of second-degree criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, criminal nuisance, third-degree grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property worth more than $3,000 after his arrest at about 1am on 28 July, the Niagara frontier transportation authority police department said.The subheading of this article was amended on 3 August 2025 to correct a misrendering of the surname of Kevin Sinning. Continue reading...
Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelterDawn broke on a foggy morning on Terminal Island, an artificial slice of land that rests where the city of Los Angeles meets the Pacific Ocean. Sea lions barked in the distance as sleek, white SUVs drove through a checkpoint into a federal prison. Chavo Romero, his hair pulled back in a ponytail, sipped coffee as he watched them.He awoke before daybreak, taking the day off from his public health job to drive here in the dark. Romero is part of a coalition of trained volunteers called Union del Barrio, who patrol the barrios, or neighbourhoods, to look for immigration enforcement, La Migra." When they spot Ice activity, they post videos that go viral, alerting people to seek shelter. Continue reading...
Cases winding through courts offer hope that documents could be released even if justice department declinesOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed that his administration would release a tranche of documents in the criminal investigation into disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.But since Trump returned to the White House, his promises have fallen flat, with few documents released - and backtracking about releasing more records. The lack of disclosure has prompted not only dissatisfaction among those seeking information about Epstein's crimes, but political flak Trump can't seem to deflect, especially about his own relations with the convicted sex trafficker. Continue reading...
Critics say Gretchen Whitmer deposed Alessandra Carreon at the behest of state energy supplier DTE EnergyMichigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has effectively ousted a clean energy advocate from serving on a board that regulates the state's energy utilities monopoly, and replaced her with someone who environmental groups charge is an industry ally", campaigners say.The groups allege the move was made at utility giant DTE Energy's behest because it was unhappy with Michigan public services commission (MPSC) board member Alessandra Carreon's position on clean energy and opposition to rate increases, among other issues. Continue reading...
Trump's budget bill is turbocharging an already brutal enforcement operation. We must meet the momentOn the Fourth of July, President Trump signed his sweeping signature domestic policy bill into law. He called it beautiful". I would call it a grave and existential threat to our already precarious democracy.Perhaps the biggest headline to emerge from this bill is that it tears giant holes into our social safety net to ensure our nation's wealthiest could benefit from additional tax breaks. But for those of us on the frontlines of the fight to protect immigrants' rights, it signaled the further entrenchment of an authoritarian regime being created on the backs of immigrants. Irrespective of our immigration status or views on immigration, we should all be concerned because we will all be affected: the sheer quantity of resources set aside for immigration enforcement will turbocharge the militarization of our country.Kica Matos is president of the National Immigration Law Center Continue reading...
A game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds at Tennessee's Bristol Motor Speedway sold more than 85,000 tickets to break MLB's regular-season record, but was suspended in the first inning due to rain Continue reading...
Executions by a vengeful regime in Tehran are soaring. The west must pursue a different strategyHanging is the preferred method of execution in Iran, although stoning and crucifixion offer alternative options for an ever-vengeful theocracy. Death by hanging is not necessarily quick. Strangulation and suffocation can take several minutes. The UN says more than 600 people have been judicially murdered so far this year. Iran has more executions per capita than any country in the world. Since June's US and Israeli attacks, growing numbers of victims are political dissidents.Fifty days on, nothing remotely positive has resulted from the illegal bombing raids and missile strikes mounted by the US president, Donald Trump, and Israel's leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite their boasts of world-changing success. Iran's nuclear facilities were not obliterated, as Trump claimed. Tehran has not abandoned uranium enrichment. The regime did not fall, despite Netanyahu's call for an uprising. If anything, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is more defiant. He has since launched a new crackdown on opponents, hence the executions. Continue reading...
Jack Smith is reportedly being investigated for possible violations of the Hatch Act; Republican's condemn the president for sacking Erika McEntarfer. Key US politics stories from Saturday 2 AugustThe US office of special counsel, an independent federal agency, confirmed to NBC News that it is investigating former Department of Justice prosecutor Jack Smith for possible violations of the Hatch Act.Smith led investigations into Donald Trump's part in the 6 January US Capitol riot and alleged mishandling of classified documents. Continue reading...
Law enforcement were looking for 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, a US army veteran who lived in AnacondaAuthorities continued to search Saturday afternoon for the man accused of killing four people at a Montana bar.Local, state and federal law enforcement were looking for 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, a US army veteran who lived in a small town, Anaconda, next to The Owl Bar, where on Friday morning he allegedly opened fire and killed a bartender and three patrons. Continue reading...
The winning punter will enjoy the spotlight and riches at the New Orleans Saints, while the loser will be unemployedThere is a brutal ritual involving Australian punters that takes place this time of year in Louisiana's intense summer heat, near the bayous and swamps that are home to alligators and venomous cottonmouth snakes. It features former Australian rules footballers battling for a single US$3m NFL punting contract with the New Orleans Saints.This year's showdown began with Matt Hayball, a former Geelong Cat and the Saints' incumbent punter, against James Burnip, a 198cm rookie from Mount Macedon in Victoria, who just wrapped a standout punting career at the University of Alabama. The Saints complicated the battle this week by signing a third punter, American Kai Kroeger. Continue reading...
Smith led investigations into Trump's part in the January 6 Capitol attack and the mishandling of classified documentsThe US office of special counsel, an independent federal agency, confirmed to NBC News on Saturday that it is investigating former Department of Justice prosecutor Jack Smith for possible violations of the Hatch Act.Smith led investigations into Donald Trump's part in January 6 US Capitol riot and alleged mishandling of classified documents. Continue reading...
More than 50 signatures were revealed to be fraudulent on Eric Adams' petition to run as an independent in electionMore than 50 signatures on New York mayor Eric Adams' petition to run as an independent candidate in November's election are fraudulent, according to a report published on Friday.The Gothamist said it had found 52 signatures from people who said their names were forged, including signatures of three people who turned out to be dead. The publication cited others who said they were deceived into signing the petitions. Continue reading...
President claimed that recently released figures showing jobs slowdown were rigged' to make him look badSenior Republican lawmakers are condemning the decision of their party leader, Donald Trump, to fire the leading US labor market statistician after a report that showed the national economy added just 73,000 jobs - far fewer than expected - in July.The disappointing figures - coupled with a downward revision of the two previous months amounting to 258,000 fewer jobs and data showing that economic output and consumer spending slowed in the first half of the year - point to an overall economic deterioration in the US. Continue reading...
They partied together and called each other friends in the past, but in 2020 Combs said Trump should be banished'Donald Trump says he considers Sean Diddy" Combs sort of half-innocent" despite his criminal conviction in federal court in July - but the president called pardoning the music mogul more difficult" because of past criticism.Trump spoke about Combs during an interview on Friday night on the friendly environs of Newsmax. Combs was found guilty on 2 July of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, with each leaving him facing up to 10 years in prison - but he was acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges. Continue reading...
Declassified document contains deflating conclusion for DNI director that Russian spies were behind key 2016 emailsTulsi Gabbard, the director of US national intelligence, hoped to uncover evidence that Barack Obama and his national security team conspired to undermine Donald Trump in a slow-motion coup.But if her crusade was aimed at proving that Obama embarked on a treasonous conspiracy" to falsely show that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump, Gabbard made a mistake. A previously classified annexe to a report by another special counsel, John Durham - appointed towards the end of Trump's first presidency - has further undermined Gabbard's case. Continue reading...
No pause on Russian imports by Indian oil firms who base decisions on price, grade of crude, logistics and economic factors'Indian oil refineries will continue to buy oil from Russia, officials have said, before threatened US sanctions next week against Moscow's trading partners over the war in Ukraine.Media reports on Friday had suggested India, a big energy importer, would stop buying cheap Russian oil. Trump later told reporters that such a move would be a good step" if true. Continue reading...
An imam's detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio townFor 50 long years, life in Hamilton, a town of 63,000 people a half-hour north of Cincinnati, was in decline.Factories closed and thousands of residents moved away to Cincinnati, Columbus and beyond. The scourge of the opioid epidemic during the early 2000s sucked the life out of Butler county's seat of government. Continue reading...
Donald Trump, battling to disentangle himself from the scandal surrounding the late sex offender, has mused about the prospect of pardoning the British socialiteSince Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite's legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to discuss all matters related to her child sex-trafficking co-conspirator Jeffrey Epstein's many crimes.
Chris Booth's channel - rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism - garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two monthsThe Guardian has identified the self-described national socialist" behind an openly extremist YouTube channel that in just over two months has accumulated 50,000 subscribers, seen more than 2.3m views, and likely made thousands of dollars from YouTube's revenue-sharing monetization program.Johnathan Christopher Chris" Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan's Montcalm county, and is married to a senior local Republican official. Continue reading...
The scandal has haunted the president in part because of a truth voters already feel: Republicans protect elitesDemocrats must not let Jeffrey Epstein die.They must highlight how this saga exposes the president for who he has always been.This is exactly why there's eroding trust in our institutions, because until we confront the rot that exists in our institutions, until we hold everyone, everyone accountable under the same set of rules and laws, we will keep living in a country where there are two systems of justice, one for the rich and powerful, and one for everybody else. We deserve better. Release the files now.Peter Rothpletz is a Guardian contributor
The infamous prison became an Indigenous resistance site after it closed. Now, tribes fight Trump's reopening plansWhen Donald Trump pledged to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison as a detention center for immigrants and violent offenders, the idea was met with contempt and mockery. San Francisco leaders have called it Trump's stupidest idea yet" and threatened to cut off the island's sewage and garbage services if the president acts on his carceral ambitions.But for the Indigenous people of the San Francisco Bay Area, the idea was more than just laughable. It was an affront to their identity, and an attempt to erase the island's history as a site of Indigenous resistance. Continue reading...
The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel's atrocities in GazaCan we finally stop pretending that what we have been witnessing in Gaza over the past 22 months is a war," a conflict," or even a humanitarian crisis"? Many of the world's leading human rights and humanitarian groups - including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders - agreed months ago that what is being livestreamed to our phones on a daily basis is indeed a genocide.This week, Israel's own leading human rights group announced that it had reached the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip". In other words, said B'Tselem, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip".Mehdi Hasan is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of the media company Zeteo. Continue reading...
Manhunt for suspect who lived nextdoor to bar where shooting occurred on Friday morning at about 10.30amFour people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case.The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan resource which defines such cases as killings in which four or more victims are killed.Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...
Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. The EU should now steel itself and reject the terms imposed by Donald TrumpUrsula von der Leyen's Turnberry golf course deal has been rightly called a capitulation and a humiliation for Europe. Assuming such an accord would put an end to Donald Trump's coercion and bullying was either naive or the result of a miserable delusion. The EU should now steel itself and reject the terms imposed by Trump.Is this deal really as bad as it sounds? Unfortunately, it is, for at least three reasons.Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy Centre, and Varg Folkman is policy analyst at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...
Trump's own former statistics chief denounces move as groundless' and dangerous'. Key US politics stories from Friday 1 August at a glanceAfter Donald Trump ordered the firing of a federal government official in charge of labor statistics, experts and opposition politicians have expressed alarm that the credibility" of US economic data was at risk.The US president claimed without evidence that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, had rigged" job numbers in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad", after data showed jobs growth stalled this summer, prompting accusations that the president was firing the messenger". Continue reading...
Crews worked to clean up strewn links which led to morning traffic being snagged in chain reactionA highway outside of Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, was dizzy with glizzys on Friday after a truckload of hotdogs spilled across the I-83, as local commuters learned that even the weakest hot dog link can cause a chain reaction.State police said the tractor trailer had an unspecified mechanical problem on Interstate-83 a few miles north of the Maryland line as morning rush hour was wrapping up, causing it to push into a passenger vehicle. When the truck scraped along a concrete divider, its trailer was ripped open and the contents scattered. Continue reading...
Rodney Taylor placed in restrictive unit' for refusing to enter flooded cell because his prosthetic legs can't get wetA Liberian-born man detained by Ice in Georgia was put in solitary confinement after complaining about flooding in the common area outside his cell at the Stewart detention center that he said was potentially dangerous for his electronic prosthetic legs, the Guardian can reveal.Rodney Taylor recently spent three days in what CoreCivic calls a restrictive housing unit" at Georgia's Stewart detention center, after refusing to enter his cell because faulty air conditioning had left the floor in the area outside his cell covered with about an inch of water. That would be a potential disaster for Taylor, since his battery-powered, microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs can't get wet. Continue reading...
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